Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

So what is your role in influencing creativity and innovation in others? We know it isn’t enough to simply add creativity to a list of values your organization espouses or to bring in consultants who get staff keyed up about innovating. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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Creativity Influence Innovation Brainstorming 183

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

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. They cultivate, grow, innovate and invest. While they are respectful and inclusive, they know bureaucracy is the enemy of excellence and the impediment to efficiency.

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Innovation Budgeting Strategic Planning Tools 150

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. Leadership infrastructure is every bit as real as roads and bridges, electrical grids, and the Internet.

Leadership 217

Leadership CEO Planning Long-term 217

Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

I N AN IBM global survey of CEOs, the overwhelming consensus was that more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision, successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity. As a result, they are viewed as having less leadership potential. And there seems to be a stigma surrounding creative types.

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Creativity Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Construction 268

Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2017

3 Ways to tell if a Company Values Innovation via @DanielBurrus. Are You a First-Time Manager? Mary Barra: Simplify Bureaucracy, and Don’t Be Afraid To Job Hop via @stanfordbiz. Helmut Kohl Leadership Legacy via @jamesstrock. Why Heroic Leadership Is Needed Now More Than Ever by @LollyDaskal. by @coachgoldsmith.

Emotional Intelligence 161

Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Bureaucracy Micromanagement 161

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2011

We both lead and manage innovation, says Owens. Think of the process of innovation as simply a set of steps that will need to be accomplished in order to get from the stage of identifying a problem all the way through to implementing a solution. At other times, they may need something significantly different.

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Creativity Bureaucracy Constraint Innovation 280

Leading Blog

MAY 25, 2016

I N A TIME when change is not just inevitable, but must be encouraged and led, Robert Gates’ A Passion for Leadership is a must read. Only a committed leader can keep an organization—a bureaucracy—on its toes, continuously adapting, innovating, improving.” Fundamentally, leadership is always about people.

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Bureaucracy Micromanagement Advice Commitment 150

Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Instead, employees self-manage and belong to different decision-making circles that keep the company operating.” On Engaging Leader, we’ve often discussed how 21st-century teams require going beyond traditional command-and-control leadership (which I call Influence 2.0)

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Agility System Management Bureaucracy 100

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

If you are a manager you know that challenges can be overcome by solid people and systems. Below is from the Exponent Leadership Process – Created to make you the reason people continue great work and stay with your company. Endless reference back and forth and up and down the Management Structure. Rigidity in Decision-Making.

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Innovation Decentralization Bureaucracy How To 110

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In the new world of work, we must learn how to bridge our differences with others so we can collaborate, innovate, and solve complex problems at work. These leaders unfortunately don’t manage how the work gets done, which requires offering a supportive environment and demonstrating concern for their teammates. Michelle P.

Real Estate 91

Real Estate Self-aware Open-book Learning-by-Doing 91

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Therefore, this book shares a new method of leadership thinking – the Phoenix Encounter – relevant to all organizations in today’s ever-changing environment. “They will need to destroy part or all of the incumbent business model in order to build their breakthrough, future-ready organization.”

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Leadership Charan Bureaucracy Micromanagement 65

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

It is clear in my mind the real cause was failed leadership. Leadership is Responsible — Leadership is responsible for everything the organization does or fails to do. Leadership is more than a wooden figurehead. Leadership is not about power, ego or pride. They are not leaders, but managers.

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Newsletter Leadership Learning Curve Bureaucracy 162

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Somehow he was able to see the unseen, and marshal Apple’s resources to deliver the innovative products that fulfilled his view of what lied ahead. Theoretically, the principles and personal characteristics that constitute great leadership should mirror those of greats CEOs – but not always. Apple shareholders would surely say yes.

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CEO Human Resources Bureaucracy Maturity 213

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Matching the Manager-Employee Capacity. Are you a “Big Enough” Manager? I hope you enjoy these charts below are able to determine ways to transfer the ideas and concepts to your organization, team and managerial-leadership. Correct distance in knowledge, responsibility, competency between manager and employee. Just Right?

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Team Building Organization Development Team 150

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 10, 2022

In a growing economy where credit was plentiful, the tech industry has repeatedly chanted the innovation mantra “Fail fast, learn fast.” Methodologies such Lean Startup and Agile have taught us to innovate faster by harnessing the power of iteration. Examples include: Dealing with bureaucracy and writing standard reports.

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Productivity Products Development Short-term 106

Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2019

I work with creativity and innovation in companies, and I’m frustrated. Not one, and I’ve worked with some of the most backwards bureaucracies in the world, and with innovation in North Korea to boot. There are many reasons for this, with my famous impatience being near the top of the list, but one things stands above the rest.

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Company Idea Generation Innovation Workshop 54

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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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 6, 2022

Ants are often cited as an example of a highly complex, self-organizing system that is capable of achieving incredible things even without any form of real hierarchy or leadership. A recent paper from INSEAD explores what lessons we might learn from ants in the way we organize our own teams. Non-hierarchical organizations. Modularity.

