Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

They cultivate, grow, innovate and invest. While they are respectful and inclusive, they know bureaucracy is the enemy of excellence and the impediment to efficiency. A best-selling book becomes a hit movie that spawns a popular video game that leads to a cool toy that becomes an industry. So, they protect, defend and hoard.

Innovation 150

Innovation Budgeting Strategic Planning Tools 150

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2024

There have been no signs of industry-wide moves to start hiring outside of the U.S. Instead Google’s job relocation efforts in India and Mexico will ensure those positions are filled up by employees outside the States. Image: Google Do Google Layoffs Suggest They Might Start Decentralizing Resources from the U.S.?

Trends 59

Trends Decentralization CFO Bureaucracy 59

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

They claim to want big, innovative new ideas. Organizational – your organizational bureaucracy smothers the idea. Industry-wide – Competitors or customers kill the idea. Within the framework of these six constraints, Owens outlines how we can determine what factors will be vital for the success of our potential innovations.

Creativity 94

Creativity Innovation Constraint Bureaucracy 94

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2011

We both lead and manage innovation, says Owens. Think of the process of innovation as simply a set of steps that will need to be accomplished in order to get from the stage of identifying a problem all the way through to implementing a solution.

Creativity 279

Creativity Bureaucracy Constraint Innovation 279

Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

In struggling to generate a sufficient number of creative ideas, we typically blame the number of creative individuals in our organization or hierarchy and bureaucracy. They march through the phases robotically, as if they have discovered a magic formula for innovation. Step two always follows step one.

Creativity 267

Creativity Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Construction 267

Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

The world we now live in has forced us to reexamine the way we lead people that gained preeminence during the industrial age and our often immature view of leadership—the “I’m in charge” mentality. Today’s most intelligent organizational leaders no longer leverage individual intelligence by constructing functional bureaucracies.

Collins 282

Collins Management Bureaucracy Open-book 282

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 10, 2022

Radhika’s experience building products in numerous industries is evident in every chapter. In a growing economy where credit was plentiful, the tech industry has repeatedly chanted the innovation mantra “Fail fast, learn fast.” Building world-changing products and creating transformative innovation requires being vision-driven.”

Productivity 113

Productivity Products Development Short-term 113

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 20, 2014

Stop worrying about low-cost foreign competition and the state of the economy or your industry. Some companies thrive on innovative cultures. Bureaucracy lurks on the periphery, waiting for its opening to subvert the lean, mean, business machine. This is the way we do things around here.” Mindsets are free. Simplicity.

Real Estate 215

Real Estate Human Resources Bureaucracy Constraint 215

CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

While startups amid current debates about disruptive innovations, digitalization, and industry 4.0 are generally associated with speed and agility, terms like bureaucracy and heaviness come to mind when we are thinking about companies A similar contrast is the distinction between startups and companies.

Efficiency 45

Efficiency Creativity Disruptive Innovation Bureaucracy 45

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 13, 2012

And although I am no longer engaged in commercial business, I am once again “thinking business” and enjoying the rush of discovering the ideas and innovations of today’s entrepreneurs. Take the time to look at other industries. You’ll be surprised what you can learn and how that information can affect your own business or industry.

Entrepreneur 227

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Creativity Energy 227

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

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. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Bureaucracy Hamel System 8

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

And although I am no longer engaged in commercial business, I am once again “thinking business” and enjoying the rush of discovering the ideas and innovations of today’s entrepreneurs. Take the time to look at other industries. You’ll be surprised what you can learn and how that information can affect your own business or industry.

Entrepreneur 154

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Brand Creativity 154

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Many midsized company leaders equate it with big-company bureaucracy. The CEO will become less of a doer and innovator and more of a leader of leaders. May On How To Encourage Creativity & Innovation What Will Your Leadership Legacy Be? That’s wrong. To grow from small to big, you must build a leadership infrastructure.

Leadership 217

Leadership CEO Planning Long-term 217

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The defense industry is changing in the United States of America. For years now, huge corporations such as British Aerospace Engineering and Raytheon have completely dominated the market and swooped in to poach promising innovators. Try not to get carried away with too broad a range of innovations. Specialize. Partner Up.

Innovation 125

Innovation Software Industry Politics 125

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.

Bureaucracy 10

Bureaucracy Politics Technology Morale 10

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

These challenges meant that they overwhelmingly elected to go to larger companies that can help them with the bureaucracy, rather than the startup where their talents might be better put to use. They also draw attention to some of the regional inequalities that migration, and indeed technological innovation, can bring.

