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How To Make Two Key Contradictions of Leadership Work For You

Terry Starbucker

That moment when all of what you’ve put into your leadership comes to fruition. There must be centralization to deliver decentralization. They have a sphere within which they can make decisions as opposed to a committee-based or team-based approach where there’s a bunch of people who kind of share the decision.

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Transforming a Management System – A Case Study From the Madison Wisconsin Police Department

Curious Cat

This post in an excerpt from The Quality Leadership Workbook for Police by Chief David Couper and Captain Sabine Lobitz ( buy via Amazon ). The New Quality Leadership Workbook for Police. Step 1: Educate and inform everyone in the organization about the vision, the goals, and Quality Leadership. Step 3: Teach Quality Leadership.

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Successful Leadership Is Not One Size Fits All

Coaching Tip

One can hardly imagine a decentralized decision- making process in his operations. Unlike the stereotypical American cowboy who takes, and assumes risk on their own broad shoulders, the traditional Asian idea is to have multiple (and sometimes extended) policy discussions - rule by committee if you will.

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Collaboration's Hidden Tax on Women's Careers

Harvard Business Review

Many of these women already held senior leadership positions in large companies. Still, the art of consensus can sometimes slow women down and diminish their leadership credibility. Over the past decade, we've interviewed over 1,700 people to find out how women can be more successful at the highest levels in leadership.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

It appears Toyota’s decentralized structure, which served it well for many years, turned into a liability as the company continued to grow and dominate worldwide markets. operation and then over to Japan where they were reviewed by a special committee – which would then have to communicate back to the U.S. What went wrong?

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

Things come to a head in a stockholder revolt chronicled in 1994 by HBS professor Robert Pozen in “A Chronology of an Institutional Shareholder Campaign,” in which Brennan loses a power struggle and is thrown off committee that nominates new board members. Competition Leadership Retail'

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

But the decentralization debate was different. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years. The lack of control meant that the leadership team had little say in how the Contect brand was being managed at a local level. Vera’s Perspective.