Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Despite all of the hype around alternatives — the gig economy, the sharing economy, holacracy, lean – bureaucracy has been growing, not shrinking. One might have expected successive rounds of downsizing to have trimmed bureaucracy within the corporate sector, but this hasn’t been the case.

Bureaucracy 13

Bureaucracy Organization Health Care Drucker 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

But as business became more global, spreading to emerging and developing markets in pursuit of cheap resources and labor, corporate leaders entered countries with weak institutions, bureaucracy and corruption. That would be ethical imperialism. Some corporate leaders even argued that it was a question of values.

Globalization 15

Globalization Bureaucracy Efficiency Ethics 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

You would factor $30,000 to $60,000 in certain places just to address the bureaucracy that they put in place.” At that point, everybody will lean in together to fix that problem in an ethical and compliant manner, even if it takes considerably longer,” Bistrong says. You can easily add 10 to 20 percent.

Management 14

Management Ethics Cost Bureaucracy 14

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 18, 2016

Like TD Bank, make busting customer-restricting bureaucracy more valued than protecting those “sacred cows” long in need of slaughtering. Clearly there are circumstances where rules are crucial to safety, ethics and fairness. A Board of Customers might provide keen insight into stupid rules that employees take for granted.

Policies 150

Policies Follow-up Banking Bureaucracy 150

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

The Catholic Church is a bureaucracy: a hierarchy populated by good-hearted, but less-than-perfect souls. Leadership Ethics' He understands that as human beings we have certain proclivities — not all of them noble. In that sense, it’s not much different than your organization.

Leadership 8

Leadership Power Mentor Bureaucracy 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Running a bureaucracy. Walking the Talk: ethics, values, quality, vision. Doing the things necessary to assure revenue (billings, sales, add-on’s, marketing). Keeping the cash register ringing… rather than focusing upon what is being sold, how it is made and the kind of company they need to be. Maintaining the status quo.

Strategic Planning 63

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 63

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

Some managers will complain about a declining work ethic. The biggest cause of “quiet quitting” or on-the-job-retirement is a dysfunctional culture rooted in poor leadership. “No one wants to work anymore,” they’ll say.

Energy 52

Energy Crisis Leadership Absenteeism 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

With ethical, networked leaders involved, a franchise model is the best way to keep an organization running in an unstable area where uncertainty or lack of trust can make it challenging for foreign organizations to operate and deploy funds. Find ethical, networked leaders at the local level. Local legitimacy leads to resiliency.

Franchising 9

Franchising Uncertainty NGO Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

and Asia but require coordinated allocation of radio frequencies and reduced local bureaucracy in approving permits for underground cabling and overhead antennae. Our new smart infrastructure will also require real-time, high-reliability, low-latency communications networks. These systems, known as 5G, are already being tested in the U.S.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Employees who don’t trust their managers usually point to big-picture, obvious things: Their superiors skate the edges of ethical behavior, hide information, take credit for others’ hard work, or flat-out deceive people. And you get what you give.

Policies 15

Policies Micromanagement Reference Covey 15

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Bureaucracy and stagnation set in. Several, such as Trump, still operate by the brain and muscle ethic. Their competitive edge eroded because the people at the top, who considered themselves the corporate brain, failed to adapt or innovate. The brain viewed the masses below it as the muscle. The muscle never got to see the big picture.

Mass Marketing 100

Mass Marketing Bureaucracy Entrepreneur Class 100