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The efficient ineffectiveness of control

Lead Change Blog

While there is a risk to improvising and spontaneity, there is a greater, more insidious risk to control.” “When we don’t give our people the space and freedom to take calculated risks, learn, apply, and iterate, we are risk our future. When I wrote a version of this in a recent Harvard Business Review post, it [.]

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The Efficient Ineffectiveness of Control

Mills Scofield

While there is a risk to improvising and spontaneity, there is a greater, more insidious risk to control.” managers), we naively think we can control things, so we try to control things." managers), we naively think we can control things, so we try to control things." As humans, and business people (e.g.,

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

And just to make things interesting, do it in a decentralized organizational construct where laws, standards, and procedures aren’t as tightly controllable as within a single company. become ineffective with time, as they operate in silos as the company grows. systems, air travel feels a bit more like a chore than like a treat.

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What do you need DAM for?

Strategy Driven

What’s common, though, is that the majority of DAM tools help companies with five content-related issues: Ineffective asset management: You need a platform that provides access to a centralised repository for all of your digital assets. Lack of control: Storing files is one thing. So, how do you make a choice? for SEO purposes).

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Efficient vs. Effective | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

So much so, that I have really come to cringe every time I hear the word efficiency. It’s not really that there is anything wrong with becoming more efficient, but what I find is that far too many executives major in the minors when it comes to efficiency. Are you efficient or effective, or do you know?

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LeadershipNow 140: February 2014 Compilation

Leading Blog

The efficient ineffectiveness of control by @dscofield. Here are a selection of tweets from February 2014 that you might have missed: My 12 Rules for Success by Bill Marriott. Keys to Success in Business and Personal Success by @kristakotrla. Your Greatest Source of Influence by @JesseLynStoner. by @KateNasser. from @rabbisacks.

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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

In vertically managed organizations, individual departments work to optimize their own internal efficiency. As I wrote about the accountability mess , a good person in a bad system or process sets that them up for failure — and blame. “The 85/15 Rule” emerged from decades of root cause analysis of service/quality breakdowns.

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