Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Perhaps two of the biggest barriers today to establishing and perpetuating an enduring corporate culture are: excessive CEO and executive compensation packages, reflective of greed and a short-term mindset; and. I realized then that the same core principles could apply regardless of industry.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Issues such as globalization, decentralization, and the rapid pace of today’s marketplace have forced companies to evaluate the way they operate. Determining exactly how to turn these challenges into opportunities keeps many CEOs awake at night. Leadership development efforts should be internally focused and externally aware.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

CEO coaches and authors John Baird and Edward Sullivan share that anyone can learn how to make an authentic connection with their teams in order to drive better outcomes. And their book provides readers clear and practical insights to help them succeed in making those connections.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 29, 2022

CEO coaches and authors John Baird and Edward Sullivan share that anyone can learn how to make an authentic connection with their teams in order to drive better outcomes. And their book provides readers clear and practical insights to help them succeed in making those connections.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 17, 2022

CEO coaches and authors John Baird and Edward Sullivan share that anyone can learn how to make an authentic connection with their teams in order to drive better outcomes. And their book provides readers clear and practical insights to help them succeed in making those connections.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 16, 2023

CEO coaches and authors John Baird and Edward Sullivan share that anyone can learn how to make an authentic connection with their teams in order to drive better outcomes. And their book provides readers clear and practical insights to help them succeed in making those connections.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 4, 2022

CEO coaches and authors John Baird and Edward Sullivan share that anyone can learn how to make an authentic connection with their teams in order to drive better outcomes. And their book provides readers clear and practical insights to help them succeed in making those connections.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 20, 2010

This concept helps maximizing employee potential by encouraging trust through transparency, decentralizing decision-making and inverting the organizational hierarchy. Vineet Nayar of HCL Technologies pioneered the concept of Employee first and customer second. why is everyone smiling?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

When similar journeys are decided on by leaders in the driver’s seat of their organizations, the challenge to accomplish such a task means that CEOs must be able to navigate their way around the VUCA minefields (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) and instruct their senior teams how to do the same.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Its goal is to seamlessly meld centralized vision and planning with empowered decentralized execution – where everyone is encouraged to exercise disciplined initiative, improvise, innovate, and take smart risks in accomplishing a shared goal. You talk about the agile mindset and the CEO. What can you do to build your team?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

And just to make things interesting, do it in a decentralized organizational construct where laws, standards, and procedures aren’t as tightly controllable as within a single company. There’s no single CEO-like entity and no hierarchy for single accountability. And do that with over 99.999999 percent reliability.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

CEO coaches and authors John Baird and Edward Sullivan share that anyone can learn how to make an authentic connection with their teams in order to drive better outcomes. And their book provides readers clear and practical insights to help them succeed in making those connections.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. A CEO I counsel keeps a notebook on his desk with the heading: What makes you happy? Whenever employees do something the CEO wants to recognize publicly, he awards them something that dovetails with their interests and passions. I call it Alpha.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Jake Wood , author of, Take Command , weaves together hard-learned lessons in leadership and teamwork from his experiences in college football , as a former Marine sniper and as cofounder and CEO of Team Rubicon -- a disaster relief organization that unites military veterans with first responders deployed to areas hit by natural disasters.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Being a CEO is harder than ever. What’s a CEO to do? And their CEOs are leading the charge. Our research, which we call the “digital DNA,” identified 23 new management practices CEOs should consider, focusing on empowerment, experimentation, collaboration, data, and speed. The 21st-Century CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

As Marc Benioff, founder of Salesforce.com has noted , “When I look at [our] largest transactions…every transaction was done with the CEO [and] that’s why we’re selling more enterprise software than Oracle or SAP.” ” Despite the advantages, however, selling to executives can be challenging.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

Consider the familiar story of the esteemed consultant brought in to address the CEO’s concern that decision making in her organization has become too centralized. A detailed plan to decentralize. Three years later the CEO calls the consultant back in, worried that decision making has become too decentralized.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

Savvy CEOs use fire to fight fire, effectively employing digital media inside their organizations to create the kind of alignment and shared purpose they need. This allows CEO Satya Nadella to hear early warning signals. Otherwise, it could result in confusion, contradictory behaviors and chaos. ” Dr.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Consider the story of the consultant brought in by the CEO to help solve a specific problem: the company is too centralized in its decision making. The consultant has a solution: decentralize. Two years pass, the company is still struggling, and a new CEO brings in a new consultant. We have a problem, the CEO explains.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Just like the invisible, inseparable quarks that underlie the protons and neutrons in the nucleus, rules of thumb (ROTs) are the fundamental, sometimes invisible, particles of CEO decision-making. They are the building blocks that underlie what CEOs describe as "intuition" or "gut feel.". Decentralize operations. But what is it?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

