Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 3, 2010

What if that person were retasked to evaluate what the fair market value of the transport of media is? Aside from a couple of Office Space references it drives home that there is such a thing as diminishing returns on bureaucracy. Unbelievable — but not surprising, considering the source. to go before I could refresh.

USP 185

USP Video Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

The authors of the year’s three best business books on culture, one of which is a novel, explore the elusive subject from widely divergent perspectives, but all end up confirming that it is the single most powerful influence on how people behave in organizations.

Influence 100

Influence Succession Ethics Bureaucracy 100

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For years now, huge corporations such as British Aerospace Engineering and Raytheon have completely dominated the market and swooped in to poach promising innovators. Inventors and programmers have found themselves swallowed up in vast bureaucracies, working on projects that they feel morally uncomfortable on and with less than savory people.

Innovation 130

Innovation Software Industry Politics 130

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

But it’s essential to exercising influence. You need influence to succeed. But it led to an even larger shift in IBM’s culture, transforming the company from an inwardly focused bureaucracy to a market-driven innovator. You and Your Team. Persuasion. How do you build your capacity for empathy?

Film 8

Film Bureaucracy Influence Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Convinced that they have a sustainable competitive advantage (always a risky way to think about your business), executives allow bureaucracy to take over and decision-making to become sclerotic. And this despite having working prototypes of devices that could have come to market as the iPhone or iPad – years before Apple invented them.

Company 8

Company Competitive Advantage Bureaucracy Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

We confirmed this observation by developing a database of all public companies in the global stock markets and tracking their performance over 25 years. In other words, how founders built their companies on the inside, from the start, influenced their companies’ success on the outside, for a long time.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist Long-term Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The group also focused on specific pillars upon which the regime’s power rested —such as the media, bureaucracy, police, and military— to target their efforts. Otpor might have been a protest group, but it operated as if it was a startup company marketing a product. This clarity of purpose led directly to action.

Management 8

Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

In this glowing yet skeptical-in-all-the-right-places article, Jason Fagone introduces readers to the SpeedForm, a shoe made in a bra factory that just might be Under Armour''s best chance at chipping away Nike''s 40% hold on the athletic shoe market. Papers, Please" is a video game about bureaucracy. It Can Be Done!

Price 8

Price Company Sports Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

It was clear to me then that the Defense Department would need to keep pace with the dramatic changes — many of them technological — reshaping the economy, the labor market, and human resource management. The department started sending recruiters to the 44 states where we had fallen behind.

Talent Management 9

Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

Geography significantly influences the formation of generational beliefs and behavior. What we see and hear — and the conclusions we draw — influence for our lifetimes what we value, how we measure success, whom we trust, and the priorities we set for our own lives, including the role work will play within them.

Education 14

Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Over 50% of marketing and IT prefer a salesperson who will listen and match a solution to solve their specific needs. Whenever a company makes a purchase decision that involves a team of people, factors including self-interests, politics, and group dynamics will influence the final decision. 3: Market Leaders Have an Edge.

Price 8

Price Health Care Committee Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The article shocked the sensibilities of many who worried about rising corporate power in the world, but for many executives struggling to chart courses through the chaos of newly globalized and deregulated markets, it offered an irresistible clarity: one need only focus on owners’ interests. As a result, a new era is emerging.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

There’s pain as companies go out of business and people lose jobs, but ultimately there’s gain as the new market establishes itself. Each and every choice and process can be made more efficient, more responsive to market conditions, and more persuasive to users. Old ways of doing things are replaced by better ones.

Technology 8

Technology Short-term Long-term Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

In every entrepreneurship hotspot, there are important connectors and influencers who may not be entrepreneurs themselves. In emerging markets, NGOs such as Endeavor and Wamda have been key catalysts. Of course, many large corporations do indeed take defensive action against entrepreneurs who challenge their markets.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

And a study of Kenya’s popular M-PESA mobile money service suggests that digital financial services can increase the participation of women in the workforce and create opportunities for women in the formal market economy. Moreover, women tend to have a disproportionate influence on decisions around family, community, and children.

Globalization 8

Globalization Participative Telecommunications Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

It harbors institutional prejudice against minorities and contains many provisions that limit citizens’ influence in shaping public policy. In 1997 the military ousted a democratically elected, Islamist-led coalition government without even leaving the barracks. Roughly a quarter of these overthrew democratically elected governments.

Politics 8

Politics Incubator Bureaucracy Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

That’s understandable — the growth of the consumer mobile market in Africa has been spectacular. And while almost all the examples I cite are from West Africa, many of these ideas and innovations are well suited for emerging markets around the world. In emerging markets, infrastructure is always an issue.

CRM 8

CRM Marketing Supply Chain NGO 8