Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 15, 2019

In the earlier organization, one would have been one of the best performers; but in the new culture and with an increased span of control, the same person may find it difficult to perform at similar levels as before at least in the beginning. Your performance may dip during the transition to the new organization.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 8, 2012

Flattening usually refers taking two actions to change organizational structure – removing layers of middle management while widening the span of control for the managers that are left. Recent research, however, may be taking some of the wind out of their sails.

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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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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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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Don’t commit beyond your span of control. Express the cause and effect of their contributions/role in the organization and the appreciation that you personally feel. Be as honest as possible about future opportunities within the organization. Recognize that as their leader, you have the greatest ability to retain these human assets.

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RapidStart Leadership

AUGUST 14, 2018

“Can Team Leadership really be boiled down into four steps?” ” Leaders are always busy, and whatever we are involved with, things only seem to grow more complicated over time. As complexity grows, it can help to view our roles as leaders in the simplest terms possible.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

My current research is on people who thrive in these conditions – the stars who make things happen beyond their formal span of control and budget. The curious finding from this research is that the most successful strategy is to be highly collaborative. In a competitive world you can not succeed alone: you need allies.

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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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CEO Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

We have 8 teams which is a good number for span of control. This system is not proven so I welcome any suggestions on how to improve it. So how are we doing it? We have the following roles with the following responsibilities. This is 100% volunteer. Each team is lead by a director and an assistant director.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Although it may be counter-intuitive, one of the most powerful changes you can make in your organization is to increase spans of control — a simple shift that can liberate employees, streamline the hierarchy, simplify processes, and reduce costs.

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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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Rajesh Setty

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

owner’s immediate span of control. And if that’s not discouraging enough, only a tiny sliver, two and a half percent, ever grow past what we might think of as the Mom & Pop stage – past the. Rajesh: So, why are so few companies able to achieve significant growth? Jack: That’s exactly what I wanted to know!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

Take into account, however, that different jobs require different spans of control. The lawyers in your legal department probably do highly specialized work that needs close supervision, thus requiring a narrower span of control.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

After considerable thought, she decided that the best way to force her managers to take a more holistic perspective was to increase their spans of control so that they were responsible for end-to-end processes and wouldn't have the time to micro-manage the technical details.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

This meant that management span of control had more than doubled from an average of 5-6 salespeople per manager up to 12-15 per manager. The average span of control for U.S. The merchandising force operates with an unusually high span of control of 50 merchandisers per manager.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

During his entire career, he worked in his father''s span of control, reporting directly to his dad within six years of joining the business. Has he reported within his parent''s span of control for most/all of his career? Coddled individual: You need to get outside of your parent''s span of control.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In fact, the concept of span of control — a decades-old organizational design principle — was derived originally from communications research analyzing supervisors' interactions with various numerical sets of subordinates. If so, you're the exception rather than the rule.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

To reduce this kind of complexity and stay away from micromanaging, take a periodic look at the organization''s structure and find ways to reduce levels and management and increase spans of control. Don''t let the weeds grow back. Finally, remember that complexity is like a weed in the garden that can always creep back in.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Traditionally, being powerful within an organization has been a function of three aspects of bossness: (a) your title and rank within the hierarchy, (b) your span of control, or how many people you direct, and (c) your budget and/or profit and loss responsibilities. Isn't power about being the boss?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2018

As your span of control or influence grows, it can become increasingly more difficult to make a connection with a broadening set of colleagues, strategic networks, and teams. Your voice of connection.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The company better aligned the workforce mix to its strategy, by optimizing different talent acquisition channels, manager spans of control (number of workers reporting to them), and worker mobility. Educate leaders on how and why to optimize a blended workforce. Fewer junior scientists reported to each senior scientist.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

When an employee becomes a people manager for the first time, they experience an expansion in responsibility, a broader span of control, and new types of accountability. A promotion should be much more than a change in title and paycheck — it requires a transition like any other role.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Get clear on what you can and cannot change, and keep your focus on things inside your span of control. While the study suggests that a lack of authority may be one trigger of depressive symptoms, that effect is no doubt compounded when that lack of authority comes as a surprise while trying to meet the demands of the new role.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The average span of control in these and other vanguard organizations is more than double the U.S. Nearly all of these practices run counter to conventional banking wisdom, which holds that to be efficient a bank must consolidate operational activities and centralize decision making on matters like pricing and lending.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Sometimes it’s because CEOs want their CMOs to drive growth and transform the experience, but don’t give them the mandate, resources, or span of control to do so. Sometimes they don’t fit with the direction the company is going, as was the case with Coca-Cola. In those cases CEOs are ahead of their CMOs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Companies like Spotify, with its principle of “loosely coupled and tightly aligned,” and Google, with its broad spans of control, have mastered these concepts. For leaders, this means learning to let go and to rely on their teams to offer the right answers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Change the mindset from “span of control” to “speed and collaboration.” .” Immelt elevated marketing and digital media when he promoted Beth Comstock to vice chair, while other positions, including that of the CFO, are at the senior vice president level. Make the organization team-based and fluid.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Spans of control are limited to a reasonable number — typically eight people or fewer — so that managers can effectively oversee their subordinates’ efforts. This task is closely related to the other two.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

They successfully expand their span of control outward from the center, gathering more influence over time. Similar to the branches and roots of the banyan, they flourish by surrounding themselves with like-spirited colleagues, bonding around the core.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

But office seating tends to be grouped according to a single function, division, or span of control. Glass walls, shared conference rooms, coffee bars, spiral staircases: the 21st-century executive office is ostensibly designed for the kind of fluid, informal interaction we enjoyed in the dining room at Dial.

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