In order to adapt to local cultures and market needs, companies must shift to decentralized, collaborative decision-making. Opportunities at the highest levels, including C-suite and CEO, must be open to people of all national origins. That requires developing many leaders capable of working anywhere.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals? Manage people effectively through decentralized teams across organizations. We believe the answer is yes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Look around and you will see them: Individual CEOs and their boards deliberately deciding to take a stand. This is part of why Larry Fink’s open letter to CEOs , sent on the occasion of his investment company BlackRock’s 30th anniversary, has generated such acclaim.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In the words of Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, the partnership was “love at first sight.” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is known to expect unwavering discipline from his workers, personifies this leadership style. Meanwhile, Whole Foods could lower its prices (organic avocados for just $1.69!)

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Warren Buffett is rightfully admired for his investment record as chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, which has outperformed the S&P 500 Index by more than 10% annually during his 50-year tenure. Berkshire Hathaway is known for its extreme decentralization. DAVE WHEELER FOR HBR. This kind of independence is unparalleled.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Our team members have the freedom to, say, take their child to a doctor’s appointment in the middle of the week while doing leadership coaching work with a CEO. We focus on letting our team members be the “CEOs” of their professional lives, but we have learned over time that not every aspect of choice adds value.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

For example, I have worked closely with a professional services organization where a domineering, controlling CEO led the organization spectacularly for 20 years. Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling. I have seen this manifest itself three ways.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

This became the “HP Way,” one of the first examples of empowering employees, decentralizing the organization, and tying pay to performance. ” Starting in the late 1990s, a series of CEOs saw the HP Way as a liability rather than an asset. .” The mindset of the garage was not only abandoned, it was destroyed.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Strive Masiyiwa was interviewing him to be CEO of the Nigeria telecoms venture lead by Econet Group, which Strive founded and chairs. ’” Under a different CEO, Econet Wireless Nigeria went on to build a nationwide network of street-side airtime sales. “Where are the stores?” Let us unburden you.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

How does one successfully manage a company with a dozen diverse, decentralized businesses of varying sizes that employ over 100,000 people in 130 countries, especially in an uncertain economic environment? The answer is to make things simple, says Bill Allen, head of Group Human Resources at Copenhagen-based A.P. Moller-Maersk.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Under the new CEO, Frank Martin, the company decided to change course and focus on collectors and hobbyists instead. Sly Bailey, at the time the CEO of UK newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror, once told me, “If there is one thing I have learned about communicating choices, it is that we always focus on what the choices are.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Everyone left feeling like they had a special session with this dynamic CEO, and Amazon received great press coverage. Amazon is fairly decentralized, and some of these executives run their own businesses and make their own decisions. How is he able to do this when so many CEOs can’t? He did all the product demos himself.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

He argues that it’s the rare CHRO who can serve as a strategic leader for the CEO and also manage the internal concerns of the organization. While I have enormous respect for Ram’s wisdom, I believe CHROs have much to offer CEOs and can be better prepared to do so without splitting HR.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The company is a €36 billion decentralized collection of valuable brands — which they call houses (or maisons ) — covering fashion, wine and spirits, cosmetics, and jewelry. Charles Gibb, Belvedere’s CEO, says it made a strategic choice to invest in this project, even though it had a longer payback period than normal.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

For all of these reasons, large companies need to have a distinct Innovation Unit headed up by a senior executive who ideally reports to the CEO. ” The Hub and Spoke Network is a more decentralized model in which the center coordinates a network of innovation centers and outposts in multiple hot-spot locations around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2012

Nestle has a fairly decentralized management culture. So rolling out a program to gender balance the corporation's management globally across over 100 countries was always going to be more about followership and role modeling success than it would be about a centralized imposition of the scorecard-based approach typical of many companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

That''s what everyone''s favorite late CEO did when he designed Pixar''s offices in 1986. Imagine, for a moment, the CEO of a major company sitting alone in his South Florida mansion. Lampert counters: "Decentralized systems and structures work better than centralized ones because they produce better information over time."

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