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

Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 3, 2010

What if that person were retasked to evaluate what the fair market value of the transport of media is? Aside from a couple of Office Space references it drives home that there is such a thing as diminishing returns on bureaucracy. Unbelievable — but not surprising, considering the source. to go before I could refresh.

USP 185

USP Video Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

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 Long-term Short-term 141

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

Then there are the business developers forever in pursuit of new products and new markets. I listened to an IT manager explaining on a speakerphone to a colleague he served in the marketing function why it was going to take two days to get a requested report. They don’t forget a birthday or a chance to surprise a prospect.

Innovation 150

Innovation Budgeting Strategic Planning Tools 150

Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Surveys and statistics abound: only 22% of the public trust government.only 10% of employees trust management.50% They reward unfavorable behaviors, while operating with myopic interests and escalating bureaucracy. Trust isn''t about "those" people in senior management; it''s about us in our individual work groups.

Self-aware 91

Self-aware Bureaucracy Open-book Ethics 91

Coaching Tip

APRIL 29, 2011

Size doesn’t have to mean bureaucracy, but it takes fresh organizational thinking. For example, when a global brand manager and a local sales organization share responsibilities, and are rewarded for working together, they will fight for their interests so that both the global brand and the local market are addressed.

Development 112

Development Bureaucracy Globalization Middle Management 112

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 27, 2011

Most CEOs want their companies to do things right because that’s a sign of good management. But good management isn’t necessarily good leadership; good leaders are obsessed with doing right things. A new boss charged with transforming a bureaucracy into nimbleness must shift the mindset of an entire organization. Leadership.

CEO 100

CEO Human Resources Brand Bureaucracy 100

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 2, 2020

It shows clear attempts to move exports away from EU markets to elsewhere in the world. The data showed that the smallest exporters were shifting up to 46% of their export growth from the EU to other markets since the referendum in 2016, with slightly larger firms shifting around 19% of their exports. Gravity defying. Tariff barriers.

Supply Chain 91

Supply Chain Hedge Credit Risk Bureaucracy 91

Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Meet the bureaucracy. Get a feel for their management style and ask questions when you need to. If there’s not a lot to do while your workload is ramping up, spend time reading everything useful you can get your hands on: old documents, marketing and business plans, competitive analysis, the organization’s full website.

Advice 147

Advice Document Bureaucracy Project 147

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For years now, huge corporations such as British Aerospace Engineering and Raytheon have completely dominated the market and swooped in to poach promising innovators. 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.

Innovation 124

Innovation Software Politics Industry 124

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2021

Moreover, this is a sign that you’re not doing something right and that your business won’t make it once you hit the market. This also means you’ll have to do proper market research , especially if you’re starting a business that requires feedback. So, start taking care of this issue right now and try not to let bureaucracy defeat you!

Licensing 82

Licensing Bureaucracy Pharmaceuticals Planning 82

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 10, 2022

We’ve learned to build products and scale our companies by testing things in the market, seeing what works, and iterating. Vision statements that proclaimed the company’s aspirations “to be number 1 or number 2 in every market”, or “to be the leader in <insert industry jargon here>” were touted as being visionary. Managing up.

Productivity 115

Productivity Products Development Short-term 115

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

In their manager-oriented manual, “ The Moment You Can’t Ignore – When Big Trouble Leads to a Great Future ”, they ably explain “how culture drives strategic change.” The purpose of these perks is, of course, to encourage employees to spend more time working productively, and less time managing their personal lives.

Influence 100

Influence Succession Ethics Bureaucracy 100

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in. What they were doing five years ago has no relationship to what they’re now marketing. Appointed agency heads in a government bureaucracy. Firms which package and market services. Self Appointed.

Advice 57

Advice Strategy Company Bureaucracy 57

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Manage a Tight Budget. 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. Every business has its good and bad days, and so will yours.

Licensing 65

Licensing Insurance Bureaucracy Learning-by-Doing 65

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2024

The individuals manage the critical functioning of a majority of Google’s services, which makes it all the more unexpected to see the company choose to let them go. With such an expansive spending goal in mind, cutting down on spending wherever possible and moving to cheaper labor markets seems to be the way forward. According to Inc.

Trends 59

Trends Decentralization CFO Bureaucracy 59

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2020

The best way to manage this is to make sure that you really know your business, inside and out. You might be faster or more customer-focused than a larger organization with a lot more bureaucracy to deal with, but going up against the big boys can feel like an impossible fight.

Tips 65

Tips Bureaucracy Politics Tools 65

Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2017

Find your niche in the market. The beauty of running a small business is that you do not have layers of bureaucracy to wade through when you want to make a change. This makes you supremely flexible and adaptable and enables you to react to changes in the market quickly. Photo courtesy of Pexels. Define what your brand is.

