Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Aside from a couple of Office Space references it drives home that there is such a thing as diminishing returns on bureaucracy. K Reply Charles Tuite December 8, 2010 at 3:19 pm Great example! Here’s another brief example of this type of thing in a different industry, a for-profit one (assuming you collect anecdotes like this).

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 29, 2011

Size doesn’t have to mean bureaucracy, but it takes fresh organizational thinking. Talented people join and stay in an organization to have an impact – to do work that matters to them and to make a difference. But a badly designed organization keeps them from having an impact or satisfying their values ,” says Ms.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2013

This post is from June, 2011. I suspect most of them have something to do with internal politics, bureaucracy, or perhaps a belief that the more complicated or obscure the language, the more important the message. I happened across a movie the other day called Straight Talk. There are probably a lot of reasons for this.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

Moderate bureaucracy: If innovation becomes difficult because of bureaucratic barriers, employees will stop trying. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”. If you normally avoid risk, you must be willing to be comfortable with more of it in order to grow a culture of innovation.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2010

How do you overcome simplicity in favor of bureaucracy? Yet our competitive companies would boast they required no red tape at all. Instead, their clients could simply call anyone in for care that they desired and the company would reimburse the fees. I gave this considerable thought. I soon had a smile on my face with the answer.

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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

The book shared that winners do ALL 4 of the following activities: Strategy - Team based game plans Execution - Top quartile performance Culture - High performance team Flat Structure – Minimize bureaucracy And that they do ANY 2 of 4 following activities: Talent - Build & grow talented employees Innovation - Disruptive, innovative (..)

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

Passing the CEO baton to Barra tomorrow , Akerson said that she “brought order to chaos” in GM’s vast product development organization, mostly by flattening its bureaucracy and cutting overlapping layers of executives. And he put Mary Barra in charge of Product Development.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

On their return, they often take up key roles in legislatures, executives, and bureaucracies. The next generation of public sector leaders in many of these countries cut their teeth in the business world. These leaders should look to the private sector for guidance when it comes to ensuring smooth leadership successions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. ” GE adopted its FastWorks initiative, based on lean startup principles, to cut bureaucracy around innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

On September 17, 2011, Occupy Wall Street took over Zuccotti Park, in the heart of the financial district in Lower Manhattan. The group also focused on specific pillars upon which the regime’s power rested —such as the media, bureaucracy, police, and military— to target their efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. They have, instead, everything to do with bureaucracy and interest group politics. In Washington, business as usual.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). Some of his core ideas include busting bureaucracy, injecting candour throughout the workplace, and relentlessly rewarding the sorts behaviours you want while swiftly stamping out those you don’t. Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. By Daniel H.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

million in 2011 on ads, and companies are increasingly wondering whether parting with so much cash for broadcast is actually worth it. Papers, Please" is a video game about bureaucracy. It Can Be Done! Making Red Tape Fun Boston Globe.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Plus, consider the new generation of unlikely entrepreneurs – on Facebook-owned Instagram – in socially conservative Saudi Arabia: a growing number of women are turning to the app to start businesses that can bypass both bureaucracies and social restrictions.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 25, 2012

Sure, I encountered bureaucracy at times, but I managed to navigate through the red tape by working within a cultural principal they all shared – the respect for great branding. Costco (2011 sales +14%, profit +12%) and Publix (2011 sales +7%, profit +11%) are two notable examples.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Frustrated employees were complaining about the lack of amenities — such as child care facilities — on campus and the stifling bureaucracy which, for instance, made expense reimbursment a time-consuming process. The India lab now ranks #1 in employee satisfaction within SAP's global network of 15 R&D labs.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

in 2011), this hides the fact that much of the other half of the economy is heavily reliant on the oil and gas sector for its revenues. Indeed, while direct revenue from oil and gas fell to below 50% of GDP in 2017 (from 60.1% This is reflected in the 80% of exports that are accounted for by hydrocarbons.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Leaders with a strong founder’s mentality also have what we call an owner’s mindset: They think about every expense as if it were their own money (which it often is) and hate any sort of bureaucracy that slows the company down. In 2011, TPG sold it to Diageo, for about $2.1 Their bias is toward action.

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