HR Digest

MAY 2, 2024

The individuals manage the critical functioning of a majority of Google’s services, which makes it all the more unexpected to see the company choose to let them go. With such an expansive spending goal in mind, cutting down on spending wherever possible and moving to cheaper labor markets seems to be the way forward. According to Inc.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

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. For example, if you are looking to expand into a new market, are your succession and development discussions aligned towards achieving that goal?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2011

We both lead and manage innovation, says Owens. Along this path, there will be a number of management activities that can smooth progress and make for a more efficient effort.” Sometimes explaining the plan, clarifying a goal, or acquiring a resource is enough management to keep team members moving along a path.

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Creativity Bureaucracy Constraint Innovation 279

Coaching Tip

APRIL 29, 2011

Fiefdoms and boundaries develop, while lines of authority become unclear. Size doesn’t have to mean bureaucracy, but it takes fresh organizational thinking. “Effective organization design creates connections among the many competing objectives of a large company – balancing global and local authority, setting up good, creative conflict.

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Development Bureaucracy Globalization Middle Management 112

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Leading to Executives, Human Resources and team leaders grasping at the ‘Next Thing’ in order to cut the down on the felt mounting bureaucracy and dis-trust within the organization and team. We need more leaders and less managers ”. Succession planning, training & development all become clearer, and tied to the business goals.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Manage a Tight Budget. However, investments take time to fully develop, while additional expenses and unforeseen costs can set back your business greatly. However, investments take time to fully develop, while additional expenses and unforeseen costs can set back your business greatly. Planning Ahead.

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Licensing Insurance Bureaucracy Learning-by-Doing 66

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

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. Obviously, it’s pretty easy to assail government bureaucracy, but how about industry?

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Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 203

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

In a recent article , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini detail the toll that growing bureaucracy is taking across industries. Many of those working in the consolidating health care industry will immediately validate several of the authors’ key findings, including: Bureaucracy is growing, not shrinking. ” I beg to differ.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

I hope these quotes/snippets will help you get the gist of this book and prompt you to read it: Managing the Work. The term ’project management’ makes most creative people cringe. Elaborate Gantt charts and byzantine procedures plague bureaucracies large and small. On Managing Your Energy. On Progress. On Taking Charge.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. Today, most people work in some sort of bureaucracy — and according to Gallup, 85% of employees around the world feel disengaged from their work.

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Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Aside from a couple of Office Space references it drives home that there is such a thing as diminishing returns on bureaucracy. Five Keys to Better Decision Making in Meetings Nine Steps for Creating and Maintaining Team Ownership of Ideas and Goals Blogs I Like Get Uncomfortable! I recently had a smartphone go belly up with 9 mos.

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USP Video Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

We recently asked members of the HBR community to gauge the extent of “bureaucratic sclerosis” within their organization using our Bureaucracy Mass Index (BMI) tool. Here are our initial takeaways: The blight of bureaucracy seems inescapable. Bureaucracy is growing not shrinking. Bureaucracy is a time trap.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Survey Politics Consensus 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in. Strategy : planning, tactics, organizational development. Culture and Mission : values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking. Appointed agency heads in a government bureaucracy.

Advice 57

Advice Strategy Company Bureaucracy 57

CEO Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

This is where it's tough because governments like to bring in quotas and introduce bureaucracy. They developed a core mantra that fused their diversity goals and ethical principles with their business strategy. Managers' pay was partly determined by how they were rated and how they developed diverse employees.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Phoenix Attitude Leaders are : Dreamers and doers Decisive with agility Self-aware with humility Confident to overcome fears and unleash change drivers Courageous to bust through bias, blockers, and bureaucracy This week, the authors shared these additional insights with me: Question: How can leaders embrace the Phoenix Attitude?

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Leadership Charan Bureaucracy Micromanagement 65

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Phoenix Attitude Leaders are : Dreamers and doers Decisive with agility Self-aware with humility Confident to overcome fears and unleash change drivers Courageous to bust through bias, blockers, and bureaucracy This week, the authors shared these additional insights with me: Question: How can leaders embrace the Phoenix Attitude?

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

If you are a manager you know that challenges can be overcome by solid people and systems. This is often referred to as “bureaucracy” and can quickly become abysmally restrictive and frustrating with feelings of; Innovative work thrusts are inhibited. Endless reference back and forth and up and down the Management Structure.

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Innovation Decentralization Bureaucracy How To 110

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

For example, a manager can think of himself as nurturing and sensitive at home, but a hard-nosed tough guy at work. These two self-images can coincide because the manager compartmentalizes his life, creating what I call a "mental bureaucracy.". We all compartmentalize as a way of organizing our lives and thought processes.

