CO2

MAY 30, 2018

Setting a culture of adaptability via decentralized decision making. Probe|Sense|Respond : Constantly challenge your assumptions and ideas – don’t go from idea to roll-out, you are operating in the space of unknown, unknown. Integrating Social Responsibility into the business model. Effectively making and executing the decisions.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Issues such as globalization, decentralization, and the rapid pace of today’s marketplace have forced companies to evaluate the way they operate. Excellence in leadership development will involve teams that emphasize the importance of both human resources (HR) and business experience.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 30, 2023

Sounds like he operated by the classic autocrat’s creed; “All those opposed to my plan, respond by saying ‘I resign.'” Hold regular breakfasts (some have called this “muffins with management”), lunches, and celebration dinners with frontline teams. Keep units small and decentralized.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. At the outset, the whole organization must be educated on what agility means and on what it takes for a leader, a team, or a whole company to be agile. What can you do to build your team?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

If you are responsible for leading teams, how can you be sure that the work being done throughout the day will innovatively increase impact and productivity to make tomorrow a better place? Design the campaign plan with compressed timeframes (Parallel Operations). By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts.

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RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 9, 2017

A powerful German counterattack in the first days of the operation could doom the entire enterprise. But the leadership tools the airborne forces used can be equally effective on the teams we lead. The bigger the team, the more important these tools are. For them to win in the chaos, there are two tools they need.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Here is a recap about each of these two best new leadership books for 2022: Leading With Heart Those who lead with heart consistently have discussions with their teams about their unexpressed needs, fears, desires, gifts, and sense of purpose , explain the authors of the timely and compelling book, Leading With Heart.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. They’re the metaphorical walls that separate different departments or teams within an organization. Recall how the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2019

One of the biggest challenges of the mobile workforce is being able to maintain cohesive teamwork and a real connection between team members. More freedom and autonomy has a tendency to drive team members apart unless you take concrete steps to still maintain a sense of community. The Challenges. Let’s take innovation, for instance.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Jake Wood , author of, Take Command , weaves together hard-learned lessons in leadership and teamwork from his experiences in college football , as a former Marine sniper and as cofounder and CEO of Team Rubicon -- a disaster relief organization that unites military veterans with first responders deployed to areas hit by natural disasters.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Excessive ‘decentralization’ or ‘centralization’. Endless reference back and forth and up and down the Management Structure. Rigidity in Decision-Making. Planning & issues worked at too low a level.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Begin discussion with top management team and train them. Share feedback with the chief and his management team. This begins at the top with the chief and the chief’s management team. An elected, rank-and-file police officer, is added to the chief’s management team. Discuss and ask employees; get feedback from them.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. They are made up of shifting, project or process-based teams instead of rigid functional silos.” Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R. One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical. I call it Alpha.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. Rather than striving to be content experts on every aspect of their operation, they need to be able to collect, sort, analyze data, and edit all communication and collaborative streams of information that could potentially influence their business.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. They are made up of shifting, project or process-based teams instead of rigid functional silos.” Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R. One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical. I call it Alpha.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. They are made up of shifting, project or process-based teams instead of rigid functional silos.” Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R. One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical. I call it Alpha.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

As a result, when companies are hacked, it can take days for information technology teams to isolate infected systems, remove malicious code, and restore business continuity. But they continue to operate and communicate with other systems until information technology teams shut them down and correct the malfunction.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Roadway established these goals for its quality teams: improve organizational productivity, improve employee satisfaction, develop employee capabilities through leadership and training, and improve communication by reducing frustration and conflicts. This document explores implementing these ideas in the service industry.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Since its inception, in 1995, ghSMART has been a firm with a completely remote team. More than 80% of our work is done by teams of consultants and staff who operate out of their home offices. Having remote team members requires that we hire people who can deliver technically while working independently.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” Through a well-structured operating process, partners expand and align their efforts and draw on comparative strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Digital leaders create small, highly empowered teams. They trust these teams to perform, and they hold them accountable for customer impact. They build real-time information systems to support decision making, and they expect these teams to start small, iterate, experiment, and adapt. It’s not a good position to be in.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

But when it came down to actual decision-making it became clear, after considerable probing, that the company operated with four basic ROTs derived from these overarching values and passed down from generation to generation of Odebrechts: 1. Decentralize operations. Decentralize strategy. Promote only from within.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

When similar journeys are decided on by leaders in the driver’s seat of their organizations, the challenge to accomplish such a task means that CEOs must be able to navigate their way around the VUCA minefields (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) and instruct their senior teams how to do the same.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

. “For the military,” Petraeus observed, “learning faster than the enemy meant deploying lessons learned teams and ensuring commanders are focused on identifying the need to make changes to our big ideas, campaign plans, organizational structures, equipment, and operational bases.” commanders under Petraeus.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

In China look at the unique organization of entrepreneurial cells Zhang Ruimin has created at Haier, and in France look at Vinci Group’s success, under Xavier Huillard, with a radically decentralized model designed to foster entrepreneurial creativity in its three thousand constituent companies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior. The unique blend of idealism, high profit margins, and rapid growth that came with operating the first certified organic national supermarket in the U.S. Amazon’s culture is a tight one, characterized by structure and precision.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. The constant need to drive towards operational efficiency can be avoided through the creation of new organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

If the team wants empowerment, you are off to the races. Myth 4: Your picture of empowerment matches your team’s. In fact, the more important and time-urgent the event, the bigger the relative performance gain an empowered team will achieve. This inherent self-contradiction dooms it. Try again in six months.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

It takes organizational, cultural, and operational changes. Decentralizing the procurement model and process is another key step, from establishing and enforcing quality standards across a distributed workforce to adjusting accounting and logistics systems to work with smaller suppliers. There are other operational considerations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

However, overspending is often the result of decentralized and siloed decision making over the utility budget. The CUO would also hire, train, and lead a cross-functional team responsible for creating energy policies and procedures that are aligned with the organization’s goals. For the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

We have a headquarters in San Francisco and it operates similar to a co-working space. To us, this arrangement makes sense — we work in open source software, which is a decentralized product. The aphorism is true: You can’t manage your way out of a bad team. Outsiders were dubious.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level. What the company wanted to do was to create a kind of “top-gun” center that could train business unit-level team members and support the most innovative and critical initiatives of the company.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

To best leverage worldwide creative talent, Reliance MediaWorks operates a global network of creative centers located in Burbank, San Francisco, London, Tokyo, and across India. Suzlon's head of technology is John O'Halloran, a former Cummins Engine executive who now leads Suzlon's 500-strong global R&D team out of Hamburg.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

Organizations I work with increasingly struggle to straddle two painfully polarizing operating principles. This conflict uncomfortably transcends traditional “centralization/decentralization” debates. But the managerial and operational ability to act on that data-driven information may not.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

“We want to be the number one or number two in all the markets in which we operate” is one of those. For example, consider “We want to increase operational efficiency; we will target Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; and we will divest business X.” Many so-called strategies are in fact goals.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

This change first developed inside the special operations community whose leaders faced the reality of being out-paced by a new type of networked challenger in Al Qaeda, and therefore focused on building the density and diversity of their own friendly network. So the first step is to build more relationships and connections.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Today, Alibaba looks more like a conglomerate than a typical tech company, with a diverse set of businesses operating largely independently. Imagine one of Apple’s secretive new product initiatives working out of Steve Jobs’ old garage , or a Google team working out of the Menlo Park garage where the company first located.

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