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Google Layoffs of 200 Core Employees Signal a Worrying Trend

HR Digest

CRN received a statement from a spokesperson from the company stating that it was “simplifying structures to give employees more opportunity to work on our most innovative and important advances and our biggest company priorities while reducing bureaucracy and layers.” According to Inc.

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Quick and Nimble: A Leadership Companion

Leading Blog

There’s no bureaucracy around an idea. In fact, bureaucracy around an idea is the death of an organization. Ken Rees, CEO of Think Finance) School Never Ends : “It’s about keeping them marketable. I encourage people: ‘Go out and find out what the market bears. There are no titles around an idea.

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How do you start your own business

Strategy Driven

However, investments take time to fully develop, while additional expenses and unforeseen costs can set back your business greatly. Find ways to manage your finances efficiently and effectively in order not to spend your entire capital in one place. Furthermore, the market and customer demand are constantly shifting.

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6 Rules for Defense Start-Up Innovators

Strategy Driven

For years now, huge corporations such as British Aerospace Engineering and Raytheon have completely dominated the market and swooped in to poach promising innovators. 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.

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The True Cost of Hiring Yet Another Manager

Harvard Business Review

You have front-line employees who create what you sell or who deal directly with customers: software developers, sales reps, call-center staffers, and so on. You also have support staff, including the people in marketing, finance, HR, and other functions. A second likely culprit: too many supervisory layers.

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What the CVS-Aetna Deal Means for the Delivery of U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Several trends should be disturbing to hospital administrators, including the development of free standing, low-cost “neighborhood” hospitals. Developed by the Johns Hopkins schools of medicine and public health, Hospital at Home has been tested in multiple markets throughout the United States and is working.

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. They have, instead, everything to do with bureaucracy and interest group politics. As our research shows, better and cheaper innovations often generate “winner take all” markets.