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Being a Good Leader is Tough Stuff

Lead Change Blog

They value traditions while encouraging innovation and creativity. 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. But they don’t stop there.

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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. Great attention for innovation. Decentralization of power: increasing responsibilities for line positions and lower echelons; fewer staff levels and hierarchical levels. Permanent phenomenon.

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Hiring For Cultural Fit Can Be Good But Comes With Risks

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers highlight how the decentralization encouraged by the pandemic has meant that many companies have deployed tools such as HighMatch to measure for cultural fit. These people were so embedded in the status quo that they were unlikely to ever be innovative, and the data suggests they were also most likely to be fired.

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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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Happiness and Hierarchies

LDRLB

Hsieh’s (2010) theory is that if you build ways for employees to take control over their career futures into organizational design, one lucky by-product is that these employees will be happier. In essence, Zappos created a structure that is designed to keep employees in control of their careers.

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Happiness and Hierarchies

LDRLB

Hsieh’s (2010) theory is that if you build ways for employees to take control over their career futures into organizational design, one lucky by-product is that these employees will be happier. In essence, Zappos created a structure that is designed to keep employees in control of their careers.

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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

General Charles Jacoby is a military leader whose career culminated as four-star Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. Northern Command.

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