Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2020

The VP title is a symbol of bureaucracy, which is the enemy of innovation. Chuck Swoboda is Innovator-in-Residence at Marquette University, President of Cape Point Advisors and retired Chairman and CEO of Cree, Inc. Innovation requires people that care more about what they do than what they’re called and can deal with the brutal truth.

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Tony Mayo

MAY 7, 2010

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences?

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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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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

Moderate bureaucracy: If innovation becomes difficult because of bureaucratic barriers, employees will stop trying. The fear of making mistakes is deeply ingrained in our psyche says Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies [link]. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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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

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

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. It’s good for America for GM to have a CEO who is a car and truck person and who also happens to be a woman. It is now official. Girls like cars.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos famously believes that if you can’t feed the team with two pizzas , it is too large. Three out of four consumers say that they want more technology in stores and are more likely to visit stores that use technology effectively. of sales) on “technology and content.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

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. A technology company tacked on acquisitions without integration, which made acquired companies happy. Getting angry.

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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

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

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

MARCH 11, 2014

Certainly, those transaction costs have to be balanced against the drag created by bloated bureaucracy, and the soul-crushing work that characterizes too many companies. In 2010, Embrace entered into a partnership with General Electric to help scale the technology around the globe. But it is a cost nonetheless.

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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

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. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy. Financial capital is in the driving seat. The entrepreneurial society.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

Almost every CEO I’ve talked to, before and after the polls, believes that Modi is a shrewd, pragmatic, and decisive leader, who can kick-start economic growth and development in India by fostering a more business-friendly policy environment. Most businesspeople agree that Gujarat under Modi was less corrupt than most other states were.

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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.” In the past, bureaucracies played a crucial coordinating role. Digital technology enables relatively small actors to synchronize their actions through networks. Kenneth Andersson. And all that for what?

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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.).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Investor-owned hospitals rarely have more than three or four layers of supervision between the nurse that touches patients and the CEO. One thing that distinguishes the typical nonprofit from a comparably-sized investor-owned hospital is the number of layers of management. In some larger nonprofit hospitals, there may be six.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

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. Finally we need a step that identifies what our CEO, Steve Carlotti, and I like to say are the 3F’s needed to drive truly extraordinary growth—Facts, Faith and Fortitude.

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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

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.” So I wrote to the CEO and explained what had happened. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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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. A recording of the incident went viral.

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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.”

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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

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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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. While the military is arguably the biggest bureaucracy, the Special Operations Forces’ success hinge on their ability to make and execute decisions in real-time.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

Reduce Bureaucracy 3. Overhaul Technology 5. To address the technology gap at Nasdaq, Greifeld went outside to buy winners—smart acquisitions. Business leaders should always cultivate an attentive disposition toward outsiders, especially in industries impacted by technology. Get the Right People on Board 2.

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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." Microsoft's New CEO: Adding What Was Missing Datamation When IBM touts its products, it presents testimonials from real customers.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

Innovation is one those evergreen themes: it is a rare CEO who doesn't list innovation as one her top four or five priorities. There is also a "sweat the small stuff" day, once a quarter, for getting on top of the creeping bureaucracy and niggling problems that accumulate over time. But innovation is an elusive beast.

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