Coaching Ourselves

MARCH 1, 2024

Workload Management 10. As McGill undergoes a transformative shift from a large, traditional organization to a more decentralized, hybrid structure, CoachingOurselves consistently delivers high value and facilitates continuous learning. Involvement and Influence 9. Engagement 11. Balance 12. Psychological Protection 13.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 19, 2019

Blockchain-Powered Content. Blockchain technology – the decentralized tech that was famously introduced to supports bitcoin – is now be leveraged to remedy the many disparities that exist in today’s online content landscape. . Prior to launching Polyient, Robertson was the CEO and founder of CX, an early innovator in cloud computing.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

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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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. In emergency management, Hurricane Sandy stands out. Risk management is now a fully-developed rich scientific discipline. In our book, we provide numerous examples of agility.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Begin discussion with top management team and train them. Share feedback with the chief and his management team. Get buy-in from top department managers. This begins at the top with the chief and the chief’s management team. An elected, rank-and-file police officer, is added to the chief’s management team.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. But what if an innovation poses a threat, and you can’t yet tell whether it has genuinely transformative potential? Fuse/Getty Images. These are rarely studied questions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

What does it take to cause something big about a community to change — something that no one individually has much power over, even something as big as a prevailing mindset? Management thinkers framing the greatest challenges of our time as human ones. Tim Ellis/Getty Images. We know what it takes: a social movement.

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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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Lead from Within

MAY 28, 2020

Every crisis, large or small, influences the way we lead because it causes us to stop, recalibrate, and innovate. Times of crisis show us the value of decentralized leadership, and the ability to create a network of talented experts with access to good data is fast becoming an essential leadership skill. The Leadership Gap.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. This is the kind of thinking that business managers can also profit from. Power in the marketplace has shifted from seller to buyer.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Airbus has a complex process for managing the thousands of suppliers who contribute to the manufacturing of the A380. Much of the advice out there is about simplifying things – delayering, decentralizing, streamlining product lines, creating stronger processes for ensuring alignment, and so on. But this advice has a couple of problems.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

This becomes more likely as the organization takes on strategic risk — through innovation, mergers and acquisitions, or because its environment is becoming more volatile. Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling. I have seen this manifest itself three ways.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

As the effects began to play out in the ''70s and ''80s, Drucker wrote extensively about the need for management practices to change. The widespread erosion of ROA confirms that our management practices and institutions are struggling to respond to the relentless pressure. The Mongrel Discipline of Management , by David K.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We call this phenomenon reverse innovation — any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world, and then later in the developed world. Surprisingly, such innovations defy gravity and flow uphill from the poor to the rich. Reverse innovation will become more and more common. The future is far from home.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

provided the founders with considerable latitude in introducing innovative and unorthodox management methods. Prior to the Amazon merger, the company had an egalitarian structure organized around self-managed teams. This structure granted individual employees significant decision-making power.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

Five innovative reforms have been found to help reduce costs without compromising on the quality of health care services: Decentralization of responsibilities : Most dialysis centers today are trying to provide drug management, laboratory services, and vascular surgery management in addition to dialysis service under one roof.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2012

Nestle has a fairly decentralized management culture. If the gender issue is well positioned from the start, as a strategic, customer and talent-driven business imperative, it inevitably attracts the most adaptable and open-minded managers, who use the concept as a way to generate fresh thinking about the company's opportunities.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2015

In the first part of this century, innovation became the priority. Accordingly, Welch’s successor, Jeff Immelt, drove GE to achieve growth through innovation. Managing organizations Change management Human resource management Organizational culture' telecom, music, and aviation) experienced upheavals.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The company is a €36 billion decentralized collection of valuable brands — which they call houses (or maisons ) — covering fashion, wine and spirits, cosmetics, and jewelry. Managing Carbon and Energy. The most innovative part of LVMH’s carbon strategy is the use of an internal carbon fund.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

They must be willing to decentralize their decision?making It is suggest that you step lightly when using the rules until you have fully understood the power they hold. Regardless of your past triumphs, power offers a double?edged Exit the Lands of the Terracotta. On to Iwo Jima. I can’t, says who? timed and executable strategy?forward

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

Big data and analytics can make organizations more efficient and agile by empowering middle-level and far-flung managers to make decisions and seize business opportunities that previously required scarce data and executive approval. Leadership & Managing people Technology Managing yourself'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

.” On one hand, “the machine is seen as the master of men unless firm government control or a workers’ revolt intervenes” (it was the ’50s, after all); on the other, those who believed “that the innovations are simply a phase of technological progress which begin with the invention of the wheel.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. When Sloan became president of GM in 1923, he put in place planning and strategy, measurements, and most importantly, the principles of decentralization.”

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

New financial innovations enabled both historic global economic growth and cascading global financial failures. organizational structure (such decentralizing and aligning technology to business areas more effectively), and governance. In this context frameworks include physical space (e.g.,

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

Fluid and innovative business strategies centered on adaptability, foresight, and competition are replacing traditional management methods. With the shift towards a more democratic work culture, management is evolving towards decentralization– emphasizing proactive and watchful guidance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

This is a world that tries to overcome the innovator’s dilemma by learning new things even when their current strength remains powerful. This is likely to require decentralizing the structure of our organizations, with smaller teams given greater autonomy to act, experiment and learn.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

The Harvard Business Review 's mission is to improve the practice of management and its impact on a changing world. Led by Gary Hamel and supported by McKinsey & Company (along with a handful of like-minded organizations), the MIX is a web-based open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 13, 2024

The world of work is undergoing a profound transformation, a metamorphosis fueled by technological innovations and shifting societal norms. This digital frontier is dismantling traditional business models and placing power back in the hands of individuals. It’s a realm where trust is decentralized, and innovation knows no bounds.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

Advancements in artificial intelligence and Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices have made it possible for cities to increase efficiencies across multiple services like public safety, transportation, water management and even healthcare. An estimated 2.3 the technology research and advisory company.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Like it or not, the reality (in supply chains, as elsewhere) is that power is asymmetrical – large customers typically have more clout than you do, and they know it. Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

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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. The blockchain is truly an innovative approach to governance for networks and machines. Consider the case of The DAO.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. While management often espouses the notion that good ideas can come from everywhere, in practice there are "thinkers" who create strategies and designated "doers" who execute those strategies. What could you do together? Everything.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Her story is not only an inspiring one of adapting self-help narratives and neuroscience to "trick" her own mind; it’s also a tale couched in almost a century of management thinking about who can and can''t be a leader. This is how opportunities to be nimble and innovative are squandered, he says, and how companies become irrelevant.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

In 2012, the Industrial Research Institute (IRI) commissioned a foresight study into the future of R&D management called IRI2038. As natural resources become further constrained, R&D innovations focus more and more on process and efficiency as the world moves deeper into a zero-sum competition over materials. Seem far-fetched?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

It could be especially powerful when combined with “smart contracts,” in which contractual rights and obligations, including the terms for payment and delivery of goods and services, can be automatically executed by an autonomous system that’s trusted by all signatories. A team from precision parts manufacturer Moog Inc.

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