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Quick and Nimble: A Leadership Companion

Leading Blog

Adam Bryant has put together a great leadership companion with Quick and Nimble. There’s great advice on a wide range of leadership issues from Why Culture Matters to Alone at the Top. There’s no bureaucracy around an idea. In fact, bureaucracy around an idea is the death of an organization.

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7 Barriers to Growth Every Leader Needs to Eliminate Today

Ron Edmondson

Granted this takes creativity, especially when finances are stretched, but always hearing “we can’t afford that” or “we aren’t big enough to do that” is never motivating to a team. With good leadership desperation can often lead to innovation. . Burdensome bureaucracies. The world is full of naysayers and doomsayers.

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5 Areas I Micromanaged in Church Revitalization

Ron Edmondson

It goes against everything I stand for in leadership and even how I’m wired personally. I have written extensively about the need for delegation in leadership. Bureaucracy and process we knew well. As with most churches in need of revitalization, our finances had been struggling for several years. New expenditures.

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5 Areas I Micromanaged in Church Revitalization

Ron Edmondson

It goes against everything I stand for in leadership and even how I’m wired personally. I have written extensively about the need for delegation in leadership. Bureaucracy and process we know well. As with most churches in need of revitalization, our finances had been struggling for several years. New expenditures.

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Our Dell Dance to the ‘Bureaucratic Boogie’ Highlights a Common Service Breakdown

The Practical Leader

I just got off the phone from a painful hour of experiencing Dell’s inward focused bureaucracy as Gary, our IT support guy, and I purchased a notebook computer for Heather. Customers start on the outside and move into the Basic Product from the Third Ring. That may change. It was a lot of work to get someone to take our money.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

Now, every company of any scale and in any sector wants to be closer to its customers, to understand them more deeply, and to tailor their products and services to serve them more precisely. They followed a sequence that resulted in new products or major updates to products every year or two. They faced a culture clash, however.

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The Industries That Are Being Disrupted the Most by Digital

Harvard Business Review

” It might be hard for people in HR to hear, but only 20% of those who responded said that their HR function was enabling them to transform, ranking them even lower than finance — an area not exactly known for its agility. These executives also score highly in their social adeptness, bold leadership, and determination.