Next Level Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

No matter what type of leader you are or what kind of formal or informal organization you lead, I encourage you to pause today and everyday to consider the possible impact of your words. On occasion, that influence comes through demonstrated action. Most often, it comes through words.

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Executive Coaching Blog Letter Influence 190

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. Leaders in the M&A environment are managing an organization that hasn’t existed before. Their people are no longer part of the organization they joined.

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Agility Shaw Learning-by-Doing Efficiency 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2015

As Jim Barksdale put it when he was CEO of Netscape, “saying that the purpose of a company is to make money is like saying that your purpose in life is to breathe.” That’s how Google managed to organize so much of the world’s information in a few decades, and Facebook managed to connect the wired world in just one.

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Succession Kleiner Business Model Library 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2012

In fact the flows of information actively undercut leadership—both the practice and the perceived need for it. There is an increasing perception of incompetence, greed, and frivolity at the expense of the governed, the taxed, and the managed. The reflected glory of their institutions.

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NGO Morale Reputation Media 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Just in case you’ve forgotten, a manager in a matrix organization has two or more upward reporting lines to bosses who each represent a different business dimension, such as product, region, customer, capability, or function. The executives in charge of the various groups sit together naturally in the top management team.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 15, 2021

Making the point that culture renovation begins at the top he replays the appointment of Satya Nadella as CEO of Microsoft after Steve Balmer in 2014. Know the informal organization using an organizational network analysis. Most CEOs of corporate change failure attack previous leadership and focus their messages on the past.

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Bottom-up CEO Case Study Training 336