Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Customers overwhelmingly prefer products tied to a social cause. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2016

The ideal for a successful Avon representative was to sell a volume of product by mobilizing a network to become users of Avon products, and then to ultimately convert those users into additional sales representatives. Shared purpose extends beyond a mission statement and transcends market shifts. million in 2015.

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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. Behavior is even more tightly regulated at Amazon’s warehouses, where target goals and surveillance keep production on schedule.

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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

JULY 30, 2012

Nestle has a fairly decentralized management culture. It focused on a product, Svelty, which was a low-fat milk range primarily aimed at women. The product had been under-performing and was in need of attention. "It For example, 'buy this product and you will be. bigger, faster, thinner, better, etc.'

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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

APRIL 16, 2013

They''ve got great people, great products and services, they say, but their organizations aren''t selling as much as they should, and aren''t appropriately valued. But in my experience, visibility is rarely the real issue (especially with B2B companies selling bigger-ticket, complex services and products).

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Toward a New Leadership Agenda. The promise of global progress has become a reality for many — but not for all.

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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

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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Organization Supply Chain Decentralization Bureaucracy 9

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

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. No selling of products or services. And thats exactly the role that pubs began to play. And thats exactly the role that pubs began to play. No multimedia.

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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? So what happened? It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

For most of us, it seems pretty simple: when we ship the product or launch the service. And as the world continues to digitize and almost every product and service becomes more driven by (or at least integrated with) software, this need grows even stronger. Our goal might be to sell more of our products online.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

After gathering “signals” about a variety of future and emerging trends, the project leadership generated several plausible scenarios about the future of R&D worth exploring further. In 2012, the Industrial Research Institute (IRI) commissioned a foresight study into the future of R&D management called IRI2038.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. Communities of passion who share a common interest (photography, or food, or books) can inform new product lines. The Value Chain" has changed when the customer is no longer just the "buyer" but also a co-creator. Everything.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

But this requires a new scale of leadership: system leadership. An example of system leadership can be found in the food industry, where an initiative that began with 17 food and agribusiness companies grew into a global network of 500 organizations taking action in 19 countries. To date, over $10.5 million farmers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

When a detailed cost assessment identified significant savings potential, executive leadership boldly added another five percentage points to the target. The successful but challenging experience of a large pharmaceutical company illustrates the tension between top-down and decentralized change efforts.

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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. Focused service-based organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

While there may be openings for bipartisan compromise to address the weaknesses of the ACA, the core of the ACA framework is unstable — a hostage to the market and political fortune. This system has long been an aspiration of the far left, yet even the right now seems to acknowledge its growing likelihood.

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Health Care System Insurance Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Crucially, this will require public leadership, challenging the prevailing ideology which limits the role of public actors to simply de-risking or facilitating the real heroes — the private sector wealth creators, like risk-loving entrepreneurs — while waiting for the market to find solutions. Third, assessment.

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