Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 6, 2015

” the answer is they want a place where they can move faster (less bureaucracy) and be more creative. The only way to develop a genuine and lasting value proposition is to have a realistic understanding of your gaps. Engage Your Team. If your team’s fired up, get them involved to help interview. Sell Your Why.

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Company Bureaucracy Human Capital Simon 180

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

I recently asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. Are you just creating lists, charts, binders, etc…, or is your senior leadership team really using the process as a way to prepare your organization to address its current and future leadership requirements? How simple is your process?

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Process Planning Succession How To 231

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Often overlooked by great leaders is that very successful organizational level innovation requires a willingness to take risks, cultural openness to external ideas, and a structure to protect non-traditional ideas as they develop and prove value through proofs of concept testing. In some industries that is daunting.

Innovation 120

Innovation Real Estate Open-book Bureaucracy 120

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

Yet despite our very tight job market, highly effective “magnet companies” attract and hang on to good people. Their reputation or “leadership brand” has become as critical to their success as the company brand they are selling in their market. Brand management is an inside job.

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Energy Crisis Absenteeism Leadership 52

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 4, 2011

And although pundits continue to encourage entrepreneurial thinking for stagnating mega-businesses, these bureaucracies can’t break from risk-averse management. Their marketing teams research everything to death. link] #branding #marketing #advertising #design Follow Me on Twitter. December 4, 2011 at 3:20 pm. Leadership.

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CEO Bureaucracy Brand Constraint 235

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 13, 2021

The study suggests that refugees benefit when they reside in ethnic communities as these communities help the newcomers find work and navigate local bureaucracy. The researchers developed an algorithm that was able to assign placements for refugees based upon this data, with the assignments giving them the best chance of integrating.

Policies 91

Policies Analysis Bureaucracy Short-term 91

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In business, leadership infrastructure is the sum total of all the management systems, processes, leadership teams, skill sets, and disciplines that enable companies to grow from small operations into midsized or large firms. Many midsized company leaders equate it with big-company bureaucracy. We’re craftspeople and farmers.

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Leadership CEO Planning Long-term 217

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

Strategy : planning, tactics, organizational development. What they were doing five years ago has no relationship to what they’re now marketing. Appointed agency heads in a government bureaucracy. Never were too busy to set good examples, share ideas with others and help build the teams on which they played.

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Advice Strategy Company Bureaucracy 57

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 8

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Bureaucracy Hamel System 8

Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 3, 2010

What if that person were retasked to evaluate what the fair market value of the transport of media is? I’m confident it applies for my team, which means it is time to get to work! Aside from a couple of Office Space references it drives home that there is such a thing as diminishing returns on bureaucracy.

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USP Video Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

Take a top-notch sales team. Then there are the business developers forever in pursuit of new products and new markets. I listened to an IT manager explaining on a speakerphone to a colleague he served in the marketing function why it was going to take two days to get a requested report. What rings their chime is growth.

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Innovation Budgeting Strategic Planning Tools 150

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. In the new business world, innovation should not be restricted to product development. Shift Your Understanding.

Six Sigma 50

Six Sigma Productivity Products Bureaucracy 50

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

In the end, the Circle develops a culture of arrogance in which those who disagree with the brave new world that it is bent on creating are dismissed as being on “the wrong side of history.” Certain programs and policies are also aimed at making Menloians feel that they are members of a supportive community.

Influence 100

Influence Succession Ethics Bureaucracy 100

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

During a recent e-Roundtable , Max Carbone , President of TeamWorks , shared with Executive Roundtable members his top team building tips gleaned from his close to 20 years of working with senior executive teams. Passion: as important as keeping team members enthusiastic, team leads must be passionate about their mission.

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Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

A few years ago one of the most vexing questions for marketing executives was whether big corporations were going to have to do what Bharti Airtel had done. Airtel’s move quickly transformed the mobile-phone market in India as other telecomms followed suit. Now, by “hierarchy” I don’t mean a stifling bureaucracy.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships. They play well as a team.

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Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Business development. This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture. Self-promotional brochures.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

Like its American compatriot Ford Motor Company , GM’s market share in India has always been in the single digits, but recently Ford has reported rising monthly sales of 36% in India. 1 — Consistent Leadership Over Time Matters in This Market. India is a complex country and has a unique mix of Asian and Western values.

