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Cutting Down On Bureaucracy And Unleashing Our Human Spirit At Work

The Horizons Tracker

London Business School’s Gary Hamel and Management Lab colleague Michele Zanini have been fighting the good fight against bureaucracy for many years now, and they continue to wage war on it in their latest book, Humanocracy, in which they make a data-driven argument for uprooting bureaucracy and unleashing the human spirit at work.

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CPG Hiring Trends

N2Growth Blog

With a shift toward the importance of digitization, technical and analytical skills. Physical skills are steadily declining as automation technologies become more advanced. That culture must welcome agility, stripped as much as possible of the bureaucracy that is no longer an asset to any enterprise.

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“In Search of Excellence” Revisited

Leading Blog

Structure, strategy, people, management style, systems and procedures, guiding concepts and shared values, and corporate strengths and skills, along with financial performance, served as criteria for selecting excellent companies. Avoiding top-heavy executive ranks and organizational bureaucracy. Hands-on, value-driven leadership.

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Saying Yes is Harder than Saying No

Leadership Freak

Don’t pat yourself on the back if you’re skilled at saying no and lousy at saying yes. Weak leaders hide behind bureaucracy and love making people beg.

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6 Things Bad Managers Will Fear but Great Leader Will Do

Lead from Within

A recent survey sheds some light on employee dissatisfaction: 69 percent of the people surveyed said they would be more satisfied if their employers better utilized their skills and abilities, and 59 percent felt their company viewed profits or revenue as more important than how people are treated. That’s when my client called me in to help.

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Humble Leadership

Leading Blog

This is typically the source of our dissatisfaction with bureaucracies. The process of creating and maintaining Level 2 relationships requires a learning mindset, cooperative attitudes, and skills in interpersonal and group dynamics. We don’t like being treated so impersonally, especially at work.

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What is the largest obstacle to your team’s success?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Corporate bureaucracy 25.52% Lack of resources 27.59% Lack of skill/talent 13.80% Lack of clear direction 19.31% External market factors 4.13% Lack of motivation 3.79% Something else 5.86% It’s a strategy obstacle. Our reader poll today asks: What is the largest obstacle to your team’s success?