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Five Leadership Lessons: Think Like Amazon

Leading Blog

He writes, “Jeff Bezos and Amazon have a remarkably consistent way to approaching and meeting challenges, operating their business and technology, and thinking about new ideas, markets, and growth.” Process versus Bureaucracy. Well-defined processes help prevent bureaucracy or expose it if it exists.”

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CPG Hiring Trends

N2Growth Blog

The evolution of new technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic have greatly influenced consumer habits worldwide, consumers are becoming more demanding, and companies are working on efficiencies to offset the negative impact of inflation on their P&Ls. Physical skills are steadily declining as automation technologies become more advanced.

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Nine Key Strategies for Going Beyond Great

Leading Blog

T O THRIVE in a new, more tumultuous era of social tension, economic nationalism, and technological revolution, you need to go beyond great. And third is “a technological revolution fueled by the exponential growth of global data and digital technologies.”. Great is no longer good enough. Strategy #8: Thrive with Talent.

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Leadership Lessons from Pfizer-BioNTech’s Vaccine Development

The Practical Leader

An especially exciting medical breakthrough is the development of messenger RNA (mRNA) technology now used in Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines. Bureaucracy Busting — “we isolated out scientists from financial concerns and freed them from excessive bureaucracy.” ” This is classic servant leadership.

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Creative People Must Be Stopped

Leading Blog

In Creative People Must Be Stopped , David Owens suggests that it will come from at least one of six different areas: Individual —your idea may not be that good Group —your group criticizes it out of existence Organizational —it dies in your organizations bureaucracy, lack of will and fear of risk Industry-Wide —competitors or even customers torpedo (..)

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The 5 Disciplines of Wiki Management

Leading Blog

Rod Collins writes in Wiki Management , “Today’s managers may spend more time soliciting input from their workers, but at the end of the day, the basic social technology remains the same: The managers are still the bosses, the workers are still subordinates, and the latter are still expected to do as they are told.”

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How One Health System Got Rid of Bureaucratic Busywork

Harvard Business Review

Technological progress and new digital products have perennially been relied upon for improving operations. But the truth is, tech can often make bureaucracy worse. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were hailed as a cure to the inefficiency of paper-based systems.

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