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Broken Immigration Is Breaking The European Job Market

The Horizons Tracker

Just one in four highly educated migrants residing in the OECD in 2015-16 chose the EU as their destination, while almost two out of three chose to settle in North America or Oceania. So, every day that we turn back a skilled migrant due to slow immigration processes or ridiculous bureaucracy, we are costing our community five jobs.

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Disorganize or Bust

Strategy Driven

In large bureaucracies a change takes time, while in smaller organizations change comes easier and quicker. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. This cycle can be observed in all types of organizations; businesses, religious groups, and even nations. All are too big to fail, but they are failing. All rights reserved.

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More of Us Are Working in Big Bureaucratic Organizations than Ever Before

Harvard Business Review

Despite all of the hype around alternatives — the gig economy, the sharing economy, holacracy, lean – bureaucracy has been growing, not shrinking. in 2001 to 16% in 2015. One might have expected successive rounds of downsizing to have trimmed bureaucracy within the corporate sector, but this hasn’t been the case.

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Measurement Culture & Five Common Traits of High-Performing Organizations

Strategy Driven

Employees are not present to serve management or reinforce bureaucracy. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Empowering Style Leadership : Leaders communicate with respect and lead by example. Employees are empowered to use their judgment to make decisions and take action in their day-to-day jobs.

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A Few Unicorns Are No Substitute for a Competitive, Innovative Economy

Harvard Business Review

While 38 companies joined the unicorn ranks in the second half of 2015, only 19 made it into the club in the first half of 2016. As bureaucracy deepens, layer by layer and rule by rule, the sparks of entrepreneurship get snuffed out. In 2015 global M&A volume surpassed $5 trillion — a record.

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The Internet Is Finally Forcing Management to Care About People

Harvard Business Review

Instead of hierarchical bureaucracy comprising a set of linear mechanisms that could be improved one-by-one through implementing proven remedial measures, it has acted more like an ingeniously morphing virus that steadily adapts itself to, and ultimately defeats, intended fixes and returns to its original state, sometimes more virulent than before.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. PM Images/Getty Images. A recent Navigant survey found that U.S. This was because their expenses grew faster than their revenues, despite cost-cutting initiatives. ” Clearly, more is needed.

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