Lead Change Blog

MARCH 6, 2020

Of course, it’s difficult to remember everything, especially if your span of control is 25 or more—let alone if you also want to remember things about all the coworkers your direct colleagues guide in the everyday operation of your organization. Has someone recently passed away in their personal circle?

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 16, 2012

Organizations are flatter, spans of control have increased, and hundreds of thousands of employees now work from home. In the absence of that kind of leadership, it’s up to us to lead ourselves. Here are a few things I’ve learned about self-leadership that might work for you: 1. That’s leadership 101, right?

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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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LDRLB

AUGUST 8, 2012

Flattening usually refers taking two actions to change organizational structure – removing layers of middle management while widening the span of control for the managers that are left. Recent research, however, may be taking some of the wind out of their sails.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 27, 2011

What if you could improve your leadership effectiveness in only 5 days? Well, I have a 5 day leadership challenge for you which will do just exactly that – You in? Well, I have a 5 day leadership challenge for you which will do just exactly that – You in? No really – what if?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2012

How are your leadership skills? There’s no shortage of independent empirical data generated over the years supporting the fact most people tend to overrate their leadership ability. I’ve always said leaders need to get over themselves and get on to the practice of leadership. Leadership isn’t a one-size-fits-all endeavor.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2018

We often equate developing a leadership voice with finding ways to appear more confident. But rather than living with imposter’s syndrome , or feeling exhausted by wearing your game face all day, you can build a truer confidence by more intentionally focusing on cultivating many different parts of your leadership voice each day.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

During his entire career, he worked in his father''s span of control, reporting directly to his dad within six years of joining the business. Has he reported within his parent''s span of control for most/all of his career? Coddled individual: You need to get outside of your parent''s span of control.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The company better aligned the workforce mix to its strategy, by optimizing different talent acquisition channels, manager spans of control (number of workers reporting to them), and worker mobility. Educate leaders on how and why to optimize a blended workforce. Fewer junior scientists reported to each senior scientist.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

To reduce this kind of complexity and stay away from micromanaging, take a periodic look at the organization''s structure and find ways to reduce levels and management and increase spans of control. Managers need to develop simplification as a core leadership capability and a critical component of the business strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Traditionally, being powerful within an organization has been a function of three aspects of bossness: (a) your title and rank within the hierarchy, (b) your span of control, or how many people you direct, and (c) your budget and/or profit and loss responsibilities. Isn't power about being the boss?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Senior leadership teams that embrace agile do a few things differently. See your leadership team as an agile Scrum that prioritizes the backlog based on importance, then tackles them in sequence until completed. The CEO and his leadership team share a joint table. Systematic Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Leadership and Managing People Book. Get clear on what you can and cannot change, and keep your focus on things inside your span of control. As for anxiety, the story was similar, with owners and workers at rates of 2% and 5% while supervisors and managers were at elevated rates of 11% and nearly 7%. Further Reading.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

” In contrast, the CEO explained the leadership changes as necessary to “respond to the fast-changing needs” of customers, employees and partners and to “transform our business for the future.” It will require strong alignment with key stakeholders, new models of leadership, and a new playbook for success.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Change the dialogue in the senior leadership team to focus on the end-to-end customer experience. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge. Change the mindset from “span of control” to “speed and collaboration.” Tom Watson, Jr. Cut layers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Although it may be counter-intuitive, one of the most powerful changes you can make in your organization is to increase spans of control — a simple shift that can liberate employees, streamline the hierarchy, simplify processes, and reduce costs. In short, today the manager's job is more about leadership than control.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Spans of control are limited to a reasonable number — typically eight people or fewer — so that managers can effectively oversee their subordinates’ efforts. Leadership within the squad is self-determined, while the chapter leader is a formal manager who focuses on coaching and mentoring.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

Not surprisingly, this visual distinctiveness has come to symbolize magnificence, immortality, and stature — attributes typically associated with strong, stable leadership. Leadership Institutes , conferences, and management gurus reference the mighty banyan in their teachings. It is designated as the National Tree of India.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

But office seating tends to be grouped according to a single function, division, or span of control. Glass walls, shared conference rooms, coffee bars, spiral staircases: the 21st-century executive office is ostensibly designed for the kind of fluid, informal interaction we enjoyed in the dining room at Dial.

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