Tony Mayo

JANUARY 8, 2011

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 13, 2016

They recognize that innovation is a strategy for growth and that being able to harness that power will drive their organization’s success and their own as well. Structure For Success To drive growth and cultural change you have to make a concerted and intentional effort at innovation. To be innovative you must take risks.

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Innovation Real Estate Open-book Bureaucracy 120

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 11, 2013

Success lies in getting and maintaining rapport with them; to keep emotions in check and not get drawn in to a defensive, unproductive spiral. Ultimately, the possibility of lawsuits due to hostile work environment or discriminatory behavior accusations. This insight snuck up on me one day when I was facilitating a teambuilding session.

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Bond Attrition Absenteeism Bureaucracy 243

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), however, was successful in transforming its bureaucracy. So, what makes the difference between success and failure?

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

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. Witnessing both failure and success in government, I saw three common elements required to realize positive organizational change.

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Bureaucracy Politics Technology Morale 9

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

Moderate bureaucracy: If innovation becomes difficult because of bureaucratic barriers, employees will stop trying. Communicate the successes: Having some successes and communicating them will energize your organization to step up to the plate on additional creative efforts. It makes successes obvious, visible, celebrated.

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Creativity Influence Innovation Brainstorming 183

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?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Please think about them in the context of their leadership ability. Only we’re going to look for leadership and we’re going to look for it in places we may not have considered before. The world, through technology, is getting smaller and smaller. This week’s post is a little different from my usual fare. If so, why is that?

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Bureaucracy Diversity Globalization Technology 56

Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Leverage technology. Use technology to help you stay organized, improve efficiency, enhance communication, boost collaboration, and increase accuracy. Reduce bureaucracy and red tape. The only thing standing in the way of you and astronomical success is the will and the desire to make it a reality. Get organized.

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How To Contingency Plans Delegation Learning-by-Doing 101

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

The genius of the book is that Eggers extends Silicon Valley’s existing technology and organizational practices no further than to their next logical steps (imagine Google on steroids), and only at the conclusion does he move to the illogical and chilling end to which they may be heading.

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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. To do so, you have to set aside everything that made your company a big success and focus on the changes that will wipe all of that success away. That’s easier said than done.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

But what are their odds of success — and how do those odds compare to start-ups? Still, statistically your chances of success are much better—based on the numbers above, roughly 1,700 times better—if you can benefit from a strong existing business and the scale advantages of an established company.

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Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

But while creating the "new and the nimble" within an established bureaucracy is a well-known art form in the private sector, governments are still struggling to do it effectively. Defining the most important stakeholders early — and getting clarity on their expectations — will be a decisive success factor.

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Bureaucracy Health Care Committee Information Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

So the groups that do sustain themselves over time and become a durable threat are the ones that put in place relatively low-cost business practices and coherent succession plans and all the things a business with high personnel turnover would need to sustain itself. So what makes Islamic State so “successful”? .

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

So the groups that do sustain themselves over time and become a durable threat are the ones that put in place relatively low-cost business practices and coherent succession plans and all the things a business with high personnel turnover would need to sustain itself. So what makes Islamic State so “successful”? .

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

The news that Cisco is dismantling its unique structure of councils and boards to reduce bureaucracy presents a cautionary tale and an insight into the true meaning of teamwork and collaboration in organizations. As each successive project was undertaken, differentiated roles and responsibilities were elaborated again.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

They abhor complexity, bureaucracy, and anything that gets in the way of the clean execution of strategy. Together, these attitudes and behaviors constitute a frame of mind that is one of the great and most undervalued secrets of business success. Leadership & Managing People Book. We call it the founder’s mentality.

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Company Survey Bureaucracy Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Not by gathering waves of data and solving successive equations. Moreover, when we look around at the companies who are doing well, it can be hard to see the rhyme or reason of the decisions that led to that success. The energy should go into understanding how things are changing, and deftly tacking toward successful outcomes.

Management 8

Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

American manufacturing companies were falling behind because of hidebound, privilege-laden bureaucracies that squashed new ideas, failed to listen to voices from below, behaved arrogantly toward customers, and generally stifled innovation. Auto industry Gender Leadership' The old GM was the most macho and woman-unfriendly of them all.

