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Decentralization Helps Firms Weather Turbulent Times

The Horizons Tracker

A new paper highlights the importance of a decentralized organizational structure during such periods of turbulence. The data revealed that in the sectors where the crisis struck hardest, those who operated a more decentralized approach outperformed their more centralized rivals in terms of productivity, sales, and ultimately, survival.

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Leadership: Finding Your Sweet Spot

Lead Change Blog

They centralize, then they decentralize, only to centralize again. Needs vary, and individual skills and experience are different from task to task. Some leaders operate at the extremes—doing too much, then too little. Some leaders delegate, but then swoop back in and grab control.

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New Leadership Literacies

Lead Change Blog

The tired practices of centralized organizations will become brittle in a future where authority is radically decentralized. Anything that can be distributed will be distributed: workforces, organizations, supply webs, and more. Rigid hierarchies will give way to liquid structures.

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CEO Marketing Priorities

N2Growth Blog

CEOs who have a focused, crisp, creative, and clear message, and who understand how to best communicate that message, will navigate the pandemic better than their less-skilled peers. Force Multiplication : Now that your workforce has likely become largely decentralized, your messaging should follow suit.

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6 Ways Leaders Can Dial up the Level of Value in the Workplace

Michael Lee Stallard

Assessment tools enable people to identify their skills, temperaments, learning styles, thinking styles, and values. Decentralize decision making. Many firms over the last hundred years decentralized decision making. Decentralization gained momentum when Peter Drucker persuaded Alfred P.

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Do Big Companies Always Work To Suppress Wages?

The Horizons Tracker

It reveals that prominent companies, when adopting a strategy where their departments compete for new hires, can actually attract highly skilled workers by offering slightly higher wages. The answer lies in a strategic motive behind decentralizing hiring procedures. Consequently, the motivation for driving wages down remains strong.

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How Leaders Can Choreograph Creativity

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers interviewed both dancers and choreographers, and identified six key creative processes: Concept-focused launch , which is a more decentralized approach, with the leader giving an overview but the ideas coming from the team. As such, it’s vital that leaders develop the right skills to support creativity in their teams. “A