If you want your company to be agile, then your organizational chart is critically important to your ability to execute. (This is assuming you believe in Boyd’s Law: “Speed of iteration beats quality of iteration”.) But why does the Org Chart matter? What does that have to do with an organization’s agility? Let’s start with […]
I think they are, when used properly. Many companies and organizations have wonderfully generic and blank mission statements. “We synergize technologies to provide innovative solutions!” Well, great. So does everyone else. But what do YOU do? A useful, good mission statement has to start at the top, and should be the driving strategic goal of […]
“Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics.” – Gen. Robert H. Barrow, USMC (Commandant of the Marine Corps) noted in 1980 Many of you have probably seen the movie Gladiator. A key point near the beginning of the movie is the Roman army, under the command of Maximus, defeats the Germanic horde in a brilliant […]
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