N2Growth Blog

MARCH 26, 2012

Lesson #1 was: “ Make your own development a priority - Zuckerberg knew he needed to be a leader (and not just a tech guy) if Facebook was going to go anywhere, so he hired an executive coach to learn management and leadership skills.” Control is about power – not leadership. Forget span of control and think span of influence.

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Self-aware Leadership Span of Control Emotional Intelligence 419

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 6, 2020

Of course, it’s difficult to remember everything, especially if your span of control is 25 or more—let alone if you also want to remember things about all the coworkers your direct colleagues guide in the everyday operation of your organization. As a manager, boss, or leader, you are primarily a facilitator.

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Span of Control Quality Environment Learning-by-Doing 221

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

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

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain.

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Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 137

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

Not long ago my colleagues and I studied the cost of adding a manager or executive, and we found a kind of multiplier effect (see the graphic below). When you hire a manager, he or she typically generates enough work to keep somebody else busy as well. Take into account, however, that different jobs require different spans of control.

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Cost Span of Control Management Bureaucracy 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

A healthcare industry sales executive recently told us that as part of a continued effort to cut costs, her company had reduced the number of first-line sales managers from 66 down to 30 over a period of several years. The average span of control for U.S. Managers may micromanage their people. People management.

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Span of Control Company Merchandising Management 9