Harvard Business Review Leadership Library: The Executive Collection (12 Books)

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Anchoring New Approaches in the Culture

After years of work, the results were impressive. A once inwardly focused and sluggish aerospace organization was now producing innovative new products at a rapid pace. Not all the offerings were winning in the marketplace, but enough were succeeding that over a five-year period divisional revenues had gone up 62 percent, while net income rose 76 percent; comparable figures for the previous five years were 21 percent and 15 percent, respectively. The division general manager retired, proud that he had helped make an important contribution to the business. He could have stayed a few more years but chose not to: The changes had been made, the results were impressive, the work was done.

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