N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Are your strategic planning practices flat and uninspired? Have you reduced your planning process to a once per year, budgeting exercise? Do your senior people feel disengaged and removed from your strategic planning? Does the rank and file even understand what’s in your strategic plan?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Senior leadership teams that embrace agile do a few things differently. See your leadership team as an agile Scrum that prioritizes the backlog based on importance, then tackles them in sequence until completed. The CEO and his leadership team share a joint table. Systematic Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Change the dialogue in the senior leadership team to focus on the end-to-end customer experience. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge. Change the mindset from “span of control” to “speed and collaboration.” Tom Watson, Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Spans of control are limited to a reasonable number — typically eight people or fewer — so that managers can effectively oversee their subordinates’ efforts. Leadership within the squad is self-determined, while the chapter leader is a formal manager who focuses on coaching and mentoring. ” Adapted from.

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