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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

Moderate bureaucracy: If innovation becomes difficult because of bureaucratic barriers, employees will stop trying. When employees feel truly involved in the company collaboration becomes the norm and the divide between managers and staff melts naturally. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The sheer sprawl of these outsourced services is bewildering, even at medium-size organizations: housekeeping, food services, materials management, IT, and clinical staffing, including temporary nursing and also physician coverage for the ER, ICU and hospitalists. Eliminating layers of management. As the U.S.

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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." See the Proposed Challenges for examples.). Proposed Challenges.

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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.” Moreover, it’s not clear whether unicorns exploiting other technologies, such as genomics or robotics, will be able to expand as rapidly as Uber, Airbnb, and other smartphone-enabled businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

” It’s a familiar idea: A SWAT innovation team is created, ready to inject new thinking into a burdensome bureaucracy. Godbout was executive director at 18F before departing to become chief technology officer for the EPA. He is now the CEO and cofounder of cBrain North America. General Services Administration.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

The top floor of the HQ building is often reserved for such leaders, including the CEO and his or her lieutenants, and this is where decisions are made and disseminated, funds are allocated, and promotions are determined. Technology has compressed time, costs, and distance considerably.

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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 CEO Jeff Bezos famously believes that if you can’t feed the team with two pizzas , it is too large. Agile innovation teams are small.

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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

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. Establish a repeatable formula.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Managing the transition. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy. Financial capital is in the driving seat.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

A manager in a retail company demanded a promotion during the recession, because he was "indispensable," he said. The CEO, who had cut her own pay to save jobs, fired him instead. Former CEO Tony Hayward defeated himself and damaged the company in the public mind by issuing bitter statements about how unfair this was.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

It’s an IT and business consulting staffing business that: (a) recruits top programmers and program managers; (b) identifies key projects at large tech companies; and (c) makes a match. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Yet, after he stepped down from his CEO role and the company underwent several management transitions, Dell started to stall out. The company has made one of the largest technology acquisitions in history (EMC). As Michael told us, “I resonate strongly with the themes of the founder’s mentality.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Taylor , the founder of scientific management who died 100 years ago. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Michael Power of the London School of Economics describes the resulting explosion of bureaucracy as “the risk management of everything.” It began with Frederick W.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Patch Woes The Story Behind Why AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fired An Employee In Front Of 1,000 Coworkers Business Insider For a few days last August, it was one of the most talked-about business stories in America: Tim Armstrong, the CEO of AOL, fired someone abruptly during a meeting. Phil Treglia wasn''t your typical management adviser.

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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.” But the fictional company doesn’t stop there.

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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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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

That’s why CEOs of many organizations established executive teams – a group of senior leaders who work together to define goals and ensure everyone keeps them in mind. There are a number of ways to do this, as outlined in co-author David Silverman’s leadership and management book, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement in a Complex World.

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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

APRIL 18, 2014

Her story is not only an inspiring one of adapting self-help narratives and neuroscience to "trick" her own mind; it’s also a tale couched in almost a century of management thinking about who can and can''t be a leader. Managing yourself' News and World Report).

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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

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

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Meanwhile, the CEO may be stepping down with a pension worth $18 million. As a result, the Estonian system provides its citizens with an all-digital government experience, significantly reduced bureaucracy , and significantly high citizen satisfaction with their government dealings. Distributed Database.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The Healthy Heart program seeks to bring pacemaker technology to hundreds of thousands of Indians who desperately need it. No new technology was involved here — and that's the point. The effort also positions Medtronic to dramatically expand in those markets as it develops new technologies that lower costs. (

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Stinson''s challenge is common at big organizations, but overcoming bureaucracy and breaking down silos is especially critical in healthcare. To tackle these obstacles at SickKids, CEO Mary Jo Haddad in 2010 elevated innovation to a "strategic direction," and engaged Innosight to help devise a full system needed to spur innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Management thinking is inherently faddish, but there are some favorite themes that never fall out of favor. 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. Loosely defined roles.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

But it is also a complex market, with a reputation for corruption, uncertainty, and bureaucracy. No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up) — your world is awash with data.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

Though they’d unanimously elected Pete to take over from their aging father, Grant, as CEO of the farm four years before, they were equal shareholders, with a trust that also benefited their children. The manager of the frozen-vegetables plant was pushing him to make the leap. Pete looked at his watch. “You’re early!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

I took an HBS student group to India in 2008 and met with CEOs of public companies, heads of family business groups, and visited Keggfarms , an innovative chicken breeder trying to make a dent in poverty. My ecosystem map is a good way to make sure you are touching all the bases. ” Sound familiar?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Every CEO or leader knows that strategy design, coupled with excellence in the implementation of that strategy, is central to an organization’s sustainable growth and prosperity. Deliver a Strategy That Works by Managing Culture and Communication. Harness the Power of Feedback Loops for Better Strategy Design and Delivery.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

One of the old tropes of the “African Tech Rising” narrative is the advantage posed by Africa’s lack of what technology vendors call an installed base — that is to say, the lack of pre-existing installations of enterprise applications. 2. The Legacy Vacuum Can Be a Double-Edged Sword. 4. The Nebuchadnezzar Challenge.

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