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How Much Do You Invest in Leadership Development?

Lead Change Blog

Her situation demands better strategic thinking, more creativity and innovation, and greater agility and responsiveness. However, I remain unconvinced about how effectively organisations are investing in leadership development to meet today’s challenges. Increasingly, leaders exist in a much longer ‘span of control’ network.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

To successfully transform to a more agile enterprise, companies must make conscious choices about where and how to become agile. It also means you have to figure out how to make the agile and traditional parts of your organization effectively operate with one another. This takes time.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

It is shaping the new game of industrial businesses on a worldwide basis and showing other companies, regardless of their size, complexity, and history, how to proceed. Change the mindset from “span of control” to “speed and collaboration.” Think like a large-scale entrepreneur. Cut layers.

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

How to Earn Trus t and Lead Teams. 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. I recently asked him some questions based on his work. “A We had fifteen thousand employees working for us.

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Are You Giving Up Power?

Harvard Business Review

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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How Spotify Balances Employee Autonomy and Accountability

Harvard Business Review

They understand the objectives, and they have a great deal of freedom in determining how to reach them within those guardrails. Balancing freedom to innovate versus following proven routines. Balancing freedom to innovate versus following proven routines. In many areas, freedom to innovate is the critical need.