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Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

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. Traditionalists reared in these areas retained strong ties to traditional customs and family practices.

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Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

However, doing this with blanket eliminations of layers carries a risk: inadvertently pruning away the next generation of leadership talent. One large nonprofit system that has been struggling with its costs had a “president of strategy,” prima facie evidence of a serious culture problem! Clinical staffing and variation.

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Cost System Management Franchising 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

According to one McKinsey study , the success rate for organizational redesign efforts is less than 25%. Intentional design can improve the health of the organization, position your team for success, and make life better for everyone. These are surface-level, counterfeit solutions, and they do more harm than good. What are our markets?

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Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Bureaucracy McKinsey 8

Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 15, 2019

You share the example of Herb Kelleher and Southwest Airlines as models of love in action and the success it brings. That type of pressure to hit the numbers in the short term makes it very hard to do the things necessary to create a culture that drives long-term success, which is a people-first culture. What gets in their way? .

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Long-term Self-aware Short-term Bureaucracy 65

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

The company has made one of the largest technology acquisitions in history (EMC). We believe that there are four sets of action implications of our research for leaders: The founder’s mentality is a hard strategic asset that should be managed and discussed and fully valued as central to success.

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Energy Industry Bureaucracy Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The clients don’t have to own or maintain the technology. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

While leaders of many care organizations may be fearful that a new centralized staff function would add to corporate overhead and bureaucracy at a time when they are trying to reduce expenses, becoming adept at the delivery of value-based care requires capabilities that provider organizations currently lack.

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Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. As was discussed in Chapter 8, technology constitutes one tenth of 1% of any organization’s overall Big Picture. In 1999, the U.S. Bad Work, Poor Planning.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Picking the right approach to leadership gets the most attention, but execution may be just as big a problem. There are a number of ways to do this, as outlined in co-author David Silverman’s leadership and management book, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement in a Complex World.

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Silverman Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Objective 51

Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

Reduce Bureaucracy 3. Overhaul Technology 5. A focus on cash is vital, but it’s important to remember that you can’t save your way to success. To address the technology gap at Nasdaq, Greifeld went outside to buy winners—smart acquisitions. As he relates in Market Mover , the story had five parts: 1.

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Organization Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage Technology 257

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

After all, we have seen dozens of large American players become successful in modern India. 1 — Consistent Leadership Over Time Matters in This Market. 1 — Consistent Leadership Over Time Matters in This Market. Success in India requires a commitment to volume and scale. Understanding it takes time and focus.

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CEO Long-term Short-term Mass Marketing 9

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

If only you will buy their version of ‘The Answer,’ then you can surely fast-forward your way to instant riches, success and an easy life. This negatively impacts our society, which continually seeks button-pushing answers for life’s complex problems without paying enough dues toward a truly successful life.

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Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Today’s most competitive marketplace isn’t technology but talent. Their function has been turned upside down and inside out as a result of digital technology, empowered employees, and connected customers. Leadership + digital acumen: Many digital natives lack leadership experience and many seasoned leaders lack digital expertise.

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Marketing Strategy Brand Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

But it is also a complex market, with a reputation for corruption, uncertainty, and bureaucracy. No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up) — your world is awash with data.

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Books Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The Healthy Heart program seeks to bring pacemaker technology to hundreds of thousands of Indians who desperately need it. No new technology was involved here — and that's the point. On the basis of this early success, the company plans to scale up the program across India and then in other emerging markets.

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Apple and Google have innovation in their DNA; they have many years of success to build on; and they have earned the license to take some risks. If these companies are successful, then they are likely to be much more effective role models than Apple or Google are. But that's a flawed approach. Loosely defined roles.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

The Bin Laden operation was a seminal moment in the campaign to decimate Al Qaeda’s leadership. Its successes are largely unknown; its failures are legendary. Reorienting priorities in a large government bureaucracy is hard enough. Simply put, CIA has one of the toughest jobs in all of government.

Management 8

Management Operations Planning Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Because there are several frameworks for strategy design and implementation, we believe every organization needs to craft its own recipe for strategic success. Practices can change, business models are disrupted, and technology evolves, but principles do not change. The importance of active and visible leadership cannot be overstated.

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