Leading Blog
JANUARY 14, 2019
In struggling to generate a sufficient number of creative ideas, we typically blame the number of creative individuals in our organization or hierarchy and bureaucracy. They expect disciplined execution—on time and under budget. In a world where we must adapt or die, we need creative solutions. The Linear Mindset.
Tanveer Naseer
OCTOBER 14, 2014
Many midsized company leaders equate it with big-company bureaucracy. This includes forecasting, budgeting, and performance management systems. Survival is the prime directive for a start-up; there’s no budget for overhead or time to think of the long term. That’s wrong. How do you do that?
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Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 2, 2012
The term Budgeting gets tossed around in many ways. Budgets get blamed for gridlock. Budgets get politicized. Budgets get more attention than the umbrellas under which they rightfully belong: Strategic Planning and Visioning. Budgeting by itself is a minor piece of business strategy. Running a bureaucracy.
Strategy Driven
JUNE 22, 2012
My analysis: There is no such thing in life as perfection, as anyone who had led a meaningful life has learned. My analysis: It takes more than a keyboard to effect solutions. My analysis: Yes they are, for less than one tenth of one percent of business issues. My analysis: An overstatement. ‘Problem Solvers.’
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 5, 2016
Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. By our reckoning, the cost of excess bureaucracy in the U.S. According to our analysis of occupational data provided by the U.S. Here’s the arithmetic. Doing so would free up 12.5
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 13, 2017
Unproductive routines, corporate bureaucracy, and “administrivia” kill ambition and sap energy for far too many employees. reset the budgets. Reset the Budgets. We recommend zero-based budgeting and planning to make the choices clearer. How many still believe they can make a difference?
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 9, 2018
That’s bad news, and not just for companies increasingly reliant for revenue on data collection, analysis and intelligence. He noted that Apple, which does little in the way of customer data analysis, could always “make a ton of money if we monetized our customer — if our customer was our product.
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