Sublime

The truly important events on the outside are not the trends. They are changes in the trends.

Making decentralization and empowerment work on a large scale is no easy feat. Top and middle managers are effectively asked to share power and give up some control. To make it work, companies have found that they needed to very clearly spell out the kind of Green leadership that they expect from people in senior and middle management.

Management is getting work done through other people

Innovation can be defined as the task of endowing human and material resources with new and greater wealth-producing capacity. Managers must convert society’s needs into opportunities for profitable business. That, too, is a definition of innovation.

“What Is Strategy?” (1996), one of the most-cited and best-selling HBR articles of all time, and “The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy” (2008),

The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.

In every organization, there is a natural tension between the need for expertise and the need to let frontline people make decisions.

But before you assume that bigger is always better, it is critical to run the numbers for your business.