Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Her situation demands better strategic thinking, more creativity and innovation, and greater agility and responsiveness. Increasingly, leaders exist in a much longer ‘span of control’ network. They need to get things done without too much ‘command and control’. My personal concern.

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Leadership Development Development Span of Control Leadership 215

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 24, 2022

Where things go wrong is not typically the growing span of control or communication difficulties, as is often stated, but rather the compounding of evaluators’ errors. These can dry up as the market matures, however. “Our results don’t mean we must dismiss the bossless company,” the researchers suggest.

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Organization Span of Control Decentralization Human Resources 125

HR Digest

AUGUST 18, 2023

Organization: Cultivating the Right Capabilities for Success HR’s role in shaping the organization goes beyond traditional HR demographics such as the number of levels or span of control. Rather, HR must focus on building the right organization capabilities that drive success.

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Organization Power Span of Control SWOT 96

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

their personal span of control) and the organization’s existing “ways of doing business” These approaches produce plans that have blinders on. Disregard the pro forma and seek rapid results, instead – many planning methods are overly dependent on the parochial interests of its senior leaders (i.e.,

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

He was responsible for ten hospitals spanning the West Coast to the Indian Ocean and health care for eight hundred thousand patients. Given that span of control, during the two years I was chief of staff, you can imagine the number of times I had to give him bad news. We had fifteen thousand employees working for us.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

You know that social interactions with the marketplace are becoming a source for innovation, strategy, product development, organizational alignment, and pretty much every important thing your organization does. These allow you to direct activities and allocate resources — and by doing so, control other people.

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Power Span of Control Senge Media 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

As BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has said, “One reason for investors’ short-term horizons is that companies have not sufficiently educated them about the ecosystems they are operating in, what their competitive threats are and how technology and other innovations are impacting their businesses.” Make the tough calls on people.

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