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Podcast: The Strategy Skills Podcast: Strategy | Leadership | Critical Thinking | Problem-Solving
Episode: 576: Bain Senior Partner Sarah Elk on Doing Agile Right (Strategy Skills classics)
Description: Sarah Elk, Senior Partner at Bain & Company and global leader of its operating model work, brings a clear, pragmatic lens to why so many large-scale change efforts fail to stick. Drawing on decades of advising multinational organizations, she diagnoses the structural and behavioral traps that cause transformations to stall, and shares the disciplines that make change durable. Â Elk emphasizes that transformation is not a one-off program but an enduring capability that must be "led from the top and embedded in the culture." She cautions against outsourcing responsibility to a program office: "If the C...