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Subject: December 2011 Update: First, Let's Fire All the Managers
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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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