Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2020

The successful ones create a culture that embraces problems as an opportunity to break the rules and find a better way. This approach hasn’t had much success, as it’s far more complicated to implement than people think. You’ll still need some people to lead teams and organize work, but call these jobs what they really are: managers.

Innovation 83

Innovation Organization Bureaucracy Learning-by-Doing 83

Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Since Steve Jobs’ death, experts have mulled the incredible success he brought to Apple as its co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer. Microsoft has no shortage of firsts for technology, but they fail to generate the same buzz. .” Is bureaucracy weighing you down? But it’s more than that.

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Chief Executive Officer Bureaucracy Motivation Innovation 185

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Managers assess performance. It is the unchallenged tenets of bureaucracy that disable our organizations—that make them inertial, incremental and uninspiring. To manage” is “to control.”. “To Controlism.

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Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Managers assess performance. It is the unchallenged tenets of bureaucracy that disable our organizations—that make them inertial, incremental and uninspiring. To manage” is “to control.”. “To Controlism.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 8

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Large businesses soon grow into huge bureaucracies where rules, regulations, policies, procedures and “I need permission to make a decision” become the norm. The thinking that made us successful yesterday will cause us to fail tomorrow. They are not leaders, but managers. Rank Has Its Privileges?

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Newsletter Leadership Learning Curve Bureaucracy 162

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 11, 2013

Referred to as “high maintenance,” they’re the 20% that take up 80% of their managers’ time. Success lies in getting and maintaining rapport with them; to keep emotions in check and not get drawn in to a defensive, unproductive spiral. 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.

Bureaucracy 9

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?

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 12

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

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media. Being a successful corporate hacker thus requires an enormous amount of energy and persuasiveness.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Well, it seems that the 21 st Century, an age of information and technology, is asking for something different from us than was called for in the Industrial age. The world, through technology, is getting smaller and smaller. The pace of change is accelerating at a dizzying rate.

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Bureaucracy Diversity Globalization Technology 56

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.

Cost 9

Cost System Management Franchising 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Not by gathering waves of data and solving successive equations. Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. This is the kind of thinking that business managers can also profit from.

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Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 8

Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As Peter Drucker, the management guru, said, “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” Leverage technology. Use technology to help you stay organized, improve efficiency, enhance communication, boost collaboration, and increase accuracy. Reduce bureaucracy and red tape.

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How To Contingency Plans Delegation Learning-by-Doing 101

Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

About ten years ago, somebody sent me a PDF file of Dr. Deming’s “Some Notes on Management in a Hospital.” A system doesn’t design itself and a system doesn’t manage itself. This also includes managers and leaders who are so consumed with fire fighting and bureaucracy that they are not able to spend time helping improve the system.

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Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

A “value management office” can greatly enhance an institution’s ability to improve outcomes and costs across the enterprise. ICCI now has five full-time employees with expertise in analytics and project management and three part-time graduate students. Integrate quality data into care delivery.

Health Care 8

Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Insurgent startups, such as Instagram and Snapchat, manage to operate with far fewer resources than legacy companies in the same industry in the “pre-digital” era. Smart headcount growth that optimizes technology is essential. How technology is changing the way we work. How technology is changing the way we work.

Company 8

Company Engineering Technology Bureaucracy 8

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

In their manager-oriented manual, “ The Moment You Can’t Ignore – When Big Trouble Leads to a Great Future ”, they ably explain “how culture drives strategic change.” The purpose of these perks is, of course, to encourage employees to spend more time working productively, and less time managing their personal lives.

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Influence Succession Ethics Bureaucracy 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I typed the words into the pristine white search field, hoping they didn’t land me on the NSA’s no-fly list: “How to manage a terrorist organization.”. There’s not a lot on the basic management issues faced by your run-of-the-mill al Qaeda cell. HBR: Why look at terrorist groups through a management lens?

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Constraint Bureaucracy Document Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I typed the words into the pristine white search field, hoping they didn’t land me on the NSA’s no-fly list: “How to manage a terrorist organization.”. There’s not a lot on the basic management issues faced by your run-of-the-mill al Qaeda cell. HBR: Why look at terrorist groups through a management lens?

Constraint 8

Constraint Bureaucracy Document Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

That means retailers must learn to compete head-on with Amazon in two fundamental capabilities: agile innovation and expense management. The successes are impressive even before 2007, when Amazon was smaller than Bed Bath & Beyond, JC Penney, or SuperValu are today.

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

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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Strategy Succession Software Industry 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Today, Apple is riding high, making this the perfect time for it — and every successful company — to reflect on Nokia's fall and ensure that they don't suffer the same fate. Kearney as "the best-managed company in the world" — not so different from Apple today. Not so long ago, Nokia was the disrupter.

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Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

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.

Company 9

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Managing the transition. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy. Financial capital is in the driving seat.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Moreover, it’s not clear whether unicorns exploiting other technologies, such as genomics or robotics, will be able to expand as rapidly as Uber, Airbnb, and other smartphone-enabled businesses. Successful startups don’t stay entrepreneurial for long. ” “Great,” you might say.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

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. Until a charter was created with guidelines about participation, some managers sat on as many as 14 boards and councils.

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Team Sports Teamwork Bureaucracy 15

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.

Company 8

Company Survey Bureaucracy Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

It’s an IT and business consulting staffing business that: (a) recruits top programmers and program managers; (b) identifies key projects at large tech companies; and (c) makes a match. The key to its success is how well Murphy & Associates evaluates talent. In practice it’s not, because success has many fathers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Bureaucracy Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

According to one McKinsey study , the success rate for organizational redesign efforts is less than 25%. It is an ongoing management discipline; as a living, breathing organism, your organization must be continually refined and improved. These are surface-level, counterfeit solutions, and they do more harm than good.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Bureaucracy McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Google and Intel rely on experts in social science and biomechanics to develop transformative products by better understanding how people think about and use technology. Too often, purchasing departments manage the selection while operating managers—not involved in selection by fiat—are expected to make the relationship work.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

A manager in a retail company demanded a promotion during the recession, because he was "indispensable," he said. Adding new items without subtracting old ones is how closets get cluttered, bureaucracies expand, workloads grow out of control, national budgets go into deficit, and people get fat. This happens to executives too.

Career 10

Career Company Bureaucracy Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

A case like Riley’s would make any leader take a hard look at his institution’s talent management, but it is particularly worrying at the Defense Department. We learned that we would need to change the way we used analytics and data and the way we managed our personnel processes. Developing Talent.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Yet, after he stepped down from his CEO role and the company underwent several management transitions, Dell started to stall out. The company has made one of the largest technology acquisitions in history (EMC). As Michael told us, “I resonate strongly with the themes of the founder’s mentality.”

Energy 8

Energy Industry Bureaucracy Company 8

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.

Education 14

Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14