Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The book covers these topics and more: Trust Leading by example Listening Asking powerful questions Coaching Culture At the end of book, Nathan shares valuable links for recommended reading on leadership, career and life topics. That class was where I realized I wanted to pursue leadership as a career.

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Books Decentralization Learning-by-Doing Influence 56

Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. In her book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R.

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Venture Capitalist Decentralization Books Idea Generation 62

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It was a tough choice, so for 2022, I'm picking two books: Both books are timely, highly relevant, full of great teachings and well worth reading for leaders at any stage of their careers. Their extensive research shows that there are four skill sets needed for a leader to operate with wise compassion when doing hard things.

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Books Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing 111

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. In her new book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R.

Venture Capitalist 56

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Books Idea Generation 56

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 20, 2020

Marketing was wearing suit and tie everyday, and teams were operating by consensus and under the tight control of one leader. This crisis will bring along both organizational restructuring and changes in most career paths, asking each individual to take responsibility for their own development. Us’ prevailed over ‘I’. The Power Of You.

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Consensus Team Building Career Decentralization 52

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

This is likely to require decentralizing the structure of our organizations, with smaller teams given greater autonomy to act, experiment and learn. “The concept of superjobs takes this shift one step further. The insights from these teams should then be allowed to flow up and around the organization to spread learning throughout.

Competitive Advantage 57

Competitive Advantage Kaizen Learning-by-Doing Technology 57

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

How does one successfully manage a company with a dozen diverse, decentralized businesses of varying sizes that employ over 100,000 people in 130 countries, especially in an uncertain economic environment? The answer is to make things simple, says Bill Allen, head of Group Human Resources at Copenhagen-based A.P. Moller-Maersk.

Management 15

Management Decentralization Report Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

You might say that a radically decentralized, p2p financial system spontaneously arose. You might say that a radically decentralized, p2p financial system spontaneously arose. And thats exactly the role that pubs began to play. And thats exactly the role that pubs began to play.

Banking 17

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The seven full time employees form a nucleus, or core group to handle program management, operations, and communications. But they will need an extremely clear purpose, and shared, decentralized power throughout. And, of course, this affects management's role and how we all manage our careers. More on that in future posts.).

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Participative Decentralization Globalization Cost Center 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

. “For the military,” Petraeus observed, “learning faster than the enemy meant deploying lessons learned teams and ensuring commanders are focused on identifying the need to make changes to our big ideas, campaign plans, organizational structures, equipment, and operational bases.” commanders under Petraeus.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Decentralization Venture Capitalist Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. But the decentralization debate was different. The two men went way back. Now Vera was getting worked up.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Broadly, EDM seemed to reverse the trend of a decentralized company and office. ” As a result, top talent left rather than risk stalling their careers. She notes that key-punch operation — one of the main areas of job growth — is “universally regarded as a dead-end occupation, with no promotional opportunities.”

Technology 8

Technology Decentralization Short-term Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Leading energy companies are investing in decentralized energy grids, demonstrating the broad feasibility of such approaches. Finding effective and affordable ways to help people acquire transferable skills during their careers, not just before they start out, is a large social challenge. The New Science of Human Capital.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. The fallout was dramatic: the Secretary of Veterans Affairs resigned and the FBI initiated a criminal investigation.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

Innovation Excellence

JUNE 15, 2020

Dr. Shelle Poole is the incoming Divisional Dean of the Boise State University School of Nursing, and has made a career out of shared governance and working as a ‘servant leader’. One of the tenants of shared governance is decentralized decision-making. They’re closest to the work, I don’t know it the way they do.”.

Guidelines 80

Guidelines Software Proposal Technology 80

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Lastly, don’t decentralize marketing…consistent messaging across markets, mediums and constituencies is critical. Marketing is not a part-time endeavor, and if you don’t have a qualified C-level marketing executive leading the charge, don’t just trust things to the most vocal staff member.

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