Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 11, 2013

The program team was highly dysfunctional and everyone had his or her own ideas about the source of the problems – the technical challenges, the difficult customer, the bureaucracy of the large company, procurement issues. If they didn’t get rapport as a team, they would fail. Nothing about rapport or relationships.)

Bond 243

Bond Attrition Absenteeism Bureaucracy 243

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

The genius of the book is that Eggers extends Silicon Valley’s existing technology and organizational practices no further than to their next logical steps (imagine Google on steroids), and only at the conclusion does he move to the illogical and chilling end to which they may be heading.

Influence 100

Influence Succession Ethics Bureaucracy 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. We asked some big questions in our quest to bust bureaucracy: What does it mean to build an organization in which everyone is aligned and inspired by a deeply-felt sense of purpose?

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 11

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Former Navy SEAL, David Silverman discusses the role of establishing a shared sense of purpose in non-executive teams. That’s why CEOs of many organizations established executive teams – a group of senior leaders who work together to define goals and ensure everyone keeps them in mind. The SEAL Teams are like being a part of a family.

Silverman 51

Silverman Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Objective 51

Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 15, 2019

When you talk about loving employees, you say you’re not talking about a touchy-feely, warm and fuzzy emotional feeling, but rather being concerned about the long-term well-being of team members. We have all dealt with external customers who are extremely demanding, not very grateful, and who create lots of stress for team members.

Long-term 65

Long-term Self-aware Short-term Bureaucracy 65

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

Moderate bureaucracy: If innovation becomes difficult because of bureaucratic barriers, employees will stop trying. The fear of making mistakes is deeply ingrained in our psyche says Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies [link]. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

Creativity 183

Creativity Influence Innovation Brainstorming 183

You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Anne Perschel , Dale Lawrence and Gwyn Teatro form the core team with Tanya Odom , Eric Peterson , Marion Chapsal and Joe Gerstandt as our advisory team. Well, it seems that the 21 st Century, an age of information and technology, is asking for something different from us than was called for in the Industrial age. Who is We ?

Bureaucracy 56

Bureaucracy Diversity Globalization Technology 56

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2015

But for old-school bureaucracies, it’s a scary new world that requires managers to rethink the basic principles that govern established businesses. Or is mobile app development considered peripheral and non-essential? (If If your firm outsources mobile app development to an agency or design firm, there’s your answer).

Strategy 50

Strategy Succession Software Industry 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

Now, by “hierarchy” I don’t mean a stifling bureaucracy. Hierarchies have long been under attack because of their supposed inability to adjust quickly to new developments in markets and consumer interests, because of their supposed high cost, and because silos slow the flow of ideas and information. The New Marketing Organization.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Atis and her tiny team knocked down the enduring obstacles and solved a dilemma that had existed for generations. She couldn’t get the image out of her head, so she began to research the technology requirements. Windham built an entire ad-hoc team at Stanley Black and Decker — product planners, executives, and engineers.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Back in 2005, Amazon Prime was conceived, developed, and launched in about two months. This innovation in innovation requires moving from predictive plans (based on increasingly unpredictable market conditions) to adaptive, agile innovation teams. Agile innovation teams are small.

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

Since my youth I've been an early adopter of new technology. I know new technology can bring much creativity and value. Investments in technology were so low for so long that we were having technological blackouts with frequency. Nowadays, technology is at the core of our urban planning and management of public policies.

Software 14

Software Early Adopters Technology Crisis 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. An inability to easily determine the value of ideas.

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 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. Organizations do better when managers have access to advice and best practice in leading mixed teams. Here’s the problem.

CTO 8

CTO Agility Management Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

In fact, to date, there is no AI technology that is fully able to factor in the emotional, human, and political context needed to automate decisions. AI technologies can provide managers and employees with accurate data and predictions at their fingertips to support and enable the right decisions in a timely way.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Tools Marketing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

To succeed in India, an American company either needs to have robust electronic communication processes at the top management level or must be willing to set its leaders in India free of the bureaucracy at corporate headquarters, so that they can address local issues and opportunities. GM will keep its technology center in Bangalore.

