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You're Not the Boss of Me
OCTOBER 31, 2010
You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← The Language of Leadership in the 21st Century. They are also imposed to provide structure in organizational settings that support the work and build a broad framework within which individuals are free to operate and contribute.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 15, 2012
Usually, if you search, there are opportunities in your current job and at your current level to display your ability to drive change, even if you are in a support function like finance or human resources. Are you willing to push the organization out of its comfort zone and withstand the criticism of those tied to the status quo?
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
By incorporating these disruptors into its own operations, a retailer can more easily pose challenging questions and embrace change more quickly. So they are more likely to recognize, for example, when a company’s legacy IT system has become a stumbling block to progress – a common affliction in retail operations.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 18, 2018
Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. The next morning, Lance was in his office when he got a text from Jhumpa, the head of product and merchandising: Can you talk? “Unfortunately, I think we’re beyond that.”
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 27, 2017
In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. At one American retailer, an autonomous ensemble of algorithms replaced the entire merchandising department. They’re analogous to autonomous resources, as opposed to human resources, departments.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 6, 2014
In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style.
In the CEO Afterlife
NOVEMBER 4, 2012
The creative industry operates largely by holding ‘creative’ people ransom to their own self-image, precarious sense of self-worth, and fragile – if occasionally out of control ego. Economically I probably helped shift some merchandise. This has come as quite a shock I can tell you. An elaborate hoax. The scam works like this: 1.
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