Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Just the mention of "middle managers" is enough to make people''s eyes roll back. But these supposedly boring cogs of the corporation, these objects of derision in Dilbertland, can have a profound impact on innovation and performance. If the organization isn''t being innovative, the solution must be structural.

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Middle Management Innovation Management Creativity 8

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Companies, large and small, cannot survive without great leadership, sound strategy and flawless execution. Those that thrive, go a step further; they worship innovation and breathe healthy cultures. He refused to be blocked by the brick wall that separates management from union in most companies.

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Hammer Teamwork CEO Middle Management 145

The Practical Leader

MAY 30, 2012

To deal with all the tumultuous change swirling around us today many executives rearrange their organizational structure. This seems to be an especially favorite approach of a new executive taking over a division, department, or organization. De-risk Execution. Clarify Roles and Responsibilities. Design Layer by Layer.

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Restructuring Middle Management Deming Human Capital 61

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Let’s say you’re working in a new market, far away from headquarters, and you need to get approval for an initiative that is somewhat outside the company’s current strategy. A case study we just published on Samsung’s European innovation team offers some helpful insights. When Innovation Is Strategy. What do you do?

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Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Project 8

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

posted at Business Wisdom: Words to Manage By , saying, “Part of executive development is recognizing the development that has already occurred.” And a century and a half is an eyeblink compared with the eternity it would take to achieve this benchmark in senior management” S. ”

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Blog Leadership Deming Storytelling 218

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

posted at Business Wisdom: Words to Manage By , saying, "Part of executive development is recognizing the development that has already occurred.". And a century and a half is an eyeblink compared with the eternity it would take to achieve this benchmark in senior management". Deming's ideas apply to management issues today.".

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Deming 248

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The Conference Board seeks to drive thought leadership and business results by focusing on four key topical categories: 1) corporate leadership 2) economies, markets, and value creation 3) high-performing organizations, and 4) human capital.  However, The Conference Board does much more than just report on leading economic indicators.

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Conference Human Resources Human Capital White Paper 133

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Then, automation and the Web put senior executives in touch with their own front lines — and handed many MLMs their pink slips. Nearly 68% of these large-scale change and innovative efforts failed. These MLMs were alienated and felt senior executives had used them as tactical tools.

Middle Management 8

Middle Management Management Automotive Pharmaceuticals 8

Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

That is All Jesse Harriot, Monster Thinking : 2011 Job Market Trends HR Introvert : Time for Due Diligence on Personal Objectivity Tim Sanders, Sanders Says : Three Lists to Make for 2011 Rachel Suff, XpertHR : New Year's Resolution: Boost Poor Performance?

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Blog Ingham Human Capital Human Resources 200

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. Our work will focus on the potential benefits of better management practices across the NHS, education and local government.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Over the last three years I have consistently stated my belief that Asia was emerging as a global innovation powerhouse. In late 2011, I even wrote , "The overarching trend I continue to see is a shift in the world's innovation energy to the east.". Innovation isn't random, but it isn't perfectly predictable either.

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Innovation Middle Management Education Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

These differences in philosophy and approach frequently differentiate those who advance to and succeed at the executive level — and those who stay in the ranks of middle management. When you ask leaders how they build a strong management team, the answers are revealing. Don't get me wrong.

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Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Unfortunately, when companies launch innovation initiatives, they tend to devote most of their time, energy and attention to that initial 1% – the thrilling hunt for the breakthrough idea. The real innovation challenge , however, lies beyond the idea, in a long, hard journey from idea to impact. Think Different. Opportunities.

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Innovation Engineering Core Competence Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

What if this model existed on a larger scale to help staff innovation and growth strategy initiatives for big business? I previously wished for a Shark-Tank for Corporate America to create more efficient capital markets to fund great innovation ideas bogged down by bureaucracy. Executing on Innovation.

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Innovation Project Bureaucracy Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Meanwhile, Michael Porter explains exactly how health care needs disrupting, professors from INSEAD and MIT debate the merits of the MOOCs that might upend higher education, and our own Sarah Green tells publishers to quit whining about disruption and start enjoying the innovation that goes along with it. Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

They all use the same words, such as “respect,” “teamwork,” and “innovation.” fairness, management quality) and connect them both to purpose and financial performance. Most companies have mission and vision statements, but those tend to communicate very little about a company’s purpose.

