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. That’s wrong. How do you do that?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. There’s no other way to put it: bureaucracy must die.

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Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. There’s no other way to put it: bureaucracy must die.

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Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

They reward unfavorable behaviors, while operating with myopic interests and escalating bureaucracy. Employees know what many leaders haven''t figured out: Parental, top-down cultures in today''s world are as ineffective as one-size-fits-all, print-only marketing approaches. Capture Your Market Share. Related articles.

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Self-aware Bureaucracy Open-book Ethics 91

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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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.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Leaders can no longer afford to let the vagaries of the job market determine who leaves and who stays. In addition to reducing bureaucracy, high-performing, high-tech companies provide freedom in dress codes, scheduled hours, and lifestyle choices. Retaining High-Impact Performers . These seven steps can help you: 1.

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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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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Over the last few decades, the US has transformed from a "real economy" (where capital market manias tend to be contained by the availability of savings and credit) to a "financial economy" where the unlimited availability of credit leads to speculative bubbles (read: the roaring '20s & '90s) which get totally out of hand.

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Banking Mayo Bureaucracy Report 105

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. Airtel’s move quickly transformed the mobile-phone market in India as other telecomms followed suit. Now, by “hierarchy” I don’t mean a stifling bureaucracy.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. What Causes Crises. Won’t listen to advice. Circumstances Beyond Our Control.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Adjustments must be periodically made to target markets, definition of terms and modification of strategies. Growth, defined as increasing revenues each year (rather than improving the quality of company operations). Doing the things necessary to assure revenue (billings, sales, add-on’s, marketing). Running a bureaucracy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

General Motors, once the world’s largest car maker, has decided to stop selling vehicles in India by the end of 2017, since it considers its India operation to be not profitable. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Unproductive routines, corporate bureaucracy, and “administrivia” kill ambition and sap energy for far too many employees. redesign the operating model. These proliferating operations lead to complexity, which contributes to drag as well as costs that rob resources from better and potentially more-profitable ideas.

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Zero Based Budgeting Organization Budgeting How To 14

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. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. Here’s the arithmetic. trillion, of which the non-U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The article shocked the sensibilities of many who worried about rising corporate power in the world, but for many executives struggling to chart courses through the chaos of newly globalized and deregulated markets, it offered an irresistible clarity: one need only focus on owners’ interests. As a result, a new era is emerging.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In research for our book, The Founder’s Mentality , my coauthor and I found that 85% of the time, the barriers to sustainable growth are not external, but internal, and include bureaucracy, ability to motivate and retain talent, and slowness to decide, act or redeploy. When Home Depot slipped to last among U.S.

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Company Bureaucracy Long-term Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Nokia's inability to field a credible response to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and Google's Android operating system in 2008 has precipitated a freefall in its share price. By 2000, Motorola's global market share had collapsed from 45% to 15%, while Nokia's had grown to a market-leading 31%.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Not so long ago, businesses were merely expected to conform to the laws and regulations of the countries in which they operated. But as business became more global, spreading to emerging and developing markets in pursuit of cheap resources and labor, corporate leaders entered countries with weak institutions, bureaucracy and corruption.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. My analysis: The stock market looks primarily at profits…one small part (1%) of the business picture.

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Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

David Kenny, the new head of IBM’s Watson, defines that business as “AI (artificial intelligence) as a service,” a central part of the data analytics market that IBM CEO Virginia Rometty says is a $2 trillion opportunity. But those that do account for half of the net value created in the global stock market in a given year.

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Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Instead of a byzantine maze of programs and bureaucracies, government's myriad responsibilities and customers can be seen as a series of markets that can be shaped to cultivate very different, less expensive — and ultimately more effective — ways of supplying public services. At $500 billion annually, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

The next rung of leaders who operate from different geographies or second-tier P&Ls often have to converge on this center of gravity for reviews and the occasional reprimand. 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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Agility Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Five things differentiate the former from the latter: Bureaucracy and politics. That is not to say people in a large company can’t successfully explore new business models, design remarkable products and experiences, or pursue new markets. Finding new ways to fuel growth is essential.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Each Question Box was set to speed dial our operator, a young woman with a mobile phone and Internet connection in her house. Callers pushed the green button, connected to our Operator, and asked in local dialect any question they wanted. In more rural areas, Question Box was primarily used to check weather and crop market prices.

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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.

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Education Bureaucracy System Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Insurgent startups, such as Instagram and Snapchat, manage to operate with far fewer resources than legacy companies in the same industry in the “pre-digital” era. Can anyone really argue that a company truly needs nearly 33,000 employees to operate the same basic website idea it had when it was 500 employees?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law.

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Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Top 10 Operational Impacts of the GDPR (IAPP). GDPR also bears more than a hint of the kind of protectionism that has featured prominently in EU technology policy since the 2015 release of the plan for a “Digital Single Market,” including recent announcements of new taxes for U.S.-based Full Text of the Regulations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The Future of Operations.

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Products Productivity Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

and China should be playing the same free-market, free-trade global game in accordance with the rules of the WTO and IMF (to which both countries belong). The United States is playing free-market free-trade capitalism while China is playing mercantilist state capitalism. Let's start with the false premise. It's a whack-a-mole game.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

What’s more, businesses wanting to operate in both the UK and the EU will need to undergo the same bureaucracy twice, which will add an estimated £1 billion to their cost of doing business. It’s inevitably a tall order to expect the UK to replicate bodies whose costs were previously spread across 28 different nations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The economy we’re operating in today may have been built to serve corporations, but not many corporations are doing well in the digital environment. Even the apparent winners are actually operating on borrowed time and, perhaps more to the point, borrowed money. Old ways of doing things are replaced by better ones.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Buffett prefers to accept the visible costs of "a few bad decisions" than incur "the invisible costs of stifling bureaucracies." In 2009, he confessed to developing an ill-conceived plan to market GEICO credit cards and also failed to rein in NetJets' debt, which had soared to $1.9 He annually reports on his own mistakes.

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