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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. Empowerment – Employee empowerment occurs when management shares information and a certain degree of autonomy and responsibility for decision-making, allowing employees to take initiative and make decisions to solve problems.

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Four Factors for the 21st Century

Lead Change Blog

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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What Makes an Organization “Networked”?

Harvard Business Review

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. If it can fit on an org chart, it’s not a network. The truth is that networks are informal structures.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business Review

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. Adapting to change.

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How Leaders Can Let Go Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

Over centuries, the military has developed an approach to managing “ the fog of war.” The military’s solution has two parts: Commander’s Intent declares the purpose of an operation and the conditions for success. Without doctrine, it’s impossible for managers to let go without losing control.

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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

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. What does it mean to operate in a digital business ecosystem?

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Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning

Harvard Business Review

In every aspect of business, we are operating with mental models that have grown outdated or obsolete, from strategy to marketing to organization to leadership. The world has become many-to-many , but we still operate with a one-to-many mindset. One problem is that they’ve been focused on the wrong thing.

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