Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

They understood the impact that a strong, adaptive corporate culture has on organizational performance, the true mark of leadership. Perhaps if today’s business leaders took a page from history, their companies would achieve the success created by the enlightened leadership of past corporate giants. Eich , Ph.D. General Business'

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2024

On Leadership : Lessons for the 21st Century by Tony Blair - (September 2024) The leadership manual Tony Blair wishes he had when he became prime minister, with personal insights and global examples that show aspiring leaders how to go from talking about change to making change. Use this list to create your own winter reading plan.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The responsibility for navigating this uncharted terrain rests on the shoulders of those in leadership positions. The Rise of Holacracy: The trend towards decentralized leadership—sometimes known as holacracy—challenges the traditional hierarchy of organizations. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Who will design, manage, and deliver world-class leadership programs? Leadership development is becoming closely aligned with and used to support corporate strategy. Issues such as globalization, decentralization, and the rapid pace of today’s marketplace have forced companies to evaluate the way they operate.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 8, 2012

In addition, rather than decentralizing the structure of the organization, flattening usually results in a drastic centralization. Wolf’s research implies that flattening alone is an insufficient strategy for reducing costs or decentralizing decision making. Without a flat culture, a flattened firm will simply fall flat.

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Rich Gee Group

JUNE 10, 2024

This reluctance stifles innovation and prevents the workforce from acquiring new skills essential for adapting to market changes. The Role of Management in Realigning Incentives Leadership Commitment to Talent Development A talent-centric approach must start at the top for it to be practical.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

By now, we all know that leadership is tough, hard, exciting and demanding. They must be bold in their actions, willing to take calculated risks together that will have the greatest potential to achieve major, market?shifting They must be willing to decentralize their decision?making By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The rapid pace of technological advancement and evolving business models are transforming the job market at an unprecedented rate. As an experienced leadership coach. I have identified ten job titles within the realms of leadership and business operations. They are poised to become obsolete in the coming years.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 24, 2020

Most companies have decentralized their teams due to social distancing, measures directed by state and federal governments to keep people home and prevent further spread of the disease. General expectation setting and maintenance is paramount to any recruitment process and especially so in a tumultuous market environment.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 1, 2017

Both leaders and employees have to learn to anticipate market and political trends more quickly and adapt to them. Some of those market trends are listed below, we all know them well, but have we all adapted our organizations? Strong increase in mergers and take-overs. Developments of global network organizations.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Morgan (2005) uses a great image of a spider-plant to describe the decentralization trend. Handy’s (1998) shamrock organization might provide the right blend of centralization and decentralization to make it worthwhile for for-profit companies. A company could be centralized on one-leaf and decentralized on another.

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Decker Communication

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Those were the words of the leader of one of our multi-billion dollar clients, which accents the amazing changes in leadership over the last 40 years. . As we close out the decade, let’s look at how leadership has become decentralized and team-oriented. The Days of Centralized Leadership in Business are Long Gone. .

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MAY 10, 2021

Managing at the right level is the most important element in effective management in the Age of Diverse Markets. In the prior mass markets era, companies had homogeneous markets, so they needed to plan and coordinate only at the executive level, with the rest of the company’s managers focusing on their respective functional specialties.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

His new book is The Seventh Power: One CEO’s Journey into the Business of Shared Leadership. In 2010, at the peak of the national housing and mortgage market collapse, I began to have trouble speaking. Quite suddenly I was forced to develop a new approach to management and leadership that involved a lot less talking.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 13, 2020

We can look back to those experiences for leadership lessons on navigating through the financial crisis many companies now face. Only about a third of downsizing companies increased productivity and profits in the next 3 to 5 years, and underperformed in stock markets. However, we have been through economic shocks before.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

In an effort to better understand when and how corporate cultures change, CCL and corporate leaders surveyed a group of global VPs and directors in HR, Learning & Development, Leadership, and Talent Management. Maintaining a market position under intense pressure. The message is clear: Leadership matters most.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

The market a company operates in should also be taken into account for enterprise architecture. For the IT architecture to be effective, it should be between centralized and decentralized. Balance between Centralization and Decentralization. How Does Enterprise Architecture Add Value?

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 25, 2011

Home About Consulting Church Family Leadership Navigation: Home » Leadership » 3 Values of Teamwork 3 Values of Teamwork January 25, 2011 in Leadership , Organizational Leadership , Team Leadership with 4 Comments Recently I was asked a question regarding how we handle set-up on Sunday mornings.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Why was this once-dominant player unable to execute and maintain its market position? So what happened? It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2019

Business leaders also have to change their leadership style in order to still be able to drive a sense of connection and community within their organization. But is there are a way to still drive innovation with an increasingly decentralized lifeforce? The answer is yes.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The realities of globalization, with increasing emphasis on emerging markets, present corporate leaders with enormous challenges in developing the leaders required to run global organizations. They hire technical specialists, local experts, and country managers from emerging markets but rarely promote them to corporate positions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. At worst, they misjudge or simply stay out of markets vastly different from their own.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. A recurring theme in those interviews was bemoaning major changes in R&D strategy that occurred as a consequence of new, often outside, leadership. Instead of decentralizing R&D, recentralize it. One of the changes we learned outside CEOs make is decentralizing R&D.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

To protect this vision from political pressure and regulatory interference, blockchain networks rely on a decentralized infrastructure that can’t be controlled by any one person or group. This token sale was done through a widely marketed crowdfunding campaign, raising more than $150 million in ether value.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2012

Nestle has a fairly decentralized management culture. It was a bit of macho brand that focused on models and slimness," remembers Fernando del Solar, Chile's Market Head. "We The traditional approach to a lot of advertising and selling is steeped in 'performance' language, note marketers Jane Cunningham and Philippa Roberts.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. This can change how we organize every single part of these organizations — from what we make, to how we product and distribute, to how we market and sell. Everything. Disrupting How We Work.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Much of Charan’s recent work has tilted towards organization and people (books on strategy execution, leadership pipeline, talent and advice on intensity, change, leadership traits, performance management, governance). As HR professionals engage with business leaders to deliver value, the conversation should not just be about talent.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. In turn, this will foster better social outcomes and create new markets and consumer segments. Manage people effectively through decentralized teams across organizations. Collaborative leadership was critical for the revitalization of Central Park in New York City.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

What does digital leadership look like in this sense? Leadership is changing — fast. One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. They know the local market, promote their offerings in the community, and often serve as community leaders. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

After gathering “signals” about a variety of future and emerging trends, the project leadership generated several plausible scenarios about the future of R&D worth exploring further. In 2012, the Industrial Research Institute (IRI) commissioned a foresight study into the future of R&D management called IRI2038.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In their new book, Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage , Scott Keller and Colin Price identify nine factors that are critical to organizational health: Direction, Accountability, Motivation, Leadership, Coordination & Control, External Orientation, Culture & Climate, Capabilities, Innovation & Learning.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

All this drove home the point that we need to be more agile in extreme-growth markets. A new style of leadership is emerging. In a "flat" world, we no longer think about being centralized or decentralized. As a new crossroads of global travel, Dubai will soon be home to the world's busiest international airport.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

As globalization began to shift into high gear in the 1980s, corporations grew by opening international outposts to access new markets. Decentralized, program-focused operations also squander precious dollars. While their missions couldn''t be more different, the organizational challenges are strikingly similar.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is known to expect unwavering discipline from his workers, personifies this leadership style. ” Such decentralization and lack of structure, however, might have ultimately contributed to company-wide inefficiencies that drove up prices.

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