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How managers can be more proactive

How managers can be more proactive

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How managers can be more proactive

- There's absolutely no question that technology has enabled us to build flatter organizations. The idea that a line employee could communicate directly with a company president was heretical in the previous century, and now it's common practice. Yet even as organizational hierarchies have flattened, the most frequent response I hear from anyone effected by dramatic change, whether it's in their own career or in their role as a manager is, well, what can I do? I'm just one person. Don't convince yourself that you just need to be passive. Take the action you can take, communicate relentlessly, collaborate intensively, and adapt continuously. Let me tell you how. I was asked years ago for help by a manager in a bank's innovation department, to guide him in defining a new strategy for his group. He wanted to lay out a clearly defined set of very specific activities for his team, driven by a set of clearly articulated strategic goals, that were tied directly to the strategic goals of the…

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