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Jim Ewel

Encouraging Empowerment

How do leaders encourage empowerment? There’s a view that autonomy and empowerment will occur magically if management stops micromanaging and gives up some decision-making. We also tend to believe that empowerment or at least autonomy is always a good thing.  Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. What Do We Mean by Empowerment? The dictionary definition of […]

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How Autonomy Supports Organizational Change

There are several different kinds of organizational change. There is planned change, where organizations decide to enter a new business, or exit an old business, or reorganize. There is unplanned change, where organizations need to respond to change: a competitive threat, an economic downturn, a supply chain disruption, or a sudden increase in costs. There

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Embracing Autonomy: The Key to Marketing Agility

Is autonomy, or empowerment as it is sometimes described, key to achieving marketing agility? Some studies have concluded that it is. Kalaignanam, Tuli, and Gall concluded that “flexible structures that promote cross-functional collaboration and cross-pollination of knowledge are crucial for enabling marketing agility at an organizational level.” This can be even more important when the

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Visualization in Work Management: How Seeing is Believing and Achieving

Why does visualization help individuals and teams increase their efficiency, improve collaboration, and make better decisions, even in the face of uncertainty? Let’s take a look at the science behind visualization’s prowess, as well as some examples of where visualization is being used to achieve these benefits. The Science and Psychology Behind Visualization According to

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Improve Your Marketing ROI by Selecting the Right Experimental Design

Marketers want to understand how to improve their campaigns’ conversions and ROI. They often want to test multiple factors and multiple choices for each factor. For example, a marketer might want to test 3 different prices, 3 different headline messages, and 2 different design approaches. To test all of those variables, they would have to

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