LDRLB

JANUARY 12, 2011

One of the developing branches of psychology is the study of happiness: positive psychology. That rigid hierarchies inhibit innovation and for organizations to have a competitive advantage, they need to decentralize and move to flatter hierarchies. But can this cross over into the workplace?

Decentralization 107

Decentralization Competitive Advantage Career Entrepreneur 107

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 29, 2022

Perhaps their gift could be put to better use helping the machine learning team train the algorithm which would be much more valuable to the company. But what if their real gift is gleaning what information is important in extremely complex data sets?

How To 102

How To Open-book Decentralization Morale 102

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?

Decentralization 218

Decentralization McCarthy Godin Conference 218

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Perhaps their gift could be put to better use helping the machine learning team train the algorithm which would be much more valuable to the company. But what if their real gift is gleaning what information is important in extremely complex data sets?

Company 87

Company How To Open-book Decentralization 87

Six Disciplines

JUNE 13, 2011

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. A while back, OnPoint Consulting's survey yielded insights into what causes the strategy-execution gap.

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Execution Strategy Decentralization Survey 122

Eric Jacobson

MAY 16, 2023

Perhaps their gift could be put to better use helping the machine learning team train the algorithm which would be much more valuable to the company. But what if their real gift is gleaning what information is important in extremely complex data sets?

How To 65

How To Open-book Decentralization Morale 65

LDRLB

JANUARY 12, 2011

One of the developing branches of psychology is the study of happiness: positive psychology. That rigid hierarchies inhibit innovation and for organizations to have a competitive advantage, they need to decentralize and move to flatter hierarchies. But can this cross over into the workplace?

Decentralization 88

Decentralization Competitive Advantage Career Entrepreneur 88

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Perhaps their gift could be put to better use helping the machine learning team train the algorithm which would be much more valuable to the company. But what if their real gift is gleaning what information is important in extremely complex data sets?

How To 65

How To Open-book Decentralization Morale 65

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Thus, this mindset must be deliberately developed and nurtured by senior leaders – and exemplified in their own behaviors. It is through that shared understanding, training, and practice that the agility mindset is created. Risk management is now a fully-developed rich scientific discipline.

Agility 89

Agility How To Decentralization Morale 89

Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Begin discussion with top management team and train them. Appoint a top-level, full-time coordinator to train, coach, and assist in the transformation. Train all organizational leaders in Quality Leadership. Train all employees as to what Quality Leadership is, why the transformation is necessary, and what it means for them.

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Case Study System Decentralization Management 40

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Perhaps their gift could be put to better use helping the machine learning team train the algorithm which would be much more valuable to the company. We recommend that they take time reading each chapter and developing a vision for what kind of leader they want to be.

Books 79

Books Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing 79

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Roadway established these goals for its quality teams: improve organizational productivity, improve employee satisfaction, develop employee capabilities through leadership and training, and improve communication by reducing frustration and conflicts. Quality training for warehouse workers extends well beyond lapel pins and pep talks.

Case Study 28

Case Study Deming System Company 28

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Excessive ‘decentralization’ or ‘centralization’. “Stupid”rules applied by “Stupid” people. Endless reference back and forth and up and down the Management Structure. Rigidity in Decision-Making. Planning & issues worked at too low a level.

Innovation 110

Innovation Decentralization Bureaucracy How To 110

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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Teamwork Edmondson Decentralization Maturity 53

Nathan Magnuson

OCTOBER 19, 2015

companies invest over $2,000 in leadership development initiatives per company leader. Just because an organization has a leadership development program doesn’t mean it’s successful, does it? Some executives don’t place a high value on investing in leadership development. That’s great news.

Leadership Development 120

Leadership Development Development Leadership Attrition 120

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Drawing on our findings, we have developed a framework that breaks the Corporate Innovation Unit’s (CIU) role into seven distinct tasks. The central Support Unit is typically a low budget, low staff corporate function in charge of developing guidelines and procedures to govern the innovation funnel (i.e.

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Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Developed alongside business magnate Nandan Nilekani, “ the biggest social project on the planet ” relies on community-operated Common Service Centers (CSCs) and local entrepreneurs to deliver programs and share in the profits. Manage people effectively through decentralized teams across organizations.

Company 8

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The lifecycle of a so-called “data product” mirrors standard product development: identifying the opportunity to solve a core user need, building an initial version, and then evaluating its impact and iterating. Develop the data-savvy of product and business groups. But the data component adds an extra layer of complexity.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products How To Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These revolutionary developments required equally revolutionary changes, including more truly global firms, whole new industries, new ways of organizing enterprises (think first GM and then GE), new ways of working (email, virtual global teams), and more. Training Leadership can be taught, though it’s not easy or cheap.

