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Leadership Lessons from Pfizer-BioNTech’s Vaccine Development

The Practical Leader

An especially exciting medical breakthrough is the development of messenger RNA (mRNA) technology now used in Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines. ” Throughout his career, Bourla hung pictures of patients on walls of their buildings around the world. ” This is classic servant leadership.

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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. Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. Relax the culture. .

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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.

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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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Your Nice Boss May Be Killing Your Career

Harvard Business Review

Chris spent years working for a supportive, encouraging manager at a major technology company headquartered in Silicon Valley. He had learned how to survive in the bureaucracy: don''t make too many waves, don''t cause problems. I wanted to understand the conditions under which people did the very best work of their careers.

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Why Immigration Is So Important In The Global Race For Talent

The Horizons Tracker

These challenges meant that they overwhelmingly elected to go to larger companies that can help them with the bureaucracy, rather than the startup where their talents might be better put to use. They also draw attention to some of the regional inequalities that migration, and indeed technological innovation, can bring.

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Influencing Creativity and Innovation

Persuasive Powerhouse

Moderate bureaucracy: If innovation becomes difficult because of bureaucratic barriers, employees will stop trying. The fear of making mistakes is deeply ingrained in our psyche says Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies [link]. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.