Skip Prichard

JANUARY 10, 2022

In a growing economy where credit was plentiful, the tech industry has repeatedly chanted the innovation mantra “Fail fast, learn fast.” Methodologies such Lean Startup and Agile have taught us to innovate faster by harnessing the power of iteration. In the last decade, we’ve learned to over-rely on iteration. Radhika Dutt.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 30, 2011

Steve Jobs once said, “ Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower ”. There is a huge role for leadership in creating and living a culture that values innovation. In this culture, innovation becomes everybody’s job, with all brains engaged in the pursuit of what now and what’s next. They expect it.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

They can work efficiently knowing that they are getting all the support they need to reach their goals. Working in a small team makes work faster because you’ll be able to communicate clearly and effectively with one another, without having to work through layers of bureaucracy. Teams are more creative and innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. Today, most people work in some sort of bureaucracy — and according to Gallup, 85% of employees around the world feel disengaged from their work.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Phoenix Attitude Leaders are : Dreamers and doers Decisive with agility Self-aware with humility Confident to overcome fears and unleash change drivers Courageous to bust through bias, blockers, and bureaucracy This week, the authors shared these additional insights with me: Question: How can leaders embrace the Phoenix Attitude?

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CEO Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I smiled when I heard that he said "it was one of my lifetime goals". According to Rieger fear stems from bureaucracy: Parochialism - The tendency to force others to view the world from only one view. Companies that embrace this as a method for innovation and growth need to have people who are not living in fear. He is 100.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

In a recent article , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini detail the toll that growing bureaucracy is taking across industries. Many of those working in the consolidating health care industry will immediately validate several of the authors’ key findings, including: Bureaucracy is growing, not shrinking. ” I beg to differ.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Phoenix Attitude Leaders are : Dreamers and doers Decisive with agility Self-aware with humility Confident to overcome fears and unleash change drivers Courageous to bust through bias, blockers, and bureaucracy This week, the authors shared these additional insights with me: Question: How can leaders embrace the Phoenix Attitude?

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Leading to Executives, Human Resources and team leaders grasping at the ‘Next Thing’ in order to cut the down on the felt mounting bureaucracy and dis-trust within the organization and team. The guess-work of how many managerial layers to have causes dis-trust and halts any innovation within the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

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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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe What a Leader Can Learn From 20 Cents Postage Due by Kevin Eikenberry on December 3, 2010 in Collaboration , Innovation , Leadership , Video I received a package in the mail this week. With 20 cents postage due on the envelope.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

Department of State is a seriously big bureaucracy. My experience as a digital leader in the Obama administration confirmed my optimism that change can come to large bureaucracies. These were the groups we found most innovative, collaborative, and receptive to new ideas, as well as to sharing their own ideas. Our opposition.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

In order to support corporate hackers like Atis and Windham and foster internal innovation, companies need to identify these individuals and understand what makes them tick. Her goal is to ensure that women in the 140 countries that L’Oréal serves can find makeup that matches the texture and color of their skin. The prize?

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 10, 2017

The networking goal is more likely to be about developing deep and long-term strategic relationships than for completing short-term tasks. This could include navigating government bureaucracies like getting a visa or business license, being recommended for a job, getting a good deal on an apartment, etc.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 29, 2011

Size doesn’t have to mean bureaucracy, but it takes fresh organizational thinking. The most effective leaders realize that a thoughtful balance of center-based leadership with local initiative is critical, that the greatest creativity and innovation emerges from managed conflict between central and local initiatives and perspectives.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Innovation and creativity thrive in new organizations. Everyone realizes the common goal and work together for its achievement. In the disintegration phase, Leaders rationalize why goals cannot be achieved. In large bureaucracies a change takes time, while in smaller organizations change comes easier and quicker.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

Many politicians and commentators mention two critical factors in accomplishing this: increasing innovative capacity and reducing bureaucracy. Second, bureaucracy, laws, and rules exert particular influence in Greece because they help make life more structured and less uncertain. But Greece cannot stop there.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Excessive bureaucracy and top heavy management structure (too many levels within the organization). Shares how the Managers work, and the delegated tasks “fit” together into the larger Goals of the organization, department, teams. . · Openness of information , and what is happening within the organization.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We needed some common goals and ideas and a limited focus. Bureaucracy and process we know well. Church Revitalization Innovation Leadership Ministry' We are trying to grow again and often churches (and other organizations) will frantically move from one bad idea to another trying to find one that works.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Entrepreneurship aids economic vitality by getting rid of complacent incumbents, accelerating innovation, and creating jobs. As bureaucracy deepens, layer by layer and rule by rule, the sparks of entrepreneurship get snuffed out. Jeff Bezos, the company’s CEO, understands that innovation is a numbers game.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

