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Decentralization Helps Firms Weather Turbulent Times

The Horizons Tracker

A new paper highlights the importance of a decentralized organizational structure during such periods of turbulence. The managers also revealed how autonomous their decision making was in terms of new products, sales and marketing decisions, and hiring permanent employees. The data shows that sales at decentralized firms fell by 8.2%

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CEO Marketing Priorities

N2Growth Blog

COVID-19 has made CEO marketing priorities synonymous with survival. Force Multiplication : Now that your workforce has likely become largely decentralized, your messaging should follow suit. The post CEO Marketing Priorities appeared first on N2Growth. Empower your team to not only amplify your message but to create their own.

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Leadership: Finding Your Sweet Spot

Lead Change Blog

They centralize, then they decentralize, only to centralize again. Use the content you already have to make a larger impact with your book launch and marketing efforts. Some leaders operate at the extremes—doing too much, then too little. Some leaders delegate, but then swoop back in and grab control.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

And just to make things interesting, do it in a decentralized organizational construct where laws, standards, and procedures aren’t as tightly controllable as within a single company. The fact that such a complex, decentralized, sprawling operation delivers reliable (albeit not always likable) results is a minor miracle. finance, I.T.,

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Changing The Talent Equation: From Expense to Asset

Rich Gee Group

This reluctance stifles innovation and prevents the workforce from acquiring new skills essential for adapting to market changes. Restructuring Reporting and Accountability Decentralizing Decision-Making Decentralizing decision-making empowers managers at all levels to take ownership of talent development.

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Be Informed: 10 Job Titles You Won’t See In The Next Decade

Lead from Within

The rapid pace of technological advancement and evolving business models are transforming the job market at an unprecedented rate. Middle Manager: The traditional hierarchical management structure is giving way to more agile, decentralized models. As an experienced leadership coach.

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New Leadership Literacies

Lead Change Blog

The tired practices of centralized organizations will become brittle in a future where authority is radically decentralized. Anything that can be distributed will be distributed: workforces, organizations, supply webs, and more. Rigid hierarchies will give way to liquid structures.