LDRLB

JUNE 14, 2011

Tim ended the post with his theory: “Strategic planning is simply an invention to justify the existence of middle management, and not a useful tool for those doing the actual leading or for the guys at the bottom doing the real work.”. of Business Administration with an emphasis on Marketing at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ryan Covey 74

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Let’s say you’re working in a new market, far away from headquarters, and you need to get approval for an initiative that is somewhat outside the company’s current strategy. As we spoke to them, Mansfield and his team shared five insights on how to work with senior management to get strategy-stretching innovations to market: 1.

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Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Project 8

Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Rob Tucker, Reading About Leading : How to Encourage Others to Take Ownership - Sadly, over the past decade, the idea of employee ownership has become yet another detestable buzzword espoused by disconnected senior leadership and plastered on internal marketing collateral.  Here are my picks for the week of October 4th - 10th, 2010.

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Blog Human Resources Talent Management Welch 145

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. It’s impossible to get through another sentence, of course, without mentioning Healthcare.gov, though it sounds like project management was only one of that initiative’s many management problems.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask attendees, who rank from board members and CEOs to middle management, to write down an example of a strategy on a sheet of paper. Now to ensure implementation, a strategic planning team must identify some project- or program-level actions.

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Strategic Planning Planning Objective Seminar 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

While it is important to encourage local ownership of ideas and projects, turning them into game-changers requires clear, sometimes ruthless direction from the center around which projects to scale and in what order. Consider the challenge companies face in the rapidly changing market for power train compressors.

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CEO Agility Technology Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

He enjoys the autonomy to pursue moon shot projects, constantly strives for mastery in what he does, and has a strong sense of purpose. Musk knows that one of Tesla’s biggest competitive advantages is the patience and long-term thinking not only of management but also of its investors.

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Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

They assigned different pieces of it to middle managers who had relevant knowledge, experience, and organizational responsibility. Given the importance of this work, all of these managers accepted their assignments. Managers are responsible for addressing which ones to make when new assignments are doled out.

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Middle Management Rogers Media Project 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

even though their workforce participation is equal to or greater than that of men, according to a White House Project study. Black women are toiling in middle management and that is usually the height of their career.". The Hispanic market alone is larger than the entire economies of all but 14 countries in the world.

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Diversity Competitive Advantage Middle Management CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

This “island mentality” is surprisingly prevalent among talented, seasoned managers. The paradox is that companies spend millions acquiring competitive or market “intelligence” from armies of vendors and deploy the latest technology disseminating the information internally.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

It’s an IT and business consulting staffing business that: (a) recruits top programmers and program managers; (b) identifies key projects at large tech companies; and (c) makes a match. Many companies lack the right talent to take on important new projects that could help create the business’s next big category.

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Innovation Project Bureaucracy Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

pursuing adjacent markets, making acquisitions) and significant contractions (e.g. Each strategic shift, of course, was carefully explained and justified by changing market conditions or opportunities; but the net result within the company was a performance-sapping sense of cynicism. This case isn’t the exception.

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Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

In China, both multinational and Chinese companies are finding their dramatic growth goals constrained by the challenges of finding capable leaders at both the senior and middle management levels. Let people know how to help you. In all these conversations, be enthusiastic, explicit about your goals, and open to others' suggestions.

Globalization 10

Globalization Development Short-term Career 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Take Denise, a talented marketing executive who has helped reinvigorate some of the world’s most iconic retail brands. Individuals like Denise often do extremely well in the middle management ranks but stall out on the path to the C-suite, because they seem unable or unwilling to think beyond their own division or function.

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Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

Again, the license is not unlimited; founders who misjudge markets royally lose their license to operate. But it is even more dependent on the organization - Tim Cooks' direct reports, and their direct reports, and the legions of middle managers who are the lifeblood of the place.

