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Thoughts on the Presidency

Leading Blog

But then as now, there is no greater attribute for a ruler than humility built on an accurate assessment of his own limits, from which the finest cunning emerges.” β€” Robert Kaplan, Warrior Politics. β€œIn You have to have a team and operate as a team, and any corporation would have a training program to acculturate people. Newt Gingrich, 2011.

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The Big Picture of Business – How Business Advice Turns Into Company Strategy

Strategy Driven

Appointed agency heads in a government bureaucracy. Caretakers of corporate bureaucracies, departmental supervisors, short-term clients, referral sources for business development and those who dangle carrots under people’s noses. 7 Levels of Advice Given. Temporary Caretakers of an Office. Public officials.

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A Simple Workaround to Overcome the Bureaucratic Mindset

Tanveer Naseer

When it comes to internal roadblocks or organizational obstacles, more often than not the culprit behind these problems is an organization’s own bureaucracy. Corporate bureaucracy and its close cousin, business process, often snag their own staffs in an impossible tangle of rules and regulations.

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How I Led Change in the U.S. State Department Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

Department of State is a seriously big bureaucracy. My experience as a digital leader in the Obama administration confirmed my optimism that change can come to large bureaucracies. My first challenge was that I was a political appointee, an interloper coming into a sea of dedicated career government workers. Oh, the irony!

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Leadership and Straight Talk

You're Not the Boss of Me

This young woman, (played by Dolly Parton ), was delightfully guileless and dished out her unadorned advice with clarity and good humour. 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.

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Straight Talk

You're Not the Boss of Me

This young woman, (played by Dolly Parton ), was delightfully guileless and dished out her unadorned advice with clarity and good humour. 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.

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6 Rules for Defense Start-Up Innovators

Strategy Driven

Inventors and programmers have found themselves swallowed up in vast bureaucracies, working on projects that they feel morally uncomfortable on and with less than savory people. Steer Clear of Politics and Avoid Espionage. Politics and the defense industry are intertwined, but if you want some advice from us? Steer clear.