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The Big Picture of Business – How Business Advice Turns Into Company Strategy

Strategy Driven

Strategy : planning, tactics, organizational development. Philosophy : purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Appointed agency heads in a government bureaucracy. Systems and Processes : structure, hiring, control, work design, supervision, decisions. 7 Levels of Authority Figure. Self Appointed.

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More of Us Are Working in Big Bureaucratic Organizations than Ever Before

Harvard Business Review

Despite all of the hype around alternatives — the gig economy, the sharing economy, holacracy, lean – bureaucracy has been growing, not shrinking. One might have expected successive rounds of downsizing to have trimmed bureaucracy within the corporate sector, but this hasn’t been the case.

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If Employees Don’t Trust You, It’s Up to You to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

Employees who don’t trust their managers usually point to big-picture, obvious things: Their superiors skate the edges of ethical behavior, hide information, take credit for others’ hard work, or flat-out deceive people. And you get what you give.

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The Big Picture of Business: Putting Budgeting Into Perspective, The Bigger Picture of Strategic Planning

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Running a bureaucracy. Walking the Talk: ethics, values, quality, vision. Different people within the same organization have contrasting views as to the Business They’re Really In. The term Budgeting gets tossed around in many ways.