Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 13, 2016

They can lead a diverse team in setting the business requirements for funding new ideas. 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.

Innovation 120

Innovation Real Estate Open-book Bureaucracy 120

CO2

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The more the bureaucracy grows, the harder it is for the organization to keep moving forward fast. You visualize your team winning–as clearly as a 3D, HD action/adventure movie. A sense of urgency is often lost as an organization comes to scale. A syrupy molasses coats the gears.

Leadership 120

Leadership Bureaucracy Efficiency Leadership Styles 120

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), however, was successful in transforming its bureaucracy. Thus, needed process changes within bureaucracies should always be built into such initiatives.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

Department of State is a seriously big bureaucracy. My experience as a digital leader in the Obama administration confirmed my optimism that change can come to large bureaucracies. If I listened to my team and provided ample backing, they could do incredible things, and together we could really push the place forward.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Politics Technology Morale 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. We asked some big questions in our quest to bust bureaucracy: What does it mean to build an organization in which everyone is aligned and inspired by a deeply-felt sense of purpose?

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 11

You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Anne Perschel , Dale Lawrence and Gwyn Teatro form the core team with Tanya Odom , Eric Peterson , Marion Chapsal and Joe Gerstandt as our advisory team. Well, it seems that the 21 st Century, an age of information and technology, is asking for something different from us than was called for in the Industrial age. Who is We ?

Bureaucracy 56

Bureaucracy Diversity Globalization Technology 56

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Atis and her tiny team knocked down the enduring obstacles and solved a dilemma that had existed for generations. She couldn’t get the image out of her head, so she began to research the technology requirements. Windham built an entire ad-hoc team at Stanley Black and Decker — product planners, executives, and engineers.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

Moderate bureaucracy: If innovation becomes difficult because of bureaucratic barriers, employees will stop trying. The fear of making mistakes is deeply ingrained in our psyche says Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies [link]. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

Creativity 183

Creativity Influence Innovation Brainstorming 183

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

The news that Cisco is dismantling its unique structure of councils and boards to reduce bureaucracy presents a cautionary tale and an insight into the true meaning of teamwork and collaboration in organizations. I love sports and have studied and written about actual sports teams, not just used sports analogies.

Team 15

Team Sports Teamwork Bureaucracy 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

” It’s a familiar idea: A SWAT innovation team is created, ready to inject new thinking into a burdensome bureaucracy. Godbout was executive director at 18F before departing to become chief technology officer for the EPA. I asked Godbout about how innovation teams work in government. Do you think the U.S.

Advice 9

Advice Bureaucracy Innovation Chief Technology Officer 9

Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

Lean methods, such as value stream mapping and improvement projects carried out by cross-functional teams can break down barriers and increase understanding. These organizations help form teams with a better understanding of their work and system, instead of a department just being a collection of individuals.

Deming 28

Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

Since my youth I've been an early adopter of new technology. I know new technology can bring much creativity and value. Investments in technology were so low for so long that we were having technological blackouts with frequency. Nowadays, technology is at the core of our urban planning and management of public policies.

Software 14

Software Early Adopters Technology Crisis 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

This innovation in innovation requires moving from predictive plans (based on increasingly unpredictable market conditions) to adaptive, agile innovation teams. Agile innovation teams are small. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos famously believes that if you can’t feed the team with two pizzas , it is too large. of sales on IT.

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The other one of us cofounded 10x Management , a well-respected talent agency representing top-tier freelance programmers, designers, and other technology professionals. Organizations do better when managers have access to advice and best practice in leading mixed teams. Here’s the problem. Leverage your project mentors.

CTO 8

CTO Agility Management Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

But while creating the "new and the nimble" within an established bureaucracy is a well-known art form in the private sector, governments are still struggling to do it effectively. All government start-ups need not be new bureaucracies, rich with hierarchies and overhead costs. Experiment with New Organizational Forms.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Health Care Committee Information Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Chris spent years working for a supportive, encouraging manager at a major technology company headquartered in Silicon Valley. He had learned how to survive in the bureaucracy: don''t make too many waves, don''t cause problems. As a result, his team had been winnowed away to a fraction of the size it used to be.

Career 14

Career Absenteeism Humphrey Bureaucracy 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Certainly, those transaction costs have to be balanced against the drag created by bloated bureaucracy, and the soul-crushing work that characterizes too many companies. But how could the team get its Embrace Infant Warmer into the hands of all the hospitals and patients that needed it? But it is a cost nonetheless.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

As digital technologies continue to transform the economy, many leaders are struggling to set a digital strategy, shift organizational structures, and remove the barriers that are keeping them from maximizing the potential impact of new digital technologies. It is this combination that makes them able to drive transformation.

