Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

A Leader’s Insights In “ Joy, Inc – How We Built a Workplace People Love ”, Richard Sheridan, cofounder and CEO of software design firm Menlo Innovations, delineates the practical steps he has taken to create and maintain a corporate culture that makes people “excited to come to work every day.”

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Influence Succession Ethics Bureaucracy 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

Based on our experience in India and with companies such as those named above, we think that GM’s sales failure in India holds five lessons for American CEOs across many sectors. #1 A motivated executive needs about three years to become fluent in India, yet GM’s average CEO only lasted a little over two years.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. “Why bother?”. But it is a cost nonetheless.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

That sort of nosebleed growth has panicked a lot of big-company CEOs who live in fear of being “Uberized.” Entrepreneurship aids economic vitality by getting rid of complacent incumbents, accelerating innovation, and creating jobs. ” Those fears are not entirely unfounded. ” “Great,” you might say.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

But even as she gained status by getting her PhD and becoming a clinician scientist, she came up against persistent bureaucratic and organizational barriers to innovation. Stinson''s challenge is common at big organizations, but overcoming bureaucracy and breaking down silos is especially critical in healthcare.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

What if this model existed on a larger scale to help staff innovation and growth strategy initiatives for big business? I previously wished for a Shark-Tank for Corporate America to create more efficient capital markets to fund great innovation ideas bogged down by bureaucracy. Did this person add or detract from team chemistry?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

When we launched the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation last year, we aimed to enlist the most progressive practitioners and thinkers in the collective effort of reinventing what we call "the technology of human accomplishment." Innovating Innovation. Vote on your favorite challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Innovation tourism: it’s a thing. These well-intentioned professionals travel the world in pursuit of the secret sauce of innovation. If you ask the director of a government innovation agency how influential or effective they are, what answer do you expect, other than “ extremely ?” Kenneth Andersson.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

The White House recently formed the Office of American Innovation, which has a stated focus on “implementing policies and scaling proven private-sector models to spur job creation and innovation.” presidential innovation fellow and a cofounder of 18F , a digital services office within the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

That means retailers must learn to compete head-on with Amazon in two fundamental capabilities: agile innovation and expense management. Amazon’s greatest competitive advantage is not its e-commerce network; it is its innovation engine. To understand this strength, take a look at the sample of innovations in the table below.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The auto industry is facing a trio of disruptive technologies: electric batteries, autonomous vehicles, and the mobile phone. CEOs of competing automakers are reassured to see a large group of consumers getting excited about purchasing cars again. We didn’t want to overlay them with the Ford bureaucracy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The appointment of Mary Barra as CEO-to-be of General Motors is a signal to car-lovers everywhere that the company is serious about its products and vehicle innovation. The centrality of innovation to the future — electric cars, hybrids, self-driving cars, and beyond — makes her experience pivotal. Girls like cars.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

It was, in part, the rise of the technology industry that gave charm a new urgency, because tech companies needed managers on the inside who were "technical and charismatic." This is how opportunities to be nimble and innovative are squandered, he says, and how companies become irrelevant.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

As Vineet Nayar, CEO of the $3.5 billion global IT services firm, HCL Technologies, puts it: "The CEO should be the Chief Question Asker, not the final provider of answers." What would happen if there was no CEO at my company (or at any company in the world)? What things do I control that I should not control?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Consider the recent case of The New Republic , in which a new, disruptive CEO came in and vowed to “break s**t.” Following in the Kuhnian mold, Christensen points out in The Innovator’s Dilemma that there comes a time in which the practices derived from established mental models fall short. Kenneth Andersson.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. CEOs are on the hunt to understand who has done what, and who has succeeded. ” GE adopted its FastWorks initiative, based on lean startup principles, to cut bureaucracy around innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Innovation is one those evergreen themes: it is a rare CEO who doesn't list innovation as one her top four or five priorities. But innovation is an elusive beast. We can look to companies renowned for innovation — like Apple and Google — and try to learn from them. So what to do? Loosely defined roles.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

David Kenny, the new head of IBM’s Watson, defines that business as “AI (artificial intelligence) as a service,” a central part of the data analytics market that IBM CEO Virginia Rometty says is a $2 trillion opportunity. One might even say that an increasing advantage of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

lawmakers are now circling waters bloodied by revelations regarding potential abuse of Facebook’s social media data, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill this week about the “use and protection of user data.” companies doing business abroad. In the U.S., and EU governments themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

Neither digital technology nor the corporation itself is necessarily to blame for the current predicament. Boards incentivize CEOs to increase short-term profits by any means necessary, even if it means defunding research and development labs and personnel whose value creation may be a few years off.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

"Fake it until you make it" might sound like a manageable way to approach your entrepreneurial efforts, but it''s also worth considering this man-riding-a-lion analogy from EnSite Solutions CEO Toby Thomas: "People look at him and think, ‘This guy''s really got it together! Papers, Please" is a video game about bureaucracy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The clients don’t have to own or maintain the technology. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

And while almost all the examples I cite are from West Africa, many of these ideas and innovations are well suited for emerging markets around the world. The public service agencies in many emerging markets have yet to take on service-delivery roles, and remain formal bureaucracies. 4. The Nebuchadnezzar Challenge.

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