The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

Some managers will complain about a declining work ethic. When we look at 360 assessments or engagement surveys, it’s clear that a more accurate response to these managers is; nobody wants to work for you. Yet despite our very tight job market, highly effective “magnet companies” attract and hang on to good people.

Energy 52

Energy Crisis Absenteeism Leadership 52

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2021

Moreover, this is a sign that you’re not doing something right and that your business won’t make it once you hit the market. This also means you’ll have to do proper market research , especially if you’re starting a business that requires feedback. So, start taking care of this issue right now and try not to let bureaucracy defeat you!

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Licensing Bureaucracy Pharmaceuticals Planning 97

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Manage a Tight Budget. However, investments take time to fully develop, while additional expenses and unforeseen costs can set back your business greatly. However, investments take time to fully develop, while additional expenses and unforeseen costs can set back your business greatly. Planning Ahead.

Licensing 81

Licensing Insurance Bureaucracy Learning-by-Doing 81

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals. We must manage our human assets with the same rigor we devote to our financial assets.

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Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 4, 2011

And although pundits continue to encourage entrepreneurial thinking for stagnating mega-businesses, these bureaucracies can’t break from risk-averse management. Their marketing teams research everything to death. link] #branding #marketing #advertising #design Follow Me on Twitter. December 4, 2011 at 3:20 pm. Leadership.

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CEO Bureaucracy Brand Constraint 235

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in. Strategy : planning, tactics, organizational development. What they were doing five years ago has no relationship to what they’re now marketing. Appointed agency heads in a government bureaucracy.

Advice 63

Advice Strategy Company Bureaucracy 63

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In business, leadership infrastructure is the sum total of all the management systems, processes, leadership teams, skill sets, and disciplines that enable companies to grow from small operations into midsized or large firms. Many midsized company leaders equate it with big-company bureaucracy. They are necessary. That’s wrong.

Leadership 217

Leadership CEO Planning Long-term 217

QAspire

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

I hope these quotes/snippets will help you get the gist of this book and prompt you to read it: Managing the Work. The term ’project management’ makes most creative people cringe. Elaborate Gantt charts and byzantine procedures plague bureaucracies large and small. On Managing Your Energy. On Progress. On Taking Charge.

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Gantt Chart Bureaucracy Project Long-term 147

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

Then there are the business developers forever in pursuit of new products and new markets. I listened to an IT manager explaining on a speakerphone to a colleague he served in the marketing function why it was going to take two days to get a requested report. What rings their chime is growth.

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Innovation Budgeting Strategic Planning Tools 150

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

In a recent article , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini detail the toll that growing bureaucracy is taking across industries. Many of those working in the consolidating health care industry will immediately validate several of the authors’ key findings, including: Bureaucracy is growing, not shrinking. ” I beg to differ.

Health Care 8

Health Care Bureaucracy Hamel System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. Today, most people work in some sort of bureaucracy — and according to Gallup, 85% of employees around the world feel disengaged from their work.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 9

Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 3, 2010

What if that person were retasked to evaluate what the fair market value of the transport of media is? Aside from a couple of Office Space references it drives home that there is such a thing as diminishing returns on bureaucracy. Unbelievable — but not surprising, considering the source. to go before I could refresh.

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USP Video Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management. Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Bureaucracy 50

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 18, 2016

But, when the time comes for the cows to be transported to market, herding can become a challenge. Like TD Bank, make busting customer-restricting bureaucracy more valued than protecting those “sacred cows” long in need of slaughtering. For months cows leisurely graze, sleep in the shade and drink water from a nearby pond.

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Policies Follow-up Banking Bureaucracy 150

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

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. “Nations that prioritize its development, its attraction, its retention, and its movement across borders will be best positioned to compete.

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Globalization Offshoring Human Capital Innovation 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

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. How can they serve the customer when they’re burdened with so much bureaucracy?

Cost 10

Cost Span of Control Management Bureaucracy 10

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2020

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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Innovation Software Industry Politics 132

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The group also focused on specific pillars upon which the regime’s power rested —such as the media, bureaucracy, police, and military— to target their efforts. Otpor also developed a clear doctrine of values. Rather than merely spouting a vague set of slogans, the group developed an explicit guide for action.

