Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 16, 2024

In healthy organizations, leadership often depends on the task being performed. I often tell members on our teams that when they have a really big project or ministry – I work for them. Bureaucracy diminishes progress and frustrates the team. Plus, check out the other Lifeway Leadership Podcasts.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 25, 2013

The burden and privilege of leadership simply demands more. Where the absence of an outcome or a discovery exists so does a lack of creativity, critical thought, focused energy, effort and resources, and ultimately a lack of leadership. Leadership is the difference between what could have been, and what will be.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The authors present a fascinating look at how to breakdown the bureaucracy within your organization and unleash the power and true abilities of the human beings in your organization – making your organization more bold, entrepreneurial and as nimble as change itself. Human beings are creative. Our organizations aren’t.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 4, 2020

Available starting August 18, 2020, the authors present a fascinating look at how to breakdown the bureaucracy within your organization and unleash the power and true abilities of the human beings in your organization – making your organization more bold, entrepreneurial and as nimble as change itself. Human beings are creative.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

I recently asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. Are you just creating lists, charts, binders, etc…, or is your senior leadership team really using the process as a way to prepare your organization to address its current and future leadership requirements? How strategic is your process?

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Leadership often depends on the task being performed. I often tell members on our teams that when they have a really big project or ministry – I work for them. Bureaucracy diminishes progress and frustrates the team. Nate and I have finished our fall semester at the Ron Edmondson Leadership Podcast.

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Nathan Magnuson

MARCH 2, 2015

Whether it’s helping to complete an Individual Development Plan , evaluating a past project or designating development dollars in the department budget, every little bit counts. In his book Creative Followership , Jimmy Collins recounts the realization of his own limitations as a self-employed individual.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

Skills and Tasks : duties, activities, tasks, behaviors, attitudes, contracting, project fulfillment. Appointed agency heads in a government bureaucracy. Caretakers of corporate bureaucracies, departmental supervisors, short-term clients, referral sources for business development and those who dangle carrots under people’s noses.

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Advice Strategy Company Bureaucracy 57

Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe What a Leader Can Learn From 20 Cents Postage Due by Kevin Eikenberry on December 3, 2010 in Collaboration , Innovation , Leadership , Video I received a package in the mail this week. If so sorry about that.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation. About the Author.

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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?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

“Why change my leadership style? One such abrupt transition — from project to process mode — occurs once a company launches its initial sales efforts and begins to service its first customers. A project is a one-at-a-time exercise performed by a team assembled specifically for that task.

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Project Process Entrepreneur Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. I know new technology can bring much creativity and value. Learn more about the Advanced Leadership Initiative.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

If the Circle were a real company, it would sit atop Fortune’s list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For with its platinum medical insurance, free gourmet lunches, health club, laundry service, pet sitting, luxury commuter buses, and the Menlo-like opportunity to be creative and learn on company time.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2020. Creativity isn’t a “nice to have” leadership trait. even if you don’t think you’re a “creative” person. But on creativity? The answer is creativity?and Build your leadership library with these specials on over 32 titles.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

What do the Ramones, the Clash, and the Sex Pistols have to do with leadership? The title of Jeremy Dale’s book, The Punk Rock of Business , comes from a comment Bono made to Oprah about a project Dale was working on with him for Motorola. After all, that’s what leadership is. O K, I’ll bite. We’re into disruption.”

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Running a bureaucracy. Speed, accuracy and efficiency of project fulfillment. Creative new ideas generated. He guides companies through growth strategies, visioning, strategic planning, executive leadership development, Futurism and Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate. Keeping things churning.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

As Google Ventures’ five-day method has shown, sprints help bypass bureaucracy, “analysis paralysis,” and endless debate cycles. The company wanted to clarify its launch strategy for a new product, so I created an intense one-day workshop for the leadership team to move them quickly from exploration to formulation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

That turns out to be a powerful approach to leadership in a world of expanding complexity, immense challenges and intense change. The best questions are the bedrock of all change and creativity. Harper understood that great people want to work on exciting, high-impact projects, with a small team, in a dynamic setting.

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Organization Open-book Bureaucracy CEO 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Frustrated employees were complaining about the lack of amenities — such as child care facilities — on campus and the stifling bureaucracy which, for instance, made expense reimbursment a time-consuming process. In particular, Ferose empowered his 4,000 employees to experiment with bold new ideas during their work time.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

R&D investments have been made, stage/gate processes have been built, creativity training courses have been run, and yet the outputs — exciting new products and services — don't seem to be falling into place. So what to do? Loosely defined roles. Advertising agency Grey has a Heroic Failure award in similar vein.

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