Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Roland Berger applied its methodology to the French labor market and estimated that 42% of French jobs could be at risk. These include administrative or middle management functions, which have historically provided jobs for the middle class. They want to encourage distributed decision-making and empower middle management.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I have interviewed over 100 CEOs, C-suite executives, middle managers, and shop floor workers in more than 25 companies across the world to understand why most companies fail to embed sustainability in their business models and, also, what drives success among the handful that do. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

This “island mentality” is surprisingly prevalent among talented, seasoned managers. The paradox is that companies spend millions acquiring competitive or market “intelligence” from armies of vendors and deploy the latest technology disseminating the information internally.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Its new management team took over an organization that was bureaucratic, overstaffed, and bleeding cash. Middle managers were confused about what to do, and many pushed their local agendas at the expense of the company's overall best interests. The team decided to adopt a simple-rules approach to the work ahead.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Finance is different from sales, R&D is different from quality, and so on. Everybody holds the keys in their hands: middle managers, the front-line people who do the hard, everyday work to bring products and services to market, all the way down to the folks who wax the floors and clean every surface with disinfectant.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

They can also be industry-specific, flexible, and tailored to meet the needs of the individual users across organizations — from marketing to finance, and levels from C-suite to middle management. • Machine learning and cognitive computing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

It holds up for C-level executives compared to directors and middle managers. What he meant was that in the 1980s American managers became obsessed with managing their popularity, and were more concerned with greasing the skids, avoiding tough conversations, and maintaining a favorable image.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

Specifically, I followed, for 18 months, the top management team of an international professional services firm in which the formal leader, the Managing Director, had resolved to share leadership with the whole team.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

The role had little influence : Some companies appointed process owners at middle management levels. End-to-end process management disrupts their accustomed relationships and identity. How many times have you heard "I'm a finance person" or "I'm a marketer"?) If employees don't want to change, they have power.

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