CEO 8

CEO Long-term Short-term Mass Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

To be sure, as we’ve seen with the adoption of electronic health records (EHR), the health care industry has a track record of dragging its feet when it comes to adopting new technologies — and for failing to maximize efficiency gains from new technologies. Faster Hospital Bed Assignments.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Efficiency Document 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

But while creating the "new and the nimble" within an established bureaucracy is a well-known art form in the private sector, governments are still struggling to do it effectively. All government start-ups need not be new bureaucracies, rich with hierarchies and overhead costs. Experiment with New Organizational Forms.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Health Care Committee Information Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Chris spent years working for a supportive, encouraging manager at a major technology company headquartered in Silicon Valley. He had learned how to survive in the bureaucracy: don''t make too many waves, don''t cause problems. As a result, his team had been winnowed away to a fraction of the size it used to be.

Career 13

Career Absenteeism Humphrey Bureaucracy 13

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. But how could the team get its Embrace Infant Warmer into the hands of all the hospitals and patients that needed it? But it is a cost nonetheless.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

As digital technologies continue to transform the economy, many leaders are struggling to set a digital strategy, shift organizational structures, and remove the barriers that are keeping them from maximizing the potential impact of new digital technologies. It is this combination that makes them able to drive transformation.

Industry 8

Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. New business models and value propositions are being developed by global teams using web-based tools and communication methods.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

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. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology platform on which hundreds of thousands of independent developers could create apps and offer them to Apple''s customers. In the 20th Century, their organizations competed on scale efficiency and relied on hierarchical bureaucracies to run tight ships.

Management 8

Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 8

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." Cultivating 21st Century Capabilities. Help us dream big.

Innovation 8

Innovation McKinsey Management Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

They abhor complexity, bureaucracy, and anything that gets in the way of the clean execution of strategy. On your own, or with your team, take this survey. They are obsessed with the details of the business and celebrate the employees at the front line, who deal directly with customers. Adapted from.

Company 8

Company Survey Bureaucracy Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Practices can change, business models are disrupted, and technology evolves, but principles do not change. They safely guide leaders and teams toward the right decisions, practices, and processes. Our aim was to develop simple, clear, robust, and practical guidance. They are the soul of strategy design and delivery.

Strategy 8

Strategy Content Cooper Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

billion global IT services firm, HCL Technologies, puts it: "The CEO should be the Chief Question Asker, not the final provider of answers." Harper understood that great people want to work on exciting, high-impact projects, with a small team, in a dynamic setting. As Vineet Nayar, CEO of the $3.5 What's your question?

Organization 15

Organization Open-book Bureaucracy CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. 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.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

For all of the books (thousands) written on leadership, individuals (millions) who have participated in leadership seminars and dollars (billions) invested in leadership development, too many leadership experts still fail to distinguish between the practice of leadership and the exercise of bureaucratic power. Learn more here.

How To 8

How To Bureaucracy McKinsey Seminar 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Stinson''s challenge is common at big organizations, but overcoming bureaucracy and breaking down silos is especially critical in healthcare. The team helped innovators test prototypes, make adjustments, and then scale to a wider population. A design firm called Cundari contributed $80,000 in-kind services to develop the app.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Compliance Bureaucracy 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Business development. They take what is said at face value because they have not or don’t care to develop abilities to discern what is hyped by others. Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. ‘Develop the Drive to Accomplish Anything.’

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

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? Finding those people would be awesome!”.

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?

Innovation 8

Innovation Uncertainty Bureaucracy Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

In her current job as executive vice president of global product development, she is responsible for the lineup of the future and the components that will make cars greener, safer, more user-friendly. She is a clearly a team player with the support of her peers, such as CFO Dan Ammann, promoted to president working with Barra.

Engineering 9

Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Those seven entries offer compelling evidence that the principles, social structures, and social technologies of the web not only offer up winning business models, they are the building blocks of a new management model for making organizations more resilient, inventive, and engaging. Paul Green, Jr., All without a budget or permission.

Management 8

Management How To Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

That's what a team of management innovators did in an earlier M-Prize-winning hack, Late Night Pizza: Extending Hackathons Beyond Technology. David Roth and his teammates were frustrated by the endemic prioritization of short-term priorities at the expense of exploring, developing, and investing in new ideas. Define the dogma.

Management 12

Management Short-term How To Strategic Planning 12