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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

When a company misses the future, the fault invariably lies with a small cadre of seasoned executives who failed to write off their depreciating intellectual capital. As long as control is exalted at the expense of freedom, our organizations will remain incompetent at their core. For too long we’ve been fiddling at the margins.

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

When a company misses the future, the fault invariably lies with a small cadre of seasoned executives who failed to write off their depreciating intellectual capital. As long as control is exalted at the expense of freedom, our organizations will remain incompetent at their core. For too long we’ve been fiddling at the margins.