Leadership Transitions: The Watkins Collection (4 Items)

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While each of these elements of the organizational architecture

can be analyzed independently, they must all fit within a coherent

system: to execute the business strategy, the company needs the

right leadership team, the right levels of talent placed in the right

work groups, and efficient processes that produce the right outputs.

Therefore, an important piece of diagnostic work turnaround

leaders like Debra Silverman must do early on is to assess whether

misalignments among elements of the architecture are hobbling the

business. Is FemHealth failing because the strategy is inadequate, or

because the organization lacks the ...