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The Bottleneck Is At The Top Of The Bottle

Gary Hamel on one major reason companies change so slowly.

Stowe Boyd
Mar 16, 2022
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The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

In most companies, strategic orthodoxy has some very powerful defenders: senior managers. Imagine an organizational pyramid with senior managers at the apex... Where are you likely to find people with the least diversity of experience, the largest investment…

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