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Quick and Nimble: A Leadership Companion

Leading Blog

Here are several: Why Culture Matters : A successful culture is like a green house where people and ideas can flourish—where everybody in the organization, regardless of rank or role, feels encouraged to speak frankly and openly and is rewarded for sharing ideas about new products, more efficient processes, and better way to serve customers.

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What We Learned About Bureaucracy from 7,000 HBR Readers

Harvard Business Review

We recently asked members of the HBR community to gauge the extent of “bureaucratic sclerosis” within their organization using our Bureaucracy Mass Index (BMI) tool. Here are our initial takeaways: The blight of bureaucracy seems inescapable. Bureaucracy is growing not shrinking. Bureaucracy is a time trap.

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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. Burdensome bureaucracies. And when they are forced to do so it keeps them from doing more productive things. We need to be agents of hope.

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5 Areas I Micromanaged in Church Revitalization

Ron Edmondson

Bureaucracy and process we knew well. Our employees were subjected to counter productive paperwork, for one example, which wasted time and zapped energy for momentum. (We As with most churches in need of revitalization, our finances had been struggling for several years. (Our mission, by the way, is the advance of the Gospel.).

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5 Areas I Micromanaged in Church Revitalization

Ron Edmondson

Bureaucracy and process we know well. Our employees were subjected to counter productive paperwork, for one example, which wasted time and zapped energy for momentum. (We As with most churches in need of revitalization, our finances had been struggling for several years. (Our mission, by the way, is the advance of the Gospel.).

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What It Takes to Innovate Within a Corporate Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

It was a problem regardless of brand, formula, or product — until Atis set her sights on solving it once and for all. Windham built an entire ad-hoc team at Stanley Black and Decker — product planners, executives, and engineers. She found partners, attracted financing, and cultivated a community of internal supporters.

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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.