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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. They’re pros at the “science” part of the job, knowing the technical, operational, financial, regulatory, and process components of their job stone cold.

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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.”

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An Agenda for the Future of Global Business

Harvard Business Review

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Such ecosystems even the playing field for individuals and small firms to participate in technological progress, catalyzing both employment and innovation. The New Science of Human Capital. Essential background.

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Speed Of Learning As The New Competitive Advantage

The Horizons Tracker

This is a world that tries to overcome the innovator’s dilemma by learning new things even when their current strength remains powerful. This is likely to require decentralizing the structure of our organizations, with smaller teams given greater autonomy to act, experiment and learn.

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The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable

Harvard Business Review

You might say that a radically decentralized, p2p financial system spontaneously arose. You might say that a radically decentralized, p2p financial system spontaneously arose. And thats exactly the role that pubs began to play. And thats exactly the role that pubs began to play.

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