Ensuring employees have a clear line‐of‐sight to strategy is one of the most effective ways to drive profitable business performance. Here, Susan Layman describes how her…
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Ensuring employees have a clear line‐of‐sight to strategy is one of the most effective ways to drive profitable business performance. Here, Susan Layman describes how her organization implemented a goal alignment conference and subsequent tracking system to get all employees focused on strategy.
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Ram Charan and R. Edward Freeman
It will be global, characterized by more government and a greater need for strategic management. Executives who ignore these changes and operate under the old assumptions will pay…
Leadership theory and research has not addressed the role of leaders in knowledge management, despite its importance to organizations. Consequently, information and knowledge…
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Leadership theory and research has not addressed the role of leaders in knowledge management, despite its importance to organizations. Consequently, information and knowledge management as key leader functions have not been explored. This study is an attempt to generate a preliminary theory of the role of leaders in knowledge management through a grounded theory approach.
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This study builds a grounded theory of the role of leadership in knowledge management by comparatively analyzing 37 in‐depth interviews of CEOs. Combining deductive and inductive methods, this study establishes the key role of top executive leaders of organizations in knowledge management.
Findings
The data from the interviews suggest that leaders are acutely aware of the role of information and knowledge sharing and design knowledge networks that serve to maximize organizational effectiveness. Moreover, leaders use information technology and knowledge management to better focus on key internal and external customers. Thus, this grounded theory emphasizes both the leader behavior dimensions of information and knowledge sharing. More importantly, this study links the processes of knowledge management and customer‐focused knowledge management to leader and organizational effectiveness. Additionally, there seems to be evidence that such knowledge management activities implemented by leaders can positively impact organizational performance.
Research limitations/implications
This grounded theory study has identified relationships/ processes of leadership that are inherently longitudinal. A key limitation, however, is that the end result is theory, which needs to be tested and refined through other conventional mechanisms.
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This study makes significant contributions to both the leadership and knowledge management literatures.
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This issue's Stack attacks the question of how leaders can move from what they want to achieve to actually achieving it through themselves, teams, peers, and their organizations…
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This issue's Stack attacks the question of how leaders can move from what they want to achieve to actually achieving it through themselves, teams, peers, and their organizations. The most successful are Execution, First Among Equals, and The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell. All three can manage to satisfy strategy's old hands and newcomers alike.
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Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.
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Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.
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Scans the top 400 management publications in the world to identify the most topical issues and latest concepts. These are presented in an easy‐to‐digest briefing of no more than 1,500 words.
Findings
Nardelli's change initiatives at Home Depot were successful because they considered and added all the vital ingredients: hard data, speed, communication, enthusiasm and above all, a brave determination to see a vision through.
Practical implications
Provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world's leading organizations.
Originality/value
The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy‐to digest format.