Persuasive Powerhouse

MAY 8, 2013

Expectations are high, and you must continually find a way to navigate the politics, bureaucracy and naysayers while staying strong and committed to your work. You have more power than you might think. You have the power to choose how you view a situation, rather than feel victimized. . Does this sound like you?

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Power Bureaucracy Politics Energy 247

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 30, 2023

It was loaded with more than twice as much firepower as the most powerful European warships. He ignored or shut down any advice that what he was forcing on the shipbuilders wasn’t feasible. ” can produce powerful insights and engage people in resolving the issues raised. Keep units small and decentralized.

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Energy Power Focus Group Decentralization 52

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Everybody loves to talk about the power of collaboration. Working in a small team makes work faster because you’ll be able to communicate clearly and effectively with one another, without having to work through layers of bureaucracy. The post Unleashing the Power of Small Teams appeared first on The HR Digest.

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Team Power Bureaucracy Team Building 52

QAspire

AUGUST 30, 2016

Simplicity stems from decentralization of power. “ New Power ” as they call it, is all about empowering people, creating conducive ecosystems for performance, learning collectively and encouraging collaboration. Most complexity in organization is introduced in an attempt to centralize power. This is rubbish, very abstract.

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Decentralization Bureaucracy Incentives Metrics 195

Lead from Within

JUNE 27, 2019

Here are the suggestions I made to my client: Cut back on bureaucracy. Sometimes people lose enthusiasm because they’re so caught up in processes and procedures that feel like they spend their days just feeding the bureaucracy. Lead from within: Fearful managers restrict power; bold leaders empower people whenever they can. #1

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Bureaucracy Management Survey Delegation 167

Lead from Within

MARCH 23, 2021

Power doesn’t come to those who speak the most but to those who listen best. People have enough to do without the bother of unnecessary bureaucracy and complicated processes. Leadership means creating a space for others to accomplish their best. You’re constantly speaking and don’t allow others to express their opinion.

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How To Leadership Bureaucracy Execution 218

Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 26, 2022

H ow to Say No at Work: Powerful Phrases to Stand Your Ground. These powerful questions will help you engage in better conversations and deeper dialogue. . The most popular episode (and one of David’s favorites too) was this inspiring conversation: Get Things Done in a Bureaucracy with Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai .

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Article Leadership Bureaucracy Review 234

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 31, 2021

The authors present a fascinating look at how to breakdown the bureaucracy within your organization and unleash the power and true abilities of the human beings in your organization – making your organization more bold, entrepreneurial and as nimble as change itself. Human beings are creative. Organizations are (mostly) not.

Organization 65

Organization Bureaucracy Hamel Politics 65

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The authors present a fascinating look at how to breakdown the bureaucracy within your organization and unleash the power and true abilities of the human beings in your organization – making your organization more bold, entrepreneurial and as nimble as change itself. Human beings are creative. Organizations are (mostly) not.

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Bureaucracy Hamel Politics Budgeting 65

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 4, 2020

Available starting August 18, 2020, the authors present a fascinating look at how to breakdown the bureaucracy within your organization and unleash the power and true abilities of the human beings in your organization – making your organization more bold, entrepreneurial and as nimble as change itself. Human beings are creative.

Organization 65

Organization Bureaucracy Hamel Politics 65

Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2017

Churchill & Orwell: Speaking Truth To Power from @JohnBaldoni. How Introverted CEOs Make A Powerful Impact by @JennKahnweiler. Mary Barra: Simplify Bureaucracy, and Don’t Be Afraid To Job Hop via @stanfordbiz. 5 Powerful Ways to Answer Self-Doubt and Step into Your Greatness by @LollyDaskal.

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Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Bureaucracy Micromanagement 162

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 8, 2012

Every day, we see or read about bureaucracy – government is the biggest offender. While the speed of a snail is the most common knock against big company bureaucracy, there are several other similarities between the species. I’ve always held the opinion that big organizations move at a snail’s pace. Snails are slow. Snails can’t hear.

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Company Bureaucracy Airlines Banking 212

The Practical Leader

MAY 12, 2021

Bureaucracy Busting — “we isolated out scientists from financial concerns and freed them from excessive bureaucracy.” It’s a compelling and insightful read. ” Bourla provides an excellent example of the growing body of research showing high-performing organizations are leading on purpose.

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Development Bureaucracy BHAG Leadership 69

Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

Wiki Management assumes that the most effective organizations are highly connected, self-organized networks that are designed to leverage the power of collective intelligence and achieve extraordinary results.” Today’s most intelligent organizational leaders no longer leverage individual intelligence by constructing functional bureaucracies.

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Collins Management Bureaucracy Open-book 283

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

As I thought about why this short article resonated so strongly with readers, it occurred to me I had awakened people to a simple, yet very powerful realization…. The realization is this – many of today’s leaders are suffering from an identity crisis. Leadership cannot flourish with small minds, thinking about small things, in small ways.

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Crisis Short-term Bureaucracy Long-term 402

Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Now, with email, the Internet, and social media close at hand for so many people, the leadership of power has been replaced by a leadership of connectedness. Those who seek power and love bureaucracy will find it harder to survive as organizations become flatter, which puts more accountability in the hands of each employee and even clients.

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Reputation Bureaucracy Brand Media 166

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 5, 2020

While much of the book is about ways to overcome bureaucracy, they also provide some tips for us as individuals to become more adaptable. The pair outline four key, perceptual habits that they they believe are particularly powerful in opening up our minds to new opportunities.

