Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Hence, when (re-)designing the organization structure, they tend to decentralize decision-making, so that decision rights are as close as possible to the people who deal with customers, competitors, front-line employees, and other stakeholders. As Henry Mintzberg noted in The Structuring of Organizations in 1979, “The words centralization and decentralization have been bandied about for as long as anyone has cared to write about organizations.” Artrise/istock.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Morgan (2005) uses a great image of a spider-plant to describe the decentralization trend. Handy’s (1998) shamrock organization might provide the right blend of centralization and decentralization to make it worthwhile for for-profit companies. A company could be centralized on one-leaf and decentralized on another. Other than the optional PayPal payment system, the marketplace is completely decentralized.

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QAspire

AUGUST 30, 2016

Simplicity stems from decentralization of power. “ Most re-organization efforts either focus on hard stuff (processes, strategy, structure, KPI’s) or on soft stuff (culture, values, relationships, feelings).

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 16, 2011

There must be centralization to deliver decentralization. Then there is the really “bizarro&# contradiction of centralization/decentralization. It’s the moment of truth. That moment when all of what you’ve put into your leadership comes to fruition.

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Execupundit

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

The decentralization of the Apache tribal leadership. Spanish versus Mexican administration. Jesuits versus Franciscans. The Gadsden Purchase. An important Confederate map. A gold strike. 850 miles of canals. Italian stone masons. Texas muleskinners. Floods in Phoenix.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 28, 2016

Decentralize decision making. Many firms over the last hundred years decentralized decision making. Decentralization gained momentum when Peter Drucker persuaded Alfred P. to decentralize decision making at General Motors Corporation.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

They know when to centralize and decentralize to maintain efficiency without sacrificing effectiveness. Anyone who supervises others is automatically tasked with planning, organizing, and directing. Every boss gives orders and assigns work. Their employees follow their directions and complete the work assigned to them within the parameters given. This transactional stuff is all part of being a manager.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The mission-focused structure was decentralized from the standpoint that each commander was given great freedom to execute, but they were also expected to cooperate with the decentralized companies and share everything with other teams.

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Managing Communities

JUNE 21, 2010

photo credit: gotosira For part two in my series on building community around your blog, I want to talk about community decentralized – or community that is built on websites that you do not own or control. In the first part, we discussed community that you have by default upon launching your blog. This relates directly [.]. Interacting with Users

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 15, 2018

First, it's to decentralize leadership expertise by demonstrating how we can all become leadership experts - starting right where we are. New to your leader role? Or, already a leader, but looking to hone your skills?

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Execupundit

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Groups are often divided between those who favor the large, heavily centralized, and slow big box approaches and those who prefer smaller, decentralized, nimble, and more creative ones. A board meeting day for a community group.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 17, 2015

Now that you’ve absorbed the 8 basic principles of More Human Leadership , learned the 10 immutable laws that go with them, and truly know the difference between a boss and a leader , it’s now time to dig a little deeper.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Alli Polin of Break the Frame observes that teams are increasingly decentralized and leaders are challenged to create connection when face to face interaction is infrequent at best. Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival.

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Nathan Magnuson

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Still others may revolve around an decentralized model (such as a mentoring program). A recent Bersin study reported that U.S. companies invest over $2,000 in leadership development initiatives per company leader. That’s great news. But is it worth the investment?

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Six Disciplines

JUNE 13, 2011

There is a proper balance of centralized and decentralized responsibility required to achieve the strategy. A while back, OnPoint Consulting's survey yielded insights into what causes the strategy-execution gap. and what might be done to close it. Their assertions: They discovered that almost half of the leaders surveyed—49%—do perceive a gap between their organizations' ability to develop and communicate sound strategies - and their ability to implement those strategies.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Issues such as globalization, decentralization, and the rapid pace of today’s marketplace have forced companies to evaluate the way they operate. The need for executive education is apparent. Key questions include: how can we learn from today’s best practitioners to understand the trends and challenges that will become the norm in the future? Are there “best” ways to develop current and future leaders? How will we pick our leaders?

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QAspire

MARCH 18, 2014

A collaborative team is the one where power is decentralized and everyone owns the final outcome. Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration. Mike Rutherford.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 8, 2012

In addition, rather than decentralizing the structure of the organization, flattening usually results in a drastic centralization. Wolf’s research implies that flattening alone is an insufficient strategy for reducing costs or decentralizing decision making. For the past few decades, the business press and management consultants have pushed for large organizations to flatten their structure. Recent research, however, may be taking some of the wind out of their sails.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The idea is to create a two-sided dilemma from a general problem like whether to use a centralized structure versus a decentralized structure or consumer needs versus shareholder expectations. O FTEN WHEN FACED with a problem we see only a single solution or perhaps none at all.

