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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Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Leverage technology. Use technology to help you stay organized, improve efficiency, enhance communication, boost collaboration, and increase accuracy. Reduce bureaucracy and red tape. Check out Franks NEW book, Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness on others What Will You Do to Achieve More?

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CO2

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The more the bureaucracy grows, the harder it is for the organization to keep moving forward fast. New technology that is about to revolutionize your industry is not getting implemented fast enough because of the sign-offs required–while the competition is about to go live and take part of your market share. Eternal Leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Technological progress and new digital products have perennially been relied upon for improving operations. But the truth is, tech can often make bureaucracy worse. With focused leadership and follow-through, GROSS has led to saving thousands of hours across the HPH system and to other health systems adopting the practice.

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Tony Mayo

MAY 7, 2010

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences? – What Makes a Great Teacher?

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Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 9, 2012

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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Tony Mayo

JANUARY 8, 2011

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences? So I called in the Marines.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Obviously, it’s pretty easy to assail government bureaucracy, but how about industry?

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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. Successful change requires strong leadership, working in lockstep with good people to move the rest of the organization in the right direction.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

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. Employee Engagement Leadership' Relax the culture. .

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 13, 2016

They have the wherewithal to know that you get what you measure, they craft a review rubric to ensure smart investments, and shepherd proof-of-concept prototypes through the corporate bureaucracy all the way lines of business. Moss is an award winning marketer who focuses on engaging organizations and applying technology to drive growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

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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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?

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

The genius of the book is that Eggers extends Silicon Valley’s existing technology and organizational practices no further than to their next logical steps (imagine Google on steroids), and only at the conclusion does he move to the illogical and chilling end to which they may be heading.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 11, 2013

The program team was highly dysfunctional and everyone had his or her own ideas about the source of the problems – the technical challenges, the difficult customer, the bureaucracy of the large company, procurement issues. This insight snuck up on me one day when I was facilitating a teambuilding session. The feeling in the room was terrible.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

Moderate bureaucracy: If innovation becomes difficult because of bureaucratic barriers, employees will stop trying. The fear of making mistakes is deeply ingrained in our psyche says Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies [link]. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Please think about them in the context of their leadership ability. Only we’re going to look for leadership and we’re going to look for it in places we may not have considered before. The world, through technology, is getting smaller and smaller. This week’s post is a little different from my usual fare. If so, why is that?

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Picking the right approach to leadership gets the most attention, but execution may be just as big a problem. There are a number of ways to do this, as outlined in co-author David Silverman’s leadership and management book, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement in a Complex World.

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Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 15, 2019

I would guess that most people spend 90% of their time distracted either by obsessive use of technology or by their own thinking (or both). Some general examples include frequently asking about and seeking out ways that we as leaders can help team members to be happier both at work and at home.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2015

But for old-school bureaucracies, it’s a scary new world that requires managers to rethink the basic principles that govern established businesses. Does your company rely on barriers such as proprietary technology, arbitrary business rules, regulations or litigation to stifle competition? Is anybody steering the ship?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. As was discussed in Chapter 8, technology constitutes one tenth of 1% of any organization’s overall Big Picture. In 1999, the U.S. Bad Work, Poor Planning.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 29, 2011

We like their technology, customizing equipment to our needs, value, and next day onsite service. I just got off the phone from a painful hour of experiencing Dell’s inward focused bureaucracy as Gary, our IT support guy, and I purchased a notebook computer for Heather. That may change.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Since my youth I've been an early adopter of new technology. I know new technology can bring much creativity and value.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

But while creating the "new and the nimble" within an established bureaucracy is a well-known art form in the private sector, governments are still struggling to do it effectively. All government start-ups need not be new bureaucracies, rich with hierarchies and overhead costs. Experiment with New Organizational Forms.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

The time has come for us to rethink this concentration of leadership. Technology has compressed time, costs, and distance considerably. In a hyper-speed world with multiple divergences, a vertical chain of command with annual rituals creates isolation, sluggishness, and bureaucracy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Chris spent years working for a supportive, encouraging manager at a major technology company headquartered in Silicon Valley. He had learned how to survive in the bureaucracy: don''t make too many waves, don''t cause problems. The majority of the leadership literature over the past 25 years has done this.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Organizationally, one thing that is striking about Islamic State, looking at its lineage — from al Qaeda in Iraq to Islamic State in Iraq to ISIL to ISIS to Islamic State today — there is a fair amount of continuity in leadership and management. Bureaucracy is just endemic to the human endeavor.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Organizationally, one thing that is striking about Islamic State, looking at its lineage — from al Qaeda in Iraq to Islamic State in Iraq to ISIL to ISIS to Islamic State today — there is a fair amount of continuity in leadership and management. Bureaucracy is just endemic to the human endeavor.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

As digital technologies continue to transform the economy, many leaders are struggling to set a digital strategy, shift organizational structures, and remove the barriers that are keeping them from maximizing the potential impact of new digital technologies.

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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. Only about 7% to 8% of companies retain the strengths of the founder’s mentality as they grow to industry leadership. One might even say that an increasing advantage of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

1 — Consistent Leadership Over Time Matters in This Market. GM will keep its technology center in Bangalore. Even more crucial, the future of mobility will be shaped by three disruptive forces: electrification, shared ownership, and driverless technology. Understanding it takes time and focus.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Think about it: If our military can create a highly complex surgical theater anywhere in the world within hours, it’s not a stretch to think the knowledge and technology exists to take care of elderly, sick people in their own homes. In fact, when asked, most say that’s exactly what they want. But back to the insurers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

The news that Cisco is dismantling its unique structure of councils and boards to reduce bureaucracy presents a cautionary tale and an insight into the true meaning of teamwork and collaboration in organizations. The group might distribute and rotate leadership roles and responsibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

For all of the books (thousands) written on leadership, individuals (millions) who have participated in leadership seminars and dollars (billions) invested in leadership development, too many leadership experts still fail to distinguish between the practice of leadership and the exercise of bureaucratic power.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Today’s most competitive marketplace isn’t technology but talent. Their function has been turned upside down and inside out as a result of digital technology, empowered employees, and connected customers. Leadership + digital acumen: Many digital natives lack leadership experience and many seasoned leaders lack digital expertise.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

American manufacturing companies were falling behind because of hidebound, privilege-laden bureaucracies that squashed new ideas, failed to listen to voices from below, behaved arrogantly toward customers, and generally stifled innovation. Auto industry Gender Leadership' The old GM was the most macho and woman-unfriendly of them all.

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