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Connecting with Abrasive Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Bond, Ed.D., The program team was highly dysfunctional and everyone had his or her own ideas about the source of the problems – the technical challenges, the difficult customer, the bureaucracy of the large company, procurement issues. Guest post from Cheryl A. They are perceived as bullies, jerks, prima donnas, and worse.

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How do you start your own business

Strategy Driven

Furthermore, the state can legally bind you to acquire surety bond insurance, under the federal law that you might not even know about. The point is that the bureaucracy and red tape can put an end to your business faster than any other issue you might run into.

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How U2’s Extraordinary Team Culture Helps the Band Thrive

Michael Lee Stallard

In this culture, most people feel controlled by one of more of the following: autocratic leaders, micro-management, too many rules and/or bureaucracy. These attitudes, uses of language, and behaviors described above develop a bond of connection among the members of U2. The first is the “culture of control.”

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What Really Led to Last Summer’s Most Notorious Firing

Harvard Business Review

Lastly: If you''re in a big bureaucracy and you''re making changes to what''s happening on the ground, pretend everything''s normal and no one will notice until your plans succeed. "By In that sense, it’s like a chariot, but you''re supposed to bond with it, just as you would with a horse.

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Morning Advantage: Leading the Post-Petraeus CIA

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, "many directors have seemed to regard their job as a kind of high-stress operational joy ride," involving unmarked planes, cigars, and exotic locales — sort of like a real-life Bond movie with worse suits and lamer cars.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

More recently, it has come in the form of the swarms of “apps” sold to individual departments to solve scheduling and care-coordination problems and to “bond” with “consumers.”

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

The project—Park 007—was a James Bond–themed amusement park with artificial ski slopes, cliffs for bungee jumping, roller-coaster rides, indoor water sports, casinos, cinemas, and two five-star hotels. Rogier has too, which is why, frankly, his position on this stuns me.”