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Being a Good Leader is Tough Stuff

Lead Change Blog

This transactional stuff is all part of being a manager. They value traditions while encouraging innovation and creativity. They know when to centralize and decentralize to maintain efficiency without sacrificing effectiveness. Genuine leaders manage with their head and lead with their heart. But they don’t stop there.

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Manage to Meet Your Customers’ Needs

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

As customers’ needs become more diverse, the managers of the future must adapt to meet their demands. Managing at the right level is the most important element in effective management in the Age of Diverse Markets. This requires a much more decentralized set of management structures and.

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Care for a white-water ride?

N2Growth Blog

Forecasts often lead to disappointments, both for management – employees – shareholders and other stakeholders. 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. No, that is certainly not my message.

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Hiring For Cultural Fit Can Be Good But Comes With Risks

The Horizons Tracker

It’s perhaps understandable, therefore, that managers would strive to achieve a degree of cultural fit when they recruit. Indeed, a few years ago research from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found that a poor cultural fit can cost somewhere between 50-60% of that employee’s annual salary.

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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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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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Today’s Automation Anxiety Was Alive and Well in 1960

Harvard Business Review

.” On one hand, “the machine is seen as the master of men unless firm government control or a workers’ revolt intervenes” (it was the ’50s, after all); on the other, those who believed “that the innovations are simply a phase of technological progress which begin with the invention of the wheel.”