Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

Rod Collins writes in Wiki Management , “Today’s managers may spend more time soliciting input from their workers, but at the end of the day, the basic social technology remains the same: The managers are still the bosses, the workers are still subordinates, and the latter are still expected to do as they are told.”

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Collins Management Bureaucracy Open-book 285

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. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were hailed as a cure to the inefficiency of paper-based systems.

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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 78

How To Learning-by-Doing Agility Leadership Styles 78

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.

Bureaucracy 9

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.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Organizational – your organizational bureaucracy smothers the idea. Technological – current technology can’t leverage the idea. He suggests that creativity killers come from six different potential constraints: Individual – you actually don’t have a good idea. Group – your group doesn’t like the idea.

Creativity 111

Creativity Innovation Constraint Bureaucracy 111

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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Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 232

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? Popularity: 1% [ ?

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Mayo Company Bureaucracy Executive Coaching 141

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.

Chief Executive Officer 185

Chief Executive Officer Bureaucracy Motivation Innovation 185

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

So, every day that we turn back a skilled migrant due to slow immigration processes or ridiculous bureaucracy, we are costing our community five jobs. Technology should be able to assess and guide talent seamlessly into countries. This is crushing our businesses, particularly SMEs.

Marketing 74

Marketing Bureaucracy Globalization Policies 74

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Organizational – your organizational bureaucracy smothers the idea. Technological – current technology can’t leverage the idea. He suggests that creativity killers come from six different potential constraints: Individual – you actually don’t have a good idea. Group – your group doesn’t like the idea.

Creativity 94

Creativity Innovation Constraint Bureaucracy 94

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

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. The main thing every startup will learn from big industries is to adapt to all the technological changes.

Licensing 66

Licensing Insurance Bureaucracy Learning-by-Doing 66

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

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 9

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 9

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.

Innovation 120

Innovation Real Estate Open-book Bureaucracy 120

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. Rank Has Its Privileges? They are not leaders, but managers.

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Newsletter Leadership Learning Curve Bureaucracy 162

Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2020

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. Why target the VPs? Additionally, he is an author, speaker and host of the “Innovators on Tap” podcast.

Innovation 82

Innovation Organization Bureaucracy Learning-by-Doing 82

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

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. The rise in the influence of the knowledge worker. . Relax the culture. .

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

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.

Leadership 120

Leadership Bureaucracy Efficiency Leadership Styles 120

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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Bond Attrition Absenteeism Bureaucracy 243

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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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 Taylorism Taylor 132

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

Now, by “hierarchy” I don’t mean a stifling bureaucracy. Rather than being destroyed by digital technology, they’re strengthened by it. Technologies have allowed the marketing organization to become more efficient and effective. So now that 2015 is almost here, has that come to pass? The hierarchy is still in place.

Technology 8

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. She couldn’t get the image out of her head, so she began to research the technology requirements.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand PR 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

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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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. Does your company rely on barriers such as proprietary technology, arbitrary business rules, regulations or litigation to stifle competition? Is anybody steering the ship?

Strategy 50

Strategy Succession Software Industry 50

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

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

The companies CrossLead has worked with who have done this successfully have taken a very disciplined approach to it, leveraging regular cross-functional forums to share key learnings and decisions, as well as our technology that surfaces updates, risks, and other critical information to other teams.

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Silverman Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Objective 51

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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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

As technology-satellites, cellular networks, etc…- made the transmission and reception nearly instantaneously, this float collapsed. Today, technologies such as social media, smart phones, high-speed data mining, ubiquitously networked electronic devices, etc… have precipitated the collapse of the customer feedback float.

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

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.

Bureaucracy 45

Bureaucracy Finance Products Productivity 45

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 13

Health Care System Industry Technology 13

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.

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Advice Bureaucracy Innovation Chief Technology Officer 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

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Is there access to Information and Communications Technology infrastructure? Bureaucracy. To what extent do governments minimize bureaucracy? To what extent do governments enable technology to develop, through use or through legal frameworks? Government Digital Uptake: To what extent do governments use technology?

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Bureaucracy Comparison Innovation Technology 8