Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Her situation demands better strategic thinking, more creativity and innovation, and greater agility and responsiveness. Increasingly, leaders exist in a much longer ‘span of control’ network. They need to get things done without too much ‘command and control’. My personal concern.

Leadership Development 215

Leadership Development Development Span of Control Leadership 215

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 24, 2022

Where things go wrong is not typically the growing span of control or communication difficulties, as is often stated, but rather the compounding of evaluators’ errors. These can dry up as the market matures, however. “Our results don’t mean we must dismiss the bossless company,” the researchers suggest.

Organization 132

Organization Span of Control Decentralization Human Resources 132

HR Digest

AUGUST 18, 2023

Organization: Cultivating the Right Capabilities for Success HR’s role in shaping the organization goes beyond traditional HR demographics such as the number of levels or span of control. Rather, HR must focus on building the right organization capabilities that drive success.

Organization 96

Organization Power Span of Control SWOT 96

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

their personal span of control) and the organization’s existing “ways of doing business” These approaches produce plans that have blinders on. Management teams want automated and integrated techniques that enable analytics and scenario testing.

Strategy 150

Strategy Strategic Planning Span of Control Hedge 150

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. million managers, first-line supervisors, and administrators in the American workforce in 2014. That works out to one manager and administrator for every 4.7 Here’s the arithmetic.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Balancing freedom to innovate versus following proven routines. The art and science here is determining how to get both outcomes — consistency and innovation — in the right proportion and in the appropriate parts of your organization. In many areas, freedom to innovate is the critical need.

Agility 8

Agility Innovation Span of Control Objective 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

He was responsible for ten hospitals spanning the West Coast to the Indian Ocean and health care for eight hundred thousand patients. Given that span of control, during the two years I was chief of staff, you can imagine the number of times I had to give him bad news. We had fifteen thousand employees working for us.

Leadership 134

Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 134