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The Best Things in Business are Free

In the CEO Afterlife

Some companies thrive on innovative cultures. Bureaucracy lurks on the periphery, waiting for its opening to subvert the lean, mean, business machine. Human Resources Leadership Life Strategy Apple Business Chanel Coco Chanel Culture Google In-N-Out Burger Innovation Patagonia Red Bull Steve Jobs Zappos'

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Are Great CEOs Always Great Leaders?

In the CEO Afterlife

Somehow he was able to see the unseen, and marshal Apple’s resources to deliver the innovative products that fulfilled his view of what lied ahead. Is a “turnaround” artist right for a profitable, steady bureaucracy? During his era, Steve Jobs was miles ahead of every other forward thinking CEO in that race.

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Your Quick Fixes are Exacerbating Your Organizational and Team Problems

Mike Cardus

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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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach. One large consulting and accounting firm recently embarked on an innovative program to identify and cultivate high-potential leaders.

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Innovating Around a Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), however, was successful in transforming its bureaucracy. Thus, needed process changes within bureaucracies should always be built into such initiatives.

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Three Steps to Create Optimism in the Workplace

Chart Your Course

Optimistic employees work harder, longer and with a more innovative spirit. Optimism frames and fuels decisions, and in the modern workplace, it fosters solid work, innovation and sales. Is bureaucracy weighing you down? How can you encourage innovation? So how do you harness Optimism for your business? Lead by example.

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Are Great CEOs Always Great Leaders?

LDRLB

Somehow he was able to see the unseen, and marshal Apple’s resources to deliver the innovative products that fulfilled his view of what lied ahead. Is a “turnaround” artist right for a profitable, steady bureaucracy? During his era, Steve Jobs was miles ahead of every other forward thinking CEO in that race.

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