Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Theunissen and Stubbé (2011) provide an excellent strategy: leading by providing bearing, room, and backup. A pure form of self-directed teams is a paradox, in that it would allow a team to go in a direction that doesn’t really fit with the organization. Obviously the Why of the team will need to serve the Why of the organization!

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Network Organization Simon Motivation Short-term 186

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2013

In 2011 the John S and James L Knight Foundation invested $500,000 to expand the Awesome Foundation's model to Detroit. When the devastating earthquake hit Haiti in 2010 they had a ready-made network of project managers and techies in cities all over the world. They've funded art projects, wi-fi routers, and community events.

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Proposal Project Crisis Information 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

And we have also seen a vast amount of enterprise and energy brought to bear at the individual level through education and networking organizations, many of which are designed for and focus solely on women. Indeed, the news is not good: the percentage of women directors in the Fortune 500 at 16.9% has remained flat (it was 16.6%

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Diversity Survey Sample Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Whether providers like it or not, health care is evolving from a proficiency-based art to a data-driven science, from freelance physicians to hospital-employed physicians, from one-size-fits-all community hospitals to vast hospital networks organized around centers of excellence. Health care spending topped $2 trillion in 2011.

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Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9