Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 16, 2012

Organizations are flatter, spans of control have increased, and hundreds of thousands of employees now work from home. I run Executive Development Programs at a large university. Develop a vision, set of 2-3 year goals, and actions plans. Having goals is a habit I developed years ago and take it with me wherever I go.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

This meant that management span of control had more than doubled from an average of 5-6 salespeople per manager up to 12-15 per manager. The average span of control for U.S. The merchandising force operates with an unusually high span of control of 50 merchandisers per manager.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

You have front-line employees who create what you sell or who deal directly with customers: software developers, sales reps, call-center staffers, and so on. Take into account, however, that different jobs require different spans of control. It’s the same in a company.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The CEO of a fast-growing technology services firm realized that the company was becoming increasingly siloed and unable to develop broad-based solutions for customers — a problem that would eventually constrain their growth. The truth is that good arguments could be made for both sides in each of these cases.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Leadership is about showing common courtesies, caring and encouraging the growth and development of those whom you lead. We were all in Newport, Rhode Island, to attend the Navy’s prestigious leadership development course known as Command Leadership School. Leadership is about showing patience, kindness, mercy, caring, and, yes, love.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization. HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career. Fewer junior scientists reported to each senior scientist.

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Rajesh Setty

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

owner’s immediate span of control. Based on everything we’ve learned, we’ve developed a Growth Potential Self-Assessment. And if that’s not discouraging enough, only a tiny sliver, two and a half percent, ever grow past what we might think of as the Mom & Pop stage – past the.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

As someone who has been in the business of hiring people and developing people organizations for many years, I’ve noticed two common first-day-on-the-job scenarios. After an employee transitions into a new role, the manager must take time to get to know them and understand their strengths, successes, and development needs.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Moreover, leaders who fail to continue developing will always be replaced by those who do. Let me be as clear as I can – the more responsibility a leader has, the bigger their obligation to be on the forward edge of learning, growth and development. Learning and development are lifelong endeavors.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2018

We often equate developing a leadership voice with finding ways to appear more confident. when you’re coaching a direct report, asking good questions to help them grow in new ways, explore issues they’re facing, or support their career development. Gregor Schuster/Getty Images. Your voice of connection.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

To reduce this kind of complexity and stay away from micromanaging, take a periodic look at the organization''s structure and find ways to reduce levels and management and increase spans of control. Managers need to develop simplification as a core leadership capability and a critical component of the business strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

At the enterprise level, think of all of your corporate initiatives as a backlog, just like software developers think of future product features as a backlog. As they spread to all its software development teams, Michael Holm, the company’s CEO and cofounder, began to worry that his leadership team was hindering progress.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

You know that social interactions with the marketplace are becoming a source for innovation, strategy, product development, organizational alignment, and pretty much every important thing your organization does. These allow you to direct activities and allocate resources — and by doing so, control other people.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

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. He also removed a layer of vice chairs to make room. Cut layers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Although it may be counter-intuitive, one of the most powerful changes you can make in your organization is to increase spans of control — a simple shift that can liberate employees, streamline the hierarchy, simplify processes, and reduce costs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The average span of control in these and other vanguard organizations is more than double the U.S. The case of Svenska Handelsbanken is illustrative. Its return on equity has surpassed that of its European peers every year since 1971. Svenska Handelsbanken has consistently posted industry-beating cost-to-income and loan-loss ratios.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Think of new product development, or the parts of the company’s value chain and business model that are undergoing significant reinvention because of digital transformations. The chapter’s primary role is to facilitate learning and competency development throughout the squads. This task is closely related to the other two.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The group at my table included executives from marketing, finance, sales, HR, and corporate development. But office seating tends to be grouped according to a single function, division, or span of control. Those lunches were a critical organizational lubricant, reducing friction and allowing the gears to turn much more smoothly.

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