Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The rise in the influence of the knowledge worker. . In addition to reducing bureaucracy, high-performing, high-tech companies provide freedom in dress codes, scheduled hours, and lifestyle choices. Traditional compensation plans must be challenged, needless bureaucracy eliminated, and intrapreneurial opportunities provided.

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

Unlocking the keys to numerator thinking can lead to increasing influence and worth among the units you serve. Numerator thinkers operate with an abundance mentality; denominator thinkers use a scarcity mentality. While they are respectful and inclusive, they know bureaucracy is the enemy of excellence and the impediment to efficiency.

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Innovation Budgeting Strategic Planning Tools 150

The Practical Leader

MARCH 14, 2012

” “Culture is most strongly influenced by the behavior of the people at the top — if their behavior is not in line with the new culture, it will never succeed.” .” “A huge factor is engaging managers and frontline workers before changes are implemented.

Teamwork 61

Teamwork Bottom-up Morale Bureaucracy 61

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. According to McGill’s Henry Mintzberg , it’s just another influencing process along with norms, formal authority and expertise. So what is it?

Politics 14

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

His influence can be found in everything from factory floors to Fortune 500 org-charts. This is the critical lesson that the Special Operations community learned during the early years following the attacks of Sept. In the Special Operations community, there were three critical steps in accomplishing this: Understand your problem.

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Taylorism Taylor Bureaucracy Leadership 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 30, 2010

This video speaks to the culture that is prevalent in more workplaces than any of us would like to admit, workplaces that operate on the basis of positional power with an undercurrent of fear. How might you influence change in that direction? Do they tell stories about overcoming obstacles or being crushed by the bureaucracy?

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Video P&L Blog Long-term 44

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

The most commonly cited ways to do this include making it easier to file the paperwork to start a business, and reducing the amount of administrative bureaucracy and restrictions that entrepreneurs encounter. In many countries, business policies vary a great deal among individual cities, which is where companies actually operate.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Real Estate B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

The most commonly cited ways to do this include making it easier to file the paperwork to start a business, and reducing the amount of administrative bureaucracy and restrictions that entrepreneurs encounter. In many countries, business policies vary a great deal among individual cities, which is where companies actually operate.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Real Estate B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

But it’s essential to exercising influence. You need influence to succeed. Gerstner called his listening tour Operation Bear Hug. 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.

Film 8

Film Bureaucracy Influence Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

First, the role must be positioned correctly, at the appropriate level in the organization, with sufficient scope, influence and sponsorship to make change happen. Tasked explicitly with driving growth, these roles combine strategy, corporate development, investment, and operations, as companies seek to find meaningful new revenues streams.

Industry 8

Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

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. At the extreme, your company becomes an out-of-touch bureaucracy where power shifts to corporate offices and to people who may never have served a customer or made a product.

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

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The core of our proposal is to focus on improving governance and reducing political influence, using and adapting the EU's potentially impartial mechanisms to improve the public administration in countries facing structural and economic problems.

Long-term 8

Long-term Crisis Politics Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

We laid the groundwork to appeal to the influencers young people trust most — their parents and family, teachers, coaches, guidance counselors, and clergy — and convince them military service is something to encourage. To overcome those challenges, we began to change where and how we recruited and advertised.

Talent Management 9

Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training 9

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

David Silverman: Shared consciousness is the single most important capability for organizations operating in complex environments. With the right operating mechanisms in place, shared consciousness can scale across the enterprise. The HR Digest: Who had the most significant influence on shaping you as a leader?

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Silverman Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Objective 51

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As more firms became multinationals, fewer showed loyalty to particular communities or any hesitation to migrate their operations to wherever costs were lowest. Employees were viewed more as fungible inputs to operations, and customers viewed more as targets within more and less lucrative segments. As a result, a new era is emerging.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The economy we’re operating in today may have been built to serve corporations, but not many corporations are doing well in the digital environment. Even the apparent winners are actually operating on borrowed time and, perhaps more to the point, borrowed money. They aren’t just the operators; they are the environment.

Technology 8

Technology Short-term Long-term Creativity 8

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 25, 2019

The paper directly references the rise of the European Union, alongside bodies such as the World Trade Organization (WTO), World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and their growing influence on national politics. “Thus, the undermining of domestic accountability is likely to continue.” ” A shifting trifecta.

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Process Cooper Globalization Policies 69

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Under the guise of acting like owners, many leaders operate as bureaucrats or, far worse, in some cases as personal-wealth maximizers. Companies with a strong founder’s mentality focus relentlessly on freeing up cash from their operations, but not so that they can hoard it or return it to creditors or shareholders.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Short-term Budgeting Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

To use a related example, most companies have a zero-tolerance policy for being at work under the influence. As a leader, it’s your responsibility to use good judgment to take risks, to operate with principled motives, and to hold positive assumptions. That’s because safety is paramount. And you get what you give.

Policies 14

Policies Micromanagement Reference Covey 14

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This has a notable impact on employees in the civil service who operate under a readily changing political class. For instance, research from the BIO Norwegian Business School highlights how political changes influenced employees in the European Commission. Political influence. Nobody knows yet.

Politics 112

Politics Analysis Bureaucracy Influence 112

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The creative binding together of radio stations, private security operations (usually available only to the very wealthy), and neighborly values achieves what only massive infrastructure build-out in terms of police stations, communication lines, response vehicles, and training facilities could enable in another context.

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CRM Marketing Supply Chain NGO 8