Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 17, 2013

Middle level managers often need to look three to five years into the future. Set up a futures research committee to study potential changes and developments in areas affecting your organization. Or simply have all the people in your organization regularly clip articles from newspapers, magazines, and Web sites.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. She emphasizes that Beta leaders and organizations : Help people succeed at what they’re good at, rather than forcing them to become people they’re not. shared mission.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. She emphasizes that Beta leaders and organizations : Help people succeed at what they’re good at, rather than forcing them to become people they’re not. shared mission.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

There are multiple layers – aspects of the organization and the people who make it up – that need to also change in order to achieve the change at the surface. It is the reason you are changing anything at all; you want to cause a different result than what the organization has achieved in the past.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Most people have learned not to listen to what management says but to pay attention only to what is going on around them on a day-to-day basis. The true structure of the organization is not what is written down on an organizational chart, but what actually occurs as people connect through roles , influence and decision-making processes.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. She emphasizes that Beta leaders and organizations : Help people succeed at what they’re good at, rather than forcing them to become people they’re not. shared mission.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Just two months ago, we announced the Management 2.0 Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. What if any organization could engage the collective intelligence of employee, customer, or other stakeholder populations to find out "what people would think if they were thinking"?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Without realizing it, even well-managed businesses versed in modern management practices can generate an environment that is hostile to innovation. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level. How centralized is the Innovation Unit? Intuit is a case in point.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Now that technology allows us to work anywhere, on any device, work is something people do — not just a place to which they go. This shift demands that businesses manage and operate so that they can attract the right people, retain them, and ensure they can do their best work. Sponsor Content from GoToMeeting.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

That's a topic, not a big idea. But you might say, "It's about why production will keep missing key deadlines unless we upgrade our workflow management software.". Once you've spelled out your big idea, generate lots of supporting material to give yourself more to choose from when it's time to pick your best stuff.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

In my work with employers (usually advising on work-family balance for fathers), I sense that many managers believe in giving more employees this kind of flexibility — allowing them to fashion the particular arrangements that work for them while minimizing disruption of the workplace. This is particularly true of knowledge work.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

Technology, for a free-lancer like me, creates a powerful and not entirely mad illusion that we work in a peopled environment of rich diversity and experience. It's about information exchange, resource exchange, idea generation and on and on. There's a new lonely crowd in the workplace. This person is right to be concerned.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

That's a topic, not a big idea. But you might say, "It's about why production will keep missing key deadlines unless we upgrade our workflow management software.". Once you've spelled out your big idea, generate lots of supporting material to give yourself more to choose from when it's time to pick your best stuff.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

As an experienced manager, he knew that his manufacturing and operation division’s success depended on getting creative ideas from his employees. As you might expect, our studies have revealed that encouraging creativity can backfire if employees lack the resources, support, or mechanisms to develop and implement their ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We announced the winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge (the first of three legs of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation) here last week. Here are just three lessons from our management innovators about leveraging social technologies to create truly social organizations: Trust your people with the future of the company.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

When your company is in trouble — a new competitor or technology threatens your business model, your cost structure changes, the economy tanks — you have one job as a leader: to get the company back on track. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. But no company today can rest on its laurels.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

While you need no credentialing to be a coach, you will find no shortage of organizations willing to sell you their certifications. I did a quick Google search for the term business coach and received 116 million returned results – if that doesn’t scare you it should.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

In the late 80’s, Peter Drucker predicted that in the near future technology would play a central role in increasing the effectiveness of teams. Although he was right, teams have yet to experience the full benefits of technology. How tools are changing the way we manage, learn, and get things done. Insight Center.

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