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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. To retain top talent in the future, executives will need to clearly identify, develop, involve, and recognize key people. Relax the culture. .

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Who's Moving Their Company Beyond Bureaucracy?

Harvard Business Review

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. We asked some big questions in our quest to bust bureaucracy: What does it mean to build an organization in which everyone is aligned and inspired by a deeply-felt sense of purpose?

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Influencing Creativity and Innovation

Persuasive Powerhouse

Moderate bureaucracy: If innovation becomes difficult because of bureaucratic barriers, employees will stop trying. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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Why Terrorist Groups Are So Bureaucratic

Harvard Business Review

So you think, “Wow, there were huge numbers of Iraqi men in 2007, 2008, 2009 that had to develop military skills, whether they had to develop them to fight for a particular side or for self-defense. You don’t have well-defined career paths. Bureaucracy is just endemic to the human endeavor.

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Why Terrorist Groups Are So Bureaucratic

Harvard Business Review

So you think, “Wow, there were huge numbers of Iraqi men in 2007, 2008, 2009 that had to develop military skills, whether they had to develop them to fight for a particular side or for self-defense. You don’t have well-defined career paths. Bureaucracy is just endemic to the human endeavor.

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Leading People Too Smart to Be Led

Harvard Business Review

Have you ever wanted to blow up the bureaucracy at your organization? Born partly out of frustration with traditional university bureaucracies, SFI has no departments, no formal hierarchies, and no tenure. ” Anyone operating in a large enterprise feels the truth of Krakauer’s quip. ” asks Krakauer.

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Getting Culture Right

You're Not the Boss of Me

This video speaks to the culture that is prevalent in more workplaces than any of us would like to admit, workplaces that operate on the basis of positional power with an undercurrent of fear. And, over the course of my career, I have also occasionally done some of these things as well. I have seen them. The first is a practice.

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