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0503 | Julian Birkinshaw: Full Transcript

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Sometimes it’s actually down to the systems and organization we create, which actually make it very difficult for even well-intentioned people to do it well. I think Henry Mintzberg coined it first. Now, of course, increasingly technology is changing the way that information is distributed around organizations.

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When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

Harvard Business Review

As Henry Mintzberg noted in The Structuring of Organizations in 1979, “The words centralization and decentralization have been bandied about for as long as anyone has cared to write about organizations.” Think, for example, of legal, tax and technology experts, or costly test equipment. It is an age-old question.