HR Digest

MAY 2, 2024

The Core team being affected by the Google layoffs includes engineers who handle the foundation of the company’s flagship products, oversee user safety online, and maintain the company’s global IT infrastructure. At least 50 of these positions included engineering positions from the company’s Sunnyvale California offices.

Trends 59

Trends Decentralization CFO Bureaucracy 59

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. Today, most people work in some sort of bureaucracy — and according to Gallup, 85% of employees around the world feel disengaged from their work.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Managers assess performance. It is the unchallenged tenets of bureaucracy that disable our organizations—that make them inertial, incremental and uninspiring. To manage” is “to control.”. “To Tasks are assigned.

Bureaucracy 10

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Managers assess performance. It is the unchallenged tenets of bureaucracy that disable our organizations—that make them inertial, incremental and uninspiring. To manage” is “to control.”. “To Tasks are assigned.

Bureaucracy 10

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 10

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals. We must manage our human assets with the same rigor we devote to our financial assets.

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Coaching Tip

APRIL 29, 2011

Size doesn’t have to mean bureaucracy, but it takes fresh organizational thinking. Effective organization design creates connections among the many competing objectives of a large company – balancing global and local authority, setting up good, creative conflict. Talented people thrive on that kind of energy. Kates says.

Development 112

Development Bureaucracy Globalization Middle Management 112

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Everybody hates it, but so much of life is ruled by it: bureaucracy. That's why we launched the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge. We asked management innovators around the world to share their stories and hacks about: Making organizations more inspiring, engaging, and passion-driven. Managing without managers.

Bureaucracy 14

Bureaucracy McKinsey Innovation Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The dictionary says bureaucracy is a means of coordinating activities through standardized rules and procedures. We might not like the idea of Italian bureaucracy very much, but it beats having Silvio Berlusconi in charge. And I always push back when they say bureaucracy is the problem. What exactly is going wrong, I ask them?

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Chief Financial Officer Delegation Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

Department of State is a seriously big bureaucracy. My experience as a digital leader in the Obama administration confirmed my optimism that change can come to large bureaucracies. Managers no longer bothered employees for frequent updates because they could now follow the open conversations.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Politics Technology Morale 12

Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2019

Not one, and I’ve worked with some of the most backwards bureaucracies in the world, and with innovation in North Korea to boot. Unless you are prepared to reflect over such things, it rarely matters what kind of innovation management you have in place, and all those innovation consultants will be for naught. About the Author.

Company 53

Company Idea Generation Innovation Workshop 53

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?

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Writing for the Harvard Business Review in 1988, Peter Drucker predicted that in 20 years the average organization would have slashed the number of management layers by half and shrunk its managerial ranks by two-thirds. Between 1983 and 2014, the number of managers, supervisors and support staff in the U.S. in 2001 to 16% in 2015.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Organization Health Care Drucker 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Since 2006, hundreds of companies — including global brands like Novartis , Hewlett-Packard , and Rolls Royce — have reached settlements with U.S. You would factor $30,000 to $60,000 in certain places just to address the bureaucracy that they put in place.” “That’s enlightened management.”

Management 12

Management Ethics Cost Bureaucracy 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media. Today Atis manages L’Oréal’s Women of Color Lab, in Clark, New Jersey.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand PR 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

So to be successful in any endeavour today, we must find ways to cut through traditional bureaucracies and structures and optimize on the brainpower available to us. They are global citizens. The pace of change is accelerating at a dizzying rate. The world, through technology, is getting smaller and smaller.

Bureaucracy 56

Bureaucracy Diversity Globalization Technology 56

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

The humanist strand of management thinking that celebrates teams and collaboration through respect for customers and workers as human beings has a long and distinguished history. Achieving humanistic management has thus turned out to be a much more intractable problem than most thought leaders expected it to be.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Management Drucker Waterman 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. This is the kind of thinking that business managers can also profit from. But manage it, and you become the industry leader.

Management 9

Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. Listed in no particular order. By Jim Collins. By Patrick M.

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2014

It’s even more likely (though you probably weren’t aware of it) that you’ve been rejected at times in favor of outside applicants who were known quantities to the hiring managers—candidates who were referred by other employees or recommended by friends of friends. Which brings me to take an unpopular stand: Up with bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy 13

Bureaucracy Diversity Metrics Middle Management 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

economy is not just the opportunity for raw innovation, but the ability to scale new technologies within large global companies. Amazon Web Services’ success strengthens Amazon’s retail business by building scale and world-class abilities in computing and large data management. Establish a repeatable formula.

