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Are We Solving the Problem or Servicing It?
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Organizations can become increasingly effective at responding to a recurring problem without ever changing the conditions that keep producing it. Before investing in another intervention, ask whether it will reduce the problem itself or simply improve your ability to manage its consequences. Some problems become very expensive…
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How Many Jobs Are Hiding in That One Hiring Description?
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Job descriptions often combine several related but operationally different functions because having one person cover them can make economic sense. The question is whether that calculation takes into account the actual work, its volume, competing priorities and the capacity one person has to deliver all of it…

