Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Profit is necessary, but it shouldn’t be the paramount goal. I realized then that the same core principles could apply regardless of industry. Today’s best leaders realize that a strong corporate culture is the glue which unites people and provides them with a raison d’ etre that’s bigger than any product or service.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

According to the survey results, the 3 biggest drivers of cultural transformation are: Internal redefinition of the company’s business model, goals, or performance levels. That’s because bold, audacious goals are often perceived as daunting and unachievable. Why Companies Change Their Culture. Technology trends.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

They have the courage to have conversations often considered taboo or too difficult.”

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Its goal is to seamlessly meld centralized vision and planning with empowered decentralized execution – where everyone is encouraged to exercise disciplined initiative, improvise, innovate, and take smart risks in accomplishing a shared goal.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 29, 2022

They have the courage to have conversations often considered taboo or too difficult.”

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 17, 2022

They have the courage to have conversations often considered taboo or too difficult.”

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Excessive ‘decentralization’ or ‘centralization’. The real accountability for the goals set. “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.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 16, 2023

They have the courage to have conversations often considered taboo or too difficult.”

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 4, 2022

They have the courage to have conversations often considered taboo or too difficult.”

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Step 1: Educate and inform everyone in the organization about the vision, the goals, and Quality Leadership. Top leaders required to develop a plan to demonstrate their advocacy for Quality Leadership methods and the goals of the transformation. Transformational goals are reached and there are data to prove successes.

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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. ” As I continue my pursuit of this topic, my goal isn’t to fix the problem so much as understand it.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. Bosses and employees need to work together to solve problems and accomplish shared goals,” writes Ardi. One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical. I call it Alpha. I call this one Beta ,” explains corporate anthropologist Dana Ardi.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2019

What is more, different teams need to work hand in hand toward shared goals. After all, your needs and goal are bound to shift down the road, so why not plan ahead of time? So, open the channels of communication and decentralize decision-making. Ditch vanity metrics and leverage indicators that forward your mission and goals.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. Bosses and employees need to work together to solve problems and accomplish shared goals,” writes Ardi. One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical. I call it Alpha. I call this one Beta ,” explains corporate anthropologist Dana Ardi.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

They have the courage to have conversations often considered taboo or too difficult.”

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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. This document explores implementing these ideas in the service industry.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. Bosses and employees need to work together to solve problems and accomplish shared goals,” writes Ardi. One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical. I call it Alpha. I call this one Beta ,” explains corporate anthropologist Dana Ardi.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Physical preparation in the business world is less about becoming a Navy SEAL and more about learning how to set goals, overcome challenges, and get in the habit of incremental improvement. Weak leaders and unhealthy organizations fear decentralized power and intellectually empowered small-unit leaders because they''re difficult to "control."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

The goal should be to create “air pockets,” with neither direct nor indirect internet connections, that can protect critical equipment and internet-connected devices. Decentralized, intelligent systems can significantly decrease the risk of cyberattacks and minimize their damage. Harm Reduction.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

This is due largely to the fact that the German economy went through an unprecedented process of decentralization of wage bargaining during the 1990s. They reduced and capped unemployment benefits , with the goal of spurring more people to look for jobs. Controversial Labor Reforms. The Private-Sector Response.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Like the internet, this technology is designed to be decentralized, with “layers,” where each layer is defined by an interoperable open protocol on top of which companies, as well as individuals, can build products and services. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain. Sponsored by Accenture. This is critical.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

.” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals? Manage people effectively through decentralized teams across organizations. We believe the answer is yes.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In the worst case, busyness can become an implicit goal or cultural norm, and the original strategic intent can be lost in a frenzy of detail and activity. But the worst way to achieve a goal can sometimes be to pursue it directly. Tyranny of intermediate goals. But often the intermediate goal or task becomes an end in itself.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

For example, when a large technology firm integrated specialized engineers into its regional sales teams, there were shifts in roles, client coverage, compensation, goal setting, and teamwork. As a result, the CEO launched a transformation strategy with the goal of figuring out a more sustainable business model.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

However, overspending is often the result of decentralized and siloed decision making over the utility budget. One solution is to appoint a Chief Utility Officer, who can centralize decision making around utilities and rethink its role to support strategic corporate goals. For the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

How does one successfully manage a company with a dozen diverse, decentralized businesses of varying sizes that employ over 100,000 people in 130 countries, especially in an uncertain economic environment? The answer is to make things simple, says Bill Allen, head of Group Human Resources at Copenhagen-based A.P. Moller-Maersk.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Our teams back in Stamford still have goals and deadlines to meet. In a "flat" world, we no longer think about being centralized or decentralized. I strongly believe the best decisions happen when people with the same goals and values — but different points of view — speak frankly around the table.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2016

Avon’s platform is more than makeup; it’s actually a decentralized economic empowerment model for women with product flowing through the platform as the object for connection. Which bigger-than-business goals do you hold in common with the network? Insight Center. The Platform Economy. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

They are often in intensive care units with ill-defined goals of care. It goes beyond simply meeting measures of health and survival to deliver and redesign care in a way that better meets the goals and needs of our individual patients. They are our sickest and most injured.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

In an interview with The HR Digest , Tyszko explains the crucial importance of tapping into hidden talent in new ways and achieving diversity, equality and inclusion goals in 2020. Upskilling, in the end, should be a team sport, one even where employees support one another in their mutual goals to advance their skills.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Behavior is even more tightly regulated at Amazon’s warehouses, where target goals and surveillance keep production on schedule. ” Such decentralization and lack of structure, however, might have ultimately contributed to company-wide inefficiencies that drove up prices.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

To support this decentralized, empowered organization, the company built a real-time, mobile-enabled information platform. Goals and metrics are local and shared, so people are incentivized to work together toward the company’s overall objectives.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

” The Hub and Spoke Network is a more decentralized model in which the center coordinates a network of innovation centers and outposts in multiple hot-spot locations around the world. One remarkable example is Johnson & Johnson’s Innovation Unit.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Many so-called strategies are in fact goals. But Intel implemented it by providing ample autonomy and decentralized budgets to its various groups and teams, for employees to experiment with initiatives that would bring this strategic intent to life and fruition.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

At Coursera, we use machine learning to help learners find the best content to reach their learning goals, and to ensure they have the support — automated and human — that they need to succeed. Give data science a seat at the table. Data science can live different places in the organization (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

They also said they were looking for growth and development at work , not simply short-term goals and personal financial gain. This means that cities and companies will attract better talent if they can demonstrate that the move will contribute to the professionals’ careers, including after they leave the company. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Decentralize to the edge of discomfort became the mantra of many of these organizations — setting the conditions for rapid and focused action. Back then, the goal was size not speed, and the challenge was coordination not complexity. This new approach turned traditional war-fighting upside down and inside out.

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