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The New World of Beta Curation

Strategy Driven

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. The increased communication and collaboration required of Beta organizations demand a new style of leadership and career planning. Organizations need to have dozens, maybe hundreds, of individual experts, fully capable of idea generation and innovative thought.

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One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible

Harvard Business Review

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is known to expect unwavering discipline from his workers, personifies this leadership style. According to Amazon’s leadership principles, leaders are instructed to “ hire and develop the best ” and “insist on the highest standards.”

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Making Management as Simple as Frisbee

Harvard Business Review

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. Continuous innovation is now a requirement for survival. See the chart for a more thorough list of differences.).

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. Competition Leadership Retail' But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

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Redefining the Patient Experience with Collaborative Care

Harvard Business Review

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.