Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The dictionary says bureaucracy is a means of coordinating activities through standardized rules and procedures. It was originally seen as a good thing – a way of allowing organizations to survive changes in leadership, and to resist the capriciousness of powerful individual leaders with vested interests. And it is a general tendency.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2015

But for old-school bureaucracies, it’s a scary new world that requires managers to rethink the basic principles that govern established businesses. If your firm outsources mobile app development to an agency or design firm, there’s your answer). Management and Leadership – Managing Your Virtual Team.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The sheer sprawl of these outsourced services is bewildering, even at medium-size organizations: housekeeping, food services, materials management, IT, and clinical staffing, including temporary nursing and also physician coverage for the ER, ICU and hospitalists. Eliminating layers of management. As the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Unproductive routines, corporate bureaucracy, and “administrivia” kill ambition and sap energy for far too many employees. Organizations waste too much time - see how Bain helps them manage it like money in this 10-minute video slide deck. How many still believe they can make a difference? Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Change the dialogue in the senior leadership team to focus on the end-to-end customer experience. CEOs cannot manage their silos via hub-and-spoke and expect digital expertise to be properly incorporated in key decisions. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge. Tom Watson, Jr.

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