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3 Ways to Make Power a Good Thing

Lead Change Blog

However, many of us want to change how leadership is practiced. We want less ego, less sacrificing principles in pursuit of profits, and less bureaucracy. To drive the changes in leadership that we want to see happen, it’s necessary to shake off the perception that power is only about control. Scott Fitzgerald, author.

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How to “Freshen up” your Stale Succession Planning Process

Great Leadership By Dan

I recently asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. There was also a room full of talent management practitioners, so it was a lively dialog. Are they learning how to develop specific leadership competencies through targeted assignments and projects, and getting creative in the way they do it?

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A Simple Workaround to Overcome the Bureaucratic Mindset

Tanveer Naseer

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. The following is a guest post by Russell Bishop. That seemed to make sense.

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Don’t Be a Leader of Stupid Rules

Lead Change Blog

It starts out rather peaceful; but as cows are steered from the open pasture into small holding pens and then forced to go up a loading chute and onto the truck, it requires low voltage electric prods to convert their resistance into compliance. Leadership has had its history of being characterized by a role of control.

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14 Ideas for Busting Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

Everybody hates it, but so much of life is ruled by it: bureaucracy. That's why we launched the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge. We asked management innovators around the world to share their stories and hacks about: Making organizations more inspiring, engaging, and passion-driven. Managing without managers.

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Innovating Around a Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), however, was successful in transforming its bureaucracy. The entrenched culture of the Department of Defense defeated attempts to change it.

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How I Led Change in the U.S. State Department Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

Department of State is a seriously big bureaucracy. My experience as a digital leader in the Obama administration confirmed my optimism that change can come to large bureaucracies. Successful change requires strong leadership, working in lockstep with good people to move the rest of the organization in the right direction.