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Licensing Entrepreneur Consensus CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. Connectors in the middle. Essential experts possess crucial knowledge but don’t want to manage others. Critical contractors.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Historically, corporate Goliaths have taken one of two approaches to this kind of upstart competition—try to muscle them out of the market or bring them into the fold through acquisition. That buy-in has to come from very senior leadership—middle management typically can’t pull off such an unusual partnership.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Airlines Retail 8

Management Excellence

JANUARY 19, 2011

There’s no doubt we live in interesting times…a true Dickensian Best of Times, Worst of Times environment, filled with remarkable opportunities and equally remarkable personal, competitive, societal and global challenges.

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Globalization Environment Development Succession 92

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

When top management had emotional difficulty deciding to abandon memory chips, microprocessors were automatically receiving more production capacity anyway, because middle managers sturdily followed the rule that they had been given before.

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Gordon Strategy Decisionmaking Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

(I studied its model-cell work for my book Management on the Mend.) An aggressive HMO was aggressively moving into the market, cutting prices offered to employers. They chose Fremont because it was in the thick of the market changes and had outstanding physician leadership. Create a core team.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Its new management team took over an organization that was bureaucratic, overstaffed, and bleeding cash. Middle managers were confused about what to do, and many pushed their local agendas at the expense of the company's overall best interests. The team decided to adopt a simple-rules approach to the work ahead.

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Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A middle manager at a global technology organization — let’s call her “Denise” — had a problem. She’d come up with the idea of revamping the company’s inventory management approach by networking together “sleeping” resources. juanluisgx/Getty Images.

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Politics Innovation Project How To 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

Equally important, it depends on how well they manage communication throughout their organization. In 2008, the coffee chain was struggling to maintain its market position and to ward off a growing set of competitive threats. Successful transformations require many people pulling together. Consider the example of Starbucks.

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Company Video CEO Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

The decision to venture away from traditional staffing models and invest in greater dependence on agile talent is, of course, made by senior management. But effective implementation falls, not surprisingly, to middle managers. Good managers understand that outstanding external experts often have their pick of opportunities.

Management 8

Management Agility Middle Management After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

When I was in the midst of researching what caused cross-functional teams to succeed — and finding that many of them failed — I discovered a deeply dysfunctional development project in a huge multinational IT company. The company had invested $100 million in the project, which involved three divisions. You and Your Team.

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Team Project Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

bank adopted such a technology environment to more efficiently manage increasing data volumes for its customer analytics projects. Data discovery can take place alongside outcome-specific data projects. Real-time delivery of analytics speeds up the execution velocity and improves the service quality of an organization.

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Strategy Supply Chain Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

There are real benefits to this real-time business capability: getting to market faster, capturing value quicker, more immediate responsiveness to customer needs. Here is a quick look at how Google and HubSpot have managed to achieve remarkable speed in product releases while simultaneously reducing risk.

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Productivity Products Development Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The next day, an employee called a meeting of his unit circle to discuss an alternative: delaying­ the layoff for a few weeks and shifting people into a concentrated sales and marketing effort. Within several weeks, the effort had won enough new projects to make the layoffs unnecessary.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

But the very skills that propel women to the top of the class in school are earning us middle-of the-pack marks in the workplace. of middle managers in the U.S. If there's a cool project you don't quite have all the skills for, volunteer anyway. Indeed, a recent study found that women account for 51.4% but only 4.2%

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Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Class 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Mapping out detailed project plans? Although many upper-level managers don't do these things enough, by far and away the single-most shirked responsibility of executives is holding people accountable. It holds up for C-level executives compared to directors and middle managers. Seeing the big picture? Delegating?

Management 9

Management Cooper Short-term Long-term 9

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

And even when we’re connected, we’re often dazed and confused: with more than six billion smartphones projected worldwide by 2020, we’ve succeeded in creating an environment in which we and our employees can, if we want, work 24/7, checking our phones as many as 150 times per day. No wonder we have skills shortages!

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How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76