N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

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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Execution Committee Long-term Objective 235

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

So, the organization will continuously need to adapt to an ever-changing environment and need personnel who operate well in this (ever new) environment. Traditional command-and-control structures are gradually being replaced by collaborative ways of working, including concepts such as matrix organizations and network organizations.

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Quality Influence Network Organization Learning-by-Doing 197

N2Growth Blog

JULY 21, 2016

Learning Organization – A learning organization is one that acquires knowledge and facilitates the learning of its team members, in order to continuously improve, innovate, and transform. Work teams are formed to meet the demands of the organization.

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Strategic Planning Network Organization Project Reference 231

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Weber saw that traditional and charismatic leadership would have to give way to a more bureaucratic and rational model. Most of today’s organizations were built on Weber’s principles. So much so that we see them as “the way things work” and forget that bureaucracies were once innovations too.

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Organization Bureaucracy Network Organization Informal Structure 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. Eventually, businesses became department stores, specialty stores and malls, and finally, today''s e-businesses and networked organizations that support them. Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative.

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CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

The military’s solution has two parts: Commander’s Intent declares the purpose of an operation and the conditions for success. Google has its nine principles of innovation. And Amazon has its own leadership principles. It’s a distributed governance model for networked organizations.

Agility 8

Agility Delegation Objective Goal 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

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.

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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8