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? Can you change the way a large organization — such as the federal government — does its work, when all the forces are arrayed for stability and conservatism?
Innovating Around a Bureaucracy
How to make change happen in an organization that is set in its ways.
March 08, 2013
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