Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 9, 2019

Guest post from James Hlavacek: To improve innovation and growth, knowledge workers must be led, not managed. Too many policies born of bureaucracy are an enemy to creativity, so the more unnecessary distractions a company can remove from its employees, the freer they will be to contribute more creative ways.

Management 225

Management Bureaucracy Creativity Engineering 225

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

So what is your role in influencing creativity and innovation in others? We know it isn’t enough to simply add creativity to a list of values your organization espouses or to bring in consultants who get staff keyed up about innovating. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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Creativity Influence Innovation Brainstorming 183

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. The Naysayer Mindset.

Creativity 272

Creativity Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Construction 272

Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2017

3 Ways to tell if a Company Values Innovation via @DanielBurrus. Mary Barra: Simplify Bureaucracy, and Don’t Be Afraid To Job Hop via @stanfordbiz. Stop Thinking “Productivity” — Start Thinking “Problem Solving” via @leadchangegroup. Organizational Culture: Innovated in 3 Basic Steps by @DanielBurrus. by @fsonnenberg.

Emotional Intelligence 162

Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Bureaucracy Micromanagement 162

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 18, 2021

Managers often get a bad rap, viewed as unnecessary layers of bureaucracy that gum up creativity and innovation. “Our analysis confirms that the absence of managerial delegation is a significant factor in why successful Indian businesses fail to grow, which reduces the overall productivity of the country’s economy.”

Development 112

Development Management Delegation Bureaucracy 112

Leading Blog

MAY 25, 2016

Only a committed leader can keep an organization—a bureaucracy—on its toes, continuously adapting, innovating, improving.” Gates recognizes that we need leaders at all levels in an organization that are able to mobilize the willing and bring about productive change. Fundamentally, leadership is always about people.

Bureaucracy 150

Bureaucracy Micromanagement Advice Commitment 150

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation. Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management.

Six Sigma 50

Six Sigma Productivity Products Bureaucracy 50

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Well, here are some reasons why working in a small team is so much more effective: Your teams will be more productive. Team building for small groups can easily be achieved, thereby leading to more productive workers. Because of the size of the teams, they are able to be more productive with their time, even when they have meetings.

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Team Power Bureaucracy Team Building 52

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2023

According to the research, the waiting gap has significant implications beyond just stress and loss of productivity. In addition, lower-income individuals often interact with government agencies for services, which can require substantial time spent on paperwork, waiting in government offices, and dealing with bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy 90

Bureaucracy Stress Travel Class 90

You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 30, 2011

Steve Jobs once said, “ Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower ”. There is a huge role for leadership in creating and living a culture that values innovation. In this culture, innovation becomes everybody’s job, with all brains engaged in the pursuit of what now and what’s next. They expect it.

Innovation 58

Innovation Leadership Bureaucracy Creativity 58

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 13, 2012

To improve relevancy, I’ve had to familiarize myself with the new economy and the products and services that did not exist when I was CEO of coffee/confectioner, Jacobs Suchard. But don’t over look the fact that Apple’s culture is innovative, competitive, focused, passionate and collaborative.

Entrepreneur 227

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Creativity Energy 227

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

To most people, bureaucracy is a bad word, synonymous with ‘red tape’ and wasted time. In other words, we’re paying people to think, to innovate, and to collaborate with others to produce the best possible results. You just finished reading 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 4 of 7 !

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 9, 2012

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.

Chief Executive Officer 185

Chief Executive Officer Bureaucracy Motivation Innovation 185

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2020

Three ways to improve your R&D efforts.

Bureaucracy 19

Bureaucracy Innovation Productivity Products 19

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

A flight attendant’s response showed how management just didn’t get it, “We’re smiling in spite of the fact that we’re doing our job with fewer flight attendants, a system that often breaks down, and a product that’s deteriorated.” I’ve missed only a few days in decades of work.

Energy 52

Energy Crisis Absenteeism Leadership 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. Today, most people work in some sort of bureaucracy — and according to Gallup, 85% of employees around the world feel disengaged from their work.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

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.

