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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

Its goal is to seamlessly meld centralized vision and planning with empowered decentralized execution – where everyone is encouraged to exercise disciplined initiative, improvise, innovate, and take smart risks in accomplishing a shared goal. Propose a novel idea to your colleagues or the team members you lead. Take a smart risk.

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Transforming a Management System – A Case Study From the Madison Wisconsin Police Department

Curious Cat

Along with a plan to transform into a more customer-oriented organization that was internally collaborative and deeply listened to both employees and citizens, Madison developed a leadership style they called Quality Leadership. You may ask what the role of Quality Leadership was in the transformational process?

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4 Tips for an Effective Enterprise Mobility Strategy

Strategy Driven

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. But is there are a way to still drive innovation with an increasingly decentralized lifeforce? The answer is yes.

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Indispensable Traits of a Collaborative Leader: Part 1

QAspire

In that context, not all situations demand collaborative leadership. There are situations when directive leadership is required and the ones where focus is on coaching and supporting. Collaborative leadership style works best in almost all situations but in following scenarios, it becomes very essential.

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One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible

Harvard Business Review

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is known to expect unwavering discipline from his workers, personifies this leadership style. ” Such decentralization and lack of structure, however, might have ultimately contributed to company-wide inefficiencies that drove up prices. “It should be within the very DNA of the organization.”

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How Jeff Bezos Makes Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Jeff’s leadership style is infectious. Amazon is fairly decentralized, and some of these executives run their own businesses and make their own decisions. The term Jeff-Bot does connote a bit of mimicry, but it’s also about loyalty. The people who do the best at Amazon are the people who absorb his principles.

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Laying Groundwork: How Do Leaders Create Positive Company Culture?

CO2

Have you grown to a point where the organization needs to decentralize authority beyond the entrepreneur/founder, but because of that individual’s charisma and influence no one objects to creating bottlenecks for the entire business? They can become so ingrained that leaders fail to even see that a trade-off is taking place.