Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The CEO of a large, global bank once told me: “It is very easy for someone in my position to be very busy all the time. As famous management professor Henry Mintzberg has described, much of strategy is “ emergent.” Because it means that you don’t have much time to think and reflect.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Short-term Mintzberg 8

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. million managers, first-line supervisors, and administrators in the American workforce in 2014. of the U.S.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP 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. Doing Things as We Always Have. About the Author.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Her story is not only an inspiring one of adapting self-help narratives and neuroscience to "trick" her own mind; it’s also a tale couched in almost a century of management thinking about who can and can''t be a leader. This is how opportunities to be nimble and innovative are squandered, he says, and how companies become irrelevant.

Charisma 8

Charisma Hamel Bureaucracy Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Innovation tourism: it’s a thing. These well-intentioned professionals travel the world in pursuit of the secret sauce of innovation. If you ask the director of a government innovation agency how influential or effective they are, what answer do you expect, other than “ extremely ?” Kenneth Andersson.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

” And the Legatum Institute, when aggregating data from the World Bank, the United Nations, and elsewhere to formulate its Prosperity Index , has found that of its many indicators, “entrepreneurship & opportunity” correlates most strongly with a country’s overall prosperity. We are talking about the U.S.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Policies Entrepreneur NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

One of the great innovations in business, which has held sway since 1976, is the idea that professional managers should have an owner’s mindset—that is, they should treat their company’s money as if it were their own. They loathe bureaucracy that traps resources and slows decision making.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Short-term Budgeting Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

But over time the automakers evolved into change-averse business bureaucracies. They''ve also been troubled, and Cleveland even defaulted on some bank loans in the late 1970s. That''s partly because they''re older cities with smaller land areas to manage. Policy innovation. Entrepreneurship Government Innovation'

Gilbert 8

Gilbert Venture Capitalist Class Entrepreneur 8