Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This time each year, I select from all the leadership books I read during the year my pick for the best new leadership book of the year. When it comes to leadership, why is empathy even more crucial today than it was five or even two years ago? They have the courage to have conversations often considered taboo or too difficult.”

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CO2

MAY 30, 2018

By: Gary Cohen In reviewing recent surveys of top leaders by The Conference Board, Bain, World Economic Forum the six most significant and top challenges CEOs face that need to be addressed by organizations are: Attracting, Growing and Retaining trustworthy and capable Leadership Integrating Social Responsibility into the business model.

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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. Now 13 years into my career, all of us will have to re-learn how to navigate recruiting during a severe global pandemic that is unprecedented in magnitude.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

IT is an important subject for any organization and it becomes increasingly interwoven with business operations. 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.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I was struck not only by their disciplined approach but also by their freedom to discover, develop and design within broad operating parameters—conditions I did not typically associate with large, for-profit corporations. He is the author of numerous publications in the field of leadership, organizational behavior and management.

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CO2

MAY 30, 2018

In reviewing recent surveys of top leaders by The Conference Board, Bain, World Economic Forum the six most significant and top challenges CEOs face that need to be addressed by organizations are: Attracting, Growing and Retaining trustworthy and capable Leadership. Setting a culture of adaptability via decentralized decision making.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

But to the surprise of most leaders today, increasing overall performance has become a complex, and in some cases, a Bermuda Triangle-like mysterious process that continues to baffle even the smartest people in the field of leadership and change. Novo: Change the Lens of Thought-leadership and the Approach to Professional Development.

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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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The Practical Leader

MAY 13, 2020

These leaders operate from core values of partnership and participation. We can look back to those experiences for leadership lessons on navigating through the financial crisis many companies now face. Identifying and removing underperforming supervisors and managers, especially those with weak people leadership skills.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 30, 2023

What’s too often a sad comment on the organization’s lack of leadership is how frequently the consultants present ideas or solutions that have been inside the organization for years. Sounds like he operated by the classic autocrat’s creed; “All those opposed to my plan, respond by saying ‘I resign.'”

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RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 9, 2017

A powerful German counterattack in the first days of the operation could doom the entire enterprise. But the leadership tools the airborne forces used can be equally effective on the teams we lead. Much like the vision , it serves as an overall guide for a particular effort or operation. leadership Click To Tweet.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The combination of business and military leadership experience added insight and perspective to their book. . It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. Leadership Practices to Watch. Northern Command. ” -Tilman, Jacoby.

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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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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Below is from the Exponent Leadership Process – Created to make you the reason people continue great work and stay with your company. Excessive ‘decentralization’ or ‘centralization’. He is to inform Sue immediately and with her Managerial Leadership accountability will make a choice of what to do. Rigidity in Decision-Making.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. Curation: Increased communication and collaboration demands a new style of leadership, one Ardi calls “curating.” Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R. Dana Ardi Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership Books'

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

This post in an excerpt from The Quality Leadership Workbook for Police by Chief David Couper and Captain Sabine Lobitz ( buy via Amazon ). The New Quality Leadership Workbook for Police. Step 1: Educate and inform everyone in the organization about the vision, the goals, and Quality Leadership. Step 3: Teach Quality Leadership.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. The increased communication and collaboration required of Beta organizations demand a new style of leadership and career planning. The increased communication and collaboration required of Beta organizations demand a new style of leadership and career planning.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 19, 2011

Charles Handy (1998) described shamrocks as organizations with a central core, and leafs of part-time or volunteer members who help the organization to operate. It has a home office and website that serves as a central location, but after that it is completed decentralized. Leadership organizational Design shamrock'

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2014

October 14 brings a powerful new book full of leadership lessons for " how to be a first responder in business." Operation: Starting Gun in Moore, OK, Summer 2013 Photo By: Kirk Jackson, Team Rubicon 1. What leadership skills did you learn playing football that then served you well as a Marine?

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. Curation: Increased communication and collaboration demands a new style of leadership, one Ardi calls “curating.” Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R. One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical.

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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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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. Curation: Increased communication and collaboration demands a new style of leadership, one Ardi calls “curating.” Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R. One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Every company’s cybersecurity program will have unique attributes, but there are several fundamentals to this decentralized architecture that can help companies shift the balance of power away from the attackers. Such practices need to become standard operating procedure across all industries. Harm Reduction. Secure-by-Design.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

In order to adapt to local cultures and market needs, companies must shift to decentralized, collaborative decision-making. To address these needs, new approaches for developing global leaders are required: The diversity of top leadership should reflect the diversity of the firm's customers. Broaden the reach of leadership development.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Roadway established these goals for its quality teams: improve organizational productivity, improve employee satisfaction, develop employee capabilities through leadership and training, and improve communication by reducing frustration and conflicts.

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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. To support this decentralized, empowered organization, the company built a real-time, mobile-enabled information platform.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” Through a well-structured operating process, partners expand and align their efforts and draw on comparative strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The consultant has a solution: decentralize. We’re too decentralized. We see this play out over and over in two contrasting styles of leadership. This same phenomenon operates not just individually, but also organizationally. Empower more people to make decisions. We have a problem, the CEO explains.

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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

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. Managers could operate their stores with autonomy and tailor products to customer preferences.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

a large ($22B) Brazilian conglomerate, the CEO and founder's grandson, Marcelo Odebrecht and the rest of the company's leadership are dedicated to upholding the company's core values: trust and partnership. Decentralize operations. Decentralize operations. Decentralize strategy. At Odebrecht S.A.,

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

More than 80% of our work is done by teams of consultants and staff who operate out of their home offices. As a leadership team, we strive to maintain consistency in the outcomes for each role so everyone knows exactly where the bar is and that it is not going to change unexpectedly. The advisory firm we work for is one such company.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Jeff’s leadership style is infectious. Amazon is fairly decentralized, and some of these executives run their own businesses and make their own decisions. Once you’ve proven that you have the right mix of visionary insight and operating capabilities, Wall Street lets you get away with a lot. Leadership'

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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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