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HR Value Delivery: Power of HR to Transform Organizations

HR Digest

HR professionals can facilitate this alignment by involving customers in talent development initiatives. Organization: Cultivating the Right Capabilities for Success HR’s role in shaping the organization goes beyond traditional HR demographics such as the number of levels or span of control.

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. Leadership is about showing common courtesies, caring and encouraging the growth and development of those whom you lead. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. This takes time. This helps maintain focus and velocity while stopping initiative proliferation. Systematic Inc.,

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. He built a team to develop Predix, a cloud-based platform that underlies all of GE’s industrial businesses. Make the tough calls on people. Find new ways to motivate the legacy people.

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How Spotify Balances Employee Autonomy and Accountability

Harvard Business Review

Balancing freedom to innovate versus following proven routines. The art and science here is determining how to get both outcomes — consistency and innovation — in the right proportion and in the appropriate parts of your organization. In many areas, freedom to innovate is the critical need.

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Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year

Harvard Business Review

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. The average span of control in these and other vanguard organizations is more than double the U.S.

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