Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

To most people, bureaucracy is a bad word, synonymous with ‘red tape’ and wasted time. Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

Streiff’s drive to speed up decision-making, overcome bureaucracy, and deliver rapid execution, exposed historic and deep divisions between executives at the consortium. Organizational politics refers to a variety of activities associated with the use of influence tactics to improve personal or organizational interests.

Politics 14

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

Joint Special Operations Task Force in 2003, he recognized that traditional tactics of warfare were failing in Iraq. McChrystal: When I joined Special Operations as a Green Beret, we were already pretty good at operating as small teams — say, up to about 20 guys. Stanley McCrystal took charge of the U.S.

Team 8

Team Company Silverman Mission Statement 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2015

” The company had layers of bureaucracy and management, siloed functions, and a culture of friction and defensiveness. We can look at the way our own companies operate and make inferences about how our products are perceived. This dynamic operates differently in different kinds of organizations.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Organization Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The nations on Europe's periphery can grow sustainably only if they significantly increase the ability of their economies — and ultimately their firms — to innovate, reduce the distorting role of the public sector through incumbent protection and needless bureaucracy, and improve the way their public sectors use their resources.

Long-term 8

Long-term Crisis Politics Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The economy we’re operating in today may have been built to serve corporations, but not many corporations are doing well in the digital environment. Even the apparent winners are actually operating on borrowed time and, perhaps more to the point, borrowed money. They aren’t just the operators; they are the environment.

Technology 8

Technology Short-term Long-term Creativity 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Miscalculations, manmade disasters, natural disasters, shifting resources, changing marketplaces, regulations, bureaucracies.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58