CEO 8

CEO Long-term Short-term Mass Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

But certain types of decisions — particularly those related to strategy, innovation and marketing — will likely continue to require a human being who can take a holistic view and make a qualitative judgment based on a personal consideration of the context and facts.

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Bureaucracy Tools Marketing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 on the news, increasing its market capitalization by $11 billion. Back in 2005, Amazon Prime was conceived, developed, and launched in about two months.

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

You can have terrific people working in the right teams and still not see the financial results you’re hoping for. You have front-line employees who create what you sell or who deal directly with customers: software developers, sales reps, call-center staffers, and so on. One common culprit is out-of-control tooth-to-tail ratios.

Cost 9

Cost Span of Control Management Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Convinced that they have a sustainable competitive advantage (always a risky way to think about your business), executives allow bureaucracy to take over and decision-making to become sclerotic. And this despite having working prototypes of devices that could have come to market as the iPhone or iPad – years before Apple invented them.

Company 8

Company Competitive Advantage Bureaucracy Retail 8

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 these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. But it is a cost nonetheless.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Speaking out primes the market, builds anticipation, helps a radical idea sound familiar, and for those whose name becomes associated with the idea, thought leadership offers entree to circles of potential future backers and supporters. This lifts his spirits and inspires talented people to join his team. Build collective clout.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Cooper Apparel Bureaucracy 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

They abhor complexity, bureaucracy, and anything that gets in the way of the clean execution of strategy. In the 1990s, for example, Nokia rocketed to the top of the handset market. Nokia sat on top of one of the biggest growth markets the world had ever seen, and on top of one of the biggest piles of cash in history.

Company 8

Company Survey Bureaucracy Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

By bringing customer development closer to the marketplace and enabling rapid learning from failure, the lean start-up movement has great potential to increase the success rate of new ventures. New business models and value propositions are being developed by global teams using web-based tools and communication methods.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

They safely guide leaders and teams toward the right decisions, practices, and processes. Our aim was to develop simple, clear, robust, and practical guidance. Recognize that team leadership skills are at a premium, and assign the best leaders with sufficient capacity to tackle head-on the most challenging programs.

Strategy 8

Strategy Content Cooper Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. 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. How well do you know your customers?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

It got us to this point, where we’ve established a real beachhead in our market.”. Confusion grows among key team members, investors, customers and suppliers. A project is a one-at-a-time exercise performed by a team assembled specifically for that task. These are the famous last words of many an entrepreneur.

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Project Process Entrepreneur Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

Whether you’re trying to get your team on board with a new way of working, asking investors to fund you, persuading customers to buy your product, or imploring the public to donate to your cause, your success depends on your ability to grasp the wants and needs of the people around you. You and Your Team. Persuasion.

Film 8

Film Bureaucracy Influence Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

He noticed that discontented employees were posting negative comments on the lab's internal blog about the local management team, which they viewed as unresponsive to their needs. Another team of employees designed and deployed a daycare for working mothers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2011

From his first days at the helm of the billion-dollar open source software company, which lives, breathes, and bleeds the values of open source development (not least: the best ideas win, no matter where they come from), Whitehurst realized "if I'm not called an idiot at least once a day, then something's wrong.".

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COO Learning-by-Doing Bureaucracy Strategy 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. Make the organization team-based and fluid.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

” This is a framework I have developed over the course of 35 years of working with and doing research in corporations around the world. What team could I help build? They have mentoring programs for high school students… Elfin’s self-engineered turn around became a very important symbol [of reducing bureaucracy].

Company 8

Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

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. I routinely hear comments like: “Who was on that team? The teams that create breakthrough products are large. Who did what? Who was the project manager?

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Bureaucracy Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

You''ve been working at a small start-up for a while now when a large, deep-pocketed corporation comes knocking, asking you to join its innovation team. Or will you end up drowning in bureaucracy, pining for the white-knuckled start-up pace you''re used to? Should you take the job? Is inquisitiveness part of this company''s culture?

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Innovation Uncertainty Bureaucracy Industry 8