Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

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. In addition to reducing bureaucracy, high-performing, high-tech companies provide freedom in dress codes, scheduled hours, and lifestyle choices.

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. It provides a comprehensive (yet very easy to read) summary of four decades of scientific research on human motivation, exposing a startling mismatch between what science knows and what business does. Human Resource Champions (1996). By Daniel H. By Jack Welch.

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Proliferating bureaucracies, expanding org charts, increasingly powerful central staffs, competing departmental agendas—all interfere with the focus on the customer and the deep connection with the details of the business that allowed these companies to grow successfully in the first place.

Company 12

Company Hotels Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

It was clear to me then that the Defense Department would need to keep pace with the dramatic changes — many of them technological — reshaping the economy, the labor market, and human resource management. We provided new career counseling as well as professional skill certification for our tradesmen, among other efforts.

Talent Management 11

Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training 11

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 30, 2012

The fact that giant companies don’t operate this way opens the door for the smaller competitor. I spent an entire career espousing the power of creativity, and the companies I touched did very well by it. Bureaucracy lurks on the periphery, waiting for its opening to subvert the lean, mean, business machine. Creativity.

Bureaucracy 245

Bureaucracy Constraint Creativity Discount 245

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Bureaucracy and stagnation set in. My friend’s students saw themselves as entrepreneurial thinkers, yet at graduation, most of them will begin their careers in a corporation. Several, such as Trump, still operate by the brain and muscle ethic. The brain viewed the masses below it as the muscle. Does it inspire?

Mass Marketing 100

Mass Marketing Bureaucracy Entrepreneur Class 100