Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Once leaders ask these questions, it is critical that they “hear” what their employees are saying and commit to actions for resolving the issues surfaced. Diving deeper into our combined 40 years of coaching work and assessment, our data showed that great leaders are the most curious, caring, and insightful about themselves and their people.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 29, 2022

Once leaders ask these questions, it is critical that they “hear” what their employees are saying and commit to actions for resolving the issues surfaced. Diving deeper into our combined 40 years of coaching work and assessment, our data showed that great leaders are the most curious, caring, and insightful about themselves and their people.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Once leaders ask these questions, it is critical that they “hear” what their employees are saying and commit to actions for resolving the issues surfaced. Diving deeper into our combined 40 years of coaching work and assessment, our data showed that great leaders are the most curious, caring, and insightful about themselves and their people.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 16, 2023

Once leaders ask these questions, it is critical that they “hear” what their employees are saying and commit to actions for resolving the issues surfaced. Diving deeper into our combined 40 years of coaching work and assessment, our data showed that great leaders are the most curious, caring, and insightful about themselves and their people.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Once leaders ask these questions, it is critical that they “hear” what their employees are saying and commit to actions for resolving the issues surfaced. Diving deeper into our combined 40 years of coaching work and assessment, our data showed that great leaders are the most curious, caring, and insightful about themselves and their people.

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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.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Agility requires specific experience, knowledge, and commitment. 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.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Employee information sessions are held on the transformation, why it is needed, how it will take place, and what it will look like when it is in place — every department member attends, sworn and non-sworn employees and the chief personally teaches each session demonstrating the importance of this and his commitment. Year seven.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Once leaders ask these questions, it is critical that they “hear” what their employees are saying and commit to actions for resolving the issues surfaced. Diving deeper into our combined 40 years of coaching work and assessment, our data showed that great leaders are the most curious, caring, and insightful about themselves and their people.

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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. The fact that such a complex, decentralized, sprawling operation delivers reliable (albeit not always likable) results is a minor miracle. finance, I.T.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Those benefits fall into three categories: To jumpstart network effects that provide a first-mover advantage: Many of the projects being built using blockchain technology are “protocols” that govern the interactions between users in a decentralized autonomous network.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2014

Decentralization reality vs. having one ABC Company strategy, are in conflict. The StrategyDriven website was created to provide members of our community with insights to the actions that help create the shared vision, focus, and commitment needed to improve organizational alignment and accountability for the achievement of superior results.

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Lead from Within

MAY 28, 2020

Moving forward, we will need leaders who will can push against the natural human tendency to downplay and delay bad news, who embrace a commitment to providing transparent, honest communication—no matter how bad the news is. Far too many leaders insist on assuring people that all is well, even when that’s not remotely the truth.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Organizations with this configuration have the least formalized commitment to sustainability. Organizations with this configuration have a broad overall commitment to sustainability, but the specific sustainability initiatives are not rigidly formalized. These organizations are just starting to consider social and environmental issues.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

In China look at the unique organization of entrepreneurial cells Zhang Ruimin has created at Haier, and in France look at Vinci Group’s success, under Xavier Huillard, with a radically decentralized model designed to foster entrepreneurial creativity in its three thousand constituent companies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

We’ve noticed that our team members adopt a strong sense of commitment to the responsibilities they take on and do not abandon them when the going gets tough. Our leadership team ensures that this balance between choice and commitment, and the value of owning the outcome, is a respected, celebrated cultural attribute.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Decentralize operations. Decentralize strategy. Marcelo did not interfere in his Director's decision because of his commitment to his ROTs (#1 and #2) and because the director was a long-term employee who had "drank the Odebrecht Kool Aid" (ROT #3). Promote only from within. Partner with your customer.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Manage people effectively through decentralized teams across organizations. Cross-sector partnerships thrive through a network of decentralized leaders and managers who operate independent programs or organizations. These leaders and their teams comprise a range of varied strengths but are aligned toward shared goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

To us, this arrangement makes sense — we work in open source software, which is a decentralized product. It’s a huge time commitment, coordinating the short-term work being done by job applicants, but it leads to extremely low turnover. But in general, the majority of our employees work somewhere other than our home base.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