Agility 66

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 66

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2013

Suppose that Amtrak could achieve the speed of China''s bullet trains and move at 175 miles per hour. That is exactly what happened in China as a consequence of the country''s enormous investment in bullet trains, as work that I did with Siqi Zheng of Tsinghua University shows. The one way commute time would decline to 35 minutes.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Cost-Benefit Analysis Decentralization Training 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2010

That was the heart of question I received at recent workshop I conducted on leading from the middle for a national conference of training and development professionals. But as the global business environment has evolved, the need for decentralized rapid decision-making has become critical. Work through your boss.

How To 15

How To Decentralization Proposal Middle Management 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

Given the amount of research that business schools have dedicated to understanding change management, the number of books and articles published on the subject, and the investment that companies have made in consultants and training, one would think that we would be doing better by now. The change management work focused on execution.

Kotter 8

Kotter Decentralization Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

This means an empowering organization spends more time with technical training and clarity of purpose than one that relies on a top-down compliance model. The reason most organizations revert to command and control is because they have never seen a highly trained team operate in a crisis or a particularly high-tempo, high-stress operation.

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Decentralization Covey Bottom-up Crisis 8

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 need to upskill for the digital world is the need of the hour.

Diversity 111

Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Across all kinds of platforms, individuals from nonprofit development staff to celebrities to CEOs helped spread this compelling idea. There is not a development team or nonprofit board in the world that wouldn’t perk up at that number. GivingTuesday developed case studies and metrics to capture what happened in 2012.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Media Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 8

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

By contrast, GE brought good things to life by building a generative, positive corporate culture around how to hire and train some of the best leaders in the world in such a way that gives it a competitive advantage. They can become so ingrained that leaders fail to even see that a trade-off is taking place. What is our organization bad at?

Positioning 78

Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 78

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In 2010, when MD Anderson decided to introduce time-driven activity-based costing , a method for measuring costs of treating a patient’s medical condition across a cycle of care, the ICCI provided the leadership and resources to develop the capabilities for a pilot project and then to scale the approach across the institution.

Health Care 8

Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology platform on which hundreds of thousands of independent developers could create apps and offer them to Apple''s customers. If a dog is trained to take only the steps its master commands, it won''t catch the Frisbee. In fact, these companies are not behaving chaotically.

Management 8

Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

As the organization’s digital maturity increases, many digital functions become decentralized and are integrated into broader business unit activities. from leading academic institutions and digital organizations), and over 60 percent have a rigorous digital training program in place.

Insurance 8

Insurance Company Maturity Decentralization 8

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

By contrast, GE brought good things to life by building a generative, positive corporate culture around how to hire and train some of the best leaders in the world in such a way that gives it a competitive advantage. They can become so ingrained that leaders fail to even see that a trade-off is taking place. What is our organization bad at?

Positioning 60

Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 60

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

The nature of technology development might also provide some pointers as to how learning at work should change. This is likely to require decentralizing the structure of our organizations, with smaller teams given greater autonomy to act, experiment and learn.

Competitive Advantage 59

Competitive Advantage Kaizen Technology Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

But after the Great Recession of 2007-2009, when developed economies effectively froze in place, their appetites only sharpened. In contrast, in 2010 in Borneo Churchill Mining lost the right to use land it had purchased and spent $40 million surveying when Indonesia decentralized its government and a local authority changed the rules.

Marketing 8

Marketing Company Compliance Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. Leading energy companies are investing in decentralized energy grids, demonstrating the broad feasibility of such approaches. In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2016

When an epidemic is imminent, vaccines can’t be developed quickly enough because assuring their efficacy and safety requires trials that take months to years to complete. These are difficult to scale or decentralize. For example, our colleague who developed the first Ebola doorstep diagnostic authorized by the U.S.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Sample Incentives Development 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Dibella, the only unit ever to win every simulated battle it fought at the demanding National Training Center. After that, all distractions were eliminated or deliberately deemphasized, and a playbook was developed to codify the mission. Morton credits the structure working because it was developed and built around strengths.

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Decentralization Creativity Bond Cooper 157

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

A “collaborative-care spread team” consisting of clinical experts in the model, a project manager, organizational development specialists, and others guide the nurse managers through their unit’s preparation and implementation phases, supporting their leadership development every step of the way. Fully use the talent.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Decentralization Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

” Building this culture involved traveling extensively to meet directly with VA employees and stakeholders, implementing a pair of extensive training programs, and on a weekly basis, highlighting and celebrating the stories of employees who let the principles of the VA guide their behavior when circumstances required them to go off script.

Six Sigma 8

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