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Drop unnecessary work
Delayer, create a flat
responsive organization
Encourage employees to identify
problems and come up with
solutions
Make your workplace more
informal
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Bureaucracy is the enemy
"Big corporations are filled
with people in bureaucracy who
want to cover things – cover the
bases, say they did everything a
little bit. Well, now have
people out there all by
themselves, there they are,
accountable for their successes
and their failures... Some who
looked good in the big
bureaucracy looked silly when
you left them alone."
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9 Signs of
a Losing Organization
Eliminate
Bureaucracy
Examples
ABB
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Bureaucracy as Silent Maze
Bureaucratic systems create
layers of rules that feel
endless and opaque. Human intent
fades inside procedures that
repeat without clarity...
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Drop unnecessary work
Stop monitoring things and your subordinates' performance too
closely. This sort of command-and-control management style does not
permit managers to spot trouble soon enough.
Stop firming memos at one another as they prevent you from talking
directly with junior managers and field workers.
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Every layer is a bad layer. The world
is moving at such a pace that control has become a limitation. It
slows you down. |
Jack Welch
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Delayer, create a flat
responsive organization
Without
all those layers, your company
can become lean and agile. Do
everything you can to simplify,
remove complexity and formality,
and make the organization more
responsive and agile.
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Cross-pollinate to
make faster and better decisions
Eliminate tools and documents that
discourage original thinking.
Encourage employees
to identify problems and
come up with solutions
Force any manager who thwarts their
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Make your workplace
more informal
"Send handwritten notes instead
of memos, keep meetings
conversational, and encourage
dialogue up and down the
corporate ladder."
More lessons from
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