Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2014

October 14 brings a powerful new book full of leadership lessons for " how to be a first responder in business." Operation: Starting Gun in Moore, OK, Summer 2013 Photo By: Kirk Jackson, Team Rubicon 1. What leadership skills did you learn playing football that then served you well as a Marine?

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How To Analysis Decentralization Mentor 75

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Tight cultures have an efficient orderliness and reassuring predictability, but are less adaptable. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is known to expect unwavering discipline from his workers, personifies this leadership style. Rooted firmly in the manufacturing industry, Amazon has defined processes to maximize its efficiency.

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Price Decentralization Long-term CEO 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Recognizing that the new conditions called for more reliance on "mission command" than "detailed command," it learned that officers should default to more decentralization, spontaneity, informality, loose rein. In the 20th Century, their organizations competed on scale efficiency and relied on hierarchical bureaucracies to run tight ships.

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Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

For example, its accountable-care-organization partnership with Bellin Health, a health care system in Green Bay, Wisconsin, presently has the lowest cost per Medicare beneficiary among 32 pioneer ACOs, and the ThedaCare Physicians group was ranked first in quality performance statewide in 2013 by Consumer Reports.

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Health Care Quality Decentralization Planning 8