Company 13

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2017

And if you landed from outer space in 1967, those large firms looked like the planned bureaucracies on the other side of the Iron Curtain. First, the owner-manager firms were not possible. Third, because managers were not incentivized to maximize profits, they looked for easier ways to get enough return to cover their costs.

Power 8

Power Bureaucracy Advertising Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

These emerging economies have a pivotal role to play in the future of the global economy. On their return, they often take up key roles in legislatures, executives, and bureaucracies. Businesses can provide public sector leaders with a much broader range of case studies of both well-managed and poorly-executed succession events.

Planning 13

Planning Leadership Leadership Pipeline Globalization 13

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

What’s more, the authors also believe that the UK lacks the physical or IT infrastructure to successfully manage the new relationship with the EU and is instead relying on transitional arrangements to make things work. “Our research shows Brexit will pose long-term challenges for standards of medicines in the UK.

Report 141

Report Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term 141

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

In 1994, the dominant global provider of mobile handsets was Motorola: its shares were trading at an all-time high and it was seen as an outstanding innovator and even described by a senior consultant at A. Kearney as "the best-managed company in the world" — not so different from Apple today. Apple should indeed be scared.

Supply Chain 16

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Eight years on, the world is tentatively emerging from a financial crisis that almost broke the global economy. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. Managing the transition. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy. The entrepreneurial society.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

In fact, one could argue that the unicorn surge over the past five years is largely the result of a once-in-a-lifetime event: the emergence of that globally ubiquitous communication platform, the smartphone. As bureaucracy deepens, layer by layer and rule by rule, the sparks of entrepreneurship get snuffed out.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

They abhor complexity, bureaucracy, and anything that gets in the way of the clean execution of strategy. During that decade, we estimate, the company captured more than 90 percent of the market’s global profits and seemed poised to maintain its leadership for years to come. Leadership & Managing People Book.

Company 8

Company Survey Bureaucracy Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Saudi Arabia’s vast global role on oil markets as a major producer, exporter, and decision-maker within OPEC is reciprocal; the country relies on oil exports for over 90% of its government revenue, making the Saudi budget, and hence the state itself, exceptionally dependent on this one source of revenue.

Politics 9

Politics Human Capital Price Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

New, nontraditional entrants are bringing fresh alternatives to the bureaucratic and autocratic management systems of traditional hospitals. This means moving aggressively away from fee-for service payment to global-risk-adjusted payments. They have figured out the hospital business is beginning to be commoditized.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin. They play well as a team.

Team 8

Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Convinced that they have a sustainable competitive advantage (always a risky way to think about your business), executives allow bureaucracy to take over and decision-making to become sclerotic. Eliminate bureaucracy. The difficulty here is that this doesn’t happen overnight. Rediscover the mission.

Company 8

Company Competitive Advantage Bureaucracy Retail 8

Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 13, 2014

It energizes us when we work with people who recognize and voice our task strengths (“you’re a great manager”) and/or character strengths (“you persevere to overcome obstacles”). We consume 50 percent of the global supply of prescription drugs for mood disorders even though we have only 4.5 The next need is recognition.

Stress 388

Stress Bureaucracy Micromanagement Short-term 388

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Taylor , the founder of scientific management who died 100 years ago. Over the last century, this idea of the standard procedure has taken hold not just for the work of the individual laborer but also for complex processes that span global businesses. How did the war start, and why is it important? It began with Frederick W.

Process 8

Process Banking Compliance Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

If credible global institutions enter India, it will make the incumbent institutions' professional lives harder. As the old saw goes, what is not measured is not managed. First, consider inadequate competition between the schools. Expect India's 'best' institutions, therefore, to resist.

Education 13

Education Bureaucracy System Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Most management writing focuses on startups or large companies, but if recent performance is any indicator, midcap companies are the place to be. organizations with $10 million–$1 billion in revenue make up the fourth largest global economy in the world, with $3.8 ” They associate the word with corporate bureaucracy.

Company 8

Company Maturity Bureaucracy Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Managers in these companies understand that agile, fast, and lean strategies require that they think in new ways about accessing and leveraging key strategic talent and filling critical gaps in strategic capabilities. Studies of the global agile-talent community vary in their estimates of the size of the population.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The prime responsibility of a manager is to guard constantly against other people's attacks and to inculcate this guardian attitude in the people under his or her management. Front line workers need broad empowerment to address problems with a minimum of bureaucracy. I worry about competitors. And there is a culture of no blame.

Process 15

Process Bureaucracy Innovation Short-term 15