thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MAY 10, 2021

Managing at the right level is the most important element in effective management in the Age of Diverse Markets. In the prior mass markets era, companies had homogeneous markets, so they needed to plan and coordinate only at the executive level, with the rest of the company’s managers focusing on their respective functional specialties.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 1, 2017

Both leaders and employees have to learn to anticipate market and political trends more quickly and adapt to them. Some of those market trends are listed below, we all know them well, but have we all adapted our organizations? Strong increase in mergers and take-overs. Developments of global network organizations.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 24, 2020

Most companies have decentralized their teams due to social distancing, measures directed by state and federal governments to keep people home and prevent further spread of the disease. General expectation setting and maintenance is paramount to any recruitment process and especially so in a tumultuous market environment.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 8, 2012

In addition, rather than decentralizing the structure of the organization, flattening usually results in a drastic centralization. Wolf’s research implies that flattening alone is an insufficient strategy for reducing costs or decentralizing decision making. Without a flat culture, a flattened firm will simply fall flat.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

They understood the impact that a strong, adaptive corporate culture has on organizational performance, the true mark of leadership. Perhaps if today’s business leaders took a page from history, their companies would achieve the success created by the enlightened leadership of past corporate giants. Eich , Ph.D. General Business'

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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. Balance between Centralization and Decentralization. How Does Enterprise Architecture Add Value?

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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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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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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

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. The fact that such a complex, decentralized, sprawling operation delivers reliable (albeit not always likable) results is a minor miracle. finance, I.T.,

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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.

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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

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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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 turn, this will foster better social outcomes and create new markets and consumer segments. Manage people effectively through decentralized teams across organizations. Collaborative leadership was critical for the revitalization of Central Park in New York City.

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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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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. ” Such decentralization and lack of structure, however, might have ultimately contributed to company-wide inefficiencies that drove up prices.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2016

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. All too often, blunt answers include employees or customer personas, but leadership must push beyond these expected labels. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As part of the leadership at a strategy firm growing rapidly in frontier markets, there were times when I should have receive a notice akin to that “red star cluster” — and certainly times when I should have sent one but didn’t. .” “The unforeseen,” he recounted with a wry grin).

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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

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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

I could cite similar examples of other companies successfully executing discrete change initiatives, like introducing a new performance management system, shifting from decentralized to centralized marketing support, and utilizing new personal productivity tools. Change management Leadership'

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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

MARCH 13, 2013

All this drove home the point that we need to be more agile in extreme-growth markets. A new style of leadership is emerging. In a "flat" world, we no longer think about being centralized or decentralized. As a new crossroads of global travel, Dubai will soon be home to the world's busiest international airport.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

As globalization began to shift into high gear in the 1980s, corporations grew by opening international outposts to access new markets. Decentralized, program-focused operations also squander precious dollars. While their missions couldn''t be more different, the organizational challenges are strikingly similar.

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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

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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Berkshire Hathaway is known for its extreme decentralization. It has no central marketing, procurement, sales, HR, IT, or legal department. This is somewhat surprising, given that his management system is very different from those of other publicly traded companies. It does not even have a General Counsel.

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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. Leadership Innovation (Work different). Of these, Hamel suggests that Leadership Innovation provides the greatest competitive advantage over time. If so, how?

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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

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' Worthy pointed out in the book, The Shaping an American Institution: Robert E.

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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

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

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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