Industry 8

Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Moreover, it’s not clear whether unicorns exploiting other technologies, such as genomics or robotics, will be able to expand as rapidly as Uber, Airbnb, and other smartphone-enabled businesses. As bureaucracy deepens, layer by layer and rule by rule, the sparks of entrepreneurship get snuffed out.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. New business models and value propositions are being developed by global teams using web-based tools and communication methods.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology platform on which hundreds of thousands of independent developers could create apps and offer them to Apple''s customers. In the 20th Century, their organizations competed on scale efficiency and relied on hierarchical bureaucracies to run tight ships.

Management 8

Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

When we launched the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation last year, we aimed to enlist the most progressive practitioners and thinkers in the collective effort of reinventing what we call "the technology of human accomplishment." Life's too short to work on inconsequential problems. Help us dream big.

Innovation 8

Innovation McKinsey Management Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The primary target of Lepore’s attack was Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, whose groundbreaking book, The Innovator’s Dilemma coined the term disruptive technology (later transformed into disruptive innovation ). In the past, bureaucracies played a crucial coordinating role.

Christensen 8

Christensen Disruptive Innovation Bureaucracy Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

They leverage social technologies in ways that amplify dissident voices, coalesce communities of passion and unleash the forces of change. They are bushwhackers — they clear the trail for new ideas and initiatives by chopping away at the undergrowth of bureaucracy. Leadership Leading teams Personal effectiveness'

How To 8

How To Bureaucracy McKinsey Seminar 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. He built a team to develop Predix, a cloud-based platform that underlies all of GE’s industrial businesses. Make the organization team-based and fluid. This is not guesswork.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

They abhor complexity, bureaucracy, and anything that gets in the way of the clean execution of strategy. On your own, or with your team, take this survey. They are obsessed with the details of the business and celebrate the employees at the front line, who deal directly with customers. How can you avoid the fate of Nokia?

Company 8

Company Survey Bureaucracy Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

I previously wished for a Shark-Tank for Corporate America to create more efficient capital markets to fund great innovation ideas bogged down by bureaucracy. I routinely hear comments like: “Who was on that team? The teams that create breakthrough products are large. Who did what? Finding those people would be awesome!”.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Bureaucracy Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Insight Center.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

You''ve been working at a small start-up for a while now when a large, deep-pocketed corporation comes knocking, asking you to join its innovation team. Or will you end up drowning in bureaucracy, pining for the white-knuckled start-up pace you''re used to? Should you take the job? Is inquisitiveness part of this company''s culture?

Innovation 8

Innovation Uncertainty Bureaucracy Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

American manufacturing companies were falling behind because of hidebound, privilege-laden bureaucracies that squashed new ideas, failed to listen to voices from below, behaved arrogantly toward customers, and generally stifled innovation. The old GM was the most macho and woman-unfriendly of them all. This situation was untenable.

Engineering 9

Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Michael Power of the London School of Economics describes the resulting explosion of bureaucracy as “the risk management of everything.” If process management means cumbersome bureaucracy devised by distant experts, disaster awaits. Insight Center.

Process 8

Process Banking Compliance Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Intentional design can improve the health of the organization, position your team for success, and make life better for everyone. Without critical self-reflection, organizations build silos, bureaucracies, and cultures that impede rather than enable performance. What are our markets? Who is our customer?

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Bureaucracy McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

Burnett and his team might well have turned to the data available at the time on female smokers. The advertising campaign featured a rugged cowboy on horseback, an uncompromised man struggling not with a demoralizing bureaucracy but with the forces of the natural world. He smoked a cigarette "designed for men that women like."

Advertising 8

Advertising Objective Bureaucracy Brand 8

Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 15, 2019

When you talk about loving employees, you say you’re not talking about a touchy-feely, warm and fuzzy emotional feeling, but rather being concerned about the long-term well-being of team members. We have all dealt with external customers who are extremely demanding, not very grateful, and who create lots of stress for team members.

Long-term 65

Long-term Self-aware Short-term Bureaucracy 65

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

But he volunteered to lead a team to help the Afghan Army transition to self-reliance in advance of the U.S. Treglia''s mission, as handed down from the higher-ups, was to use his large team to work side-by-side with the Afghan Army — military helicopter parenting, so to speak. military withdrawal. Crisis management'

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Bond Entrepreneur Crisis Management 8

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

The genius of the book is that Eggers extends Silicon Valley’s existing technology and organizational practices no further than to their next logical steps (imagine Google on steroids), and only at the conclusion does he move to the illogical and chilling end to which they may be heading.

Influence 100

Influence Succession Ethics Bureaucracy 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Nearly all contemporary organizations are increasing their use of talent from the outside—by engaging individuals, teams, and even firms in non-traditional work relationships and alternate forms of employment. They feel unappreciated by management and powerless in dealing with the administrative bureaucracy of partner organizations.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8