Globalization 52

Globalization Offshoring Human Capital Innovation 52

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

And although I am no longer engaged in commercial business, I am once again “thinking business” and enjoying the rush of discovering the ideas and innovations of today’s entrepreneurs. Take the time to look at other industries. As a side benefit of this crash course in catch-up, I have learned more than I ever imagined.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Brand Creativity 92

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Atis is what I call a corporate hacker: an industrious intrapreneur working at the edges of organizations to solve persistent problems that customers care about. 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.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

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.

USP 185

USP Video Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. Yet they have already generated tens of millions of dollars in value for Roivant.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

To most people, bureaucracy is a bad word, synonymous with ‘red tape’ and wasted time. While this might have been the most efficient way to train assembly line workers during the Industrial Era, human capital is now the greatest resource for most companies. Silent Killer #3: Bureaucratic Styles.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

Every year, Russell Reynolds Associates surveys more than 2,000 C-level executives on the impact, structure, barriers, and enablers of digital technologies across 15 industries. The most disrupted industries typically suffer from a perfect storm of two forces. They are less affected, but not immune.

Industry 8

Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2011

Individuals within a company are held up as heroes who championed key ideas, fought bureaucracies, and instituted significant changes. We seek the business equivalents of Galileo, Newton, and Darwin — legendary figures who will discover innovative ideas that will revolutionize an industry.

Innovation 14

Innovation Objective Bureaucracy Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

You''ve been working at a small start-up for a while now when a large, deep-pocketed corporation comes knocking, asking you to join its innovation team. Or will you end up drowning in bureaucracy, pining for the white-knuckled start-up pace you''re used to? Should you take the job? Is the company "healthy but worried?"

Innovation 8

Innovation Uncertainty Bureaucracy Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. “Why bother?”. But it is a cost nonetheless.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Adding to this angst are the feverish predictions of industry pundits who believe today’s corporate dinosaurs are about to be wiped out by giant unicorn-shaped asteroids. Entrepreneurship aids economic vitality by getting rid of complacent incumbents, accelerating innovation, and creating jobs. Considering the following.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2018

First, participating patients would no longer be dependent on the bureaucracies of big health systems or on understaffed physician offices to make their own data available for further care. This could improve the quality of services and reduce cost through avoiding duplicative and unnecessary testing.

Health Care 11

Health Care System Industry Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

They go beyond the resume and interview and instead focus on key projects employees worked on, using their industry expertise and deep network to discern whether the projects were truly successful, and then they cross-check the impact of the person. But capital isn’t the only problem facing big businesses that want to innovate.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Bureaucracy Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In research for our book, The Founder’s Mentality , my coauthor and I found that 85% of the time, the barriers to sustainable growth are not external, but internal, and include bureaucracy, ability to motivate and retain talent, and slowness to decide, act or redeploy. Finally, boards should be highly attuned to speed.

Company 8

Company Bureaucracy Long-term Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 Nobody in the industry should be surprised that the future of retailing is moving toward a fusion of digital and physical experiences. Agile innovation teams are small.

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The appointment of Mary Barra as CEO-to-be of General Motors is a signal to car-lovers everywhere that the company is serious about its products and vehicle innovation. The centrality of innovation to the future — electric cars, hybrids, self-driving cars, and beyond — makes her experience pivotal.

Engineering 11

Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

“Sidra is introducing innovative education and training programs for medical students, trainees, and physicians in various specialties, which has never been done in this region before,” said Dr. Muhammad Waqar Azeem, Chair of Psychiatry at Sidra and Professor of Psychiatry at WCM-Q. Stakeholders Can Help Address Industry Gaps.

Organization 9

Organization Content Education Tourism 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Thanks to disruptive innovations , much of our world today looks radically different than it did just a decade or two ago. In industry after industry, disruptions deliver more for less and change everything from how we communicate with one another to how we work and shop. Remember flying in the old days?

Disruptive Innovation 13

Disruptive Innovation Health Care Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In many industries, drones are poised to generate what Paul Nunes and I call Big Bang Disruptions, with the FAA itself estimating $100 billion in new business growth. They have, instead, everything to do with bureaucracy and interest group politics. In Washington, business as usual.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

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

Insurance 15

Insurance Bureaucracy Innovation Industry 15