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Four Factors for the 21st Century

Lead Change Blog

Probably the most important sustainability quality is the capacity to influence. Traditional command-and-control structures are gradually being replaced by collaborative ways of working, including concepts such as matrix organizations and network organizations. Influence means getting things done.

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The Ins and Outs of an Executive Director Search

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Importance of an Executive Director in an Organization’s Success An organization’s success can be influenced by the strategic leadership and guidance provided by its executive director. This individual plays a pivotal role in shaping the vision, mission, and overall direction of the organization.

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Reinvent Opportunity, Restore Satisfaction

Women on Business

LaMae leads Accenture’s Mentoring Program for Women and a diversity networking organization for the company’s Financial Services group, a community of 100 Accenture employees, all of whom come together regularly to discuss and share career development strategies and to organize community-service events related to diversity.

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20 Essential Terms that You Need to Know to Transform Your Business

N2Growth Blog

It influences the way work is organized, executed and informs the ways in which quality measured. Management Reporting – A management reporting system allows leaders to monitor the progress of the organization towards the achievement of its goals. Work teams are formed to meet the demands of the organization.

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Putting Facebook in Perspective

Harvard Business Review

Organizations: From Hierarchies to Networks. Organizations are also experiencing a shift as employees become more empowered and connected. Formal hierarchies are giving way to informal networks. It took different skills to manage hierarchies and influence audiences. armed forces over the last decade.

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On a Consumer Watershed

Marshall Goldsmith

These new challenges include: Moving from a more hierarchical organization toward a more “networkedorganization. In a hierarchical organization, leaders can more easily give orders and expect people to respond. In a network organization, leaders need to effectively influence people without line authority.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business Review

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.