Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2013

Here are a selection of tweets from March 2013 that you might have missed: 6 Distractions Leaders Need To Resist by John Bossong. 9 Leadership Lessons from the Best Boss I Ever Had by @ryanestis. Managers: How well do you listen? Art of Managing: Beware the Pursuit of False Precision in Planning by @ArtPetty. by Peter E.

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Bureaucracy Leadership Styles Advice Resistance 264

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

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. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Bureaucracy 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The dictionary says bureaucracy is a means of coordinating activities through standardized rules and procedures. It was originally seen as a good thing – a way of allowing organizations to survive changes in leadership, and to resist the capriciousness of powerful individual leaders with vested interests. And it is a general tendency.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

To most people, bureaucracy is a bad word, synonymous with ‘red tape’ and wasted time. Unfortunately, contemporary management theory offers no alternatives to this style of organizing work and designing organizational structures. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. This is the kind of thinking that business managers can also profit from. But manage it, and you become the industry leader.

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Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

In this massive piece, Nicholas Carlson analyzes Armstrong''s rise from his days as the owner of a strawberry business, uncovering a leadership trajectory that culminated in a proxy war with an activist investor and a final realization that his baby — local-news and listings provider Patch — needed to be trimmed, or else. Crisis management'

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Armstrong Bond Entrepreneur Crisis Management 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Current management of both companies were ill-advised on handling the crises. When they are compelled to do so, company leadership will provide leadership for change management and re-engineering…two of the many worthwhile concepts that should be advocated every business day. Those We Bring Upon Ourselves.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58