Brand 51

Brand Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term 51

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Posted by Elinor Stutz on December 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment Marketing professionals refer to strategy as your unique selling proposition while sales folk use the term ‘positioning.’ How do you overcome simplicity in favor of bureaucracy? Yet our competitive companies would boast they required no red tape at all.

Storytelling 50

Storytelling Strategy Short-term Long-term 50

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.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 11

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 15

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

You also have support staff, including the people in marketing, finance, HR, and other functions. When the tooth-to-tail ratio gets too low, front-line people find that they have to send every customer request or idea for improvement up through the bureaucracy and wait days or weeks for a response. Managing people Time management'

Cost 15

Cost Span of Control Management Bureaucracy 15

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

If you want accountability, then people have to have a say in how things are going to roll out. And, be sure to plan for enough time for the discussion.

Tips 34

Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

These challenges meant that they overwhelmingly elected to go to larger companies that can help them with the bureaucracy, rather than the startup where their talents might be better put to use. “We do not believe the U.S. ” Early warning. . ” Early warning.

Globalization 40

Globalization Offshoring Human Capital Policies 40

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit margins, return on equity , and employee morale ; costly delays as players haggle over the size of the kickback; and poverty and poor governance in the markets where they’re paid. ” Identify “moon markets” and walk away.

Management 14

Management Ethics Cost Bureaucracy 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

The challenge of attracting and retaining talent is particularly acute for marketers. In this new world, the best marketers exhibit five superpowers – each of which requires new types of talent. Content creation + product expertise: Brand marketers are becoming more and more like publishers. Who: Look for dual superpowers.

Marketing 10

Marketing Strategy Brand Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

Unlike closed marketing systems, characterized by agencies that wall off their in-house talent (creating a scarce and expensive resource), open marketing systems seek talent from anywhere in the world to solve problems, and then curate the best answers. All of these are taking a piece of the traditional marketing spend.

Marketing 10

Marketing Disintermediation Brand Hotels 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Kearney as "the best-managed company in the world" — not so different from Apple today. By 2000, Motorola's global market share had collapsed from 45% to 15%, while Nokia's had grown to a market-leading 31%. In 2004, three years before the iPhone, it rejected a proposal to develop a Nokia online applications store.

Supply Chain 18

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

One of the driving principles of the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation is that everyone wins when everyone shares. We launched the Management 2.0 We launched the Management 2.0 When it comes to making an impact and accelerating change, it turns out that the how is as important as the what.

Management 14

Management Short-term How To Strategic Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

A few years ago one of the most vexing questions for marketing executives was whether big corporations were going to have to do what Bharti Airtel had done. Virtually everything except customer management and building the brand was left to partners. Now, by “hierarchy” I don’t mean a stifling bureaucracy.

Technology 9

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Energy vampires are often smart, well-intentioned managers who inadvertently slow the company down with too many questions, too much analysis, too much process—and not enough action. For what seems like all the right reasons, the company is not acting in the external market, but is piling up more internal initiatives.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy 360-Degree Feedback How To Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

We do not know the effectiveness of particular curricula, probably set by a sclerotic and unconstrained bureaucracy, nor the effectiveness of particular institutions, nor the ability of particular teachers to excite enthusiasm or to inspire a lifelong commitment to learning. As the old saw goes, what is not measured is not managed.

Education 16

Education Bureaucracy Learning-by-Doing System 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. By our reckoning, the cost of excess bureaucracy in the U.S. million managers, first-line supervisors, and administrators in the American workforce in 2014. Here’s the arithmetic.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

Like its American compatriot Ford Motor Company , GM’s market share in India has always been in the single digits, but recently Ford has reported rising monthly sales of 36% in India. 1 — Consistent Leadership Over Time Matters in This Market. Unlike Bentley or Rolls-Royce, GM is a mass-market car company in the U.S.

CEO 14

CEO Long-term Short-term Mass Marketing 14

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. Until a charter was created with guidelines about participation, some managers sat on as many as 14 boards and councils.

Team 16

Team Sports Teamwork Bureaucracy 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Imagine if managements, boards, and investors adopted them: we could restart our economy, energize our business school curricula and create prosperity for our children and grandchildren. Berkshire's talented managers get the P&L independence to run their own businesses. He wants loyal investors who seek to be stockowners, not renters.

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Letter P&L Insurance Net Present Value 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We announced the winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge (the first of three legs of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation) here last week. Here are just three lessons from our management innovators about leveraging social technologies to create truly social organizations: Trust your people with the future of the company.

Management 9

Management How To Open-book Bureaucracy 9