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Who's Moving Their Company Beyond Bureaucracy?

Harvard Business Review

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. We asked some big questions in our quest to bust bureaucracy: What does it mean to build an organization in which everyone is aligned and inspired by a deeply-felt sense of purpose?

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Influencing Creativity and Innovation

Persuasive Powerhouse

Moderate bureaucracy: If innovation becomes difficult because of bureaucratic barriers, employees will stop trying. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”. If you normally avoid risk, you must be willing to be comfortable with more of it in order to grow a culture of innovation.