Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 15, 2019

The study also found that 26% of new hires fail because they can’t accept feedback, 23% because they’re unable to understand and manage emotions, 17% because they lack the necessary motivation to excel, 15% because they have the wrong temperament for the job, and only 11% because they lack the necessary technical skills. Valley of Despair.

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CEO Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

We have 8 teams which is a good number for span of control. Education (everything from English skills, schooling to job training), Adjustment, Housing, Transportation and Finance. These scorecards are used to report back to the other directors and to allow those teams to jump in where needed. So how are we doing it?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

This meant that management span of control had more than doubled from an average of 5-6 salespeople per manager up to 12-15 per manager. The average span of control for U.S. The merchandising force operates with an unusually high span of control of 50 merchandisers per manager.

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Span of Control Company Merchandising Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

After considerable thought, she decided that the best way to force her managers to take a more holistic perspective was to increase their spans of control so that they were responsible for end-to-end processes and wouldn't have the time to micro-manage the technical details.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

During his entire career, he worked in his father''s span of control, reporting directly to his dad within six years of joining the business. I don''t have the skills to be an executive. Has he reported within his parent''s span of control for most/all of his career? We empathized with Denis.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2018

Here are a few ways you can be the voice of clarity to help channel others’ energies more productively: At the start of the year, sit down with each direct report to prioritize and clarify what the big wins are in each of their areas. Some of the ways I’ve seen others do this effectively: Increase your skill as a storyteller.

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Leadership Span of Control Storytelling Report 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This is increasingly risky, as contingent and other non-full-time workers possess more of your vital strategic skills and deal with sensitive intellectual property. Traditional work analytics focused on regular full-time employees, and seemed to show that this change reduced senior scientist spans of control.

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