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To make hybrid organizations work, you need a way to coordinate the mission-oriented units and the functional groups so that the resources of the latter are allocated and delivered to meet the needs of the former.

— High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove

Source: Amazon Kindle

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  1. What are some of the advantages of organizing much of a company in a mission-oriented form? There is only one. It is that the individual units can stay in touch with the needs of their business or product areas and initiate changes rapidly when those needs change. That is it. All other considerations favor the functional type of organization. — High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove Source: Amazon Kindle […]
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  4. No matter what you’re after, in the internal groundswell, the secret to thriving is culture. This is not about technology implementation but about managing and changing the way organizations work, a change that needs the blessing—or, even better, the active participation—of top echelons of management. It’s nearly impossible to force social technologies on organizations from the top down, because, by their definition, these technologies require the participation of your employees. You can’t force them to adopt groundswell thinking, any more than you can convince reluctant managers to deploy social technologies with your customers. But it sure helps if the […]
  5. One of the keys to breaking into a new market is to establish a strong word-of-mouth reputation among buyers. Numerous studies have shown that in the high-tech buying process, word of mouth is the number-one source of information that buyers reference, both at the beginning of the sales cycle, to establish their “long lists,” and at the end, when they are paring down their short ones. Now, for word of mouth to develop in any particular marketplace, there must be a critical mass of informed individuals who meet from time to time and, in exchanging views, reinforce the product’s […]

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