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Candidate Management During a Crisis

N2Growth Blog

I started my career in executive search right out of college over 13 years ago, so recruiting is work that I’ve always done and always loved. Now 13 years into my career, all of us will have to re-learn how to navigate recruiting during a severe global pandemic that is unprecedented in magnitude.

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Being a Good Leader is Tough Stuff

Lead Change Blog

They know when to centralize and decentralize to maintain efficiency without sacrificing effectiveness. As I look back over my career, what I find fascinating, puzzling, and sad is how few head-and-heart leaders I’ve worked for. They value traditions while encouraging innovation and creativity. But they don’t stop there.

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Six Rules to Simplify Work

QAspire

I have seen very few reorganization efforts in my career that are focused on the most important aspect of how value is delivered to customers: Simplicity. Simplicity stems from decentralization of power. “

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Care for a white-water ride?

N2Growth Blog

Making plans flexible means that organizational developments and career plans have to be adjusted more frequently than we were used to. Decentralization of power: increasing responsibilities for line positions and lower echelons; fewer staff levels and hierarchical levels. No, that is certainly not my message.

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Manage to Meet Your Customers’ Needs

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

This requires a much more decentralized set of management structures and. In the prior mass markets era, companies had homogeneous markets, so they needed to plan and coordinate only at the executive level, with the rest of the company’s managers focusing on their respective functional specialties. This is only the beginning of the thought.

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Culture Counts

Leading Blog

He is the former Chief of News and Public Affairs at Stanford University Medical Center and is the author of Real Leaders Don’t Boss (Career Press, 2012) and Leadership Requires Extra Innings (with Second City Publishing Services, 2013). * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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How To Create A More Inclusive Workplace

Eric Jacobson

Rising Together is for readers at every stage and level in their careers who recognize that building a broad range of relationships is essential to their advancement, now and in the future. Believe they are valued for their potential as well as their contributions. Perceive that how they matter is not strictly tied to their positional power.

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