Management 8

Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

Plan: Plans need to be continually reviewed to keep the team on track Productivity (Measures & Accountability): assigning tasks, measuring success and rewarding results are an oft overlooked element of successful team development. If you want accountability, then people have to have a say in how things are going to roll out.

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Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2018

First, participating patients would no longer be dependent on the bureaucracies of big health systems or on understaffed physician offices to make their own data available for further care. Health care could start to function much more like traditional economic markets. Health data is extremely valuable on illicit markets.

Health Care 10

Health Care System Industry Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Kearney as "the best-managed company in the world" — not so different from Apple today. By 2000, Motorola's global market share had collapsed from 45% to 15%, while Nokia's had grown to a market-leading 31%. In 2004, three years before the iPhone, it rejected a proposal to develop a Nokia online applications store.

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Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 on the news, increasing its market capitalization by $11 billion. Back in 2005, Amazon Prime was conceived, developed, and launched in about two months.

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Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin. They play well as a team.

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Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

They abhor complexity, bureaucracy, and anything that gets in the way of the clean execution of strategy. In the 1990s, for example, Nokia rocketed to the top of the handset market. Leadership & Managing People Book. Adapted from. The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth. Add to Cart.

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Company Survey Bureaucracy Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

In terms of management, the advent of the entrepreneurial society means above all replacing the rigidities of industrial-age mind-sets, with their command-and-control, top-down orientation. New business models and value propositions are being developed by global teams using web-based tools and communication methods.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Convinced that they have a sustainable competitive advantage (always a risky way to think about your business), executives allow bureaucracy to take over and decision-making to become sclerotic. And this despite having working prototypes of devices that could have come to market as the iPhone or iPad – years before Apple invented them.

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Company Competitive Advantage Bureaucracy Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Imagine if managements, boards, and investors adopted them: we could restart our economy, energize our business school curricula and create prosperity for our children and grandchildren. Berkshire's talented managers get the P&L independence to run their own businesses. He wants loyal investors who seek to be stockowners, not renters.

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Letter P&L Net Present Value Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

” This is a framework I have developed over the course of 35 years of working with and doing research in corporations around the world. Former GE boss Jack Welch was a master at using symbolic bets to coach GE to have the culture he wanted to achieve his strategic goals, to be #1 or 2 in every market they were in.

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Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

Management 3.0 – a psychological shift. You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it. In my management 3.0 model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme.

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Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

Product developers brainstorm use cases and interview consumers to envision how they’ll interact with a product. Once you’ve started to develop empathy as a skill, you can make it integral to the work you do. Managers then had to recap the conversations in memos. Gerstner also called customers on his own every day.

Film 8

Film Bureaucracy Influence Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

In early 2016, the country began a process of reviewing multiple economic sectors, including energy, labor markets, pensions, and health. Unlike in the smaller Gulf states such as the UAE, Qatar, and Kuwait, Saudi Arabia has a comparably large, regionally and economically heterogenous society to manage.

Politics 8

Politics Human Capital Price Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

It got us to this point, where we’ve established a real beachhead in our market.”. And staying in project mode too long frustrates the employees the entrepreneur will need to rely upon to manage effective processes. Also, a strong and savvy leader will want to develop processes that do not require her unique talents.

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Project Process Entrepreneur Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

A case like Riley’s would make any leader take a hard look at his institution’s talent management, but it is particularly worrying at the Defense Department. We learned that we would need to change the way we used analytics and data and the way we managed our personnel processes. Developing Talent.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

Or will you end up drowning in bureaucracy, pining for the white-knuckled start-up pace you''re used to? Drawing on that experience, we''ve developed a set of questions that helps us to determine how effective our innovation efforts are likely to be, before we agree to sign on. Is inquisitiveness part of this company''s culture?

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Innovation Uncertainty Bureaucracy Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

A recent study by three professors at Purdue’s Krannert School of Management is part of a growing mountain of evidence of the superior and more lasting performance of companies where the founder still plays a significant role as CEO, chairman, board member, or owner or adviser. We call it business insurgency.

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Company Venture Capitalist Long-term Hotels 8