The newly independent company had to decide whether to maintain its current growth path or commit to something new. These intensive efforts were possible only because the company had first decentralized its operations and freed the groups from simply supporting the flagship product. The firm’s leaders, convinced the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I recently worked with a leading research university to align the efforts of its huge, decentralized staff to transform the career support infrastructure. To prosper in the new competitive environment, institutions must engage the whole school system in supporting the personal and career development of their students.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Clay Christensen once used to think so: If anyone can beat the odds against being disrupted, it is our remarkably capable and committed colleagues in higher education.. We are decentralized and mostly non-profit. We employ lots of smart people.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

In HR (or finance or IT), 20% of the professionals are exceptional, adding value that helps organizations move forward, 20% of HR folks are locked into a fixed mindset and lack either competence or commitment to deliver real value, and 60% are in the middle. I tend not to focus on either 20%.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2012

Nestle has a fairly decentralized management culture. With women, you get commitment and responsibility. But we will have to fight for the best talent, and we are a women-driven company, so we want to stay ahead and attract and develop the best. This helps.". The best surprise," del Solar concludes, "is that there is no surprise.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

The first step always needs to be a commitment from the group that they want more authority and more decision-making. The highest performing teams in the military perform in highly decentralized, and empowered ways. You can’t implement a bottom-up concept in a top-down way. This inherent self-contradiction dooms it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

Lampert counters: "Decentralized systems and structures work better than centralized ones because they produce better information over time." But people who had been praised instead for their creativity were 40% less likely to escalate their commitment than those who hadn''t been praised.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

They must be willing to decentralize their decision?making Leadership must remain on one accord through a high level of trust, accountability and commitment in order to win the front and back gates of their desired outcomes (perspective). Remember the Alamo. Man has all he needs to effect change and thus his own success.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Alignment Teams must work in a way that gets the best input from all members, and gains understanding and commitment around common goals, schedules, methods, and decisions/directions of all kinds. organizational structure (such decentralizing and aligning technology to business areas more effectively), and governance.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

In contrast, in 2010 in Borneo Churchill Mining lost the right to use land it had purchased and spent $40 million surveying when Indonesia decentralized its government and a local authority changed the rules. Doing so takes time and money, but perhaps more importantly it takes a firm commitment to keep to the straight and narrow.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

By signing on, partners were committing to launch some kind of initiative under the #GivingTuesday banner, and gaining resources from the site to help them do that. It is decentralized and therefore adaptable to existing or new efforts. They say “a rising tide lifts all boats” and that is what #GivingTuesday aims to be.

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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. These companies can’t ignore sustainability. One luxury leader, LVMH, provides a great example of how to build a robust sustainability program.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

You''ll often find this top-down problem in decentralized matrix organizations where business unit heads have different and sometimes competing agendas. One unit may be less discriminating and chase any revenue, whereas another might focus on higher-value, relationship-based business.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

As the organization’s digital maturity increases, many digital functions become decentralized and are integrated into broader business unit activities. They’re committed to a test-and-learn culture: top digital performers reward risk-taking as part of the learning process.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

When your culture is failing, however, you’ll see a gap form between behavior and your operating processes; less discipline, energy, commitment , and compliance; unexpected departures or delays; and an increase in triangulating conversations and workarounds. People will stop honoring or identifying with the organization.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

This diverse network of more than 400 organizations is working together to create an open and decentralized public-private data infrastructure connecting a global audience of business, government, education, and technology vendors. The HR Digest: How can companies commit to truer diversity and make progress without disenfranchising white men?

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

When your culture is failing, however, you’ll see a gap form between behavior and your operating processes; less discipline, energy, commitment , and compliance; unexpected departures or delays; and an increase in triangulating conversations and work-arounds. People will stop honoring or identifying with the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

The agenda goes far beyond political activism; it attacks root causes by committing to sustaining an inclusive model of economic growth. Leading energy companies are investing in decentralized energy grids, demonstrating the broad feasibility of such approaches. Yet such ecosystems are not just the purview of web companies.

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