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. Finally, boards should be highly attuned to speed.

Company 8

Company Bureaucracy Long-term Competitive Advantage 8

Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

This also includes managers and leaders who are so consumed with fire fighting and bureaucracy that they are not able to spend time helping improve the system. This includes nurses, doctors, and other healthcare professionals who are being worn down by the “forces of destruction” that Dr. Deming described.

Deming 28

Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

On the Monday after the Paris terror attacks (and two weeks before the shootings in San Bernardino), I taught a session at Harvard Business School on what Boston’s response to the 2013 marathon bombings can tell us about going from “nothing to something” in cities. Hack the bureaucracy. Let me explain.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Banking Chief Operating Officer Innovation 8

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.

Team 8

Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

In the 20th Century, their organizations competed on scale efficiency and relied on hierarchical bureaucracies to run tight ships. Traditional heuristics assumed that the smartest executive rose to the top, and that person''s decisions required a bureaucracy merely to execute. We" is smarter than "me". Teach your managers to catch it.

Management 9

Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Lastly: If you''re in a big bureaucracy and you''re making changes to what''s happening on the ground, pretend everything''s normal and no one will notice until your plans succeed. "By Another: Afghan soldiers needed to learn how to be confident in their skills — and that couldn''t happen with tons of advisers looking over their shoulders.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Bond Entrepreneur Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. Our new smart infrastructure will also require real-time, high-reliability, low-latency communications networks.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In 2013, Accenture suggested that 20 to 30 percent of the total workforce falls outside the organization’s traditional full-time, permanent employment relationship. They feel unappreciated by management and powerless in dealing with the administrative bureaucracy of partner organizations. Adapted from. Agile Talent. Add to Cart.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

In 2013, at the U.S. Aside from the need to hire people to help do this — in addition to your algorithms — there’s also the risk of a new form of bureaucracy based on biological information, which some people studying workplaces have termed “biocracy.”

Company 8

Company Long-term Bureaucracy Taylorism 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Miscalculations, manmade disasters, natural disasters, shifting resources, changing marketplaces, regulations, bureaucracies. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Won’t listen to advice. Circumstances Beyond Our Control. Bad Work, Poor Planning. 85% of the time, planning and forethought will avert the crisis.

Crisis 59

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 59

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

This was possible only because of the vast powers vested in the bureaucracy, judiciary, and security forces that facilitated the persecution of groups and individuals deemed threats to the integrity of the state. In 1997 the military ousted a democratically elected, Islamist-led coalition government without even leaving the barracks.

Politics 8

Politics Incubator Bureaucracy Policies 8