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4 Big Obstacles That Are Standing In The Way Of Your Team’s Greatness

Lead from Within

Here are the four barriers that are cited most often: Corporate bureaucracy. Having to work around bureaucracy is one of the top issues I hear about from clients. While many companies are turning to more flexible models, far too many are still being run as old-fashioned bureaucracies. Lack of resources and talent. The result?

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“In Search of Excellence” Revisited

Leading Blog

When the book project started in 1978, the U.S. Avoiding top-heavy executive ranks and organizational bureaucracy. Buried within the text, Peters and Waterman offer the bottom line of how to identify excellence in companies. However, treating the customer with love is the best way to boost the bottom line in the long run.

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Great Quotes: Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky

QAspire

The term ’project management’ makes most creative people cringe. Elaborate Gantt charts and byzantine procedures plague bureaucracies large and small. Depending on your approach and your mind-set, the experience of organizing and managing a project can be miserable or deeply satisfying. On “Project Approach” to Ideas.

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Are You A Strategy Driven Storyteller?

Strategy Driven

How do you overcome simplicity in favor of bureaucracy? Follow your story up with, “ Do I sound like the type of candidate you are seeking? Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking. Yet our competitive companies would boast they required no red tape at all.

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Why Nokia's Collapse Should Scare Apple

Harvard Business Review

It was the first handset manufacturer to target the bottom two-thirds of the global income pyramid as well as the top one-third and among the first to understand the importance of ease of use, aesthetic product design, and that handsets were as much lifestyle as technology products.

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The Job the EU Should Actually Be Doing

Harvard Business Review

Its historical justification long faded, the EU project is facing an existential crisis. This bold approach, which would reimagine Europe as a governance union, could reignite support for the European project and give it the convincing narrative it currently lacks. Yet the current crisis is an opportunity in disguise.

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The Steep Psychological Price of Starting Your Own Company

Harvard Business Review

This quote is only one of the candid and deeply felt points relayed by the entrepreneurs interviewed for this piece on the anxiety, depression, and stress that often go hand-in-hand with building a start-up (95% of which don''t meet their projections). Papers, Please" is a video game about bureaucracy. —Andrea Ovans.

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