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The No-Boss Workplace: Can Great Leadership Be Crowdsourced?

Terry Starbucker

Last summer, the local startup Treehouse , a producer of online education courses, decided to create a no-boss workplace by eliminating all the manager positions from its 61-person workforce, thus creating the ultimate “flat” organizational structure. That’s right – aside from the CEO, there are zero managers.

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Managing for the Unexpected –Understanding Emergence Theory In Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Quite the opposite, in fact, it proposes that we possess the optimum combination of elements to make our enterprise stand out within the markets in which we compete. ü Managers will need education on how to manage the process to optimize results rather than managing the activities of people performing the work.

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The Power of the Process

Lead Change Blog

Armed with these insights, I developed a service proposal that described how we would work together in creating a strategic plan and implementing a strategic management process. We agreed to postpone the discussion about establishing a strategic management process until our work was further along.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

This series’s final part will balance needs with compromises, float tangential opportunities to expand horizons, and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘unicorn’ management candidate. You will find it difficult to move between functional management roles.

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How to Rapidly Address Leadership Gaps with Interim Executives: A Comprehensive Guide

N2Growth Blog

Engaged for a defined period, they lead specific initiatives, manage transitions, or stabilize operations during times of change. Communication breakdowns are another indicator where inconsistent messaging or lack of direction from top management creates confusion and misalignment across the organization.

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Leadership & The Expectation Gap

N2Growth Blog

Let me make this as simple as I can; managing expectations is gamesmanship – aligning them is leadership. Where possible resist formalizing agreements, proposals, or other commitments until you have alignment on key expectations and deliverables.

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The Evolving Role of Women in Sales

Women on Business

For example, in a meeting they may pose an idea by saying, “maybe we can do this” or “it might help if …” But, because of the tentative way their suggestion was proposed, it gets passed right over. Women also operate under the mistaken belief that their results speak for themselves.

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