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Three Steps to Create Optimism in the Workplace

Chart Your Course

Microsoft has no shortage of firsts for technology, but they fail to generate the same buzz. Technology has connected us, but has also saddled us with 24/7 coverage of controversy, crimes, natural disasters and wars. Is bureaucracy weighing you down? But it’s more than that. Promote your company’s values.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. In addition to reducing bureaucracy, high-performing, high-tech companies provide freedom in dress codes, scheduled hours, and lifestyle choices. The rise in the influence of the knowledge worker. . Relax the culture. .

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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. The entrenched culture of the Department of Defense defeated attempts to change it.

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6 Reasons Salespeople Win or Lose a Sale

Harvard Business Review

From a departmental perspective, engineering would be classified as price immune; marketing and sales as price sensitive; and manufacturing, information technology, human resources, and accounting as price conscious. 5: It’s Possible to Cut Through Bureaucracy. 5: It’s Possible to Cut Through Bureaucracy.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

To avoid this danger requires a discerning talent-management capacity in the human resources department. One large nonprofit system that has been struggling with its costs had a “president of strategy,” prima facie evidence of a serious culture problem! Pruning the portfolio of facilities and services.

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What I Learned from Transforming the U.S. Military’s Approach to Talent

Harvard Business Review

When Americans reflect on what makes their military the best, it is not just its unrivaled technology, the nearly $600 billion dollars per year we spend on it, its compelling mission, or our network of global allies. At a time of economic, technological, and labor evolutions, organizations have to change to compete for the best talent.

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The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor

Harvard Business Review

The second is technology. Recent examples include projects at firms such as General Electric, Staples, and dozens of other Fortune 1000 enterprises that span functional areas from marketing to strategy to human resources to operations.