Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. Self-managed teams with limited hierarchy and bureaucracy are explicit features of such organizational models.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Buffett prefers to accept the visible costs of "a few bad decisions" than incur "the invisible costs of stifling bureaucracies." Gain accounting advantage : Buffett reports on the performance of his operating businesses by grouping them according to similar balance sheet and income statement characteristics.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The good news is that it is feasible, as long as the right pockets of expertise are tapped (in the World Bank, OECD or IMF, for example) and provided a permanent infrastructure is built in the EU. It should get full-time staff with the right skills, focused on results and change management, and clearly tasked to instill better governance.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Miscalculations, manmade disasters, natural disasters, shifting resources, changing marketplaces, regulations, bureaucracies. In the 1990s, another international conglomerate purchased Bridgestone-Firestone.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

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. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. Here’s the arithmetic. trillion, of which the non-U.S.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

’ What they’re really selling: Banking. Banks buy money wholesale and sell it to borrowers at retail rates. Banks are now trying to compete with financial planners and investment banking houses. ’ What they’re really selling: Small business banking services. We Earn It. Smith Barney.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Andrea Ovans Beware the Tentacles This Is How Bureaucracy Dies Fortune Gary Hamel says it''s disheartening to go inside "one of America''s youngest and fastest growing IT companies" and find that it already has 600 vice presidents, a pretty strong indicator that the "tentacles of bureaucracy" are rapidly encircling it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. ” “Just don’t forget we’re in construction, not banking, Derek. The two men went way back.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

May 2 marks the fifth anniversary of the operation that killed the world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. The Bin Laden operation was a seminal moment in the campaign to decimate Al Qaeda’s leadership. The Bin Laden operation was a seminal moment in the campaign to decimate Al Qaeda’s leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

When my organization, Education For Employment , began operations in 2006 as a demand-driven answer to Arab youth unemployment, I felt that creating a social franchise model was the best way to meaningfully address an issue of this scale. In regions in turmoil, this can be the difference between expanding operations and closing shop.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

I first had them meet with an Israeli army signal corps general (who was in the midst of overseeing a military operation); then we headed to a beach to engage in team building and camouflage exercises with young Israelis preparing for elite military combat units. Focusing on scale-ups also matters when you talk to bankers.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 25, 2019

The paper directly references the rise of the European Union, alongside bodies such as the World Trade Organization (WTO), World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and their growing influence on national politics. “Thus, the undermining of domestic accountability is likely to continue.” ” A shifting trifecta.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Under the guise of acting like owners, many leaders operate as bureaucrats or, far worse, in some cases as personal-wealth maximizers. Companies with a strong founder’s mentality focus relentlessly on freeing up cash from their operations, but not so that they can hoard it or return it to creditors or shareholders.

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