Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

American manufacturing companies were falling behind because of hidebound, privilege-laden bureaucracies that squashed new ideas, failed to listen to voices from below, behaved arrogantly toward customers, and generally stifled innovation. Auto industry Gender Leadership' The old GM was the most macho and woman-unfriendly of them all.

Engineering 11

Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Change the dialogue in the senior leadership team to focus on the end-to-end customer experience. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge. ” GE adopted its FastWorks initiative, based on lean startup principles, to cut bureaucracy around innovation. Tom Watson, Jr. Cut layers.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

F ROM A PICTURE IN A MAGAZINE, Lawrence Levy was asked by Steve Jobs to become the CFO of Pixar and structure it in a way that investors could understand it. We just have to be tuned to it; we have to be willing to balance bureaucracy with the depth and subtlety of creative inspiration, and awareness of the human dimension of our endeavors.

CFO 298

CFO Leadership Bureaucracy Creativity 298

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years. The lack of control meant that the leadership team had little say in how the Contect brand was being managed at a local level. ” Henning Weighs In.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8