Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The coworker of the future needs to think beyond the comfort zone of the known, use divergent and convergent thinking, and approach challenges and opportunities in an iterative and innovative way. Probably the most important sustainability quality is the capacity to influence. Influence means getting things done.

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Quality Influence Learning-by-Doing Network Organization 197

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Understanding the Importance of an Executive Director in an Organization’s Success An organization’s success can be influenced by the strategic leadership and guidance provided by its executive director. This individual plays a pivotal role in shaping the vision, mission, and overall direction of the organization.

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Execution Committee Long-term Objective 243

N2Growth Blog

MAY 1, 2017

Developments of global network organizations. Great attention for innovation. The leadership abilities that it takes to navigate permanent white water are different from those to survive one series of rapids to reach calm water beyond.

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Decentralization Trends Career Network Organization 150

LDRLB

MARCH 9, 2016

Using an innovative organizational design, Eden is able to bring the brightest consultants to client projects by forming bespoke teams. How networked organizations are the way of the future. Liann Eden is the co-founder of Eden McCallum, a consultant firm with no consultants. Listen in iTunes ] [ Listen on Stitcher ].

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McCallum Network Organization Consultative Review 60

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2013

There were no real conversations about the bigger picture, how to get better results through clever resourcing or innovation. Christine’s team and organization thrived under her new leadership, boosting revenue tenfold and setting industry benchmarks for performance. Leadership Leadership development Managing yourself'

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Benchmarking CEO Network Organization Execution 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Eventually, businesses became department stores, specialty stores and malls, and finally, today''s e-businesses and networked organizations that support them. Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. What does it mean to view innovation as the only competitive advantage?

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CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Weber saw that traditional and charismatic leadership would have to give way to a more bureaucratic and rational model. Most of today’s organizations were built on Weber’s principles. So much so that we see them as “the way things work” and forget that bureaucracies were once innovations too.

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Organization Bureaucracy Network Organization Informal Structure 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

Google has its nine principles of innovation. And Amazon has its own leadership principles. Amazon says of its leadership principles: “Our Leadership Principles aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. It’s a distributed governance model for networked organizations.

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Agility Delegation Objective Goal 8

Innovation Excellence

MAY 13, 2020

Instead of looking for immediate results, they would use what they learned about organizing protests to build a massive networked organization, called Otpor , that would transcend political factions. They reflected on past failures and were determined not to repeat the same mistakes.

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Wilde Politics Network Organization Open-book 57

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Whether providers like it or not, health care is evolving from a proficiency-based art to a data-driven science, from freelance physicians to hospital-employed physicians, from one-size-fits-all community hospitals to vast hospital networks organized around centers of excellence. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Where they fail, however, is at turning those ideas into actual innovations. Indeed, few creative ideas ever become innovative products or services. And yet too many managers see a lack of innovation in their companies and lament their teams’ “lack of creativity.” HBR Must Reads on Innovation.

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