Leading Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

And with today’s digital economy and globalized markets making organizations more and more decentralized, it’s getting harder than ever for workers to create meaningful relationships with others. They have a deep understanding of themselves, including their values, ambitions, and goals. A recent MIT study underscores this.

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Quality Decentralization Storytelling Micromanagement 350

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior. Behavior is even more tightly regulated at Amazon’s warehouses, where target goals and surveillance keep production on schedule. Amazon’s culture is a tight one, characterized by structure and precision.

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Price Decentralization Long-term CEO 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Or take Salesforce.com and its willingness to have self-organizing development teams continuously tweaking code, even though, with a global system serving more than two million subscribers, the risks of introducing errors into its 30 million lines of code would seem to present compelling reasons not to. We" is smarter than "me".

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Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

Social media and collaboration tools not only open the door to faster and more extensive knowledge-sharing, but they also enable conversations that skip levels, silo-busting, and self-organization. This allows CEO Satya Nadella to hear early warning signals.

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Tools CEO Mezzanine Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

Education was an important goal for Boomers in Western countries during these years. These different underlying factors all contributed to shaping individuals who value self-reliance. In Saudi Arabia, steeply declining oil prices created government deficits for the first time.

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Education White Paper Compliance Politics 14

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Shared goals and clearly defined roles provide the foundation upon which cooperation and coordination can be built. It appears Toyota’s decentralized structure, which served it well for many years, turned into a liability as the company continued to grow and dominate worldwide markets. What went wrong?

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67