CEO 213

CEO Human Resources Bureaucracy Maturity 213

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. Most of us grew up in and around organizations that fit a common template. Power trickles down.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. Most of us grew up in and around organizations that fit a common template. Power trickles down.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

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.

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

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. Leadership Infrastructure in Action Pelican Products is a manufacturer of high-performance protective cases and flashlights. They made great products and brought them to market.

Leadership 247

Leadership CEO Planning Long-term 247

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Everybody hates it, but so much of life is ruled by it: bureaucracy. That's why we launched the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge. We asked management innovators around the world to share their stories and hacks about: Making organizations more inspiring, engaging, and passion-driven. Packaging up Management Innovation.

Bureaucracy 14

Bureaucracy McKinsey Compliance Innovation 14

LDRLB

JUNE 17, 2013

Yet obvious actions – like complaining or writing letters – would have been anticipated by the same bureaucracies who have adapted in such unimaginative (and damaging) ways to the financial crisis. And as a result of all the changes made, the water used in the most efficient production processes went down by 96%.

Compliance 150

Compliance Bureaucracy Constraint Letter 150

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

To improve relevancy, I’ve had to familiarize myself with the new economy and the products and services that did not exist when I was CEO of coffee/confectioner, Jacobs Suchard. But don’t over look the fact that Apple’s culture is innovative, competitive, focused, passionate and collaborative. Your idea can change a company.

Entrepreneur 154

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Brand Creativity 154

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. ” I beg to differ.

Health Care 8

Health Care Bureaucracy Hamel System 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

We recently asked members of the HBR community to gauge the extent of “bureaucratic sclerosis” within their organization using our Bureaucracy Mass Index (BMI) tool. Here are our initial takeaways: The blight of bureaucracy seems inescapable. Bureaucracy is growing not shrinking. Bureaucracy is a time trap.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Survey Politics Consensus 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 11, 2014

APQC’s (American Productivity & Quality Center) ElissaTucker recently interviewed me for an article published on their site on March 4 called “The "Secrets" of Leadership Development. Yes, innovation and execution are important to—but it all starts with top-level commitment. In practice, it’s not that easy.

Leadership 230

Leadership Survey Leadership Development CEO 230

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 2, 2020

The very act of diversifying trade patterns itself does not come without any risk, as transport costs are likely to grow, and companies are forced to operate in unfamiliar markets with unfamiliar bureaucracy. Add in currency and credit risks, and it’s by no means an easy pivot to make.

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Supply Chain Hedge Credit Risk Bureaucracy 85

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 18, 2016

Employees can’t work from home, business casual will lead to low productivity, or the workday is nine to five; the work week forty hours. Like TD Bank, make busting customer-restricting bureaucracy more valued than protecting those “sacred cows” long in need of slaughtering.

Policies 150

Policies Follow-up Banking Bureaucracy 150

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. to go before I could refresh.

USP 185

USP Video Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 27, 2011

Here’s a compilation of some of the articles/tweets I shared on Twitter this week: New blog post: Coffee House Book Review – “Workarounds That Work” by Russell Bishop [link] #productivity # Whatever You Feel Compelled to Do, Don’t [link] # behaviour # Thanks Mark! RT @ KatriK : Hear!Hear! link] # leadership #communication # Tx Kate!

Decisionmaking 100

Decisionmaking Teamwork Bureaucracy Performance Review 100

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

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 5, 2020

I wrote a post on innovative ways to develop people , as an example. With good leadership desperation can often lead to innovation. . Burdensome bureaucracies. And when they are forced to do so it keeps them from doing more productive things. Structure is good. Get rid of meetings just to meet.

Bureaucracy 56

Bureaucracy Brainstorming Guidelines Edmondson 56

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 11

Bureaucracy Politics Technology Morale 11

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

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.

CEO 122

CEO Bureaucracy Maturity Human Resources 122

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

It was a problem regardless of brand, formula, or product — until Atis set her sights on solving it once and for all. 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. They don’t go it alone.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. We asked some big questions in our quest to bust bureaucracy: What does it mean to build an organization in which everyone is aligned and inspired by a deeply-felt sense of purpose?

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 12