Innovation 134

Innovation Hamel Christensen Open-book 134

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A few additional key takeaways from the book include these from King: It’s no longer about having power over others but rather power with others, which is about working with others to achieve results. Information networks enable teamwork and a sense of belonging at work. The same is true for employees.

Real Estate 91

Real Estate Self-aware Open-book Learning-by-Doing 91

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Power trickles down. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. Strategy gets set at the top. Tasks are assigned.

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Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Power trickles down. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. Strategy gets set at the top. Tasks are assigned.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

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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Bureaucracy Survey Politics Consensus 8

Ron Edmondson

MAY 19, 2020

Power struggles and tired structures. Changes needed in church revitalization often expose needless bureaucracy and power brokers. This often means shifting power away from some and giving power to others. The more a pastor listens and learns, the more open people are to follow their leadership.

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Bureaucracy Edmondson Long-term Efficiency 58

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

When it comes to internal roadblocks or organizational obstacles, more often than not the culprit behind these problems is an organization’s own bureaucracy. Corporate bureaucracy and its close cousin, business process, often snag their own staffs in an impossible tangle of rules and regulations.

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Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 232

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 20, 2014

I spent an entire career espousing the power of creativity, and the companies I touched did very well by it. Bureaucracy lurks on the periphery, waiting for its opening to subvert the lean, mean, business machine. This is not necessarily the case for creativity. But, beware.

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Real Estate Human Resources Bureaucracy Constraint 215

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

” Decades of research on the powerful links between leadership and emotional intelligence reinforce the energy connection. ” Decades of research on the powerful links between leadership and emotional intelligence reinforce the energy connection.

Energy 52

Energy Crisis Absenteeism Leadership 52

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 18, 2017

They cut through bureaucracy with a strong fervor for outcomes. The humble facilitation of discovery is more powerful than the arrogant delivery of expertise. Winners show up ready to perform and are only interested in efforts that yield a path to achievement and results. They know that execution is the true test of commitment. .

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Consultative Self-aware Bureaucracy Energy 225

leaderCommunicator

MAY 31, 2013

The Thriving Organization- Ten Power Steps Out Of Jurassic Park By: Irene Becker via 3Q Leadership Blog Jurassic Park is alive and well. It’s ubiquitous with bureaucracy. They’ll provide you with tips, strategies and thought-starters from many of the smart folks in my network. It’s an art becoming devoid of meaning.

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Influence Bureaucracy Ethics Blog 144

Tony Mayo

JANUARY 8, 2011

I needed get free of their bureaucracy to focus on running my business. To his credit, however, he did go back the next day to apologize and be absolved, thus demonstrating one of the the oldest rules of bureaucracy. I had spent way too much time on hold and hearing excuses from Verizon. So I called in the Marines. Popularity: 1% [ ?

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Mayo Company Bureaucracy Executive Coaching 141

Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 24, 2017

In this culture, most people feel controlled by one of more of the following: autocratic leaders, micro-management, too many rules and/or bureaucracy. A Connection Culture provides five benefits to organizational performance that I’ve written about, which, taken together, add up to a powerful source of competitive advantage.

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Competitive Advantage Ryan Bottom-up Customer Loyalty 309

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.

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Bureaucracy Chief Financial Officer Delegation Globalization 8

Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 9, 2012

In branding, Jobs understood the power of optimism. Is bureaucracy weighing you down? It’s not just an MP3 device – it’s an iPod. It’s not a smart phone, it’s an iPhone. It’s not a tablet, it’s an iPad. Remove obstacles. Now this is huge. Optimism cannot thrive when employees feel stuck.

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Chief Executive Officer Bureaucracy Motivation Innovation 185

Management Excellence

JUNE 12, 2022

The challenge for all of us as managers is, how do we access the power of purpose in our role when many above and around us might not be playing with the same sense of motivation? Here are some lessons from some great managers about finding and harnessing the power of purpose in their work.

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Management Motivation Power Leadership 98

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. Guest post by Randal Moss : Great leaders consistently talk about the need for their organization to ‘be innovative’ in their thinking.

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Innovation Real Estate Open-book Bureaucracy 120

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

Appointed agency heads in a government bureaucracy. Caretakers of corporate bureaucracies, departmental supervisors, short-term clients, referral sources for business development and those who dangle carrots under people’s noses. Temporary Caretakers of an Office. Public officials. Beyond the strata of consultant.

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Advice Strategy Company Bureaucracy 57

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Isn’t authority the same as authoritarianism and autocracy ; which repel trust for the sake of those in power ? Excessive bureaucracy and top heavy management structure (too many levels within the organization). Are justice, fairness and equity false assumptions within hierarchies? Lack of honest sharing of information.

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Bureaucracy Delegation Influence System 153

Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Meet the bureaucracy. After decades of coaching powerful executives around the world, Lolly Daskal has observed that leaders rise to their positions relying on a specific set of values and traits. If your company offers an orientation or training program, try to pay attention–or at least look attentive. THE LEADERSHIP GAP.

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Advice Document Bureaucracy Project 146

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

These two self-images can coincide because the manager compartmentalizes his life, creating what I call a "mental bureaucracy.". But loosening the boundaries between those compartments can often be a powerful way to get things done. We all compartmentalize as a way of organizing our lives and thought processes.

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Bureaucracy Self-aware Brainstorming Public Relations 14