Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2012

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. Centralized innovation and decision-making, the mainstays of the Mass Production era, simply cannot get results in a world where unlimited choice demands real-time response.” It requires a YES mindset.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

If you are a manager you know that challenges can be overcome by solid people and systems. This is often referred to as “bureaucracy” and can quickly become abysmally restrictive and frustrating with feelings of; Innovative work thrusts are inhibited. Endless reference back and forth and up and down the Management Structure.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 24, 2022

The researchers develop a model that aims to show when a managerless organization would work better than a more hierarchical one, and then when it would not. Research from Bocconi University explores the pros and cons of such an approach.

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Coaching Ourselves

MARCH 1, 2024

Psychological and Social Support 3. Clear Leadership and Expectations 4. Civility and Respect 5. Psychological Demands 6. Growth and Development 7. Recognition and Reward 8. Workload Management 10. Involvement and Influence 9. Engagement 11. Balance 12. Psychological Protection 13.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

For the IT architecture to be effective, it should be between centralized and decentralized. The enterprise architecture should manage changes in the architecture, but input by other employees should be appreciated. Balance between Centralization and Decentralization. Additionally, mode 2 requires agility.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. If you are responsible for leading teams, how can you be sure that the work being done throughout the day will innovatively increase impact and productivity to make tomorrow a better place? Novo: Change the Lens of Thought-leadership and the Approach to Professional Development.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 19, 2019

Blockchain technology – the decentralized tech that was famously introduced to supports bitcoin – is now be leveraged to remedy the many disparities that exist in today’s online content landscape. Prior to launching Polyient, Robertson was the CEO and founder of CX, an early innovator in cloud computing. Blockchain-Powered Content.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. In emergency management, Hurricane Sandy stands out. Thus, this mindset must be deliberately developed and nurtured by senior leaders – and exemplified in their own behaviors.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

In an effort to better understand when and how corporate cultures change, CCL and corporate leaders surveyed a group of global VPs and directors in HR, Learning & Development, Leadership, and Talent Management. The results were telling. A general feeling of resistance to organizational change — a.k.a.

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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. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Instead he spent the better part of his 96 years unraveling the secrets of management. He did this to such a degree that he became recognized as the “Father of Modern Management.” at First In his first book devoted entirely to management Drucker wrote: “Leadership is of upmost importance. But management cannot create leaders.”

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Begin discussion with top management team and train them. Share feedback with the chief and his management team. Get buy-in from top department managers. This begins at the top with the chief and the chief’s management team. An elected, rank-and-file police officer, is added to the chief’s management team.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Total Quality Management in Logistics: a case study from the trucking industry by Harry Lehman, Jr. (a As with any stated aim or goal what matters is how it manifests in real decisions but it is a good start to acknowledge how important that is to a successful management improvement effort. a thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School).

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

It requires employers, educators, government administrators, and not-for-profit organizations to come together to develop plans to help people become more resilient, capable, and agile. The HR Digest: Can you tell The HR Digest readers more about the Chamber’s T3 Innovation Network? Chamber of Commerce.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Developing Leadership Skills: What Do Great Leaders Have in Common? Gary Hamel provides examples of exactly the kinds of tough questions leaders and organizations must ask in his HBR article “ The Why, What, and How of Management Innovation” : What tough trade-offs do we never get right?

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CO2

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Developing Leadership Skills: What Do Great Leaders Have in Common? Gary Hamel provides examples of exactly the kinds of tough questions leaders and organizations must ask in his HBR article “ The Why, What, and How of Management Innovation” : What tough trade-offs do we never get right? The Leadership Challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Despite good intentions—and widespread acceptance of the importance of innovation—efforts to innovate at large companies often lack a clear mission and framework, and as a result, they go off the rails. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

This is a world that tries to overcome the innovator’s dilemma by learning new things even when their current strength remains powerful. The nature of technology development might also provide some pointers as to how learning at work should change. Netflix, for instance, shifted from DVD rental to streaming.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. Organizations need to have dozens, maybe hundreds, of individual experts, fully capable of idea generation and innovative thought. She has served as a Partner/Managing Director at CCMP Capital and JPMorgan Partners and was a Partner at Flatiron Partners.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. But giving up the pursuit of innovation seems less than satisfying, if not unrealistic.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. Besides Dr Reddy's, several leading Indian firms are pioneering polycentric innovation: Tata Motors.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

The truth about big innovation is that you get what you play for. If that looks like a typo — if it's jarring to see "innovation" and "play" in the same sentence or to hear anyone suggest that you, a manager, should play at anything — then this blog post is for you. That was the (not-so-secret) secret of Steve Jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

In 2012, the Industrial Research Institute (IRI) commissioned a foresight study into the future of R&D management called IRI2038. In one scenario, Africa leapfrogs the developed world to become a manufacturing and economic powerhouse. Seem far-fetched? Ecuador and Bolivia passed such laws in 2008 and 2010 , respectively.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. But what if an innovation poses a threat, and you can’t yet tell whether it has genuinely transformative potential? Fuse/Getty Images. These are rarely studied questions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Inside, elaborate security procedures, long working hours, and deference to senior managers are all in plain view. Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. In such cases, managers often hang on in the hope of an eventual uptake. Killing products isn’t easy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Innovative. The consultant has a solution: decentralize. We’re too decentralized. What we don’t see is that it makes more sense to balance practicality and innovation, boldness and prudence, collaborativeness and self-reliance, agility and consistency — without choosing sides between them. Collaborative.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Does your organization have a data analytics manager yet? A sustainability manager? Too much structure will stifle creativity and innovation. The managers struggle to access organization resources and have limited discretion. You may already be seeing these changes in your organization. Are new roles sprouting up?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Beijing-based telecom security company NQ Mobile has gone so far as to create a separate headquarters in Texas for its developed-market business, managed by an American co-CEO and entirely comprised of American employees.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. This is the kind of thinking that business managers can also profit from. Continuous innovation is now a requirement for survival.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Currently gaining force is a movement to focus for-profit enterprises more on the essential work of enriching societies — that is, benefiting not only those humans who are their owners as publicly traded companies but also those who work in them and who stand to benefit from more purpose-driven innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

A “value management office” can greatly enhance an institution’s ability to improve outcomes and costs across the enterprise. ICCI now has five full-time employees with expertise in analytics and project management and three part-time graduate students. Integrate quality data into care delivery.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Increasingly, Western companies are developing products in countries like China and India, and then distributing them globally. For example, GE developed an ultra-low-cost ultrasound for rural China which is now marketed in over 100 countries. Surprisingly, such innovations defy gravity and flow uphill from the poor to the rich.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

This conflict uncomfortably transcends traditional “centralization/decentralization” debates. By far the best and most useful approach for managing those tensions is Michael Jensen’s path-breaking work in decision rights a quarter-century ago. So the companies push hard to provide both.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

According to Amazon’s leadership principles, leaders are instructed to “ hire and develop the best ” and “insist on the highest standards.” provided the founders with considerable latitude in introducing innovative and unorthodox management methods. Construct a prenup.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

This becomes more likely as the organization takes on strategic risk — through innovation, mergers and acquisitions, or because its environment is becoming more volatile. Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling. I have seen this manifest itself three ways.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

Diseases like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, chronic kidney disease, and stroke are on the rise in both the developed and the developing world, and they have a few things in common. First, they are responsible for contributing a large chunk of patients into the health care system, especially in developed countries like the US.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

The culture can also take shape around how the organization differentiates itself from others or how it innovates. Innovation is as good a way as any to build effective cultures. These problems present opportunities not only for improvement but innovation. Are you and your organization working differently than others?

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