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Organization Bureaucracy System Process 105

Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Optimistic employees work harder, longer and with a more innovative spirit. Optimism frames and fuels decisions, and in the modern workplace, it fosters solid work, innovation and sales. Is bureaucracy weighing you down? How can you encourage innovation? So how do you harness Optimism for your business? Lead by example.

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Chief Executive Officer Bureaucracy Motivation Innovation 185

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

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.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Continually I see a ideas hap-hazardly put into organizational practice and managerial-leadership ONLY to make matters worse. Leading to Executives, Human Resources and team leaders grasping at the ‘Next Thing’ in order to cut the down on the felt mounting bureaucracy and dis-trust within the organization and team.

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Team Long-term Human Resources Bureaucracy 138

Mike Cardus

APRIL 28, 2011

Extant (presently existing) structures and processes that reinforce our deeper-lying impulses of love, trust, kinship and friendship, and release affection, creative co-operation and innovation. Excessive bureaucracy and top heavy management structure (too many levels within the organization). Recognition is given appropriately.

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Bureaucracy Cooper Delegation Creativity 138

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 11

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Surveys and statistics abound: only 22% of the public trust government.only 10% of employees trust management.50% Authentic trust , the trust that''s broken or missing in most workplaces, fuels innovation and engagement, and ignites passions in those we lead. John Agno: Can''t Get Enough Leadership. Related articles.

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Self-aware Bureaucracy Open-book Ethics 91

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation. 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.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Bureaucracy 50

CEO Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2011

For me, the first step would be to manage the stress that fear causes. According to Rieger fear stems from bureaucracy: Parochialism - The tendency to force others to view the world from only one view. Companies that embrace this as a method for innovation and growth need to have people who are not living in fear.

Bureaucracy 153

Bureaucracy Micromanagement Maturity CEO 153

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.

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Health Care Bureaucracy Hamel System 8

Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe What a Leader Can Learn From 20 Cents Postage Due by Kevin Eikenberry on December 3, 2010 in Collaboration , Innovation , Leadership , Video I received a package in the mail this week. If so sorry about that.

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USP Video Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Everybody hates it, but so much of life is ruled by it: bureaucracy. That's why we launched the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge. We asked management innovators around the world to share their stories and hacks about: Making organizations more inspiring, engaging, and passion-driven. Managing without managers.

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Bureaucracy McKinsey Compliance Innovation 14

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Therefore, this book shares a new method of leadership thinking – the Phoenix Encounter – relevant to all organizations in today’s ever-changing environment. “They will need to destroy part or all of the incumbent business model in order to build their breakthrough, future-ready organization.”

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Charan Bureaucracy Books Micromanagement 65

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 18, 2016

Like TD Bank, make busting customer-restricting bureaucracy more valued than protecting those “sacred cows” long in need of slaughtering. Leadership has had its history of being characterized by a role of control. A Board of Customers might provide keen insight into stupid rules that employees take for granted.

Policies 150

Policies Follow-up Banking Bureaucracy 150

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Somehow he was able to see the unseen, and marshal Apple’s resources to deliver the innovative products that fulfilled his view of what lied ahead. Theoretically, the principles and personal characteristics that constitute great leadership should mirror those of greats CEOs – but not always. Apple shareholders would surely say yes.

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CEO Bureaucracy Maturity Human Resources 122

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 5, 2020

I wrote a post on innovative ways to develop people , as an example. With good leadership desperation can often lead to innovation. . Burdensome bureaucracies. We need good managers and good guidelines to keep us legal and accountable. Structure is good. Structure is good.

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Bureaucracy Brainstorming Guidelines Edmondson 56

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Somehow he was able to see the unseen, and marshal Apple’s resources to deliver the innovative products that fulfilled his view of what lied ahead. Theoretically, the principles and personal characteristics that constitute great leadership should mirror those of greats CEOs – but not always. Leadership bell ceo'

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CEO Bureaucracy Maturity Human Resources 100

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 11, 2013

Referred to as “high maintenance,” they’re the 20% that take up 80% of their managers’ time. Mistakes, loss of creativity and innovation. Most people don’t want to work for them or with them, but their behavior is rarely addressed directly or effectively. Higher levels of stress and stress related illnesses and absenteeism.

Bond 243

Bond Attrition Absenteeism Bureaucracy 243

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

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. Successful change requires strong leadership, working in lockstep with good people to move the rest of the organization in the right direction.

Bureaucracy 10

Bureaucracy Politics Technology Morale 10

Coaching Tip

APRIL 29, 2011

Size doesn’t have to mean bureaucracy, but it takes fresh organizational thinking. Top-level leaders create the matrix, but the burden of living in it falls on middle management. The pace slows down as work requires approval in more and more business units and bureaucratic layers. How to unlock the value of talented people.

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Development Bureaucracy Globalization Middle Management 112