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. FT: Be wary of promises of a success formula. WSJ: The Unsung Beauty of Bureaucracy. 9 Leadership Lessons from the Best Boss I Ever Had by @ryanestis. Managers: How well do you listen? by Peter E.

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Bureaucracy Leadership Styles Advice Resistance 266

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

While successive UK governments have promised to drastically reduce migration numbers, the global elite has been encouraged to purchase their UK residencies through a commitment to invest a minimum of £2 million in British business. For the wealthy, as ever, the regulation and bureaucracy that bind ordinary people does not apply. .

Entrepreneur 72

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy System Banking 72

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

Thankfully, some organizations are learning that “Lean Design” (or “3P”) and similar methods (like Design Thinking) can help design better systems that help people be successful. 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.

Deming 28

Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

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.

Team 8

Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Not by gathering waves of data and solving successive equations. Moreover, when we look around at the companies who are doing well, it can be hard to see the rhyme or reason of the decisions that led to that success. The energy should go into understanding how things are changing, and deftly tacking toward successful outcomes.

Management 9

Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

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. A recent McKinsey global survey found that just 26 percent of surveyed executives say that key change initiatives were successful at sustainably improving the organization.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8