The Practical Leader

MAY 13, 2020

These leaders operate from core values of partnership and participation. These times also accentuate the power of decentralized decision making. Words like, “our people are our most important resource” now prove to be empty rhetoric or compassionate reality. However, we have been through economic shocks before. .”

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

It also means that an entire culture must understand how to Go Slow to Go Fast to eliminate tension from the valuable techniques used to identify ways of operating with greater success in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment. Design the campaign plan with compressed timeframes (Parallel Operations).

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RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 9, 2017

D-Day, the Allied Invasion of Normandy took place 73 years and three days ago, heralding the beginning of the end of the Axis powers in Europe during World War II. A powerful German counterattack in the first days of the operation could doom the entire enterprise. Today is June 9 th. This is the big why.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. For example, they many fail to detect or assess profound changes in operating landscapes, like Bear Stearns or Blockbuster did. It becomes how we operate on a day-to-day basis.

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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. Wood : Football taught me a lot about the power of understanding roles. My coach, Barry Alvarez, used to yell "know your role."

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

The world is undergoing a transformation in how it gets its power. In this transformation, we are witnessing the decarbonization of power consumption, thanks to the large-scale deployment of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. At the same time, we’re also seeing the decentralization of power production.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

The first step in achieving the vision of a decentralized, citizen-focused police service. Field operations are decentralized into four areas of the city – central, south, east, north and west. The chief begins check-ins with detectives regarding decentralization and how their work can be improved. Year eight.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Like the general security systems at high-risk sites such as nuclear power plants, companies require multiple layers of redundant safety mechanisms and cybernetic control systems. But they continue to operate and communicate with other systems until information technology teams shut them down and correct the malfunction.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption. For our study, we collected data on 512 strategic initiatives, both centralized and decentralized, launched by 48 leading U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

What does it take to cause something big about a community to change — something that no one individually has much power over, even something as big as a prevailing mindset? Increasingly there is an insistence that these powerful forces must leverage human creativity, not marginalize it. Tim Ellis/Getty Images.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

Whether you are an emerging leader with a small team or an experienced leader responsible for directing the daily operations of a multinational organization, these seven CEO success tips will allow you to glean insight into your marathon by looking at the roadmap to help you win the race without fail. Exit the Lands of the Terracotta.

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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. Rather than concentrating on the on the top 50 leaders, global companies need to develop hundreds, even thousands, of leaders comfortable operating in a variety of cultures.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior. The unique blend of idealism, high profit margins, and rapid growth that came with operating the first certified organic national supermarket in the U.S. This structure granted individual employees significant decision-making power.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

This decentralized policymaking, as well as differing priorities among state governments—from rural development to improving infrastructure to attracting investment—have resulted in wide variations in the business landscape across Indian states. Step 2: Measure operating environment.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

Covey visited the nuclear powered submarine I commanded, the USS Santa Fe, he told me it was the “most empowering workplace he’d ever seen.” ” The solution is to change the fundamental way your organization is designed and managed so that people can exercise the natural power that comes from being a human.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

GE now operates in 175 countries across the globe.) So a constant reengineering of our business portfolio, operating model, and culture has been a key to our evolution. The context demanded operational excellence. Operational excellence had made us vulnerable to disrupters that were figuring out new ways to move mainstream.

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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. states with deregulated power markets) and technologies (e.g., For many businesses, this is equivalent to overspending on energy by that amount to achieve current production levels.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The company is a €36 billion decentralized collection of valuable brands — which they call houses (or maisons ) — covering fashion, wine and spirits, cosmetics, and jewelry. It was part of a larger overhaul that included automating some distillery operations, which gave it better data and helped slash energy and water use.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

Their operating environment changes in a way they don’t recognize, or they take on a project that they believe is within their capability but isn’t. But as the organization grew, its operations became more complex. Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

Power laws with spiky heads and very long tails progressively crowd out the familiar bell curves that made life seem predictable. Witness the grassroots political movements that are increasingly shaking up "stable" political regimes around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

When Sloan became president of GM in 1923, he put in place planning and strategy, measurements, and most importantly, the principles of decentralization.” Each of these GM divisions focused on its own day-to-day operations with each division general manager responsible for the division’s profit and loss.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Broadly, EDM seemed to reverse the trend of a decentralized company and office. This consolidation of power disrupted the higher reaches of the org chart. She notes that key-punch operation — one of the main areas of job growth — is “universally regarded as a dead-end occupation, with no promotional opportunities.”

