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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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. The biggest challenge for companies when it comes to operational excellence is siloed behavior. Recall how the U.S.

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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

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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” This initiative will soon connect all 1.3

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

By now, we all know that leadership is tough, hard, exciting and demanding. Leading organizations and teams to respond using the best tactical approach will determine if the organization can really deploy the needed projected force with the ability to move freely by means of sufficient sustainability for prolonged operations.

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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. Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior.

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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 8, 2015

. “For the military,” Petraeus observed, “learning faster than the enemy meant deploying lessons learned teams and ensuring commanders are focused on identifying the need to make changes to our big ideas, campaign plans, organizational structures, equipment, and operational bases.” commanders under Petraeus.

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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

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. The company’s more than 80 operating subsidiaries have complete independence and minimal oversight from headquarters, which requires little else besides regular financial statements and the return of excess cash that is not needed to sustain and grow the business.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

You may have a comprehensive rule book, a checklist, and an operating manual, but without the right positive corporate cultural attributes, those concrete instructions and processes will not work. When your culture is strong, people seem to genuinely enjoy their work and the people they work with; they tend to do their work well and on time.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

You may have a comprehensive rule book, a checklist, and an operating manual, but without the right positive corporate cultural attributes those concrete instructions and processes will not work. Leadership Innovation (Work different). Leadership Innovation: The Questions Leaders Ask. Cautionary tales abound. If so, how?

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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

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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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

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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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? This is a book for the times we live in—and one that for many companies could mean the difference between success and failure.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

But the decentralization debate was different. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years. The lack of control meant that the leadership team had little say in how the Contect brand was being managed at a local level. Now Vera was getting worked up.

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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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Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The old cliché in marketing is true: Customers don’t want a quarter-inch drill. They’ve developed a system of military leadership called mission command , an alternative to rigid systems of leadership that specify in great detail what troops should do in battle. Using the Alternative to Output: Outcomes.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

One can hardly imagine a decentralized decision- making process in his operations. GE is known for its diversity and ability to function competitively in many markets. Many-market organization. Single market. There's no doubt this is a man with vision and drive. GE and HCL. For GE, the situation is different.

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