You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’m thinking though that it is in the difficult times that leaders need to embrace the concepts of the Learning Organization and to build a culture of shared leadership. More seriously, I think that shared leadership, to some, means loss rather than gain and that’s a hard perspective for them to swallow. What do you think?

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 11, 2010

Many teammates take their vacations, and there are weeks where simply getting a quorum at on a conference call or a meeting is a major accomplishment. 1) Focus on individual, rather than team, incentives - Take advantage of the fact that others are vacationing, and spend some extra time with specific teammates. Popularity: 1% [ ?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2013

One predictable result of this activity has been increasing demand from marketing and sales leaders to find more such advocates to showcase, in some cases creating a "beast that needs to be fed" similar to what you see in traditional media channels — like sports or the entertainment industry — that experience rapid growth in popularity.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

companies spend over $900 billion on their sales forces, which is three times more than they spend on all ad media. But good planning and proper leadership support can help. Here is what the leadership team did: They linked strategy to behaviors. Sales is, by far, the most expensive part of strategy execution for most firms.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

You can’t read the pages of the mainstream or business media without being impressed by the opportunity. Second, data confers insight and advantage. The incentives of individual teams are unlikely to encourage data sharing as a primary requirement. Predictive analytics, data science, artificial intelligence, bots.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

In fact, the increasing focus on pay by policy makers, shareholders, and the media has magnified its importance as a gauge of success for top executives and created a vicious cycle of ever-higher pay demands. Here are some specific suggestions for doing that. Governments. They should take full advantage of it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

And yet there is also an evident other side to Musk, which has recently manifested — rather often — in his combative engagement with investors , the media , employees , and social media and in his seeming difficulty with accepting criticism. Steve Jobs was known for berating employees and suppliers in unprintable language.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

media has come under intense scrutiny, with analysts , politicians, and even journalists themselves accusing it of bias and sensationalism — of having failed us — in its coverage of the presidential election. The media did exactly what it was designed to do, given the incentives that govern it. A caveat is in order.

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