The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 2, 2020

It shows clear attempts to move exports away from EU markets to elsewhere in the world. The data showed that the smallest exporters were shifting up to 46% of their export growth from the EU to other markets since the referendum in 2016, with slightly larger firms shifting around 19% of their exports. Gravity defying. Tariff barriers.

Supply Chain 91

Supply Chain Hedge Credit Risk Bureaucracy 91

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2021

When you’re trying to become successful and run a strong business, there are lots of things you need to pay attention to if you want to build a company that’s competitive, reputable, and lucrative. 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.

Licensing 82

Licensing Bureaucracy Pharmaceuticals Planning 82

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 20, 2014

Negotiating for a lower price or something extra is the modus operandi of every antique retailer, real estate broker, flea market merchant and automobile dealer. Organizations that insist on simplicity are generally the most successful. Everyone is looking for a good deal, a real bargain. I’m not taking issue with that. Simplicity.

Real Estate 215

Real Estate Human Resources Bureaucracy Constraint 215

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 13, 2016

They recognize that innovation is a strategy for growth and that being able to harness that power will drive their organization’s success and their own as well. In companies who are market leaders because ‘they have always done things that way’ innovation can face an uphill battle to drive change. In some industries that is daunting.

Innovation 120

Innovation Real Estate Open-book Bureaucracy 120

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 13, 2012

The folks at Red Bull are the ultimate entrepreneurs; although you may be caught in the bureaucracy of an old economy organization, you cannot escape the fact that great ideas create change. Creativity is the key to a small company’s success. Mine was marketing. Your idea can change a company. Don’t wait that long.

Entrepreneur 227

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Creativity Energy 227

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Companies, markets, and the categories in which they compete can be exceedingly dissimilar. Is a “turnaround” artist right for a profitable, steady bureaucracy? if Apple would have been as successful had Steve Jobs not been ruthless, impatient, emotional, stubborn, intense, and controlling. Same leader, different result.

CEO 213

CEO Human Resources Bureaucracy Maturity 213

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 4, 2011

Visionary excellence is no longer debated as a key success factor for entrepreneurial success. With this kind of success so well-publicized, you’d think every major corporation would encourage their leaders to practice a similar philosophy. Their marketing teams research everything to death. Search My Site. Leadership.

CEO 235

CEO Bureaucracy Brand Constraint 235

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Running a successful business is almost the same. The point is that the bureaucracy and red tape can put an end to your business faster than any other issue you might run into. Learn from successful businesses. Furthermore, the market and customer demand are constantly shifting. Life teaches us important things.

Licensing 66

Licensing Insurance Bureaucracy Learning-by-Doing 66

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 9, 2019

It suggests that refugees benefit when they reside in ethnic communities as these communities help the newcomers find work and navigate local bureaucracy. For instance, recent research from Stanford suggests that communities can play a crucial role in the integration of Syrian refugees.

Short-term 74

Short-term Bureaucracy Long-term Creativity 74

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

Yet despite our very tight job market, highly effective “magnet companies” attract and hang on to good people. Their reputation or “leadership brand” has become as critical to their success as the company brand they are selling in their market. Brand management is an inside job.

Energy 52

Energy Crisis Absenteeism Leadership 52

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

Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Here are some tips to make sure you hit the ground running and set the stage for success. Meet the bureaucracy. Additional Reading you might enjoy: 12 Successful Leadership Principles That Never Grow Old. It can all be a little overwhelming. Be ready the night before. Prep for anything that may stress you out your first morning.

Advice 142

Advice Document Bureaucracy Project 142

Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Since Steve Jobs’ death, experts have mulled the incredible success he brought to Apple as its co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer. Is bureaucracy weighing you down? Optimism frames and fuels decisions, and in the modern workplace, it fosters solid work, innovation and sales. Lead by example. Remove obstacles.

Chief Executive Officer 185

Chief Executive Officer Bureaucracy Motivation Innovation 185

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

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Without leadership infrastructure, growing companies can be victimized by their own success. Many midsized company leaders equate it with big-company bureaucracy. Even leaders who come from big companies are not always successful building a leadership infrastructure in midsized companies. That’s wrong. How do you do that?

Leadership 247

Leadership CEO Planning Long-term 247

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. So, what makes the difference between success and failure?

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

The folks at Red Bull are the ultimate entrepreneurs; although you may be caught in the bureaucracy of an old economy organization, you cannot escape the fact that great ideas create change. Creativity is the key to a small company’s success. Mine was marketing. Your idea can change a company. Don’t wait that long.

Entrepreneur 154

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Brand Creativity 154

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

What they were doing five years ago has no relationship to what they’re now marketing. 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.

