Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

When it comes to internal roadblocks or organizational obstacles, more often than not the culprit behind these problems is an organization’s own bureaucracy. Corporate bureaucracy and its close cousin, business process, often snag their own staffs in an impossible tangle of rules and regulations.

Bureaucracy 203

Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 203

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 25, 2019

He unsurprisingly linked the Brexit referendum with the technocratic nature of the EU used as an example of the erosion of local sovereignty by Brexit campaigners. “Our research shows it is getting more difficult for individuals in countries to control the bureaucracy of IGOs as the number and complexity of them increases.

Process 73

Process Cooper Globalization Policies 73

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

APRIL 24, 2017

Streiff’s drive to speed up decision-making, overcome bureaucracy, and deliver rapid execution, exposed historic and deep divisions between executives at the consortium. Even Streiff ended up concluding that it was the political nature of Airbus that prevented it from becoming an integrated company. Defining politics.

Politics 11

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

For all its enemies, bureaucracy is amazingly resilient. That makes bureaucracy the organizational equivalent of kudzu, the invasive, herbicide-resistant vine that has overrun thousands of acres of woodland in the American south. Why is bureaucracy so difficult to eradicate? First, it’s familiar.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Proposal Middle Management Incentives 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

Appointed agency heads in a government bureaucracy. Caretakers of corporate bureaucracies, departmental supervisors, short-term clients, referral sources for business development and those who dangle carrots under people’s noses. Temporary Caretakers of an Office. Public officials. Have Truly Earned Their Position-Respect.

Advice 58

Advice Strategy Company Bureaucracy 58

Frank Sonnenberg Online

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Example: Moving papers from one pile to another. Example: Making excuses. Example: Creating rules without insisting that they be followed. Example: Reinventing the wheel. Example: Looking over people’s shoulders. Example: Spending an hour to save a dollar. Example: Playing politics. Irrelevant.

How To 85

How To Advice Follow-up Examples 85

Your Voice of Encouragement

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

In places I’ve worked – either as an employee or as a consultant with clients – I faced politics and bureaucracy that undermined efforts to create a collaborative environment. I liked these examples because they helped me see what this sounds like when interacting in specific situations.

Bureaucracy 40

Bureaucracy How To Sample Commitment 40

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

For example, a manager can think of himself as nurturing and sensitive at home, but a hard-nosed tough guy at work. These two self-images can coincide because the manager compartmentalizes his life, creating what I call a "mental bureaucracy.". We all compartmentalize as a way of organizing our lives and thought processes.

Bureaucracy 13

Bureaucracy Self-aware Brainstorming Public Relations 13

You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2013

For example, her counsel to one caller who was obviously playing the martyrdom card went something like this: “ Get down off the cross honey, somebody needs the wood! It’s about a young woman who was accidently hired by a radio station to be an Agony Aunt. It made me smile. And yet, in so many organizations, we are incredibly bad at it.

Leadership 68

Leadership Hammer Bureaucracy Environment 68

You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 25, 2011

For example, her counsel to one caller who was obviously playing the martyrdom card went something like this: “ Get down off the cross honey, somebody needs the wood! It’s about a young woman who was accidently hired by a radio station to be an Agony Aunt. It made me smile. And yet, in so many organizations, we are incredibly bad at it.

Hammer 60

Hammer Bureaucracy Politics Environment 60

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. ” German AI company Inveox provide a great example of this in action. “We do not believe the U.S. ” Early warning.

Globalization 52

Globalization Offshoring Human Capital Innovation 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. By our reckoning, the cost of excess bureaucracy in the U.S. GE’s Durham plant, to take a dramatic example, employs more than 300 technicians and a single supervisor: the plant manager.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

Organizational politics — but more generally a luck of trust within the organization to adopt new processes. Taking steps like standardizing the way interviews are conducted, for example, may be perceived as excessive bureaucracy by some employees even if they are beneficial to the organization as a whole.

Management 16

Management Teamwork Core Competence Bureaucracy 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

To find the next wave of growth, they were taking a hard look at their bureaucracy. Our analysis showed something else, too: Most of these barriers resulted from complexity and bureaucracy that had accumulated as these leaders scaled up their businesses. ” Today, he confessed, “it is the worst job.”

Execution 8

Execution Bureaucracy Self-aware CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

The 1980 coup, for example, ushered in years of human rights abuse and incubated a violent insurgency in the country’s southeast region, a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people. For example, they claim that if Pinochet had not overthrown President Allende, the latter would have created a Castro-style regime in Chile.

Politics 8

Politics Incubator Bureaucracy Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Saudi Arabia’s government reshuffle in early May is more than a political watershed. For example, in January 2016, Saudi Arabia announced far-reaching cutbacks of domestic subsidies for energy and water, a political no-go area for politicians across the region only a few years ago.

Politics 8

Politics Human Capital Price Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In March 2008, Lula convened his political marketeer João Santana and Dilma to present his overall plan of making Dilma his successor. The presidential campaign was be the first political election undertaken by Dilma; she faced an experienced opponent, José Serra. Lula and his strategists crafted and implemented a meticulous plan.

