Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

The next rung of leaders who operate from different geographies or second-tier P&Ls often have to converge on this center of gravity for reviews and the occasional reprimand. Once-a-year rituals like budgeting and strategic planning, which were important tasks for the senior-most leaders in the company, are a thing of the past.

Agility 8

Agility Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

President Obama has established an Interagency Trade Enforcement Committee with a $27 million budget to hit back at unfair trade. and China should be playing the same free-market, free-trade global game in accordance with the rules of the WTO and IMF (to which both countries belong). Getting tough on China is becoming a popular idea.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Globalization Committee Fashion 12

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. What Causes Crises. Won’t listen to advice. Circumstances Beyond Our Control.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

It was clear to me then that the Defense Department would need to keep pace with the dramatic changes — many of them technological — reshaping the economy, the labor market, and human resource management. Taking 50% of the population off the table meant losing too much potential talent.

Talent Management 9

Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. Having startup policies without taking care of access to IPO markets is like having a fast new ramp onto a pot-holed dirt road. Even better. Convene, celebrate, catalyze.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

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. redesign the operating model. reset the budgets. redesign the operating model. Reset the Budgets. How many still believe they can make a difference?

Zero Based Budgeting 12

Zero Based Budgeting Organization Budgeting How To 12

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. Doing so would free up 12.5

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. My analysis: The stock market looks primarily at profits…one small part (1%) of the business picture.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Top 10 Operational Impacts of the GDPR (IAPP). GDPR also bears more than a hint of the kind of protectionism that has featured prominently in EU technology policy since the 2015 release of the plan for a “Digital Single Market,” including recent announcements of new taxes for U.S.-based Full Text of the Regulations.

Advertising 10

Advertising Cost Business Model Information 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Frustrated employees were complaining about the lack of amenities — such as child care facilities — on campus and the stifling bureaucracy which, for instance, made expense reimbursment a time-consuming process. Another team of employees designed and deployed a daycare for working mothers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 30, 2012

The fact that giant companies don’t operate this way opens the door for the smaller competitor. Whining about the economy, budget constraints, and low-cost competition does nothing to improve a company’s well-being. Bureaucracy lurks on the periphery, waiting for its opening to subvert the lean, mean, business machine.

Bureaucracy 245

Bureaucracy Constraint Creativity Discount 245

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

And although senior managers’ remuneration was tied to Contect’s overall sales and operating profits, the head office had relatively little control over the 30,000 projects the company had underway at any given time. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

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.

Franchising 8

Franchising Uncertainty NGO Operations 8