The Practical Leader

MARCH 14, 2012

” Since the failure rate of organizational change efforts like health and safety, quality, productivity, innovation, customer service, morale/engagement, teamwork, or public sector renewal is around 70%, this is a critical question.

Teamwork 61

Teamwork Bottom-up Morale Bureaucracy 61

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 129

Innovation Software Industry Politics 129

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit margins, return on equity , and employee morale ; costly delays as players haggle over the size of the kickback; and poverty and poor governance in the markets where they’re paid. How can companies kick this habit? You can easily add 10 to 20 percent.

Management 11

Management Ethics Cost Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Specifically, the study found that S&P 500 companies where the founder is still CEO are more innovative, generate 31% more patents, create patents that are more valuable, and are more likely to make bold investments to renew and adapt the business model — demonstrating a willingness to take risk to invent the future.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist Long-term Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

For all its enemies, bureaucracy is amazingly resilient. That makes bureaucracy the organizational equivalent of kudzu, the invasive, herbicide-resistant vine that has overrun thousands of acres of woodland in the American south. Why is bureaucracy so difficult to eradicate? Beating bureaucracy isn’t just one more re-org.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Proposal Middle Management Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

And now Plank, with his innovative foresight and devotion to the city of Baltimore, is making his biggest bet yet. As Fagone claims, "innovation probably can''t do anything to protect the shy sack of mayonnaise that is the human brain if the human it belongs to is hitting another human with the force of 15 to 20 Gs." It Can Be Done!

Price 8

Price Company Sports Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

SAP's senior management asked Ferose to shore up employee morale at SAP Labs India, where the attrition rate had reached a painful 19% in 2009. This belief led Ferose to overhaul SAP Labs India's hierarchical, 'top-heavy' corporate culture, allowing bottom-up creativity and innovation to blossom.

Innovation 9

Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 9

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

This causes loss of employee morale and, as a result, company productivity. Resulting from inflexible conditions, obsolete policies-procedures, procrastination, attitude, resistance to innovation, failure to change. Crises can have many liabilities upon companies, including loss of profits and market share. Bad Work, Poor Planning.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Andrea Ovans Beware the Tentacles This Is How Bureaucracy Dies Fortune Gary Hamel says it''s disheartening to go inside "one of America''s youngest and fastest growing IT companies" and find that it already has 600 vice presidents, a pretty strong indicator that the "tentacles of bureaucracy" are rapidly encircling it.

Charisma 8

Charisma Hamel Bureaucracy Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Over my many years of helping organizations create high-performance workplaces, I’ve seen firsthand how untrustworthy managers damage morale and productivity. Weigh the potential risks of one-size-fits-all disciplinary policies against the real costs of turnover, low morale, and corresponding decreased performance.

Policies 14

Policies Micromanagement Reference Covey 14

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The problem seems to be caused by moral considerations, as when the civil servants were politically aligned with the administration, their agreement with statements such as “the work I do is important” and “I’m willing to put in extra effort to get the job done” rose considerably. Nobody knows yet.

Politics 111

Politics Analysis Bureaucracy Influence 111