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RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 9, 2017

Key to success: centralized plan, decentralized execution #leadership Click To Tweet. Today is June 9 th. D-Day, the Allied Invasion of Normandy took place 73 years and three days ago, heralding the beginning of the end of the Axis powers in Europe during World War II.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Corporate America has had no shortage of heroes: Kellogg, Hewlett, Disney, Packard, Kroc, Watson, Ash and Iacocca. These leaders come to mind as examples of lions that have emblazoned their names as corporate giants.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 18, 2012

to claim control over today's borderless Internet, whose open, decentralized architecture makes it hard for these countries to close their people off entirely. Gordon Crovitz, Information Age, The Wall Street Journal, December 17, 2012.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2015

They cover four critical concepts that enable a team to perform at the highest level: Cover and Move (to move as one), Simple (keep plans and communications simple), Prioritize and Execute (avoid target fixation on a single issue), and Decentralized Command (leaders at all levels must be empowered to make decisions). Extreme Ownership by Navy SEAL officers Jocko Willink and Leif Babin is about leadership as personal responsibility. Leaders must own everything in their world.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2012

Then relies heavily on centralized control and specialization, whereas now relies heavily on decentralized autonomous action.” In a world that is moving from a global economy driven by mass production to one driven by mass customization—a now economy—the demand for mass ingenuity, mass engagement, and mass action, has never been greater. In Business at the Speed of Now , author John Bernard says that there must also be a shift in the way we manage our organizations.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 1, 2017

Decentralization of power: increasing responsibilities for line positions and lower echelons; fewer staff levels and hierarchical levels. Change seems to occur at an ever-increasing speed, making forecasts – especially those concerning long term scenarios – an extremely risky business.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. Today’s American corporate world is a tale of two cultures. One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical. I call it Alpha. I call this one Beta.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

The first step in achieving the vision of a decentralized, citizen-focused police service. Field operations are decentralized into four areas of the city – central, south, east, north and west.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 25, 2011

Here are 3 reasons I personally prefer a team approach for this function of our church: Decentralized control - With one person in charge, if that person gets sick, moves, or decides he or she gets tired and quits, the whole church would suffer.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Weak leaders and unhealthy organizations fear decentralized power and intellectually empowered small-unit leaders because they''re difficult to "control." October 14 brings a powerful new book full of leadership lessons for " how to be a first responder in business."

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive.

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Deep Imprints

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

In this response, I began to realize that as women take their leadership talent and use it where it is appreciated, one of the end results is the decentralization of the church. Last week, I wrote my responses to the Resignation of Eve.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Byrne’s list of Drucker’s major accomplishments included: Introducing the idea of decentralization, a concept that became basic to every large organization in the world. The following is a guest post by William A. Cohen. Peter F. Drucker was a genius. Unlike Sir Isaac Newton he didn’t choose to spend his time observing that an apple fell down rather than up. Nor did he ponder on the inner workings and hidden mechanisms of the human mind as did Sigmund Freud.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

Effective mentoring programs while led from the top down, are decentralized and driven down to lowest possible levels of the organization. By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Leadership and mentoring go hand-in-hand.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 12, 2011

That rigid hierarchies inhibit innovation and for organizations to have a competitive advantage, they need to decentralize and move to flatter hierarchies. One of the developing branches of psychology is the study of happiness: positive psychology.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Whether they promote flat, matrixed, open or decentralized organizations the message is the same: hierarchies are out-dated and need to be scrapped. There is a growing trend among organizational consultants and gurus toward democratic workplaces. The case is compelling. The evidence, however, isn’t as strong as many assert.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Is power and work centralized or decentralized? When planning for change, it helps to identify factors that may hinder change. At the same time, it is important not to forget the factors that may support the change. You often find factors that help or hinder change in the same places. Consider the following examples of types of factors that might affect your change initiative both positively or negatively: Culture.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2014

Decentralization reality vs. having one ABC Company strategy, are in conflict. Question : There is SO much on my plate – how do I sort out priorities, recognize the blocks, and keep an open mind for possibilities?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 3, 2011

And there is a balance to strike balance between centralized and decentralized, local and global that is not easy. “Crisis response must start by building a strong culture long before the crisis hits,” say Jeffrey Liker and Tim Ogden, authors of Toyota Under Fire. Turning crisis into opportunity is all about culture. It’s not about PR strategies, or charismatic leadership, or vision, or any specific action by any individual.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

One can hardly imagine a decentralized decision- making process in his operations. By Guest Author Art Gould. When a giant like Google changes management styles, we ought to take notice.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

I’ve been playing around a lot with the idea of democracy in organizations (and the feasibility of its extremist cousin, decentralization). When I received a review copy of E Pluribus Kinko’s: A Story of Business, Democracy and Freaky Smart People I was intrigued (especially since Kinko’s is no longer). My biggest regret is that it took me so long to get to.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Mason’s inability (or unwillingness) to decentralize and drive decision-making authority down to lower levels of the organization was probably a key factor in stagnation of the TQM effort at the operating level of the company.

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