Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Helgesen : Back when I wrote, The Web of Inclusion , I was looking at how networked technologies were upending hierarchies in organizations by decentralizing decision-making and giving people access to unprecedented information. What has changed in the years since? Rights have been sold in 22 languages.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

Technology trends. You potentially have an organization filled with ‘renters’ who don’t see themselves as responsible for the success of the organization, as opposed to ‘owners.’ If you have people throughout the organization with an ownership mentality, the odds of success go up dramatically. Leading Through Change Fatigue.

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Altman Decentralization COO Restructuring 76

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. In her new book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Drucker’s Contributions You can’t talk about Drucker’s spectacular success as a management guru and fortune teller without noting that his first big public prediction was a bust. I still consider myself his student today. It was published shortly before the stock market crash which preceded the Great Depression.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. In her book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical. I call it Alpha.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. In her new book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical.

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Venture Capitalist Decentralization Books Idea Generation 55

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

Thus, centralized firms more quickly rid themselves of unsuccessful products – almost twice as fast as their more decentralized peers. These findings are especially useful for any companies facing a large portfolio of products, continuous technological change, short life cycles, and high levels of product obsolescence.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The switch became a runaway success, increasing Hornby’s share price from £35 to £250 over just five years. A successful strategy execution process is seldom a one-way trickle-down cascade of decisions. ” That’s unlikely to work.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

But these successes are not by mistake—they are the result of decades of collaboration between business, government, philanthropy, and community. Our research finds that successful collaborations begin with a common process, one that applies no matter whether you are a CEO, nonprofit manager, philanthropist, or public servant.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

In China look at the unique organization of entrepreneurial cells Zhang Ruimin has created at Haier, and in France look at Vinci Group’s success, under Xavier Huillard, with a radically decentralized model designed to foster entrepreneurial creativity in its three thousand constituent companies.

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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

APRIL 5, 2016

While eBay and Airbnb’s platforms rely on the internet, platforms don’t always require technology and are not necessarily a new approach. Avon’s platform is more than makeup; it’s actually a decentralized economic empowerment model for women with product flowing through the platform as the object for connection.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

.” This and a slew of similar maxims reflect a common view of strategy execution: that it’s distinct from strategy, harder to pull off than defining a strategy, and therefore more critical to success — underpinned by seemingly indisputable virtues such as diligence, discipline, consistency, alignment, and focus.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Almost all successful organizations will face this challenge at some point. As they grow and achieve success, businesses, non-profit organizations, and governmental bureaus all develop the processes by which they solve the problems that they face on a daily basis. In long-successful organizations like the U.S. But for the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

” And although his suggestions for how to improve the odds have been widely accepted, the success rate of major corporate change programs remains essentially unchanged — it still hovers at 30%. Success wasn’t guaranteed no matter how effective the change management skills. The change affected hundreds of people.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In the 1960s and 1970s, he was already anticipating some of the implications of the Big Shift just beginning to emerge: the transition to an information economy, the centrality of knowledge work, and the transformative impact of digital technology on all types of work.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. organizational structure (such decentralizing and aligning technology to business areas more effectively), and governance. Levine is an expert on lean and agile software development and information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The rapid pace of change in business and technology means that more and more companies will find themselves being disrupted. To support this decentralized, empowered organization, the company built a real-time, mobile-enabled information platform. These principles are fundamental to success in the disruptive years ahead.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

In our work at the European Center for Strategic Innovation (ECSI) , we have extensively researched the role of successful Innovation Units. Bringing together people, technologies and skills from within and outside the company under the same roof, the Merck Innovation Center is a building made to inspire.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Over the past decade, we've interviewed over 1,700 people to find out how women can be more successful at the highest levels in leadership. It's easy to make the case that collaborative leadership is the wave of the future: Technology makes decentralized decision-making and flat organizations more feasible than ever.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If you're willing to acknowledge the barriers in your way, there are a few tried and true levers you can pull to ensure your intrapreneurial endeavors are better positioned for success. Your team comes up with a model that's wildly successful; their excess widgets sell like hotcakes. Create autonomy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I recently worked with a leading research university to align the efforts of its huge, decentralized staff to transform the career support infrastructure. In the research for my book Graduate to a Great Job , more than 50% of “successful” grads I studied didn’t know what they wanted to do when they graduated.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

One of its most successful marketing campaigns was “Let’s Build a Smarter Planet.” ” And its current focus is on Cognitive Business, led by the machine learning technology called Watson. They abandoned the HP Way and replaced decentralized entrepreneurship with centralized control.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

While successful in appearance, it''s a pattern of growth that starves the operational core. Decentralized, program-focused operations also squander precious dollars. The absence of efficient financial management systems reflects comparatively low spending on information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

While retailers and cable companies moved their businesses online years ago, many insurers, struggling with legacy technology and outmoded organizational structures, are playing catch up. As the organization’s digital maturity increases, many digital functions become decentralized and are integrated into broader business unit activities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

Now however, we’re in a third-generation of the learning organization, with new technologies speeding up the rate at which we can both absorb new information and test our assumptions. In a superjob, technology has not only changed the nature of the skills the job requires but has changed the nature of the work and the job itself.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

What we see and hear — and the conclusions we draw — influence for our lifetimes what we value, how we measure success, whom we trust, and the priorities we set for our own lives, including the role work will play within them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Success in reverse innovation does not depend as much on technology or financial resources as it depends on crafting the right organization and cultivating the right mindset: Reverse innovation requires a decentralized, local-market focus. How do companies get to Phase 4?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Not by gathering waves of data and solving successive equations. Moreover, when we look around at the companies who are doing well, it can be hard to see the rhyme or reason of the decisions that led to that success. The energy should go into understanding how things are changing, and deftly tacking toward successful outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

This information will help clinicians determine how likely treatments are to be successful and, with the patient, choose the treatment most aligned with the patient’s goals. Physicians will see these scores, along with information on patients’ preferences, when they meet with patients.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Today we are moving toward a new model of increasingly decentralized organizations, where large operators are responsible for aggregating the resources of multiple people to provide a service to a much more active group of consumers. Recently, a new technology has emerged that could change this imbalance. Distributed Database.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

And then we found Alibaba — and it found us — and that connection led to the partnership that ultimately proved to be remarkably successful. This success was built on what we learned from our prior efforts, as well as a resolve to take new risks to do what was necessary to succeed. Tsai, for example, clearly understood U.S.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 13, 2024

The world of work is undergoing a profound transformation, a metamorphosis fueled by technological innovations and shifting societal norms. A New Digital Frontier Enter Web3: The latest incarnation of the internet, underpinned by blockchain technology. It’s a realm where trust is decentralized, and innovation knows no bounds.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

To understand the transformation that’s being brought about by blockchain technology, it’s useful to start with its largest implementation to date: bitcoin. How technology is transforming transactions. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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