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Dakota Tribal Wisdom Says That When You're On A Dead Horse, The Best Strategy Is To Dismount. Of Course, There Are Other Strategies. You Can Change Riders. You Can Get A Committee To Study The Dead Horse. You Can Benchmark How Other Companies Ride Dead Horses. You Can Declare That It's Cheaper To Feed A Dead Horse. You Can Harness Several Dead Horses Together. But After You've Tried All These Things, You're Still Going To Have To Dismount.

Management Innovation Is Going To Be The Most Enduring Source Of Competitive Advantage. There Will Be Lots Of Rewards For Firms In The Vanguard.

The Only Thing That Can Be Safely Predicted Is That Sometime Soon Your Organization Will Be Challenged To Change In Ways For Which It Has No Precedent.

In An Ideal World, An Individual's Institutional Power Would Be Correlated Perfectly With His Or Her Value-add. In Practice, This Is Seldom The Case.

The Real Damper On Employee Engagement Is The Soggy, Cold Blanket Of Centralized Authority. In Most Companies, Power Cascades Downwards From The Ceo. Not Only Are Employees Disenfranchised From Most Policy Decisions, They Lack Even The Power To Rebel Against Egocentric And Tyrannical Supervisors.