Advice 57

Advice Strategy Company Bureaucracy 57

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 10, 2022

We’ve learned to build products and scale our companies by testing things in the market, seeing what works, and iterating. Hypermetricemia means focusing excessively on measurable outcomes to determine success, without first understanding whether those are the right things to measure. Asking for permission on small decisions.

Productivity 111

Productivity Products Development Short-term 111

QAspire

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Elaborate Gantt charts and byzantine procedures plague bureaucracies large and small. You must take the task of marketing your strengths into your own hands.”. I hope these quotes/snippets will help you get the gist of this book and prompt you to read it: Managing the Work. On Our Insecurities. On Rewards and Status Quo.

Gantt Chart 143

Gantt Chart Bureaucracy Project Long-term 143

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Companies, markets, and the categories in which they compete can be exceedingly dissimilar. Is a “turnaround” artist right for a profitable, steady bureaucracy? if Apple would have been as successful had Steve Jobs not been ruthless, impatient, emotional, stubborn, intense, and controlling. Same leader, different result.

CEO 122

CEO Bureaucracy Maturity Human Resources 122

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 27, 2011

The key to competitive advantage is setting the strategic game rules of the marketplace and shattering market paradigms with entrepreneurial leadership. A new boss charged with transforming a bureaucracy into nimbleness must shift the mindset of an entire organization. Clout is the strategy. That culture emanates from the CEO’s office.

CEO 100

CEO Human Resources Bureaucracy Brand 100

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.

USP 185

USP Video Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Companies, markets, and the categories in which they compete can be exceedingly dissimilar. Is a “turnaround” artist right for a profitable, steady bureaucracy? if Apple would have been as successful had Steve Jobs not been ruthless, impatient, emotional, stubborn, intense, and controlling. Same leader, different result.

CEO 100

CEO Bureaucracy Maturity Human Resources 100

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

The folks at Red Bull are the ultimate entrepreneurs; although you may be caught in the bureaucracy of an old economy organization, you cannot escape the fact that great ideas create change. Creativity is the key to a small company’s success. Mine was marketing. Your idea can change a company. Don’t wait that long.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Brand Creativity 92

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 29, 2012

I also explained how the company’s bureaucracy, high overhead and stifling corporate culture might not work in the “new world” of business. Of course, we all know what happened in the ensuing years: AT&T deteriorated, as it neglected to adapt to a quickly evolving market. Our session didn’t last long.

Bureaucracy 110

Bureaucracy Talent Management Travel Magazine 110

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. “We do not believe the U.S. ” Early warning.

Globalization 52

Globalization Offshoring Human Capital Innovation 52

You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 30, 2011

It made me think that success in any endeavour today depends on our ability to create new things, embrace new ideas, experiment, risk… and change. In other words, an organization that values innovation will be light on bureaucracy and heavy on curiosity and transparency. Failure ~ as a learning tool.

Innovation 58

Innovation Leadership Bureaucracy Creativity 58

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Posted by Elinor Stutz on December 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment Marketing professionals refer to strategy as your unique selling proposition while sales folk use the term ‘positioning.’ How do you overcome simplicity in favor of bureaucracy? This book is a must-read for the easier ‘how’ to get HIRED!

Storytelling 50

Storytelling Strategy Short-term Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In research for our book, The Founder’s Mentality , my coauthor and I found that 85% of the time, the barriers to sustainable growth are not external, but internal, and include bureaucracy, ability to motivate and retain talent, and slowness to decide, act or redeploy. When Home Depot slipped to last among U.S.

Company 8

Company Bureaucracy Long-term Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

David Kenny, the new head of IBM’s Watson, defines that business as “AI (artificial intelligence) as a service,” a central part of the data analytics market that IBM CEO Virginia Rometty says is a $2 trillion opportunity. But what are their odds of success — and how do those odds compare to start-ups?

Company 11

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 11

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.

Tips 34

Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

Yet despite almost a century of fine management writing and many successful initiatives, the ugly truth is that the lasting impact on general management practice has been limited. Even humanist change initiatives that were objectively dramatically successful have often been discarded by the firms that introduced them.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Management Drucker Waterman 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

What’s more, businesses wanting to operate in both the UK and the EU will need to undergo the same bureaucracy twice, which will add an estimated £1 billion to their cost of doing business. It’s inevitably a tall order to expect the UK to replicate bodies whose costs were previously spread across 28 different nations.

Report 141

Report Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term 141

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Today, Apple is riding high, making this the perfect time for it — and every successful company — to reflect on Nokia's fall and ensure that they don't suffer the same fate. By 2000, Motorola's global market share had collapsed from 45% to 15%, while Nokia's had grown to a market-leading 31%.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15