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“In Search of Excellence” Revisited

Leading Blog

Interest rates on real estate loans had climbed to 20 percent and higher. Avoiding top-heavy executive ranks and organizational bureaucracy. Inflation was in double digits while productivity and personal income were stagnant — an economic condition that became known as stagflation. Interest rates were through the roof.

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The Science Behind Getting Ahead At Work

Eric Jacobson

We can no longer afford to believe that to survive the dog-eat-dog world of corporate bureaucracy, we need to coerce, control, and persuade others to get them to do what you want them to do—even if it isn’t in their own best interests. The same is true for employees. 8 (2014): 691–709, [link]

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The Best Things in Business are Free

In the CEO Afterlife

Negotiating for a lower price or something extra is the modus operandi of every antique retailer, real estate broker, flea market merchant and automobile dealer. Everyone is looking for a good deal, a real bargain. Bureaucracy lurks on the periphery, waiting for its opening to subvert the lean, mean, business machine.

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Great Leaders Embrace Innovation, and Innovation Demands Risks

Great Leadership By Dan

They have the wherewithal to know that you get what you measure, they craft a review rubric to ensure smart investments, and shepherd proof-of-concept prototypes through the corporate bureaucracy all the way lines of business. There are no guarantees innovation will deliver a specific ROI.

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Deregulation Won’t Boost Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

The most commonly cited ways to do this include making it easier to file the paperwork to start a business, and reducing the amount of administrative bureaucracy and restrictions that entrepreneurs encounter. San Francisco requires entrepreneurs to submit to more bureaucracy than almost any other city. Yet, one U.S.

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Deregulation Won’t Boost Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

The most commonly cited ways to do this include making it easier to file the paperwork to start a business, and reducing the amount of administrative bureaucracy and restrictions that entrepreneurs encounter. San Francisco requires entrepreneurs to submit to more bureaucracy than almost any other city. Yet, one U.S.

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

A great idea, and the Simples Nacional taxation system has indeed turbocharged formalization of Brazil''s informal economy. 4000 new jobs later, the mayor''s office has spent virtually no money, fielded only a virtual team, and, with one exception, offered no monetary incentives to locate there.