Gary Hamel on Busting Bureaucracy

Gary Hamel on Busting Bureaucracy

1h 5mGeneral2016-09-14

Authors

Gary Hamel

Gary Hamel

Influential business thinker

Course details

If you want to build a company that's fit for the future, you need to be a leader and an innovator. Yet most companies still bury their employees under layers of managerial overhead and saddle them with petty rules that stymie initiative and undermine creativity. This has to change. Bureaucracy must die. In this course, global business thought leader Gary Hamel outlines what you can do to bust bureaucracy—whatever your role and whatever your position. He shows you how to…

Focus your frustration
Enroll a posse of change agents
Build an irresistible case for change
Learn from organizations that have conquered bureaucracy
"Hack" the management systems in your organization



With these insights any employee can become a bureaucracy buster.

Skills covered

Thought LeaderOrganizational LeadershipLeadership and Management

Concepts

Introduction

  • Welcome
  • The bureaucracy paradox
  • The bureaucracy problem

Understanding the Threat of Organizational Bureaucracy

  • Bureaucracy is everywhere
  • Bureaucracy is expensive
  • Bureaucracy is disabling

How to Begin to Move to Positive Change

  • Get angry
  • Build a posse
  • Arm yourself with data
  • Find those who have fought and won
  • How to approach your hack

Create a Management Hack

  • Tactics for coming up with your hack
  • Change in action - Microsoft
  • Change in action - The National Health Service (NHS)
  • Envisioning success

Conclusion

  • Next steps
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