Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Issues such as globalization, decentralization, and the rapid pace of today’s marketplace have forced companies to evaluate the way they operate. Determining exactly how to turn these challenges into opportunities keeps many CEOs awake at night. Focus on core issues. . Focus on internal and external factors. .

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. The aviation industry can teach us about business process excellence in decentralized and complex setups. In the U.S.,

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2019

Let’s take a look at the challenges workforce mobility presents and a few tips on how to implement an effective enterprise mobility strategy. But is there are a way to still drive innovation with an increasingly decentralized lifeforce? The Challenges. The answer is yes.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Here is how to use smart planning to make strides toward greater agility and market success. So, open the channels of communication and decentralize decision-making. That’s the way to improve your time-to-market without compromising on product quality. Choose Your Scaling Path. In fact, it entices you to dismantle them.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

When similar journeys are decided on by leaders in the driver’s seat of their organizations, the challenge to accomplish such a task means that CEOs must be able to navigate their way around the VUCA minefields (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) and instruct their senior teams how to do the same. shifting results.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Those benefits fall into three categories: To jumpstart network effects that provide a first-mover advantage: Many of the projects being built using blockchain technology are “protocols” that govern the interactions between users in a decentralized autonomous network.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Understanding your company’s DNA can help you know what you can and can’t do, and how to achieve agility and authenticity in a changing world. The language of ecosystems redefined our understanding of competition by viewing markets has habitats. But there may be more to the metaphor. Does biology inform business?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Meanwhile, data scientists and engineers have a keen eye for identifying feasible data-powered solutions and a strong intuition on what can be scaled and how. Teams that over-invest in technical validation before validating product-market fit risk wasted R&D efforts pointed at the wrong problem or solution.

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Decker Communication

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As we close out the decade, let’s look at how leadership has become decentralized and team-oriented. Consider the following shifts and how a leader’s communications play an even more critical role. . The Days of Centralized Leadership in Business are Long Gone. . The Power of Teams .

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

They might focus on how incumbents cope with the rapid obsolescence of their old capabilities, say, or with internal resistance to inevitable change. For our study, we collected data on 512 strategic initiatives, both centralized and decentralized, launched by 48 leading U.S. and international electric utilities.

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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. For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. In recent years, Indian firms such as Dr Reddy's have also started globalizing their R&D footprint by moving into Western markets. and the U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

For example, GE developed an ultra-low-cost ultrasound for rural China which is now marketed in over 100 countries. Logitech developed an affordable mouse for the China market which sells for (the Chinese equivalent of) $19.99 Therefore, they focused on winning market share by adapting global offerings to meet local needs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2016

Leaders struggling with how to respond to platform pressures should consider a more strategic response than yes or no. 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. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

. “There has to be an appropriate culture of freedom to fail,” Petraeus advises, “as long as failure (as well as success) is followed by a very careful after-action review, to understand what transpired, why it happened, and then how to reduce the chances of it happening in the future.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

But, the 60% seem, in my view, to be actively engaged in learning how to help their organizations improve. I advocate teaching the 60% what they can do to deliver value even in difficult circumstances (working with non-supportive leaders or in difficult markets, for example). They should be role models for others.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

For example, if category expansion is critical to value creation in a particular strategy, plans should focus disproportionally on how to achieve this. marketing team offered the same promotion to U.S. In the first, it centers on compliance to a pre-determined plan, in the latter on decentralized initiative taking and experimentation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2012

Nestle has a fairly decentralized management culture. This voluntary adoption principle helped get the right people leading the way — those who saw its potential, were enthusiastic proponents of change, and could be good role models for their peers on WHY and HOW to embrace the gender balancing concept.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

” And although his suggestions for how to improve the odds have been widely accepted, the success rate of major corporate change programs remains essentially unchanged — it still hovers at 30%. And while we’ve actually come a long way in learning how to manage change, we continue to struggle with transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

Increased digital marketing could improve opportunity to connect with existing customers, allowing firms to better upsell, cross sell and retain valuable customers. They have a digital strategy that’s well defined along the lines of marketing, sales and service—and well-informed by customer insights.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

Expert Q&A with Jason Tyszko on how to raise the skills of your employees to meet upcoming automation challenges. . It is also necessary in a tight labor market where companies need access to all available talent in order to grow and be competitive. Yes, excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake,” he said.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. These companies can’t ignore sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

Peter Drucker wrote that Sloan was “the first to work out how to systematically organize a big company. When Sloan became president of GM in 1923, he put in place planning and strategy, measurements, and most importantly, the principles of decentralization.” Modern Corporation Marketing. auto market.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

This conflict uncomfortably transcends traditional “centralization/decentralization” debates. Decision rights are about how organizations “decide how to decide” who is empowered to make decisions. Customers and clients demand greater agility, and employees and partners expect greater empowerment.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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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. Habits and “truisms” are tough to break, and they can result in ill-advised trade-offs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The heated arguments our politicians and public intellectuals have been having about how to reboot the economy just address the symptoms, not the deeper malady: Our industrial-era economic institutions have become, in our tiny, fragile, crowded world, a cage. So how do the powers that be break out of that cage and resolve these dilemmas?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. While we can disagree about how to fix the problem, we must acknowledge that globalization is a hard sell if it doesn’t address these distributive issues. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3. The same goes for technology.

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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. Habits and “truisms” are tough to break, and they can result in ill-advised trade-offs.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Those of you familiar with this blog know that I’m generally a strong marketing advocate. That said, my typical pro-marketing position assumes that certain key fundamentals are in place to insure that the lunatics don’t somehow become in charge of the asylum.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

This decentralization and relative freedom of access has led to some unexpected consequences: Because anyone can read and write transactions, bitcoin transactions have fueled black market trading. How technology is transforming transactions. Business in the Era of Blockchain. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

These gaps created another problem for them: In the critical stages following the spill, BP was unable to get input from those who had the knowledge and experience to make the best decisions about how to handle it. Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

To protect this vision from political pressure and regulatory interference, blockchain networks rely on a decentralized infrastructure that can’t be controlled by any one person or group. This token sale was done through a widely marketed crowdfunding campaign, raising more than $150 million in ether value.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Here is some advice on how to tap into supply chains for successful scale-up: Reveal more than is comfortable. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

Business leaders know how to go about transforming their companies to seize opportunities or meet major challenges — even if that’s easier said than done. How can one organization even begin to attempt to solve a complex global problem like climate change, food insecurity, deteriorating infrastructure, or economic inequality?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Tech experts' sage predictions had convinced me that the Mac would never make a dent in the PC market. Fortunately, there's a rich source of lessons on how to thrive in an unpredictable world, and it has been cranking out success stories for 3.5 Decentralization. Remember when Apple's stock traded at $7 a share? billion years.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2018

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Furthermore, in the realm of software, see the case of GNU/Linux on which the top 500 supercomputers and the majority of websites run , or the example of the Apache Web Server, the leading software in the web-server market. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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