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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

The identity of an organization is shifting away from the CEO; elements of control are being willingly transferred to the employee, with empathetic and individualized attention being paid in order to increase engagement. In the emerging “Future-of-Work” settings, it is employee egos that matter, not the CEO's.

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Fueling Business Process Management with the Automation Engine that Can!

Strategy Driven

Organizations deploy automation technologies as the primary resource in their Business Process Management. Fortunately, today’s business leaders have numerous technologies and solutions available in order to effectively manage and integrate their entire enterprise.

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Give Your Team the Freedom to Do the Work They Think Matters Most

Harvard Business Review

Since at least the time of Frederick Taylor, the father of “scientific management,” control has been central to corporate organization: Control of costs, of prices, of investment and—not least—of people. When a new project comes in, the manager does not devise a plan to complete it.

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Business Does Not Need the Humanities — But Humans Do

Harvard Business Review

A few years ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg lost a game of Scrabble to a friend’s teenage daughter. Drucker Forum 2018 This article is one in a series related to the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum , with the theme “ Management. beastfromeast/Getty Images. Take this one.

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Don’t Set Process Without Input from Frontline Workers

Harvard Business Review

Taylor , the founder of scientific management who died 100 years ago. Michael Power of the London School of Economics describes the resulting explosion of bureaucracy as “the risk management of everything.” So I wrote to the CEO and explained what had happened. How did the war start, and why is it important?

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How IT Professionals Can Embrace the Serendipity Economy

Harvard Business Review

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Why Corporate Social Responsibility Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business Review

The Mating Dance Risk and the Unmarried CEO Knowledge@Wharton Why, exactly, is the CEO of your company embarking on that daring capital expenditure that''s got analysts shaking their heads? It''s also possible that single CEOs are generally less risk averse because they don’t have families to worry about.

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