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Managing in the Whitespace by Mark C. Maletz and Nitin Nohria Reprint r0102g 102 harvard business review People in business are constantly being told to move beyond formal strategy, structure, and budgets – in short, to operate in the organizational whitespace where speed and flexibility reign. But when should you jump into that amorphous territory – and how? The results of a unique research project provide guidance. Managing in the Whitespace by Mark C. Maletz and Nitin Nohria he wisdom of the day is that your business is doomed to fail if you don’t overturn the status quo. You have to T think outside the box, start a revolution, break all the rules – pick your own overheated rhetoric. The assump tion is that new value in a company can be created only when people shed their suits, don khakis and Hawaiian shirts, and think and act like the most passionate entrepreneurs. The prob lem is, they’re rarely told when it makes sense to do those things – or how to do them. We recently conducted a unique research project that tried to fill in those gaps. The project