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Google Layoffs of 200 Core Employees Signal a Worrying Trend

HR Digest

CRN received a statement from a spokesperson from the company stating that it was “simplifying structures to give employees more opportunity to work on our most innovative and important advances and our biggest company priorities while reducing bureaucracy and layers.” Why Are Google Job Relocations Taking Place?

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6 Rules for Defense Start-Up Innovators

Strategy Driven

Inventors and programmers have found themselves swallowed up in vast bureaucracies, working on projects that they feel morally uncomfortable on and with less than savory people. Financing for any startup is difficult enough to secure. Recently though, the defense needs of the United States have begun to shift.

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What We Learned About Bureaucracy from 7,000 HBR Readers

Harvard Business Review

We recently asked members of the HBR community to gauge the extent of “bureaucratic sclerosis” within their organization using our Bureaucracy Mass Index (BMI) tool. Here are our initial takeaways: The blight of bureaucracy seems inescapable. Bureaucracy is growing not shrinking. Bureaucracy is a time trap.

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How do you start your own business

Strategy Driven

Find ways to manage your finances efficiently and effectively in order not to spend your entire capital in one place. The point is that the bureaucracy and red tape can put an end to your business faster than any other issue you might run into. Make sure you promote your business and think about different strategies to do that.

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Innovating Around a Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), however, was successful in transforming its bureaucracy. Thus, needed process changes within bureaucracies should always be built into such initiatives.

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7 Barriers to Growth Every Leader Needs to Eliminate Today

Ron Edmondson

Granted this takes creativity, especially when finances are stretched, but always hearing “we can’t afford that” or “we aren’t big enough to do that” is never motivating to a team. Burdensome bureaucracies. In most every sermon message and every staff or church-wide meeting, I try to paint a picture of hope for people.

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5 Areas I Have Micromanaged in Church Revitalization

Ron Edmondson

Bureaucracy and process we know well. As with most churches in need of revitalization, our finances had been struggling for several years. Thankfully we had good people in charges of our finances and they had held the church together through very difficult times. Organizational structure. We had rules for everything.