N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

As of this writing it had been read more than 260,000 times, had more than 5,000 Facebook shares, and more than 3,000 ReTweets – it clearly struck a chord with the leadership community. The magnitude of this crisis can range from a distorted, diluted, destructive, and in some cases deranged form of what they inaccurately define as leadership.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 24, 2014

Bureaucracy. … Continue reading → Author Book Notes Courage Leading Taking others higher Culture Judith Glaser Leadership Development leadership success Organizational Development' Professor John Whitney, Columbia Business School. 5 qualities of low trust organizations: Redundancy. Disengagement.…

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Leadership Freak

JULY 9, 2013

Hideous leadership is hedonistic, haughty, haphazard, hypocritical, hesitant, and halfhearted. The four weaknesses of haughty leadership. Haughty leaders: Harpoon creativity with bureaucracy. Humility Leading arrogance cowardice hubris humility Leadership Leadership Development' Arrogance needs control.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

APRIL 29, 2013

. Many of you work in organizations that may have a set of official leadership competencies that you aspire to. I rarely see these “secret” competencies listed as required competencies for leadership in organizations, but trust me; you need to work on them. Your company’s leadership competencies are great.

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Leadership Freak

MAY 2, 2014

Weak leaders hide behind bureaucracy and love making people beg. The more times you say no, the more… Continue reading → Courage Curiosity Decisions Innovation Leading Questions Success Taking others higher Culture Growth Leadership Development organizational success'

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 7, 2014

Bureaucracy, fear, lethargy, lousy leaders, and antiquated systems make… Continue reading → Author Book Notes Innovation Leading Success Growth Leadership Development organizational success'

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Now is the Time to Double-Down on the Fundamentals of Effective Leadership by @artpetty. Don’t Kill Bureaucracy, Use It by @TedKinni via @stratandbiz. See more on Twitter. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. VIDEO: GRACE - Energize Others by @JohnBaldoni.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 11, 2014

APQC’s (American Productivity & Quality Center) ElissaTucker recently interviewed me for an article published on their site on March 4 called “The "Secrets" of Leadership Development. What do you think are some of the most common leadership development mistakes that organizations make?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

Bureaucracy and distance from the customer are death in an age of volatility—and today’s leading-edge firms know it. They must fundamentally shift how they find, inspire, and develop a twenty-first-century workforce. Strategy #7: Get Focused, Fast, and Flat. Strategy #8: Thrive with Talent.

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Indecision and bureaucracy inspire slumber. Decisions Feedback Leading Managing Marks of leaders Taking others higher Teams Leadership Leadership Development organizational success' Decisions Feedback Leading Managing Marks of leaders Taking others higher Teams Leadership Leadership Development organizational success'

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 9, 2014

But, many are mired in systems and bureaucracy. Change Culture Influence Leading Marks of leaders Passion Growth Leadership Development organizational success' It’s easier to begin innovating within rigid cultures than it is to change them. Think skunkworks. Systematize innovation in organizations driven by systems.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

In Adhocracy , Robert Waterman notes that “Bureaucracy gets us through the day; it deals efficiently with everyday problems. In stud poker, as in product development or any other ad hoc work, you don’t know whether you have a winner until the last card has been played. We are often controlled by habits and mindless behavior.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2013

9 Leadership Lessons from the Best Boss I Ever Had by @ryanestis. From @Bill_George Resilience Through Mindful Leadership. How to develop a flexible leadership style by By Jane Perdue. WSJ: The Unsung Beauty of Bureaucracy. The Path to Leadership by Bill Fox. Managers: How well do you listen? by Peter E.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 23, 2021

In my work as a leadership coach, I see lots of leaders who are constantly in fixing mode—any time there’s a problem they jump in to take care of it. Telling people what to do isn’t leadership, it’s direction. Leadership means creating a space for others to accomplish their best. The Leadership Gap. You accept mediocrity.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Your Favorite Leadership Articles of the Year. Every year, we count down the best leadership articles of the year, according to your reading and sharing. Thanks so much for being a part of our human-centered leadership development community and for all you do to encourage courage! Other Very Popular Leadership Articles.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In business, leadership infrastructure is the sum total of all the management systems, processes, leadership teams, skill sets, and disciplines that enable companies to grow from small operations into midsized or large firms. Leadership infrastructure is every bit as real as roads and bridges, electrical grids, and the Internet.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2011

At the same time there are leadership type activities along the lines of emotion, motivation and mission. He writes: One of the most important leadership skills is to discern whether the person standing in front of you is asking for your help as a manager or for your attention as a leader. They should just do!:”

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

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. The Leadership Gap.

