Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to innovation in cities, people often think of building clusters and innovation districts to attract new businesses and shift policies to favor entrepreneurship. Innovation in this case, and many others, requires invention. City innovators have to move fast before it does. Hack the bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Banking Chief Operating Officer Innovation 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success. This is the book that launched the idea of EQ into the public domain. By David Ulrich.

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2020

The Creator Mindset : 63 Tools to Unlock the Secrets to Innovation, Growth, and Sustainability by Nir Bashan. What gets the ball rolling when we’re feeling stuck in our careers? In Calling B t, Professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West give us a set of powerful tools to cut through the most intimidating data. But on creativity?

Books 353

Books Hamel Leadership Press Release 353

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Questions are a powerful antidote to hubris , which inevitably arises in a culture that celebrates mastery, values decisiveness, and reveres the top guy (or gal). That turns out to be a powerful approach to leadership in a world of expanding complexity, immense challenges and intense change. Why does inquiry beat certainty every time?

Organization 15

Organization Open-book Bureaucracy CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

As a provider of marketing talent to Silicon Valley’s top companies, one of our firms, The Sage Group, has seen a consistent pattern in the talent strategies of the most effective and innovative companies. Innovation + execution: Marketing teams can no longer be divided into those who come up with ideas and those who execute them.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Brand Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Like Galinsky, I worry that many in my generation have taken to a trendy career option to the detriment of other roles that may not be as "sexy" or command as many magazine covers, but are critical for long-term social impact. Which is why I echo Galinsky in cautioning our generation against rushing into a career as a social entrepreneur.

System 8

System Bureaucracy Entrepreneur Magazine 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 30, 2012

Some companies thrive on an innovative culture. I spent an entire career espousing the power of creativity, and the companies I touched did very well by it. Bureaucracy lurks on the periphery, waiting for its opening to subvert the lean, mean, business machine. Others pride themselves on getting things done. But, beware.

Bureaucracy 245

Bureaucracy Constraint Creativity Discount 245

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

At one time it looked like “clout” and “scale” would prevail as the most powerful forces in business. Their competitive edge eroded because the people at the top, who considered themselves the corporate brain, failed to adapt or innovate. Bureaucracy and stagnation set in. The brain viewed the masses below it as the muscle.

Mass Marketing 100

Mass Marketing Bureaucracy Entrepreneur Class 100

LDRLB

JANUARY 16, 2014

All you have to do is unleash their power. Some companies thrive on an innovative culture. I spent an entire career espousing the power of creativity, and the companies I touched did very well by it. Bureaucracy lurks on the periphery, waiting for its opening to subvert the lean, mean, organizational machine.

Bureaucracy 162

Bureaucracy Creativity Constraint Discount 162

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