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Company Middle Management Survey Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

An acquaintance of mine (let's call him George) is an acknowledged thought leader on a topic that the senior-most executives at a particular company had placed high on their agenda. But the middle managers who contacted George to give a talk balked at his regular speaking fee, instead treating him like "a silicon chip supplier."

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Christensen Middle Management Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

corporate officers, despite the fact that 75% of corporate executives believe that having minorities in senior level positions enables innovation and better serves a diverse customer base, says Sandra Finley CEO of the League of Black Women. Professional black women make up only 1% of U.S. In this day and age it only makes sense.

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Diversity Competitive Advantage Middle Management CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

According to her story, a survey by executive-search firm Spencer Stuart found that about four out of five S&P 500 companies that chose a new CEO last year promoted insiders. While they might be good at cutting costs, they rarely knew enough to manage growth and innovation.

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CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

This sense of being pushed and pulled every which way – without having any broader context or a sense that you’re getting somewhere – is something I see all too often in organizations, as executives try to keep up with new competitors or business trends.

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Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Musk’s compensation plan, which will give him close to $56 billion in stock and awards if Tesla’s market cap reaches $650 billion, is designed to communicate a particular value proposition to Wall Street. Maintaining that patience requires constant focus on that north star of a half-a-trillion market value.

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Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

In China, both multinational and Chinese companies are finding their dramatic growth goals constrained by the challenges of finding capable leaders at both the senior and middle management levels. Companies increasingly expect multicultural experience as a required attribute of managerial and executive talent.

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Globalization Development Short-term Career 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

.” On one hand, “the machine is seen as the master of men unless firm government control or a workers’ revolt intervenes” (it was the ’50s, after all); on the other, those who believed “that the innovations are simply a phase of technological progress which begin with the invention of the wheel.”

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Technology Decentralization Short-term Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Middle managers were confused about what to do, and many pushed their local agendas at the expense of the company's overall best interests. This helped ALL's executives do four things: achieve alignment, adapt to local circumstances, foster coordination across units, and make better decisions. Adapting to local circumstances.

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Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A middle manager at a global technology organization — let’s call her “Denise” — had a problem. She’d come up with the idea of revamping the company’s inventory management approach by networking together “sleeping” resources. The Politics of Innovation.

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Politics Innovation Project How To 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

Equally important, it depends on how well they manage communication throughout their organization. In 2008, the coffee chain was struggling to maintain its market position and to ward off a growing set of competitive threats. Among the first items that Ghosn changed was a protocol that had been in place for meetings of top executives.

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Company Video CEO Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Our research, which is the basis for our new book Agile Talent , found that over half executives report increasing their use of outside expertise and sourcing talent from “the cloud.” But effective implementation falls, not surprisingly, to middle managers. Manage the politics.

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Management Agility Middle Management After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

But the ones who really understand the issue see gender balance as not just a numbers game but part of a broader, more strategic cultural shift that includes developing leadership teams representing geographically diffuse markets. In the year 2000, DSM’s top 350 executives were 75% Dutch and more than 99% male. How did he do it?

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Diversity CFO Globalization Video 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Most of the team, and even some executives, knew the project was a dead-end two years before the company finally pulled the plug. As one middle manager told me, “No one was willing to go to management and say, ‘Let’s redeploy everyone, including myself, and do something else because this project isn’t working.'”

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Team Project Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Still, the essential concepts behind holacracy offer perhaps the best hope of easing top managers’ stranglehold on companies and, by extension, on innovation. An approach like this signals top managers’ deep understanding of distributed management and leadership and establishes them as role models.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. What do leaders often get wrong when they think of innovation ? Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 77

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Monitoring process key performance indicators (KPIs) and keeping top executives apprised of how processes are performing. The executives I know at these companies today believe that having process owners provides them a significant competitive advantage. How many times have you heard "I'm a finance person" or "I'm a marketer"?)

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15