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Rich Gee Group

JULY 19, 2024

Yet, many organizations find themselves entangled in red tape, procrastination, equivocation, and bureaucracy, which stifle innovation, slow decision-making, and frustrate employees. Bureaucracy : Excessive layers of management and overly rigid procedures that inhibit flexibility and responsiveness.

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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 transparent is your process?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

The world we now live in has forced us to reexamine the way we lead people that gained preeminence during the industrial age and our often immature view of leadership—the “I’m in charge” mentality. Authoritarian leadership implies that the smartest, most valuable people are at the top and so the leader commands and the followers do.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Like Jim Collins accomplished in Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t , Peters and Waterman developed a methodology for their study. Hands-on, value-driven leadership. Avoiding top-heavy executive ranks and organizational bureaucracy.

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Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It’s unfortunate because I believe that everyone not only has the ability to be leader but also the responsibility to make a leadership contribution in the role they are in. But in this context, they usually associate leadership with a management-type position. Leadership Gets Harder. Leadership Gets Easier.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

Schultz says leadership is about a lot of conscious decision-making. “It This is what is called a bureaucracy. Always stick to the vision. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *. They just need a context in which to do so. Growth is stunted.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

When it comes to internal roadblocks or organizational obstacles, more often than not the culprit behind these problems is an organization’s own bureaucracy. Corporate bureaucracy and its close cousin, business process, often snag their own staffs in an impossible tangle of rules and regulations.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Collins explains each stage in detail and the principles that apply to each like Level 5 Leadership, the Hedgehog Concept, 20 Mile March, and Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs. When you have disciplined thought, you don’t need bureaucracy. The flywheel principle operates at the pivot point from Disciplined Thought into Disciplined Action.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 10, 2020

Look at any monstrous company or bloated bureaucracy collapsing under its own weight, and you’ll find a historical lack of curiosity. If we don’t develop a habit of failing regularly, we court catastrophe. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about the subject, always the conventional wisdom.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

I hope you enjoy these charts below are able to determine ways to transfer the ideas and concepts to your organization, team and managerial-leadership. Excessive bureaucracy and top heavy management structure (too many levels within the organization). Systems-drive-behavior. for a pdf of this article and charts with more content.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

It is clear in my mind the real cause was failed leadership. Leadership is Responsible — Leadership is responsible for everything the organization does or fails to do. Leadership is more than a wooden figurehead. Leadership is not about power, ego or pride. Rank Has Its Privileges?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

In struggling to generate a sufficient number of creative ideas, we typically blame the number of creative individuals in our organization or hierarchy and bureaucracy. He believes that we are getting in our own way by the way we think, decide, and act with regard to the development of original ideas. Focus and distance.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2017

Mary Barra: Simplify Bureaucracy, and Don’t Be Afraid To Job Hop via @stanfordbiz. Helmut Kohl Leadership Legacy via @jamesstrock. 7 Warning Signs You Need to Develop Your Emotional Intelligence @LollyDaskal via @Inc. Helmut Kohl Leadership Legacy via @jamesstrock. 9 Leadership Lessons from Dad by @skipprichard.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Posted in Leadership Development [link] “No Way!” ” I was working with a leader whose team was struggling. They were frustrated, felt like their leader did not care, and were dealing with the same problems over and over.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 4, 2011

Leadership. by John • December 4, 2011 • Leadership , Life • 2 Comments. And although pundits continue to encourage entrepreneurial thinking for stagnating mega-businesses, these bureaucracies can’t break from risk-averse management. Leadership. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. About John. Martin Birt.

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Leading Blog

MAY 25, 2016

I N A TIME when change is not just inevitable, but must be encouraged and led, Robert Gates’ A Passion for Leadership is a must read. Only a committed leader can keep an organization—a bureaucracy—on its toes, continuously adapting, innovating, improving.” Fundamentally, leadership is always about people.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 29, 2011

Fiefdoms and boundaries develop, while lines of authority become unclear. Size doesn’t have to mean bureaucracy, but it takes fresh organizational thinking. Kates says. The pace slows down as work requires approval in more and more business units and bureaucratic layers. Creating this kind of tension should be the goal,” Mr.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 29, 2012

There are lots of reasons why this doesn’t happen but it’s often a fear of going against the grain in the organization, anchored by: Lack of time: Flatter organizational structures and increased bureaucracy mean that. You may be just one conversation away from better relationships and a healthier workplace.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 27, 2019

Here are the suggestions I made to my client: Cut back on bureaucracy. Sometimes people lose enthusiasm because they’re so caught up in processes and procedures that feel like they spend their days just feeding the bureaucracy. The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness. The Deception Trap of Leadership.

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