In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Is a “turnaround” artist right for a profitable, steady bureaucracy? In the final analysis, would these improvements in human resource strategy have made any difference to the company’s performance? Fundamentally, the leadership style or the skillset required of a CEO in one environment may be the kiss of death in another.

CEO 213

CEO Human Resources Bureaucracy Maturity 213

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 9, 2019

It suggests that refugees benefit when they reside in ethnic communities as these communities help the newcomers find work and navigate local bureaucracy. For instance, recent research from Stanford suggests that communities can play a crucial role in the integration of Syrian refugees.

Short-term 67

Short-term Bureaucracy Long-term Creativity 67

Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 14, 2015

According to HolacracyOne, the key components of Holacracy are: Flexible organizational structure with clear roles and accountabilities New meeting format geared toward action and eliminating over-analysis More autonomy to teams and individuals to solve issues themselves and cut through bureaucracy Unique decision-making process to continuously evolve (..)

Agility 100

Agility System Management Bureaucracy 100

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

It suggests that refugees benefit when they reside in ethnic communities as these communities help the newcomers find work and navigate local bureaucracy. New research from Stanford suggests these twin desires may not be compatible. Refugees cannot generally move outside of their assigned canton for five years.

Bureaucracy 63

Bureaucracy Policies Analysis Marketing 63

Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Meet the bureaucracy. If there’s not a lot to do while your workload is ramping up, spend time reading everything useful you can get your hands on: old documents, marketing and business plans, competitive analysis, the organization’s full website. Learn the names of senior staff and board members. Bring your best.

Advice 144

Advice Document Bureaucracy Project 144

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Leading to Executives, Human Resources and team leaders grasping at the ‘Next Thing’ in order to cut the down on the felt mounting bureaucracy and dis-trust within the organization and team. Carry out a talent pool analysis of the employees starting with the CEO and working to the Front-Line Staff.

Team 138

Team Long-term Human Resources Bureaucracy 138

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

Appointed agency heads in a government bureaucracy. Caretakers of corporate bureaucracies, departmental supervisors, short-term clients, referral sources for business development and those who dangle carrots under people’s noses. Advisors bring facts, analysis and methodologies of applying their solutions to your case.

Advice 57

Advice Strategy Company Bureaucracy 57

Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2017

In order to do this effectively, you need to find out about brand competitive analysis and why you need it. The beauty of running a small business is that you do not have layers of bureaucracy to wade through when you want to make a change. This will establish what makes you unique. Personify your brand. Be bold and seize the day.

Brand 52

Brand Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term 52

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Is a “turnaround” artist right for a profitable, steady bureaucracy? In the final analysis, would these improvements in human resource strategy have made any difference to the company’s performance? Fundamentally, the leadership style or the skillset required of a CEO in one environment may be the kiss of death in another.

CEO 122

CEO Bureaucracy Maturity Human Resources 122

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Is a “turnaround” artist right for a profitable, steady bureaucracy? In the final analysis, would these improvements in human resource strategy have made any difference to the company’s performance? Fundamentally, the leadership style or the skillset required of a CEO in one environment may be the kiss of death in another.

CEO 100

CEO Bureaucracy Maturity Human Resources 100

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Many midsized company leaders equate it with big-company bureaucracy. Hardigg was still a very execution-focused company, not a big analysis company. Unfortunately, business schools don’t teach classes in building leadership infrastructure, and it is not a natural skill for most executives. That’s wrong. How do you do that?

Leadership 217

Leadership CEO Planning Long-term 217

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

According to Bain & Company’s analysis, activist investors are now the fastest-growing class of institutional investors—and more than 75% of their demands involve nominating or replacing directors on boards. Boards can detect burgeoning bureaucracy by looking at which direction headcount and decision power are flowing.

Company 8

Company Bureaucracy Long-term Competitive Advantage 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2010

How do you overcome simplicity in favor of bureaucracy? Yet our competitive companies would boast they required no red tape at all. Instead, their clients could simply call anyone in for care that they desired and the company would reimburse the fees. I gave this considerable thought. I soon had a smile on my face with the answer.

Storytelling 50

Storytelling Strategy Short-term Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

The most commonly cited ways to do this include making it easier to file the paperwork to start a business, and reducing the amount of administrative bureaucracy and restrictions that entrepreneurs encounter. This new analysis illustrates how large the differences among cities can be. Unfortunately, this makes them incomplete.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Real Estate B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

The most commonly cited ways to do this include making it easier to file the paperwork to start a business, and reducing the amount of administrative bureaucracy and restrictions that entrepreneurs encounter. This new analysis illustrates how large the differences among cities can be. Unfortunately, this makes them incomplete.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Real Estate B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Bain’s analysis shows that large companies that leverage the strengths of their strong core business have on average about a 1-in-8 chance of creating a viable, large-scale new business. But what are their odds of success — and how do those odds compare to start-ups?

