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First Look: Leadership Books for August 2020

Leading Blog

Our media environment has become hyperpartisan. In Humanocracy , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini make a passionate, data-driven argument for excising bureaucracy and replacing it with something better. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misinformation and think clearly in a world of fake news and bad data.

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Quick and Nimble: A Leadership Companion

Leading Blog

David Barger, the CEO of JetBlue) “We’re not a transparent culture so that we can be cool and it’s not about an open environment, because that’s not what makes a company transparent. There’s no bureaucracy around an idea. In fact, bureaucracy around an idea is the death of an organization. There are no titles around an idea.

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6 Rules for Defense Start-Up Innovators

Strategy Driven

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. Working in conjunction with an accelerator program, startups can network in an incubated environment, where all parties are encouraged to collaborate.

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Innovating Around a Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), however, was successful in transforming its bureaucracy. Thus, needed process changes within bureaucracies should always be built into such initiatives.

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If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow

Harvard Business Review

Many politicians and commentators mention two critical factors in accomplishing this: increasing innovative capacity and reducing bureaucracy. Second, bureaucracy, laws, and rules exert particular influence in Greece because they help make life more structured and less uncertain. But Greece cannot stop there.

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How to Ensure the Success of a Position Your Company Hasn’t Had Before

Harvard Business Review

finance, mineral processing, geology). This embedding shifted the sustainability focus of his organization (from “ impacting the environment” to a long-term strategic “ reliance on the environment”).

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

Harvard Business Review

In fact, this environment is the most disruptive I’ve witnessed in my 35 years in the health care industry. To lower the cost of premiums, Aetna and CVS, UnitedHealth and Optum, and undoubtedly others are creating a marriage of the financing and delivery of care. We know traditional care in the United States is too expensive.