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.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Instead, there’s competition and jockeying for position. 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. And yet, this ideal IS possible to achieve.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Her firm is besieged by allegations of having a culture of carelessness and a dysfunctional bureaucracy. Of course, stress can sometimes be a positive force, focusing a person’s attention, boosting determination, and energizing action. In her brief tenure, GM will have recalled almost 28 million automobiles worldwide.

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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. But it’s also important to recognize that each landscape also contains positive dynamics. They also have a greater impact on organizational outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

In just days, the prisoners demonstrated symptoms of depression and extreme stress and the guards had become sadistic. We actually already know the answer: Positive Tickets. Their approach was to try to catch youth doing the right things and give them a Positive Ticket. The experiment was stopped early. The lesson?

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

OCTOBER 6, 2020

How much time do you lose because you’re weighed down by cumbersome bureaucracy and red tape ? Stress the importance of doing what’s right rather than doing what’s convenient. How would you feel if rules unfairly benefited some folks at the expense of others? Reduce competitive advantage. Increase costs and inefficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

They are tasked with brokering an exit from the EU at the same time that the British economy is showing signs of stress. So one might assume that going into the Brexit talks, billed as “the most important negotiations in the country’s history” , the UK is negotiating from a fractured position. Bureaucracy.

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Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 15, 2019

We have all dealt with external customers who are extremely demanding, not very grateful, and who create lots of stress for team members. If members cannot trust leaders, it is essentially impossible for the leader to consistently have a positive impact on the well-being have team members.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

This quote is only one of the candid and deeply felt points relayed by the entrepreneurs interviewed for this piece on the anxiety, depression, and stress that often go hand-in-hand with building a start-up (95% of which don''t meet their projections). Freeman, might actually be a positive trait for leaders to have. It Can Be Done!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

In the last weeks prior to the event, however, her stress levels attained such high levels that she suffered from severe burnout symptoms, which included feeling physically and emotionally exhausted, depressed, and suffering of sleep problems. It was a remarkable feat. Engagement means flourishing, or does it? ” Similarly, Amy L. .”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Feeling stressed? It is more or less impossible to be any kind of professional these days and not experience frequent bouts of intense stress. It is more or less impossible to be any kind of professional these days and not experience frequent bouts of intense stress. Of course you are. This is life in the modern workplace.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

And President Obama was focused on his re-election campaign, increasingly attacking Republican positions. During the storm, the President was calling governors and other officials in affected states to stress the administration's support and to hear about their needs. Communicate immediately and clearly.

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