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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System Bureaucracy Proposal Review 25

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

77% of leaders believe that their organizations suffer from talent-crushing bureaucracy. Question: Why are leaders increasingly resistant to change when facing emerging technologies like AI? 81% of leaders agree that they feel overwhelmed by the speed and scale of business disruption. Mauri : Change used to happen as a breeze.

How To 77

How To Learning-by-Doing Agility Leadership Styles 77

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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Mayo Company Bureaucracy Executive Coaching 141

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.

Licensing 66

Licensing Insurance Bureaucracy Learning-by-Doing 66

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. The following is a guest post by Russell Bishop.

Bureaucracy 232

Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 232

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

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 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

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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Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

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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Chief Executive Officer Bureaucracy Motivation Innovation 185

Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2020

You’ll still need some people to lead teams and organize work, but call these jobs what they really are: managers. The VP title is a symbol of bureaucracy, which is the enemy of innovation. He is co-inventor on more than 25 patents covering LEDs and lighting technology, and has over 30 years of experience in the technology business.

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Innovation Organization Bureaucracy Learning-by-Doing 82

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. Enable People with Technology. Technology enables people and amplifies culture. The technology environment in which I arrived was bleak.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Politics Technology Morale 11

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Large businesses soon grow into huge bureaucracies where rules, regulations, policies, procedures and “I need permission to make a decision” become the norm. Technology Makes a Poor Substitute for Authentic Leadership — When technology fails, leadership must prevail. They are not leaders, but managers.

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Newsletter Leadership Learning Curve Bureaucracy 162

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.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 9

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 11, 2013

Referred to as “high maintenance,” they’re the 20% that take up 80% of their managers’ time. 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.

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Bond Attrition Absenteeism Bureaucracy 243

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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Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 14

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.

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Influence Succession Ethics Bureaucracy 100

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?

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Mayo Executive Coaching Taylor Taylorism 132

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

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. Or, like at most companies, are the senior managers incentivized to do the same thing in their departments that they did last year? Is anybody steering the ship?

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Strategy Succession Software Industry 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

Virtually everything except customer management and building the brand was left to partners. We could easily envision a landscape of lean, open, networked firms that managed their customers and their brands themselves but outsourced everything else to partners. Now, by “hierarchy” I don’t mean a stifling bureaucracy.

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Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 8

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

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Current management of both companies were ill-advised on handling the crises. 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. Computer activity constitutes less than 1% of the technology picture.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

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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Silverman Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Objective 51

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

Management 3.0 – a psychological shift. In my management 3.0 In this article, my description of management 3.0 In the management 3.0 As technology-satellites, cellular networks, etc…- made the transmission and reception nearly instantaneously, this float collapsed. So what does a Management 3.0

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Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The other one of us cofounded 10x Management , a well-respected talent agency representing top-tier freelance programmers, designers, and other technology professionals. Others are new to managing or stronger technically than as a supervisor. One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers.

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CTO Agility Management Chief Technology Officer 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Well, it seems that the 21 st Century, an age of information and technology, is asking for something different from us than was called for in the Industrial age. The world, through technology, is getting smaller and smaller. The pace of change is accelerating at a dizzying rate.

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Bureaucracy Diversity Globalization Technology 56

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The sheer sprawl of these outsourced services is bewildering, even at medium-size organizations: housekeeping, food services, materials management, IT, and clinical staffing, including temporary nursing and also physician coverage for the ER, ICU and hospitalists. Eliminating layers of management. As the U.S.

Cost 11

Cost System Management Franchising 11

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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Long-term Self-aware Short-term Bureaucracy 67

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.

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Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

A “value management office” can greatly enhance an institution’s ability to improve outcomes and costs across the enterprise. ICCI now has five full-time employees with expertise in analytics and project management and three part-time graduate students. Integrate quality data into care delivery.

Health Care 8

Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2018

Several technology companies — including Google and Microsoft — tried this in the early 2000s, but their efforts failed. The technology for giving outside entities access to electronic records kept by hospitals and doctors was underdeveloped. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center.

Health Care 12

Health Care System Industry Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

Since my youth I've been an early adopter of new technology. I know new technology can bring much creativity and value. Investments in technology were so low for so long that we were having technological blackouts with frequency. Nowadays, technology is at the core of our urban planning and management of public policies.

Software 15

Software Early Adopters Technology Crisis 15

Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

About ten years ago, somebody sent me a PDF file of Dr. Deming’s “Some Notes on Management in a Hospital.” A system doesn’t design itself and a system doesn’t manage itself. This also includes managers and leaders who are so consumed with fire fighting and bureaucracy that they are not able to spend time helping improve the system.

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Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

” It’s a familiar idea: A SWAT innovation team is created, ready to inject new thinking into a burdensome bureaucracy. Godbout was executive director at 18F before departing to become chief technology officer for the EPA. So, we said, we’re going to be using the latest technologies and the latest tools.

Advice 12

Advice Bureaucracy Innovation Chief Technology Officer 12

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. Galbraith’s answer was that they needed to be so because technology required large amounts of capital to be deployed — think your large auto assembly, oil refineries, and chemical plants.

Power 8

Power Bureaucracy Advertising Open-book 8

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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Bureaucracy Finance Products Productivity 45

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

When we launched the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation last year, we aimed to enlist the most progressive practitioners and thinkers in the collective effort of reinventing what we call "the technology of human accomplishment." See the Proposed Challenges for examples.). Proposed Challenges.

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Innovation McKinsey Management Proposal 8