Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 29, 2008

I first came across this story from an engineering colleague of mine, Kyle Smith. Specifications and bureaucracies live forever. The engineers who designed the SRBs might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. Or silly HR policies. ring any bells?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For years now, huge corporations such as British Aerospace Engineering and Raytheon have completely dominated the market and swooped in to poach promising innovators. The asymmetrical aspects of America’s security, as well as the growing threat of flashpoints with China and Russia , require constant innovation at a quick pace.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. However, these prescriptions for innovation at Roivant have also led to some unexpected challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The appointment of Mary Barra as CEO-to-be of General Motors is a signal to car-lovers everywhere that the company is serious about its products and vehicle innovation. An engineer with a diemaker father who worked in a Pontiac plant, Barra is a 33-year company veteran. Barra began her career at the old GM as a young student engineer.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

That means retailers must learn to compete head-on with Amazon in two fundamental capabilities: agile innovation and expense management. Amazon’s greatest competitive advantage is not its e-commerce network; it is its innovation engine. Agile innovation teams are small. of sales) on “technology and content.”

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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. Auto industry Leading teams'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

As Machiavelli pointed out in The Prince roughly 500 years ago, there is no constituency for innovation: "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." How have you seen people react to changes in their work?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Our industry does not respect tradition—it only respects innovation.” ” Nadella was sending a clear message to look past the “sacred cows” of the organization and pursue an agenda of innovation over orthodoxy. Innovation leaders are fascinated with that road. It was just what I was looking for.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

That was the essence of Jill Lepore’s essay last year in The New Yorker about the “disruption machine,” in which she argued that, “disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror” and referred to startups as “a pack of ravenous hyenas” intent on blowing things up.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

So much so that we see them as “the way things work” and forget that bureaucracies were once innovations too. Before Weber’s bureaucracies became predominant, most enterprises were fairly organic. Yet actually, small-world networks often form naturally, without design or complex organizational engineering.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

They should be senior and experienced enough to be respected by both internal and external team members, and sufficient clout to cut through the bureaucracy as needed. ” Petroleum and mining organizations have long employed roles like chief geologist or chief engineer. Create the role of “external talent manager.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Three years later, GE hired veteran software engineer Ganesh Bell to be chief digital officer of GE Power and Water. Domain expertise at an automaker includes things like mechanics, telematics, structural engineering, design, and so on. Many such leaders are relatively young and highly sought after. Make the tough calls on people.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

They abhor complexity, bureaucracy, and anything that gets in the way of the clean execution of strategy. Within just a few years, Apple, Samsung, and soon Google had seized the smartphone market, and Nokia, once a model of innovation and insurgent-style thinking, was in steep decline. Adapted from. Chris Zook James Allen.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

In response to the rapid advance of cloud computing, IBM’s software engineering groups embraced the Agile development method – with teams focused on incremental delivery of new capabilities every few weeks or months. To the engineers, the design thinking process seemed like a return to the Waterfall method. .”

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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. Innovation in Cities. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Frustrated employees were complaining about the lack of amenities — such as child care facilities — on campus and the stifling bureaucracy which, for instance, made expense reimbursment a time-consuming process. In particular, Ferose empowered his 4,000 employees to experiment with bold new ideas during their work time.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When they are compelled to do so, company leadership will provide leadership for change management and re-engineering…two of the many worthwhile concepts that should be advocated every business day. Resulting from inflexible conditions, obsolete policies-procedures, procrastination, attitude, resistance to innovation, failure to change.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. By our reckoning, the cost of excess bureaucracy in the U.S. If bureaucracy is as ubiquitous in these economies as it is in the U.S., Here’s the arithmetic.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Indeed, "perhaps only in Silicon Valley would a group of engineers think they could hack their way to charisma with a series of neuroscientific shortcuts." This is how opportunities to be nimble and innovative are squandered, he says, and how companies become irrelevant.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Others reward easy-to-measure improvements in existing processes over less-easily-quantified innovations. Companies that encourage innovation take steps to overcome these organizational obstacles. 3M, for example, has long allowed engineers to devote 15% of their time to skunkworks projects, without supervisor approval.)

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Innovation is one those evergreen themes: it is a rare CEO who doesn't list innovation as one her top four or five priorities. But innovation is an elusive beast. We can look to companies renowned for innovation — like Apple and Google — and try to learn from them. So what to do? But that's a flawed approach.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In an era when every young, gifted programmer, engineer, or entrepreneur's first instinct was to write their own business plan or head to a fast-growing startup, life as a foot soldier in Big Blue's global army was a pretty hard sell. Polly LaBarre is editorial director of the Management Innovation Exchange. What's your question?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Challenge (the first of three legs of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation) here last week. Here are just three lessons from our management innovators about leveraging social technologies to create truly social organizations: Trust your people with the future of the company. We announced the winners of the Management 2.0

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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. Local autonomy makes important decisions possible.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

Now, by “hierarchy” I don’t mean a stifling bureaucracy. True, there are many companies offering services such as data analytics, help with creating viral campaigns, social-media mining, and search-engine optimization. Innovation Is Marketing’s Job, Too. So now that 2015 is almost here, has that come to pass? Marketing'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

While GDPR is certain to improve choice, control, and transparency for EU consumers, these new powers come with new responsibilities and new costs for users, not least of which are ballooning budgets for government data management and enforcement bureaucracies worldwide. And governments are hardly the experts on data security.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

These new ecosystems with their hundreds of species from flesh-eating sharks to sulphur-metabolizing worms also include "innovative startups" — previously undiscovered new sea animals that have naturally selected to flourish in the unique ecosystem.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Qatar have attempted to overcome this via the creation of the Qatar Foundation in 1995, which aimed to unlock the human potential of the nation via education, innovation and entrepreneurship. Core sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Most companies put innovation at the top of their agendas. But how many devote the energy and resources it takes to build innovation into the values, processes, and practices that rule everyday activity and behavior? Not many, as we argued when we launched the Innovating Innovation Challenge in October. Fail Forward.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

One of the great innovations in business, which has held sway since 1976, is the idea that professional managers should have an owner’s mindset—that is, they should treat their company’s money as if it were their own. They loathe bureaucracy that traps resources and slows decision making.

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Mark Sanborn

MARCH 22, 2022

Don’t let bureaucracy, slow decision making and outdated rules slow the process. It is the engine that drives what gets done and how it gets done. Tom Peters famously said, “Ready, Fire, Aim” which was as much about innovation and experimentation as taking action. Action to intentionality.

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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. Another case is Unilever.

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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. You see both the innovation and the ethos of cool. I mean, has it led to technological innovation? Absolutely, an efflorescence of technological innovation.

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