Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

There I observed a wide array of Abbott executives, scientists and managers. As a manager “on loan” to Abbott from the University of Michigan, I quickly found similarities between the two organizations. They can pose major challenges for today’s managers, especially if those managers are part of a different generation.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 13, 2020

We can look back to those experiences for leadership lessons on navigating through the financial crisis many companies now face. Only about a third of downsizing companies increased productivity and profits in the next 3 to 5 years, and underperformed in stock markets. However, we have been through economic shocks before.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 8, 2012

For the past few decades, the business press and management consultants have pushed for large organizations to flatten their structure. Flattening usually refers taking two actions to change organizational structure – removing layers of middle management while widening the span of control for the managers that are left.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

The market a company operates in should also be taken into account for enterprise architecture. 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.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

His new book is The Seventh Power: One CEO’s Journey into the Business of Shared Leadership. In 2010, at the peak of the national housing and mortgage market collapse, I began to have trouble speaking. Quite suddenly I was forced to develop a new approach to management and leadership that involved a lot less talking.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Morgan (2005) uses a great image of a spider-plant to describe the decentralization trend. Handy’s (1998) shamrock organization might provide the right blend of centralization and decentralization to make it worthwhile for for-profit companies. A company could be centralized on one-leaf and decentralized on another.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

In an effort to better understand when and how corporate cultures change, CCL and corporate leaders surveyed a group of global VPs and directors in HR, Learning & Development, Leadership, and Talent Management. Maintaining a market position under intense pressure. The message is clear: Leadership matters most.

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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. But is there are a way to still drive innovation with an increasingly decentralized lifeforce? The answer is yes. They won’t. Don’t be Afraid to Ask for Help.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. And just to make things interesting, do it in a decentralized organizational construct where laws, standards, and procedures aren’t as tightly controllable as within a single company. In the U.S., Handoff errors would result.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The realities of globalization, with increasing emphasis on emerging markets, present corporate leaders with enormous challenges in developing the leaders required to run global organizations. They hire technical specialists, local experts, and country managers from emerging markets but rarely promote them to corporate positions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. At worst, they misjudge or simply stay out of markets vastly different from their own.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 25, 2011

Home About Consulting Church Family Leadership Navigation: Home » Leadership » 3 Values of Teamwork 3 Values of Teamwork January 25, 2011 in Leadership , Organizational Leadership , Team Leadership with 4 Comments Recently I was asked a question regarding how we handle set-up on Sunday mornings.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

” In other words, they practice an entirely new model of management. What does digital leadership look like in this sense? Our research, which we call the “digital DNA,” identified 23 new management practices CEOs should consider, focusing on empowerment, experimentation, collaboration, data, and speed.

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Decker Communication

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Those were the words of the leader of one of our multi-billion dollar clients, which accents the amazing changes in leadership over the last 40 years. . As we close out the decade, let’s look at how leadership has become decentralized and team-oriented. The Days of Centralized Leadership in Business are Long Gone. .

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. In turn, this will foster better social outcomes and create new markets and consumer segments. We believe the answer is yes.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

He argues that it’s the rare CHRO who can serve as a strategic leader for the CEO and also manage the internal concerns of the organization. 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).

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2015

I recently discussed the issue of managing through uncertainty with retired U.S. Petraeus has managed uncertainty of global scope and with the highest stakes. Our conversation left me with three recommendations for managing uncertainty that we all can use: Learn faster than your opponent. So how should leaders adapt?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

Given the amount of research that business schools have dedicated to understanding change management, the number of books and articles published on the subject, and the investment that companies have made in consultants and training, one would think that we would be doing better by now. The change management work focused on execution.

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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

APRIL 23, 2013

But the data, gathered in our new study " Stop Starving Scale " and compared against benchmarks from APQC (American Productivity & Quality Center), hint at a little-known story: most global NGOs today struggle to master the complexities of managing efficient, integrated operations in large part due to restrictions placed on them by funders.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Much less attention is paid, however, to the manner in which Buffett manages the company itself. This is somewhat surprising, given that his management system is very different from those of other publicly traded companies. Berkshire Hathaway is known for its extreme decentralization. It does not even have a General Counsel.

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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. Either there''s a bottom-up communications problem where the messages aren''t connecting with their targets, or there''s a top-down problem where management isn''t clear on what its message is.

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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

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

Sometimes this distancing happens gradually, and sometimes it happens quickly–soon after a bad hire, a failure of leadership, or a divisive decision/event. People will stop honoring or identifying with the organization. Cautionary tales abound. Are you and your organization working differently than others? If so, how?

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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

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. And that answer was new management — Robert Wood — “a man who was capable of introducing a new entrepreneurial concept.” And what was that?

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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. Strategy/Management (Sell different). Leadership Innovation (Work different). Leadership Innovation: The Questions Leaders Ask. Cautionary tales abound.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. Toward a New Leadership Agenda. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. A recurring theme in those interviews was bemoaning major changes in R&D strategy that occurred as a consequence of new, often outside, leadership. Instead of decentralizing R&D, recentralize it. One of the changes we learned outside CEOs make is decentralizing R&D.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

We focused on the generations in eight countries, including the four BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), some of the most important markets for talent over the next decade, as well as one country from the Middle East. In many cases, leadership demanded compliance, promoting risk-aversion and compliance, rather than respect.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Most companies manage projects in terms of outputs, not outcomes. Managers working in this context can be forgiven for thinking that their job is simply to finish making something. And yet our management culture and tools are set up to work in terms of outputs. This is the bind that executives and managers face.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Why was this once-dominant player unable to execute and maintain its market position? It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management. So what happened?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. But the decentralization debate was different. Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved.

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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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