Leading the Malcolm Baldrige Way: How World-Class Leaders Align Their Organizations to Deliver Exceptional Results

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The Challenges of Being a Very Large Organization

• Cutting through the bureaucracy to connect with employees
• Creating alignment in a very large organization
• When your large organization is geographically dispersed
• Using a crisis to challenge the inertia of a large organization
• Being a pocket of excellence in a very large organization

Anyone who has ever worked for a very large organization can tell you there are benefits to it, but there are also challenges. Both of us have worked for and with very large organizations, so we have firsthand knowledge about these challenges. Some of them include the increased complexity, particularly with ...