HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

We want to operate like the world’s largest startup. Amazon’s Reorganization Strategy Accompanies the Return-to-Office Plan Along with the five-day office rule, Amazon has also started looking into increasing the ratio of individual contributors to managers by 15%, which will help them reduce the number of managers in the organization.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

If the management of the organization is one that employs an autocratic style of leadership, they will not involve the employees in the goal making process. An organization with a lot of bureaucracies tends to have a slow communication process which is ineffective at most times. This is basically the lifeblood of any organization.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 6, 2022

We should ideally strike a balance between improvisation and bureaucracy, with the researchers suggesting that simple rules are often much more effective than extensive routines and processes that govern our behaviors. Modularity.

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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. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

I N AN IBM global survey of CEOs, the overwhelming consensus was that more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision, successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity. Managers often resort to changes in organizational structure as a means of stimulating creativity and improving performance.”

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 5, 2020

In his latest book, Humanocracy , London Business School’s Gary Hamel teams up with his Management Lab colleague Michele Zanini to explore how organizations can better structure themselves for the modern age.

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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. But studies now reveal that doctors spend half of their time managing EHRs and desk work, shortchanging patients and fueling burnout.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In this article, we look at how a small team operates. We’ll also cover some of the reasons why managing a small team is better for your organization. Managing a small team makes them better at communicating with each other and collaborating on projects. About Small Teams. Small teams are extremely effective.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In business, leadership infrastructure is the sum total of all the management systems, processes, leadership teams, skill sets, and disciplines that enable companies to grow from small operations into midsized or large firms. Many midsized company leaders equate it with big-company bureaucracy. We’re craftspeople and farmers.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 30, 2023

Managers often hire consultants to help them solve major organizational problems. Many ideas are sifted through, and the most relevant one presented to management along with the consultant’s recommended action plan. Managers are hearing them for the first time. These have mostly failed. .”

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 2, 2020

The very act of diversifying trade patterns itself does not come without any risk, as transport costs are likely to grow, and companies are forced to operate in unfamiliar markets with unfamiliar bureaucracy. They need also to ease export admin and stimulate financial support, risk management and education in strategic marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

In a recent article , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini detail the toll that growing bureaucracy is taking across industries. Many of those working in the consolidating health care industry will immediately validate several of the authors’ key findings, including: Bureaucracy is growing, not shrinking. ” I beg to differ.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies.

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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.

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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.

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Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Mike Cardus

APRIL 28, 2011

Extant (presently existing) structures and processes that reinforce our deeper-lying impulses of love, trust, kinship and friendship, and release affection, creative co-operation and innovation. Excessive bureaucracy and top heavy management structure (too many levels within the organization). Philogenic Workplace.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

For all its enemies, bureaucracy is amazingly resilient. Since 1983, the number of managers, supervisors, and support staff employed in the U.S. That makes bureaucracy the organizational equivalent of kudzu, the invasive, herbicide-resistant vine that has overrun thousands of acres of woodland in the American south.

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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.

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

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Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 9

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

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. Numerator thinkers operate with an abundance mentality; denominator thinkers use a scarcity mentality. They cultivate, grow, innovate and invest.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

If you are a manager you know that challenges can be overcome by solid people and systems. This is often referred to as “bureaucracy” and can quickly become abysmally restrictive and frustrating with feelings of; Innovative work thrusts are inhibited. Endless reference back and forth and up and down the Management Structure.

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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?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 11, 2013

Referred to as “high maintenance,” they’re the 20% that take up 80% of their managers’ time. More than a decade ago, I learned a set of simple principles that describe how the human operating system works, what’s behind our experience of life in the moment. Nothing about rapport or relationships.) The feeling in the room was terrible.

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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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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. There are critical government services that should not fail, such as processing taxes, military operations, or counting votes.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 19, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. And that clear vision can help managers lead their organizations more effectively. Those principles are fundamental to Dr. Deming’s management system. We shun bureaucracy and advocate for decision-making to happen at our stores.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 5, 2020

Just like the people they lead, they become protective of the way things operate. Burdensome bureaucracies. We need good managers and good guidelines to keep us legal and accountable. After something is done a certain way long enough it’s hard to see how they are barriers stalling growth. They are just “normal”. .

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Bureaucracy Brainstorming Guidelines Edmondson 56

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

Google has opened its trove of management processes to one and all, for free. Management tools may not seem that different. Turns out a lot of its management tools focus on some pretty basic stuff, like how to run meetings, have conversations, and set goals. Why would Google release its management processes?

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 14, 2012

Very rightfully a number of comments focus on managers’ leadership behaviors: “Culture was imposed rather than engaging a critical mass in building the new culture.” ” “A huge factor is engaging managers and frontline workers before changes are implemented. It isn’t either/or.

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Teamwork Bottom-up Morale Bureaucracy 61

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

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. But one of the best ways to adopt the bottom-up management style.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. Eliminating layers of management.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

Moderate bureaucracy: If innovation becomes difficult because of bureaucratic barriers, employees will stop trying. When employees feel truly involved in the company collaboration becomes the norm and the divide between managers and staff melts naturally. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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Creativity Influence Innovation Brainstorming 183

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

To most people, bureaucracy is a bad word, synonymous with ‘red tape’ and wasted time. Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

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.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 19, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. And that clear vision can help managers lead their organizations more effectively. Those principles are fundamental to Dr. Deming’s management system. We shun bureaucracy and advocate for decision-making to happen at our stores.

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Deming Long-term Short-term Bureaucracy 28

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Current management of both companies were ill-advised on handling the crises. Don’t have sufficient management skills or resources to do something well. Those We Bring Upon Ourselves.

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