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Compliance vs. Commitment (On Behavior Change)

Ed Batista

Broadly speaking, there are two very different ways to accomplish such behavior change: enforce compliance or build commitment. Enforcing compliance is easy at first, but it becomes more difficult with time. Even more fundamentally, enforcing compliance fails to address any resistance to the leader's expectations.

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Shared Services Get Strategic

Chief Executive

This is the work that Barani did back at Salesforce in 2013. His remit at the time was to deliver operational excellence to the company’s diverse functions, at scale. Last to migrate over were legal and compliance. Anything that can be centralized and run at scale can be optimized.”. One Step at a Time.

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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Michael McKinney

In 2013, Nokia’s mobile phone business was sold to Microsoft. This would enable the various functional teams, such as business teams, technology teams, risk management, compliance, people leaders, and more to collaborate to effectively implement the future vision. Nokia just couldn’t keep up.

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Future-Proof Your Strategy: Environmental Analysis

UVA Darden

Macroeconomic impacts: How are large-scale economic trends (such as inflation or exchange rates) likely to impact your industry over the next six to 12 months? He consults with several top financial services companies on the topics of strategic management, ethics and compliance. His latest book, Can Business Save the Earth?

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Future-Proof Your Strategy: Environmental Analysis

UVA Darden

Macroeconomic impacts: How are large-scale economic trends (such as inflation or exchange rates) likely to impact your industry over the next six to 12 months? He consults with several top financial services companies on the topics of strategic management, ethics and compliance. His latest book, Can Business Save the Earth?

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Helping Leadership Pivot | Lori Michele Leavitt

Peter Winick

Lori shares her insights on bringing about large-scale business changes, from building momentum to bringing people on-board with the shift in mindset. Lori has guided many businesses and leaders through this kind of process, and has learned a great deal about organizations undergoing large-scale change. It’s been a while.

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Hard Problems in Soft Cultures

Ed Batista

Accountability is not bullying: We often assume accountability entails a combative stance in an antagonistic interaction, with the goal of enforcing compliance--but that's not holding someone accountable, that's bullying them. Harvard Business Review, 2013): Culture is consistent, observable patterns of behavior in organizations.