The White House recently formed the Office of American Innovation, which has a stated focus on “implementing policies and scaling proven private-sector models to spur job creation and innovation.” presidential innovation fellow and a cofounder of 18F , a digital services office within the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

When we launched the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation last year, we aimed to enlist the most progressive practitioners and thinkers in the collective effort of reinventing what we call "the technology of human accomplishment." Innovating Innovation. Vote on your favorite challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

Streiff’s drive to speed up decision-making, overcome bureaucracy, and deliver rapid execution, exposed historic and deep divisions between executives at the consortium. Such groups can also revitalize innovation and change. Defining politics. So what is it? This leads us to take the high ground. The High Ground.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 30, 2019

We needed some common goals and ideas and a limited focus. Bureaucracy and process we knew well. We were trying to grow again and often churches (and other organizations) will frantically move from one bad idea to another trying to find one that works. I knew one of my roles would be to say no to some new initiatives.

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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 28, 2016

We needed some common goals and ideas and a limited focus. Bureaucracy and process we know well. We were trying to grow again and often churches (and other organizations) will frantically move from one bad idea to another trying to find one that works. I knew one of my roles would be to say no to some new initiatives.

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Micromanagement Long-term Finance Energy 56

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

Turns out a lot of its management tools focus on some pretty basic stuff, like how to run meetings, have conversations, and set goals. Taking steps like standardizing the way interviews are conducted, for example, may be perceived as excessive bureaucracy by some employees even if they are beneficial to the organization as a whole.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

Instead of hierarchical bureaucracy comprising a set of linear mechanisms that could be improved one-by-one through implementing proven remedial measures, it has acted more like an ingeniously morphing virus that steadily adapts itself to, and ultimately defeats, intended fixes and returns to its original state, sometimes more virulent than before.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to innovation in cities, people often think of building clusters and innovation districts to attract new businesses and shift policies to favor entrepreneurship. These goals are all important to focus on. Innovation in this case, and many others, requires invention. Hack the bureaucracy.

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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

Opening the discussion to group, depending on the players, can delay or stall the planning process. With you action plan in hand, it’s now up to you as the team lead to champion the team forward.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In a recent article, The Guardian newspaper called for the National Health Service to turn to universities as a key resource, arguing that the research ecosystem in the UK is fragmented and more partnerships that align expertise with the goal of improving public health are needed. The recommendation was echoed in a recent U.S.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

I’ve seen many organizations progress from blaming those nameless jerks in another department to working together toward the goal of better patient care. This also includes managers and leaders who are so consumed with fire fighting and bureaucracy that they are not able to spend time helping improve the system.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Robert MacDonald, one of the most offbeat and opinionated insurance-industry executives I've met (yes, I know, he doesn't have tons of competition), has a way with words when it comes to innovation. That was the spirit behind LifeUSA, MacDonald's memorable contribution to an industry whose record of innovation is pretty forgettable. "If

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

economy is not just the opportunity for raw innovation, but the ability to scale new technologies within large global companies. That’s precisely the goal of General Electric’s GE Ventures unit: foster and scale businesses with a billion-dollar potential. One might even say that an increasing advantage of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

Passing the CEO baton to Barra tomorrow , Akerson said that she “brought order to chaos” in GM’s vast product development organization, mostly by flattening its bureaucracy and cutting overlapping layers of executives. Innovation is always the product of teaming. And he put Mary Barra in charge of Product Development.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

When reducing cost and improving service is the goal, reducing hospital services or moving those services to much lower cost settings becomes the target. Next, delivery systems need to create a management system that allows for innovation and rapid experimentation. Large employers and the government are looking for the same thing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

The news that Cisco is dismantling its unique structure of councils and boards to reduce bureaucracy presents a cautionary tale and an insight into the true meaning of teamwork and collaboration in organizations.

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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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