Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2019

Business leaders also have to change their leadership style in order to still be able to drive a sense of connection and community within their organization. Co-location facilitates collaborative teamwork and innovation, so companies have to find a way to balance the needs of their employees with these core fundamentals.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

What does digital leadership look like in this sense? Leadership is changing — fast. One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. They know the local market, promote their offerings in the community, and often serve as community leaders. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Much of Charan’s recent work has tilted towards organization and people (books on strategy execution, leadership pipeline, talent and advice on intensity, change, leadership traits, performance management, governance). As HR professionals engage with business leaders to deliver value, the conversation should not just be about talent.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

Sometimes this distancing happens gradually, and sometimes it happens quickly–soon after a bad hire, a failure of leadership, or a divisive decision/event. The culture can also take shape around how the organization differentiates itself from others or how it innovates. Cautionary tales abound. If so, how?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is known to expect unwavering discipline from his workers, personifies this leadership style. provided the founders with considerable latitude in introducing innovative and unorthodox management methods.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2012

Nestle has a fairly decentralized management culture. It was a bit of macho brand that focused on models and slimness," remembers Fernando del Solar, Chile's Market Head. "We The traditional approach to a lot of advertising and selling is steeped in 'performance' language, note marketers Jane Cunningham and Philippa Roberts.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

Sometimes this distancing happens gradually, and sometimes it happens quickly–soon after a bad hire, a failure of leadership, or a divisive decision/event. The culture can also take shape around how the organization differentiates itself from others or how it innovates. Leadership Innovation (Work different).

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

By now, we all know that leadership is tough, hard, exciting and demanding. They must be bold in their actions, willing to take calculated risks together that will have the greatest potential to achieve major, market?shifting They must be willing to decentralize their decision?making By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

If the answers are inconsistent, or don''t reflect leadership''s intended positioning strategy, that can indicate one of two issues. You''ll often find this top-down problem in decentralized matrix organizations where business unit heads have different and sometimes competing agendas. Communication Marketing Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In their new book, Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage , Scott Keller and Colin Price identify nine factors that are critical to organizational health: Direction, Accountability, Motivation, Leadership, Coordination & Control, External Orientation, Culture & Climate, Capabilities, Innovation & Learning.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Toward a New Leadership Agenda. The promise of global progress has become a reality for many — but not for all.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

As the two markets homogenized into a general mass American market, focused mail-order retailers like Sears and Montgomery Ward saw sales and profits drop. Competition Leadership Retail' Wood and Sears, Roebuck, excerpted in HBR in 1985, rural America was becoming less isolated and more like urban America.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. MirageC/Getty Images. The S&P and the Dow indexes are up 18% and 19%, respectively.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

You might say that a radically decentralized, p2p financial system spontaneously arose. You might say that a radically decentralized, p2p financial system spontaneously arose. And thats exactly the role that pubs began to play. And thats exactly the role that pubs began to play.

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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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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

But this requires a new scale of leadership: system leadership. An example of system leadership can be found in the food industry, where an initiative that began with 17 food and agribusiness companies grew into a global network of 500 organizations taking action in 19 countries. Empower widespread innovation and action.

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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, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. This can change how we organize every single part of these organizations — from what we make, to how we product and distribute, to how we market and sell. Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

After gathering “signals” about a variety of future and emerging trends, the project leadership generated several plausible scenarios about the future of R&D worth exploring further. In 2012, the Industrial Research Institute (IRI) commissioned a foresight study into the future of R&D management called IRI2038. Seem far-fetched?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

When a detailed cost assessment identified significant savings potential, executive leadership boldly added another five percentage points to the target. The successful but challenging experience of a large pharmaceutical company illustrates the tension between top-down and decentralized change efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

While there may be openings for bipartisan compromise to address the weaknesses of the ACA, the core of the ACA framework is unstable — a hostage to the market and political fortune. This system has long been an aspiration of the far left, yet even the right now seems to acknowledge its growing likelihood.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Innovation-led growth can square a circle that is challenging modern capitalism: how to generate sustained and sustainable economic growth, built on high-value, well-paying jobs. The reason for this elusiveness lies in widespread misunderstandings about how innovation-led growth has been achieved in the past.

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