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.

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Leadership Development Development Span of Control Leadership 215

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. Disregard the pro forma and seek rapid results, instead – many planning methods are overly dependent on the parochial interests of its senior leaders (i.e.,

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Strategy Strategic Planning Span of Control Hedge 150

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.

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Organization Span of Control Decentralization Human Resources 131

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.

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Organization Power Span of Control SWOT 96

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.

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Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 137

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

You know that social interactions with the marketplace are becoming a source for innovation, strategy, product development, organizational alignment, and pretty much every important thing your organization does. These allow you to direct activities and allocate resources — and by doing so, control other people.

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Power Span of Control Senge Media 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. The average span of control in these and other vanguard organizations is more than double the U.S. More people are working in big, bureaucratic organizations than ever before.

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