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Manage to Meet Your Customers’ Needs

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

As customers’ needs become more diverse, the managers of the future must adapt to meet their demands. Today’s post is by Jonathan Byrnes, author of CHOOSE YOUR CUSTOMER: How to Compete Against the Digital Giants and Thrive (CLICK HERE to get your copy). This requires a much more decentralized set of management structures and.

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How to Expedite Innovation: Communication Loops & Red-Tape-Worms

Mike Cardus

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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How to Optimally Align IT with Your Business Processes?

Strategy Driven

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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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

That’s one reason I was interested to talk with Leo Tilman and General Charles Jacoby, who co-wrote a new book, Agility: How to Navigate the Unknown and Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption. In emergency management, Hurricane Sandy stands out. How do organizations with a culture of agility handle risk differently than others?

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Hiring For Cultural Fit Can Be Good But Comes With Risks

The Horizons Tracker

It’s perhaps understandable, therefore, that managers would strive to achieve a degree of cultural fit when they recruit. Indeed, a few years ago research from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found that a poor cultural fit can cost somewhere between 50-60% of that employee’s annual salary.

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Do You Speak the Language of Performance Driven Execution?

N2Growth Blog

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? Or, if you are responsible for managing Solopreneur projects, how can you be sure that the work will increase impact and productivity?

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“Leadership is Marketing” – Peter Drucker Said What?

Tanveer Naseer

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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