Coaching Tip

MARCH 21, 2014

As the workforce rapidly grows more multicultural, younger and more female, businesses are feeling the effects of "the power gap"--the growing distance between front-line managers from different backgrounds. In " FLEX: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences ," authors Jane Hyun and Audrey S. What is THE POWER GAP?

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Leadership Styles Self-aware Leadership Diversity 139

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Thanks to better file management and new information security technologies, companies can implement a much more advanced structuring across their organization. A content management system or a more comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution can be used to manage not just operational data but also user access.

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How To Policies Informal Structure Operations 51

Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

It’s HR’s Job: While HR certainly plays a significant role in the development and management of policies that can help or hurt culture, it’s the responsibility of everyone inside the organization to create and maintain a thriving culture. Middle managers are instrumental in creating a deep personal commitment to change. Walk the talk.

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How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 107

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

As business became more complex, these rigid structures grew increasingly untenable and so management theorists began to look for another way— matrixed organizations. So matrices, in a sense, led to the worst of both worlds, a cumbersome organizational structure and the inability to adapt to fast changing contexts.

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Organization Bureaucracy Network Organization Informal Structure 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Twenty-two percent of survey participants included top-level sales leaders such as vice presidents of sales, 14% were front-line sales managers who manage salespeople, 17% were hybrid sales managers who sell directly to customers and manage other salespeople, and 47% were salespeople who carry their own quotas.

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Team Participative Survey Informal Structure 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Every salesperson knows the quality of their sales manager will have a profound impact on their own success. Sixty-nine percent of salespeople who exceeded their annual quota rated their sales manager as being excellent or above average. A recent study I conducted proves this point.

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Quality Informal Structure Participative Team 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Similar trends have been identified in virtually every aspect of the talent management system. It not only results in lack of equity in organizations, but in poor talent management practices. Are these grounded in solid information or are they simply your interpretations?” Talent management Race'

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