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Feb 2016
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Getting better at resource re-allocation...

McKinsey Strategy & Corporate Finance
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   Listen to the podcast (duration: 26:47) >  Managers at most companies understand the value of re-allocating resources from unproductive investments into more productive ones, but in practice they seldom do. In this podcast, McKinsey’s Yuval Atsmon and Werner Rehm examine how managers can overcome some of the obstacles that get in the way of more nimble reallocation. Yuval is a principal in McKinsey’s London office and Werner is an Equity Partner in the New York office.

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