You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 30, 2010

Successful leadership ~ The Story of a Man → May 31, 2010 · 4:14 am ↓ Jump to Comments Getting Culture Right Earlier last week, I viewed a video, a parody actually, called Office Space: Meeting The Bobs. Reply Gwyn Teatro June 1, 2010 at 9:22 pm Thanks Landon! Reply Wally Bock June 5, 2010 at 7:57 pm Great post, Gwyn.

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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? Yet our competitive companies would boast they required no red tape at all.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 13, 2010

The Seduction of the latest management Fad It is easy to become distracted by new management approaches that “ everyone is doing”. Management processes will help you get things done. Reply Gwyn Teatro January 15, 2010 at 1:33 am Hi Joe! Your job is to find the right forest. Allow other people to take care of the trees.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

A “value management office” can greatly enhance an institution’s ability to improve outcomes and costs across the enterprise. ICCI now has five full-time employees with expertise in analytics and project management and three part-time graduate students.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I typed the words into the pristine white search field, hoping they didn’t land me on the NSA’s no-fly list: “How to manage a terrorist organization.”. There’s not a lot on the basic management issues faced by your run-of-the-mill al Qaeda cell. HBR: Why look at terrorist groups through a management lens?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I typed the words into the pristine white search field, hoping they didn’t land me on the NSA’s no-fly list: “How to manage a terrorist organization.”. There’s not a lot on the basic management issues faced by your run-of-the-mill al Qaeda cell. HBR: Why look at terrorist groups through a management lens?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

New, nontraditional entrants are bringing fresh alternatives to the bureaucratic and autocratic management systems of traditional hospitals. If the health system is responsible for the entire cost of managing the care of people over time, it will have a financial incentive to keep patients out of hospitals.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

We do not know the effectiveness of particular curricula, probably set by a sclerotic and unconstrained bureaucracy, nor the effectiveness of particular institutions, nor the ability of particular teachers to excite enthusiasm or to inspire a lifelong commitment to learning. As the old saw goes, what is not measured is not managed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin. They play well as a team.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

A manager in a retail company demanded a promotion during the recession, because he was "indispensable," he said. Years after a tragic explosion on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010 in which 11 people lost their lives, BP was back in the news with a record fine and criminal charges. This happens to executives too.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

They have to decide where to adopt agile principles and mindsets, where to use agile problem-solving methodologies to dynamically address strategic and organizational challenges, and where to more formally deploy the full agile model, including self-managed teams. This type of management boosts the velocity of decision making.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. It is hell to manage.". Mayor Thomas Menino launched the Boston Innovation District in 2010 with his fifth inaugural address. Not" is not a typo. Convene, celebrate, catalyze.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

On August 5, 2010, a mine collapsed in Chile’s Atacama Desert, trapping 33 miners more than 2,000 feet underground. The scale of the opportunity in engineering and project-management improvements goes well beyond project owners and the engineers they employ. Insight Center. Innovation in Cities. Missing the forest for the trees.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

The hunt for Bin Laden from 2009–2010 yielded many lessons about managing a large, complex organization that is focused on varied missions under intense pressure. These management lessons, we believe, are relevant far beyond Langley. Reorienting priorities in a large government bureaucracy is hard enough. Where We Started.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 Even when an organization has a robust pipeline of growth ideas and manages to keep many of them alive, it may lack the human capital needed to accelerate growth. times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5 times global GDP).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

In April 2010, V.R. Ferose became the managing director of SAP Labs India, one of fifteen global R&D centers of the German software giant SAP. At 35 years old, Ferose was the youngest-ever managing director of a global multinational firm in India — overseeing a staff of 4,000.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In late 2010 I visited The Mission Hospital (TMH) in Durgapur, a modest town by Indian standards (population about 1 million), nestled in India's northeast corner, near Bangladesh. Healthy Heart's first implant occurred in September 2010. It's easy to bemoan the stifling bureaucracies that characterize some large companies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Stinson''s challenge is common at big organizations, but overcoming bureaucracy and breaking down silos is especially critical in healthcare. To tackle these obstacles at SickKids, CEO Mary Jo Haddad in 2010 elevated innovation to a "strategic direction," and engaged Innosight to help devise a full system needed to spur innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

When the government passed a law requiring foreign companies to transfer 60% ownership to local shareholders, IBM's management said, "Not on my watch," and unceremoniously closed shop. The result?

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