MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Decentralizing Your Operating and Talent Models the Right Way

To operate their organizations effectively across the globe, leaders need to rethink how and where work gets done.

As companies recognize that the timeline for moving past the impact of COVID-19 may lengthen into 2021 and maybe even beyond, key structures and processes within global organizations are coming under great strain.

Before the pandemic, centralized experts within organizations could easily travel across the globe to where they were needed. Global talent development and culture strategies relied on sending experts between home country and international assignments, and on developing local talent that was subsequently deployed in other regions in order to develop a true global mindset.

About the Author

Alec Levenson (@alec_levenson) is a senior research scientist at the University of Southern California Marshall Center for Effective Organizations. His research and consulting work optimizes organizational performance through work design, analytics, and strategic talent management.

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