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Transcend traditional management trade-offs

“Managers must embrace rather than dodge the need to manage paradox.”

Organizational success in the years ahead will hinge on the ability of employees at all levels to manage seemingly irreconcilable trade-offs—between short-term earnings and long-term growth, competition and collaboration, structure and emergence, discipline and freedom. Traditional systems rely on crude, universal policies that favor certain goals at the expense of others. Tomorrow’s systems must encourage healthy competition between opposing objectives and enable frontline employees to dynamically optimize key trade-offs.

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Transcend traditional management trade-offs

“Managers must embrace rather than dodge the need to manage paradox.”

Organizational success in the years ahead will hinge on the ability of employees at all levels to manage seemingly irreconcilable trade-offs—between short-term earnings and long-term growth, competition and collaboration, structure and emergence, discipline and freedom. Traditional systems rely on crude, universal policies that favor certain goals at the expense of others. Tomorrow’s systems must encourage healthy competition between opposing objectives and enable frontline employees to dynamically optimize key trade-offs.

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Cloud-based software tools to support the transformation to liberated work teams by relying on evidence-based, high performance practices. 
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Hack by Marton Jojarth on June 12, 2015
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Hack by Mohammad Oli Ahad on July 17, 2011
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Hack by Frederic J.Leconte on November 4, 2017
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Hack by Kumba Jallow on July 17, 2011
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Hack by Sharon Siegel on January 20, 2011
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Hack by Marcelo Manucci on February 1, 2014
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Hack by Daniele Pigni on November 27, 2018
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Hack by John Heston on March 3, 2011
In the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge, this challenge is presented:How do we eradicate the pervasive zero-sum mentality in business and embed the positive-sum view of stakeholder interdependence into
Hack by Tim MacDonald on May 17, 2012

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