Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. We asked some big questions in our quest to bust bureaucracy: What does it mean to build an organization in which everyone is aligned and inspired by a deeply-felt sense of purpose?

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Tony Mayo

MAY 7, 2010

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As Peter Drucker, the management guru, said, “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” Leverage technology. Use technology to help you stay organized, improve efficiency, enhance communication, boost collaboration, and increase accuracy. Reduce bureaucracy and red tape.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. This is the kind of thinking that business managers can also profit from. But manage it, and you become the industry leader.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

Since my youth I've been an early adopter of new technology. I know new technology can bring much creativity and value. Investments in technology were so low for so long that we were having technological blackouts with frequency. Nowadays, technology is at the core of our urban planning and management of public policies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. It is shaping the new game of industrial businesses on a worldwide basis and showing other companies, regardless of their size, complexity, and history, how to proceed. This is not guesswork.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2018

Several technology companies — including Google and Microsoft — tried this in the early 2000s, but their efforts failed. The technology for giving outside entities access to electronic records kept by hospitals and doctors was underdeveloped. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care.

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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." How do we make innovation an every day, every person capability?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

To gain a true leadership advantage, organizations must be filled with individuals who understand how to maximize their own ratio of "accomplishment over authority." They leverage social technologies in ways that amplify dissident voices, coalesce communities of passion and unleash the forces of change.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Insurgent startups, such as Instagram and Snapchat, manage to operate with far fewer resources than legacy companies in the same industry in the “pre-digital” era. What matters is how lean a company you can create while still getting the maximum return on your assets. How technology is changing the way we work.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I typed the words into the pristine white search field, hoping they didn’t land me on the NSA’s no-fly list: “How to manage a terrorist organization.”. There’s not a lot on the basic management issues faced by your run-of-the-mill al Qaeda cell. HBR: Why look at terrorist groups through a management lens?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I typed the words into the pristine white search field, hoping they didn’t land me on the NSA’s no-fly list: “How to manage a terrorist organization.”. There’s not a lot on the basic management issues faced by your run-of-the-mill al Qaeda cell. HBR: Why look at terrorist groups through a management lens?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Chris spent years working for a supportive, encouraging manager at a major technology company headquartered in Silicon Valley. His manager gave him top ratings in his performance evaluations, space to do his work, and had never been controlling. His manager had been in the company for 20 years.

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Career Absenteeism Humphrey Bureaucracy 15

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. To compete with Amazon’s relentless flow of innovations, traditional retailers have no choice but to relearn how to innovate like the successful startups they once were.

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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. The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth. Leadership & Managing People Book. In the 1990s, for example, Nokia rocketed to the top of the handset market. Adapted from. Add to Cart.

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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. Until a charter was created with guidelines about participation, some managers sat on as many as 14 boards and councils.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible. ” Most managers would never dream of treating externals like internals. Internal-external competition.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

Or will you end up drowning in bureaucracy, pining for the white-knuckled start-up pace you''re used to? Certainly, companies in crisis are difficult environments for innovators to thrive within because management''s attention is overwhelmingly (and appropriately) focused on fixing the immediate misfortune. Should you take the job?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

But the world’s best organizations are calling a truce: They are learning how to turn the potentially destructive power of process and procedure to everyone’s benefit. How did the war start, and why is it important? Taylor , the founder of scientific management who died 100 years ago. It began with Frederick W.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

It’s an IT and business consulting staffing business that: (a) recruits top programmers and program managers; (b) identifies key projects at large tech companies; and (c) makes a match. I previously wished for a Shark-Tank for Corporate America to create more efficient capital markets to fund great innovation ideas bogged down by bureaucracy.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

In their manager-oriented manual, “ The Moment You Can’t Ignore – When Big Trouble Leads to a Great Future ”, they ably explain “how culture drives strategic change.” The purpose of these perks is, of course, to encourage employees to spend more time working productively, and less time managing their personal lives.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Phil Treglia wasn''t your typical management adviser. Another: Afghan soldiers needed to learn how to be confident in their skills — and that couldn''t happen with tons of advisers looking over their shoulders. Crisis management' Andy O''Connell The Highest Stakes Lead or Die Fast Company Lt. military withdrawal.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Schumacher, one of the fathers of the Green movement, declared that "small is beautiful" and called for "a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful." Of course, there are downsides to this approach, and management needs to be aware of them.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

Fake it until you make it" might sound like a manageable way to approach your entrepreneurial efforts, but it''s also worth considering this man-riding-a-lion analogy from EnSite Solutions CEO Toby Thomas: "People look at him and think, ‘This guy''s really got it together! Papers, Please" is a video game about bureaucracy. He''s brave!’

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2015

But for old-school bureaucracies, it’s a scary new world that requires managers to rethink the basic principles that govern established businesses. You won’t be able to stop this process, but if you react soon enough, you will at least have the option to determine how and when you will respond. Is anybody steering the ship?

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Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

Management 3.0 – a psychological shift. You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it. In my management 3.0 In this article, my description of management 3.0 In the management 3.0 So what does a Management 3.0 So what does a Management 3.0 As a Management 3.0

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Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 15, 2019

I would guess that most people spend 90% of their time distracted either by obsessive use of technology or by their own thinking (or both). Some general examples include frequently asking about and seeking out ways that we as leaders can help team members to be happier both at work and at home.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

As an experienced manager, he knew that his manufacturing and operation division’s success depended on getting creative ideas from his employees. Over the past three decades, we have researched how leaders motivate their employees to come up with creative solutions to organizational problems. Justin Tierney/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

One of the driving principles of the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation is that everyone wins when everyone shares. We launched the Management 2.0 We launched the Management 2.0 When it comes to making an impact and accelerating change, it turns out that the how is as important as the what.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We announced the winners of the Management 2.0 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.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

There are a number of ways to do this, as outlined in co-author David Silverman’s leadership and management book, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement in a Complex World. But one of the best ways to adopt the bottom-up management style. The person who stands out most to me is my high school water polo coach, Larry Rogers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

To be sure, as we’ve seen with the adoption of electronic health records (EHR), the health care industry has a track record of dragging its feet when it comes to adopting new technologies — and for failing to maximize efficiency gains from new technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Technology has enabled massive personal productivity gains — computers, spreadsheets, email, and other advances have made it possible for a knowledge worker to seemingly produce more in a day then was previously possible in a year. And an example from my company, VoloMetrix (now part of Microsoft), can help illustrate exactly how.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Today she earns six figures teaching people, mostly up-and-coming Silicon Valley leaders, how to be charismatic. Her story is not only an inspiring one of adapting self-help narratives and neuroscience to "trick" her own mind; it’s also a tale couched in almost a century of management thinking about who can and can''t be a leader.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

Neither digital technology nor the corporation itself is necessarily to blame for the current predicament. Technology may be involved with all this, but pointing to digital things as somehow causative is a mistake. No question, digital technology has created tremendous new avenues for growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Today’s most competitive marketplace isn’t technology but talent. Their function has been turned upside down and inside out as a result of digital technology, empowered employees, and connected customers. Removing obstacles: Don’t let politics, bureaucracy, and roadblocks get in the way. Marketing Talent management'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The Healthy Heart program seeks to bring pacemaker technology to hundreds of thousands of Indians who desperately need it. No new technology was involved here — and that's the point. The effort also positions Medtronic to dramatically expand in those markets as it develops new technologies that lower costs. (

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