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Oct 2025
57m 13s

Building Systems to Transform Large Comp...

Cosmic Centaurs
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How do you nudge a 13,000-person organization to move from managing change to creating the conditions for change? In this conversation, Chun Feng “Breeze” Dong, Associate Director of Organizational Development at Roche, joins Marilyn Zakhour to share how she and her team applied systems thinking to enable large-scale learning, collaboration, and innovation a ... Show More
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