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The book covers these topics and more: Trust Leading by example Listening Asking powerful questions Coaching Culture At the end of book, Nathan shares valuable links for recommended reading on leadership, career and life topics. And, sprinkled throughout are motivating leadership quotes. My goal with this book is two-fold.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

On those grounds, he says, things look bad not just for Sears and all large chain stores, which before the war were considered a threat to so many Americans’ dreams of setting up their own independent local retail operations.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

With the shift towards a more democratic work culture, management is evolving towards decentralization– emphasizing proactive and watchful guidance. The emergence of digital technologies and AI-powered solutions has also significantly altered the landscape for corporate oversight.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

This is a world that tries to overcome the innovator’s dilemma by learning new things even when their current strength remains powerful. This is likely to require decentralizing the structure of our organizations, with smaller teams given greater autonomy to act, experiment and learn.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

Meanwhile in Germany, the power company Innogy is running a pilot to see if blockchain technology can authenticate and manage the billing process for autonomous electric-vehicle charging stations. Such a decentralized energy system would be capable of delivering efficient, reliable, and, in many cases, renewable energy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

But the decentralization debate was different. In Derek’s view, the subsidiaries already had far too much power. “I don’t need to remind you what happens when we give so much power to the subsidiaries,” Vera said. We have to take back control at the top—not give the subsidiaries more power.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

In the fictional world of the video game Watch Dogs , you can play a hacktivist who takes over the central operating system of a futuristic, hyper-connected Chicago. On April 8, hackers set off 156 emergency sirens in Dallas, Texas , disrupting residents and overwhelming 911 operators throughout the day.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

MDLs are unalterable registers that allow groups of people to validate, record, and track transactions across a network of decentralized computer systems. Yet this decentralized cryptocurrency and its underlying MDL technology works, and some regulators grudgingly allow financial firms to use it.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Despite the conventional wisdom that says India’s place in the global economy revolves around digital bits and services rather than material atoms, the country is starting to attract more attention for its manufacturing potential for a number of reasons: India is the third-largest economy in purchasing power parity after the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Because digitization has passed power to the consumer, pressing companies to pull together their old decentralized profit and loss fiefdoms to produce experiences consumers find compelling. Design "integration mechanisms" and operate them with rigor. Many more organizational structure changes are likely to come.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2023

” The Matthew Effect Indeed, far from technology being found to disrupt incumbent operators, the data suggests that investments in digital technology are largely ensuring that dominant incumbents can entrench their strong market position and fight off any upstarts. These datasets cover all of the businesses operating in the economy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Adaptability is the power to detect and respond to change in the world, no matter how surprising or inconvenient it may be. Decentralization. Identifying even small successes out of a larger operational failure can be the most important way to improve performance in the future. Instead, they've adapted.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Since positioning is vital in new markets, today’s boards must include Chief Marketing Officers, not just directors with operations or finance backgrounds. Only a small minority thought low-cost operations would be an advantage in three years’ time. Rebrand from the inside out. China’s Next Great Transition.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

He takes aim at every company where the ratio of managers to frontline employees is rising, where decision cycles are getting longer, where cliques of managers are accumulating more and more power, where rules are proliferating, and where "legal has to sign off on everything." News and World Report). Managing yourself'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

He, like others , has discovered the power of teaching online; in his case, he reached 160,000 students in a single online course on artificial intelligence. Impressive facilities were a way of showing off the power of your wealthy alumni. But they will need an extremely clear purpose, and shared, decentralized power throughout.

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