Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

According to David Grossman of The Grossman Group great leaders don’t just manage employees; they make sure employees are motivated, engaged and inspired when coming to work. David Chaudron of Organized Change recalls that Traditional Management theory had managers dictating work and assigning tasks to workers.

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Teamwork Meyer Decentralization Follow-up 382

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Empowering store managers is the most critical shift. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz makes it clear to store managers they are responsible for what takes place in their stores. “’Howard Schultz is not going to serve any customers — it’s you,’ is what I tell employees,” he says. Marketing Operations Retail'

Retail 8

Retail Merchandising Market Penetration Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. But the decentralization debate was different. Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved.

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Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Having this kind of clarity simplifies managing. 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. Stability in the teams was important.

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Decentralization Creativity Bond Cooper 157

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

But there are also implications for organizational design and talent management for firms of all sizes. The seven full time employees form a nucleus, or core group to handle program management, operations, and communications. But they will need an extremely clear purpose, and shared, decentralized power throughout.

Participative 15

Participative Decentralization Globalization Cost Center 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

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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Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8