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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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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

On those grounds, he says, things look bad not just for Sears and all large chain stores, which before the war were considered a threat to so many Americans’ dreams of setting up their own independent local retail operations. Competition Leadership Retail' A company’s age may count against it, but it’s no guarantee of failure.

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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.

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

Strategy Driven

Plus, as a result of a lack of cross-organizational coordination and cooperation, Nokia wasn’t able to improve its proprietary operating system, Symbian, which would have allowed it to support a more sophisticated smartphone. Many innovative ideas became the victims of in-fighting among managers who had competing objectives. What went wrong?

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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.