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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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Creativity Influence Innovation Brainstorming 183

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2015

Employees are not present to serve management or reinforce bureaucracy. Managers have the ability to track progress toward department goals. The Leadership Development Practitioner as a Change Agent. Empowering Style Leadership : Leaders communicate with respect and lead by example. Or if needs are not fully met?

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Organization Human Resources Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage 50

You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 25, 2012

When this happens, it is easy to lose sight of the larger goals and become bogged down with side issues that have little or nothing to do with very much of anything. The Seduction of the latest management Fad. It is easy to become distracted by new management approaches that “ everyone is doing”. So, what to do?

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Bottom-up Leadership Bureaucracy Goal 65

Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 28, 2016

Sometimes we have to manage closely At least once a week a pastor contacts me about church revitalization. It’s important to know I’m not a micro-management leader. We purposely developed some common language which would serve as rallying points for the church in the years to come. We had a few key areas of focus.

Micromanagement 56

Micromanagement Long-term Finance Energy 56

Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 9, 2014

It’s important to know I’m not a micro-management leader. We purposely developed some common language that would serve as rallying points for the church. We needed some common goals and ideas and a limited focus. Bureaucracy and process we know well. We had a few key areas of focus. Organizational structure.

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Micromanagement Long-term Finance Bureaucracy 70

Ron Edmondson

APRIL 30, 2019

It’s important to know I’m not a micro-management leader. We purposely developed some common language which would serve as rallying points for the church in the years to come. We needed some common goals and ideas and a limited focus. Bureaucracy and process we knew well. We had a few key areas of focus.

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Micromanagement Long-term Finance Energy 40

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media. Today Atis manages L’Oréal’s Women of Color Lab, in Clark, New Jersey.

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Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The other one of us cofounded 10x Management , a well-respected talent agency representing top-tier freelance programmers, designers, and other technology professionals. Others are new to managing or stronger technically than as a supervisor. One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers.

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CTO Agility Management Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. This is the kind of thinking that business managers can also profit from. Not by gathering waves of data and solving successive equations.

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Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In all of the loud and necessary debates over how to reform health care in the United States before it bankrupts the country, there is one element that has been continually overlooked: the management systems employed by hospitals. This 20 th century system essentially has leadership establishing objectives for managers to achieve.

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System Health Care Management COO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

A “value management office” can greatly enhance an institution’s ability to improve outcomes and costs across the enterprise. ICCI now has five full-time employees with expertise in analytics and project management and three part-time graduate students.

Health Care 8

Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

Streiff’s drive to speed up decision-making, overcome bureaucracy, and deliver rapid execution, exposed historic and deep divisions between executives at the consortium. Thus, the development of an informal coalition saved the organization and political activities, in this case, were a force for good. Defining politics.

Politics 14

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The group also focused on specific pillars upon which the regime’s power rested —such as the media, bureaucracy, police, and military— to target their efforts. Otpor also developed a clear doctrine of values. Rather than merely spouting a vague set of slogans, the group developed an explicit guide for action.

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Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 13, 2010

When this happens, it is easy to lose sight of the larger goals and to become bogged down with side issues that have little or nothing to do with, well, anything really. The Seduction of the latest management Fad It is easy to become distracted by new management approaches that “ everyone is doing”.

Leadership 40

Leadership Self-aware Blog Emotional Intelligence 40

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

Plan: Plans need to be continually reviewed to keep the team on track Productivity (Measures & Accountability): assigning tasks, measuring success and rewarding results are an oft overlooked element of successful team development. Opening the discussion to group, depending on the players, can delay or stall the planning process.

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Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

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." To that end, we will be launching the second HBR/McKinsey M-Prize in September.

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Innovation McKinsey Management Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I typed the words into the pristine white search field, hoping they didn’t land me on the NSA’s no-fly list: “How to manage a terrorist organization.”. There’s not a lot on the basic management issues faced by your run-of-the-mill al Qaeda cell. HBR: Why look at terrorist groups through a management lens?

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Constraint Bureaucracy Document Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I typed the words into the pristine white search field, hoping they didn’t land me on the NSA’s no-fly list: “How to manage a terrorist organization.”. There’s not a lot on the basic management issues faced by your run-of-the-mill al Qaeda cell. HBR: Why look at terrorist groups through a management lens?

Constraint 8

Constraint Bureaucracy Document Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

So it’s important to strategically allocate your time to the objective goals that will bring you the most subjective satisfaction. If you’re trying to answer that question about yourself or your employees, here’s a helpful framework from Managing the New Careerists , by former BYU management professor C. Brooklyn Derr.

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