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DECEMBER 2011 ISSUE


MONTHLY UPDATE

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First, Let's Fire All the Managers

By Gary Hamel

Is it possible to create an organization that combines the discipline of a corporate hierarchy and the flexibility of market-centrism-without bosses, titles, or promotions? Morning Star, a global leader in food processing, proves that
it is.

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SPOTLIGHT ON REINVENTING RETAIL

The Future of Shopping

By Darrell Rigby

If traditional firms hope to survive, they must embrace omnichannel retailing-an approach that melds the advantages
of physical stores with the information-rich experience of
online shopping.

Retail Isn't Broken. Stores Are

An interview with Ron Johnson

The new head of J.C. Penney on his plans to re-imagine everything.

Know What Your Customers Want Before They Do

By Thomas H. Davenport, Leandro Dalle Mule, and John Lucker

Advances in IT, data gathering, and analytics make it possible to create highly customized offers-sometimes in milliseconds.

ALSO IN THE DECEMBER ISSUE

The Power of Collective Ambition

By Douglas A. Ready and Emily Truelove

Articulating the seven elements of collective ambition can give employees a better sense of a company's purpose and how they can contribute to it.

Who Really Makes the Big Decisions in Your Company?

By Bob Frisch

The CEO, of course, often along with an unnamed group of advisers. That's a good thing, as long as the CEO constructs the group's role.

Don't Let Your Supply Chain Control Your Business

By Thomas Choi and Tom Linton

By delegating too much responsibility for managing their supply chains to their top-tier suppliers, manufacturers are putting themselves at risk.

How I Did It: HSN's CEO on Fixing the Shopping Network's Culture

By Mindy Grossman

After seven CEOs in ten years, Home Shopping Network needed a total makeover.

The Globe: The Ordinary Heroes of the Taj

By Rohit Deshpandé and Anjali Raina

The valor displayed by employees of the Taj Mumbai hotel in the face of a 2008 terrorist attack was not merely a crisis response. It was a manifestation of deep-rooted HR practices that other companies can adopt.

Managing Yourself: Get Ready for Your Next Assignment

By Katie Smith Milway, Ann Goggins Gregory,
Jenny Davis-Peccoud, and Kathleen Yazbak

Insiders who move up have an advantage over external hires. Here's how to capitalize on it.

Life's Work: Kenneth Cole

On merging work, home, and community

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