Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

When Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was reelected as president of Liberia, she faced unemployment, health crises, social unrest, and feeble infrastructure on one side, and a historically corrupt bureaucracy, few resources, and a mandate for immediate results on the other. It’s essential to decide what to do and what not to do.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy GDP Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Instead of monitoring the media for new ideas, attend trade shows and conferences and go to talks in areas that are out of your area of knowledge. Lastly: If you''re in a big bureaucracy and you''re making changes to what''s happening on the ground, pretend everything''s normal and no one will notice until your plans succeed. "By

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Bond Entrepreneur Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

Reorienting priorities in a large government bureaucracy is hard enough. Pushing for such change at CIA — particularly in 2009, the year we joined, when counterterrorism missions were receiving harsh media and political scrutiny — was even more challenging.

Management 8

Management Operations Planning Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

That first group, the New Left, believed in bureaucracy, believed in hierarchy, believed in organizations. We would no longer need bureaucracy or hierarchy at all. I saw Stewart Brand at a conference a couple months ago. as technologies with which to kind of change our minds. We would no longer need rules.

Information Technology 11

Information Technology Bureaucracy Technology Open-book 11