N2Growth Blog

MAY 1, 2017

Forecasts often lead to disappointments, both for management – employees – shareholders and other stakeholders. Both leaders and employees have to learn to anticipate market and political trends more quickly and adapt to them. Strong increase in mergers and take-overs. Developments of global network organizations. White-water raft.

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Decentralization Trends Career Network Organization 150

Strategy Driven

MARCH 8, 2021

With the growing popularity of the topic of cryptocurrencies, more exchanges offering transactions using virtual coins appear on the market. As early as 2018, Binance was the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange with a market capitalization of $ 1.3 What are the best cryptocurrency exchanges in the world?

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Armstrong Decentralization Finance Licensing 132

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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Decentralization Span of Control Middle Management Morale 141

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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The Practical Leader

MAY 13, 2020

Many research reports showed that layoffs sometimes provided short-term relief but hurt most companies in the long-term: A study in the Academy of Management Journal , found that big layoffs often create even bigger turnover spikes soon after. Reducing wages for everyone with the highest percentages with senior and middle management.

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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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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 1, 2020

One key difference is that bitcoin is mostly decentralized and is not controlled by banks or governments. In the past, investing in bitcoin was a difficult process as the technology was rather new, however, a lot has changed in a short space of time and the market has really opened up to the average consumer. How Can I Get Involved?

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Globalization Decentralization Banking Letter 66

Strategy Driven

APRIL 19, 2019

Blockchain technology – the decentralized tech that was famously introduced to supports bitcoin – is now be leveraged to remedy the many disparities that exist in today’s online content landscape. By 2024, the global blockchain market is projected to exceed $60 billion. Blockchain-Powered Content. It levels the playing field.

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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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Decentralization Organization Trends Reference 74

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

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. Everyone else downstream allows their managers to occupy whatever turf they desire.

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Decentralization CEO Metrics Power 111

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 9, 2013

What process will transform managers into leaders ready for strategic action? Who will design, manage, and deliver world-class leadership programs? What process will transform managers into leaders? Only by aligning their efforts will new leaders meet business challenges and global marketing constraints.

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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 results were telling. Technology trends.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Considering how Germany anchors a European continent plagued by high unemployment and slow growth, its labor market is on fire. Analysts criticized the country’s labor market institutions as particularly inflexible. New management approaches and measures added more efficiency and a results orientation. With just 2.6

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Marketing Decentralization Policies GDP 12

Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2019

But is there are a way to still drive innovation with an increasingly decentralized lifeforce? They also make sure that their marketing teams on the field meet at least once per quarter for interactive strategy and planning sessions. We’ve also been told that silos can stifle innovation and should be avoided at all costs. They won’t.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Many companies have managed to gain an edge tapping into its transformative power. Here is how to use smart planning to make strides toward greater agility and market success. After all, change is the only constant thing in Agile project management and development. Make sure top management understands this.

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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

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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

At the same time, we’re also seeing the decentralization of power production. Countries that manage to transition effectively to low-carbon generation technologies will be home to competitive energy solutions and manufacturing firms that are more resilient to energy shocks and weather disruptions. Each brings its own challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Those benefits fall into three categories: To jumpstart network effects that provide a first-mover advantage: Many of the projects being built using blockchain technology are “protocols” that govern the interactions between users in a decentralized autonomous network.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Inside, elaborate security procedures, long working hours, and deference to senior managers are all in plain view. Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Multinational corporations long have looked for growth opportunities in emerging markets. In 2014, according to the latest United Nations estimate, direct foreign investment (FDI) in emerging markets reached more than $700 billion — accounting for over half (56%) of all global FDI flows for the first time. Crime exacts a toll.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

However, overspending is often the result of decentralized and siloed decision making over the utility budget. For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 25, 2011

Here are 3 reasons I personally prefer a team approach for this function of our church: Decentralized control - With one person in charge, if that person gets sick, moves, or decides he or she gets tired and quits, the whole church would suffer. Using a team provides more opportunities to assign leadership tasks.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Since the mid-2000s, however, this model has been under threat from a new, decentralized model, in which electricity is generated on a much smaller scale near or at the point of use, often through a combination of rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, batteries, and the digital management of the electricity grid.

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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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Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 14

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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Decker Communication

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As we close out the decade, let’s look at how leadership has become decentralized and team-oriented. Ken Blanchard is a friend of mine (and the very successful author of The One Minute Manager ) who knows well the changes in leadership over the last 40 years. The Days of Centralized Leadership in Business are Long Gone. .

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

” In other words, they practice an entirely new model of management. Our research, which we call the “digital DNA,” identified 23 new management practices CEOs should consider, focusing on empowerment, experimentation, collaboration, data, and speed. And their CEOs are leading the charge.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

That practice is supposedly a central policy of decentralized decision-making, in other words, that the company has decided to leave the substance of pay and promotion decisions to individual managers. There are two major problems with this theory. When that is done, the differences between men and women disappear.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

In the words of its executive vice-president and chief merchandising and marketing officer, “This is really the year of localization.”. To protect their advantage, forward-thinking national chains are combining their brand recognition and market penetration with a local approach. Empowering store managers is the most critical shift.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

“We want to be the number one or number two in all the markets in which we operate” is one of those. But Intel implemented it by providing ample autonomy and decentralized budgets to its various groups and teams, for employees to experiment with initiatives that would bring this strategic intent to life and fruition.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The language of ecosystems redefined our understanding of competition by viewing markets has habitats. The examples below seem to suggest that a company must stay true to its DNA, but has a lot of room to express that DNA in new ways whether in external strategy or internal management. Does biology inform business?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? If Gerber's failed adult food business had been born outside of its existing organization, would the managers have distributed a product that looked like Gerber baby food? Little by little, they can turn a hypothesis about the market into proven results.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

After more than a century trying to prove the opposite, economic theorists investigating the matter finally concluded in the 1970s that there is no reason to believe markets are led, as if by an invisible hand, to an optimal equilibrium — or any equilibrium at all. An engineering analogy may help. But it is pure assumption.

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Crisis Decentralization Marketing Engineering 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. provided the founders with considerable latitude in introducing innovative and unorthodox management methods. Prior to the Amazon merger, the company had an egalitarian structure organized around self-managed teams.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2011

To be sure, some SOEs have become formidable competitors, nurtured by their large home markets and having developed the capabilities to compete with Western multinational companies. However, these Chinese companies only want to gain market share locally and globally — just like every other multinational company in the world.

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