Company 11

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2018

Since electronic health records (EHRs) became widespread over the last decade, there has been growing frustration over the inability to make electronic data liquid — to have it follow the patient throughout the health system and to be available for more sophisticated analysis in support of improved patient care and research.

Health Care 12

Health Care System Industry Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

As part of the analysis behind our Digital Evolution Index 2017 (we wrote about the broader results of that report here ), developed by The Fletcher School and Mastercard, we analyzed how the UK performs relative to its major European peers. Bureaucracy. To what extent do governments minimize bureaucracy? Connection Uptake.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Comparison Innovation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

The result, according to one analysis : In Columbine, it took years for the funds to make it to victims, and even then they only received 58% of what was collected. It was a powerful lesson in trusting citizens and designing for their (in this case, myriad) needs, not for the preferences of a well-intentioned bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Banking Chief Operating Officer Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

As bureaucracy deepens, layer by layer and rule by rule, the sparks of entrepreneurship get snuffed out. A recent analysis by The Economist indicates that two-thirds of all sectors of the U.S. For example, one celebrated software company had managed to accumulate 600 vice presidents by the time it reached $4 billion in revenues.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

For all its enemies, bureaucracy is amazingly resilient. economy has nearly doubled, while employment in other occupations has grown by less than 40%, according to our analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Why is bureaucracy so difficult to eradicate? Beating bureaucracy isn’t just one more re-org.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Proposal Middle Management Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. In the 20th Century, their organizations competed on scale efficiency and relied on hierarchical bureaucracies to run tight ships. They rely to a large extent on what has worked in the past. We" is smarter than "me".

Management 9

Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Six Sigma, process reengineering, spans and layers analysis, and many other tools have helped executives uncover waste in their operations — in effect, identifying labor hours (or materials) that are unnecessary in order to produce the same level of output.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Productivity Products Company 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman of the Gallup Organization present the findings of an extensive research undertaking involving over 80,000 managers in over 400 companies – the most comprehensive analysis of employee engagement done in the world. As part of their research, Gallup found 12 things that best predict engagement and performance.

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Energy vampires are often smart, well-intentioned managers who inadvertently slow the company down with too many questions, too much analysis, too much process—and not enough action. This implies that there is a cost of adding a new process, a new piece of analysis, a new meeting—and customers ultimately bear this cost.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy 360-Degree Feedback How To Energy 8

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.’

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

But as Intuit grew, informality and entrepreneurship began to morph into procedure and bureaucracy. IBM developed a hybrid design-engineering-based method which synthesized deep customer analysis and rapid product and service changes. And they had an annual big survey to gather customer insights.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

The old school methods of long-term planning and development created a false sense of security or pseudo-stability that has long been valued by stifling corporate bureaucracy. Demographic analysis of individuals (potential customers) applying to become customers, and the levels of approval, rejections, and pending numbers. A/B testing.

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 26, 2021

The analysis reveals that the entry of high-skill immigrants usually results in wage gains for native workers, especially those at the lower end of the skills spectrum. For these people, they gain a 4% boost to their income. An unfair advantage.

Policies 89

Policies Bureaucracy Skills Survey 89

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. share was $32 trillion.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2020

From B-school through the big leagues, the business world often places value on logic and analysis. In Humanocracy , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini make a passionate, data-driven argument for excising bureaucracy and replacing it with something better. It’s the key to success in every workplace and all industries. But on creativity?

Books 353

Books Hamel Leadership Press Release 353

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Running a bureaucracy. Doing the things necessary to assure revenue (billings, sales, add-on’s, marketing). Keeping the cash register ringing… rather than focusing upon what is being sold, how it is made and the kind of company they need to be. Maintaining the status quo. Keeping things churning.

Strategic Planning 67

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 67

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Pareto analysis) is to limit the field of potential options, focusing the company’s precious capital on a few “sure bets.” Workers at these companies have the time they need to devote to creative work, free from excessive process and bureaucracy. A central premise of traditional strategic investment (e.g.,

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

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.

Advertising 11

Advertising Cost Business Model Information 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Unproductive routines, corporate bureaucracy, and “administrivia” kill ambition and sap energy for far too many employees. A year into their jobs, how many employees still have the unbridled energy and enthusiasm that they brought with them to their first day on the job? How many still believe they can make a difference?

Zero Based Budgeting 13

Zero Based Budgeting Organization Budgeting How To 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Indeed, AI solutions dealing with cost-cutting and reducing bureaucracy — where AI could have the biggest impact on productivity — are already producing the kind of internal gains that suggest much more is possible in health care players’ back offices. Easier and Improved Documentation.

Health Care 10

Health Care Insurance Efficiency Document 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

As Google Ventures’ five-day method has shown, sprints help bypass bureaucracy, “analysis paralysis,” and endless debate cycles. Sprints break an otherwise long, complex process into sizable, achievable chunks that can be accomplished at greater speed.

Agility 8

Agility Strategy Short-term Long-term 8