Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders
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Insight
In my work with CEOs and other corporate executives, the question I get asked the most is (paraphrased): What don't I even know to ask? My response is that most CEOs, on the morning after launching an agile initiative, wake up with several concerns, most of them related to what I call the "five fears of an agile leader." These can be identified as the fear of:
While the so-called "Superstorm Sandy" that struck the East Coast of the United States last week did not inspire any Hurricane Katrina-like "heck of a job" mispronouncements in its aftermath, the effective communication of risk took more of a beating than it should have. And as with Katrina, a sizable portion of the US populace is suffering for it.
Abstract
Most mergers fail to live up to their promise, and the difference between success and failure lies mostly in the ability to integrate employees into a new whole after the merger
Mergers are like marriages. Two entities come together to form a union that should, in theory, be greater than the sum of its parts, often with the goal of accelerating growth, cutting costs, increasing market share, or taking advantage of other synergies.
