Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

Here are several: Why Culture Matters : A successful culture is like a green house where people and ideas can flourish—where everybody in the organization, regardless of rank or role, feels encouraged to speak frankly and openly and is rewarded for sharing ideas about new products, more efficient processes, and better way to serve customers.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

In Adhocracy , Robert Waterman notes that “Bureaucracy gets us through the day; it deals efficiently with everyday problems. In stud poker, as in product development or any other ad hoc work, you don’t know whether you have a winner until the last card has been played. We are often controlled by habits and mindless behavior.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

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. Ironically, this only kills productivity in the long run.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2017

Are You a First-Time Manager? Mary Barra: Simplify Bureaucracy, and Don’t Be Afraid To Job Hop via @stanfordbiz. Stop Thinking “Productivity” — Start Thinking “Problem Solving” via @leadchangegroup. How to Accelerate Team Learning via @tnvora. 3 Ways to tell if a Company Values Innovation via @DanielBurrus. by @fsonnenberg.

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Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Bureaucracy Micromanagement 162

The Practical Leader

MAY 12, 2021

Serving People, Not Pushing Products – “throughout my career…I have encouraged the entire organization to adopt a patient-first mentality, measuring outcomes by people served rather than drugs sold.” ” Throughout his career, Bourla hung pictures of patients on walls of their buildings around the world. .”

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Development Bureaucracy BHAG Leadership 69

Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

I N AN IBM global survey of CEOs, the overwhelming consensus was that more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision, successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity. Managers often resort to changes in organizational structure as a means of stimulating creativity and improving performance.”

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Creativity Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Construction 272

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Matching the Manager-Employee Capacity. Are you a “Big Enough” Manager? Correct distance in knowledge, responsibility, competency between manager and employee. Managers are seen as competent and are held accountable for the output of employees. Absent or non-existent relationship of managers and employees.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

We’ll also cover some of the reasons why managing a small team is better for your organization. Managing a small team makes them better at communicating with each other and collaborating on projects. Well, here are some reasons why working in a small team is so much more effective: Your teams will be more productive.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Obviously, it’s pretty easy to assail government bureaucracy, but how about industry?

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Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 232

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

To most people, bureaucracy is a bad word, synonymous with ‘red tape’ and wasted time. Unfortunately, contemporary management theory offers no alternatives to this style of organizing work and designing organizational structures. You just finished reading 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 4 of 7 !

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

Some managers will complain about a declining work ethic. When we look at 360 assessments or engagement surveys, it’s clear that a more accurate response to these managers is; nobody wants to work for you. Brand management is an inside job. External brand management is multiplied or minimized by workplace culture.

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Energy Crisis Absenteeism Leadership 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Technological progress and new digital products have perennially been relied upon for improving operations. But the truth is, tech can often make bureaucracy worse. But studies now reveal that doctors spend half of their time managing EHRs and desk work, shortchanging patients and fueling burnout.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 30, 2023

Managers often hire consultants to help them solve major organizational problems. Many ideas are sifted through, and the most relevant one presented to management along with the consultant’s recommended action plan. Managers are hearing them for the first time. These have mostly failed. .”

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

I hope these quotes/snippets will help you get the gist of this book and prompt you to read it: Managing the Work. The term ’project management’ makes most creative people cringe. Elaborate Gantt charts and byzantine procedures plague bureaucracies large and small. On Managing Your Energy. On Progress. On Taking Charge.

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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. They need also to ease export admin and stimulate financial support, risk management and education in strategic marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2018

. “Bureaucracy” has become a catchall term for the many ways in which organizations squander workers’ potential. Employees perceive bureaucracy to be an immovable beast, blocking their path toward efficient, satisfying work lives. In both situations we found plentiful evidence of bureaucracy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. Managers assess performance. To manage” is “to control.”. Tasks are assigned. Architecture.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. Managers assess performance. To manage” is “to control.”. Tasks are assigned. Architecture.

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Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In business, leadership infrastructure is the sum total of all the management systems, processes, leadership teams, skill sets, and disciplines that enable companies to grow from small operations into midsized or large firms. Many midsized company leaders equate it with big-company bureaucracy. They are necessary. That’s wrong.

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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.

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Mike Cardus

JUNE 21, 2012

I Continue to see excess layers & honor promotions leading to made-up positions that only increase the bureaucracy and frustration of everyone in the organization. Excessive layers within the hierarchy reinforce triangulation of management. By-passing their assigned direct manager because of excessively long lines of management.

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Organization Bureaucracy Uncertainty Learning-by-Doing 144

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.

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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.

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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.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals. We must manage our human assets with the same rigor we devote to our financial assets.

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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. Managing without managers.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2021

In addition to that, you’ll see what people have to say and use their opinion to make sure your product is the best one on the market at the moment. So, start taking care of this issue right now and try not to let bureaucracy defeat you! Create a business plan.

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Licensing Bureaucracy Pharmaceuticals Planning 82

Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Rood says “ growth needs focus on productivity and expansion.” The more an organization grows the more it needs a structure in place to manage the growth; that’s maintenance. They become one large bureaucracy of rules and regulations, designed with good intentions, to sustain the organization’s growth. Maintenance. Development.

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Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 9, 2012

” In “Marketing for Scientists” Marc Kucher listed words Jobs used to describe his products between 1998 and 2008: stunning, revolutionary, awesome, beautiful, best, tour de force, cool, remarkable. Is bureaucracy weighing you down? You get the point and Apple’s employees and America did too. Remove obstacles.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

Then there are the business developers forever in pursuit of new products and new markets. I listened to an IT manager explaining on a speakerphone to a colleague he served in the marketing function why it was going to take two days to get a requested report. They don’t forget a birthday or a chance to surprise a prospect.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2021

A conversation with business expert Martin Lindstrom on how companies can rethink rules, norms, and processes.

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Bureaucracy Process Company Organization 10

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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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. In government, we want to see demonstrably better service delivery, increased productivity and efficiency, and improved employee morale.

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Bureaucracy Politics Technology Morale 10

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. With 20 cents postage due on the envelope.

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USP Video Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

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.

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CEO Bureaucracy Maturity Human Resources 122

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.

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