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Evolve or Dissolve: Shaping Your Corporate Culture for a Remote Reality

Leading Blog

But today’s decentralized office environment makes it harder to socialize culture, foster a sense of unity, and reinforce shared values. Some all-remote companies regularly organize remote social events and meetups to strengthen bonds between associates and create a connected corporate culture.

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Commanding Excellence with Purpose, Passion, and Ingenuity

Leading Blog

The mission-focused structure was decentralized from the standpoint that each commander was given great freedom to execute, but they were also expected to cooperate with the decentralized companies and share everything with other teams. Morton credits the structure working because it was developed and built around strengths.

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Frontline Festival: Leaders Give Pointers on Creating Connection

Let's Grow Leaders

Artificial “bonding” outside of the context of work mostly doesn’t translate to the work environment and therefore is not where we should focus. He advises that we seek to provide people an opportunity to take pride in their work. Follow John. Using brain science, she provides five ways to motivate your team. Follow Shelley.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

But the decentralization debate was different. Rogier knew Derek’s position—but he had gone to an executive training course on holacracy in Las Vegas and had come back so fired up that he was now pushing for self-managed teams at headquarters and complete decentralization at the country level. ” Henning Weighs In.

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Megastores Want to Be Like Mom-and-Pop Shops… Sort Of

Harvard Business Review

Decentralizing the procurement model and process is another key step, from establishing and enforcing quality standards across a distributed workforce to adjusting accounting and logistics systems to work with smaller suppliers. It’s too early to say whether or not this new movement really works. Marketing Operations Retail'

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

Money, equities, bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer, because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code.

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Social Means Freedom, for Better or for Worse

Harvard Business Review

McAfee formed a strong bond of commitment with the hundreds of unpaid technical experts in the larger marketplace who know (and like) McAfee's platform of solutions. But they will need an extremely clear purpose, and shared, decentralized power throughout. McAfee did something transformative to their service exchange by using social.