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Leadership Lessons from Pfizer-BioNTech’s Vaccine Development

The Practical Leader

“ Collaboration and Teamwork — “first and most important, success is a team effort…the need to embrace cooperation — especially in a crisis.” Bureaucracy Busting — “we isolated out scientists from financial concerns and freed them from excessive bureaucracy.”

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How to Know If Your Leadership Is Helping Or Hurting?

Lead from Within

People have enough to do without the bother of unnecessary bureaucracy and complicated processes. You play favorites with your team. Allow your people to develop solutions—their abilities will grow and they’ll come up with things you might not have thought of. You complicate simple business processes.

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The Science Behind Getting Ahead At Work

Eric Jacobson

Information networks enable teamwork and a sense of belonging at work. 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.

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Leadership Infrastructure – A Prerequisite To Mightiness

Tanveer Naseer

In business, leadership infrastructure is the sum total of all the management systems, processes, leadership teams, skill sets, and disciplines that enable companies to grow from small operations into midsized or large firms. Many midsized company leaders equate it with big-company bureaucracy. We’re craftspeople and farmers.

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A Simple Workaround to Overcome the Bureaucratic Mindset

Tanveer Naseer

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. So what can you do?

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4 Ways to Promote Productivity

Lead Change Blog

An organization with a lot of bureaucracies tends to have a slow communication process which is ineffective at most times. This is basically the lifeblood of any organization. The type of leadership used has an immense effect on the efficiency of the communication process in the organization.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

Dozens of Ways to Block or Boost Energy Which five would best recharge and energize your team/organization? Do you have data, or are you just projecting what you’d like it to be? ” Decades of research on the powerful links between leadership and emotional intelligence reinforce the energy connection.

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