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Thoughts on the Presidency

Leading Blog

Blaming the bureaucracy is an easy way to gloss over the failures of government, yet running a government without the support of the bureaucracy is like running a train without an engine.” — Stephen Hess, Organizing the Presidency. “No Newt Gingrich, 2011. No real-world human being brings to the U.S.

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Nine Key Strategies for Going Beyond Great

Leading Blog

Strategy #4: Engineer an Ecosystem. Bureaucracy and distance from the customer are death in an age of volatility—and today’s leading-edge firms know it. They’re also becoming more selective about which markets to enter and paradoxically deepening their reengagement in their chosen markets. Strategy #7: Get Focused, Fast, and Flat.

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Lead, Don’t Manage, Knowledge Workers

Great Leadership By Dan

Too many policies born of bureaucracy are an enemy to creativity, so the more unnecessary distractions a company can remove from its employees, the freer they will be to contribute more creative ways. Guest post from James Hlavacek: To improve innovation and growth, knowledge workers must be led, not managed.

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A Simple Workaround to Overcome the Bureaucratic Mindset

Tanveer Naseer

When it comes to internal roadblocks or organizational obstacles, more often than not the culprit behind these problems is an organization’s own bureaucracy. Corporate bureaucracy and its close cousin, business process, often snag their own staffs in an impossible tangle of rules and regulations.

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Gary Hamel - The Future of Management

CEO Blog

We have a hard time thinking of a world without bureaucracy" He is an inspirational, energetic speaker. (I Wall St journal calls him "world's most influential business thinker". The key to business success is greater staff engagement) Solution: Rethink first principles. Answer the question "What is the ideology of management".

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When Bureaucracy Is Actually Helpful, According to Research

Harvard Business Review

. “Bureaucracy” has become a catchall term for the many ways in which organizations squander workers’ potential. Employees perceive bureaucracy to be an immovable beast, blocking their path toward efficient, satisfying work lives. In both situations we found plentiful evidence of bureaucracy.

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. There’s no other way to put it: bureaucracy must die.