Politics 14

Politics Bureaucracy Globalization Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

For example, in their book, Exponential Organizations , Salim Ismail and Michael S. For example, one celebrated software company had managed to accumulate 600 vice presidents by the time it reached $4 billion in revenues. As bureaucracy deepens, layer by layer and rule by rule, the sparks of entrepreneurship get snuffed out.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

In fact, to date, there is no AI technology that is fully able to factor in the emotional, human, and political context needed to automate decisions. For example, consider the healthcare industry, where AI is having a huge impact. Airbnb believes that every employee should have access to its data platform to make informed decisions.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Tools Marketing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Since 2000, for example, Rwanda has racked up average annual GDP growth in excess of 8%—exceeding 12% during some quarters of the Great Recession. In order to get things done, Johnson-Sirleaf needed to influence the behavior of thousands of civil servants in her sprawling government bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy GDP Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

He had learned how to survive in the bureaucracy: don''t make too many waves, don''t cause problems. He played the political game well enough to still be there but not well enough to strengthen his reputation. He had slowly lost his political clout. His manager had been in the company for 20 years.

Career 13

Career Absenteeism Humphrey Bureaucracy 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Looking beyond 2012, the current generation of political leaders in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa are aging, bringing the issue of succession to the fore. On their return, they often take up key roles in legislatures, executives, and bureaucracies. France, or Mexico, but rather as the result of events in emerging economies.

Planning 12

Planning Leadership Leadership Pipeline Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Year-on-year price increases for existing therapies have allowed the industry to maintain profitability, but those short-term fixes have come at a heavy cost: decreased public satisfaction with the industry and increased political scrutiny. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Five things differentiate the former from the latter: Bureaucracy and politics. No matter how poorly an established company is doing — take Macy’s, GE, or the insurance giant AIG as examples — no one there believes in their gut that anything they might do will directly cause the company to go out of business.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Innovation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2011

It's not that every misfit accomplishes something fundamentally unexpectedly awesome (for example, yours truly). For example: "Why does Wall Street exist? Whomever you'd like to add to the list above, of this much I'm virtually certain: they'll probably be a misfit. See how easy that was?).

Gordon 15

Gordon Bureaucracy Creativity Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Here are some examples of what will be required to change the operating culture: Contract rationalization. The political costs and disruption involved in getting clinicians to collaborate successfully across facilities sometimes causes leaders to postpone addressing the duplication and results in sub-optimal performance.

Cost 8

Cost System Management Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For example, the Connected Women report from the GSMA shows that women are less likely to be financially independent when the digital gender gap is wide. Surely, this should make us feel more encouraged about the positive impact of digital technology in helping reduce a key form of social, political and economic imbalance.

Globalization 8

Globalization Participative Telecommunications Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

For example, IBM’s Watson computer diagnoses cancers with much higher levels of speed and accuracy than skilled physicians do. For example, we should own the data we create. ” In 1995, I wrote, “Bureaucracies by definition resist change, thinking that heads-down is the route to survival. Congress is Exhibit A).

Open-book 8

Open-book Technology Offshoring Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Instead of a byzantine maze of programs and bureaucracies, government's myriad responsibilities and customers can be seen as a series of markets that can be shaped to cultivate very different, less expensive — and ultimately more effective — ways of supplying public services.

Disruptive Innovation 12

Disruptive Innovation Health Care Innovation Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

That first group, the New Left, believed in bureaucracy, believed in hierarchy, believed in organizations. We would no longer need bureaucracy or hierarchy at all. A great example of this on the ground in Mountain View where I live today is Google. One example from the ‘60s that I think is pretty telling is all the road trips.

Information Technology 9

Information Technology Bureaucracy Technology Open-book 9

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. To give an example of just how hard it can be to prevent this from happening, let’s consider the case of Nokia. Eliminate bureaucracy.

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Company Competitive Advantage Bureaucracy Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The good news is that it is feasible, as long as the right pockets of expertise are tapped (in the World Bank, OECD or IMF, for example) and provided a permanent infrastructure is built in the EU. The environment in which they find themselves is usually unhelpful at best. Union based on governance will be our rallying cry.

Long-term 8

Long-term Crisis Politics Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In an effort to become known as a positive place, for example, Ochsner Health System made it a punishable offense for any employee to fail to smile within 10 feet of a customer. Instead of setting the expectation that politeness was part of the company’s image, it tried to make happiness a rule. Follow common sense, not policy.

Policies 8

Policies Price Handbook Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

Each country's unique social, political, and economic events shape specific views and attitudes among today's adults. Each country's unique social, political, and economic events shaped specific views and attitudes among today's adults. Geography significantly influences the formation of generational beliefs and behavior.

Education 14

Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14

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. For example, rather than focusing on staging large-scale demonstrations, in the beginning Otpor focused on street theatre and pranks to embarrass the regime. .”

Management 8

Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

Of course, politics is part of it, but it's the smaller part. There is no doubt, for example, that China is manipulating its currency in such a way as to favor its exports and to penalize imports. Because China's bureaucracy has great discretionary authority, it can intimidate U.S. It's a whack-a-mole game. Don't get tough.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Globalization Committee Fashion 11