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Atricle Dump - How to Bust Bureaucracy
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Like most cancer treatment, the common approach is to cut burn and poison. The results too often are "It grew back again" or "We cured the bureaucracy but the organisation died".
Bureaucracy is best prevented and treated by leaders ensuring the culture has these characteristics:
• All systems are simple, connected and serv
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In your own organisation, do you ever think "Why are we doing this?" or "Why aren't things moving as planned or desired? Do you notice people becoming more difficult to deal with? Do you sense a rising level of frustration? Has your workplace lost its shine? Perhaps it's becoming or already is bureaucratic.
Often unnoticed in an organisation's growth is a tendency towards bureaucracy. It's rarely intentional, yet very common.
Here are some other symptoms of bureaucracy:
• Ineffective meetings - too long, too frequent, too little value.
• Less direct and personal communication - too many emails or "memos".
• Ever growing procedures and operations "manuals"
• Defensive, protective and internally competitive decisions and behaviour. Shows as fear-based thinking - "we better do this in case…" or "we better not do this in case…"
• Growing sense of mediocrity in human performance.
• Gradual loss of original purpose.
Bureaucracy is cancer of the organisation - unnecessary growth that becomes self-serving.
Because the bureaucracy grows within the culture of the organisation, it is seldom noticed by those within and rarely effectively dealt with by those within - after all, they are the unintentional cause!
Treating bureaucracy requires awareness, courage, determination and correct action with the full commitment of leadership.
Like most cancer treatment, the common approach is to cut burn and poison. The results too often are "It grew back again" or "We cured the bureaucracy but the organisation died".
Bureaucracy is best prevented and treated by leaders ensuring the culture has these characteristics:
• All systems are simple, connected and serve
At its simplest definition, workflow is the movement of documents and/or tasks through a work process, and for many people, the idea of Human Resources and workflow in business involves the improvement of processing paperwork. Workflow is the operational aspect of a work procedure: how tasks are structured, who performs them, how they are synchronised, how tasks are tracked; the tasks involved in determining workflow are numerous and c
Often unnoticed in an organisation's growth is a tendency towards bureaucracy. It's rarely intentional, yet very common.
Here are some other symptoms of bureaucracy:
• Ineffective meetings - too long, too frequent, too little value.
• Less direct and personal communication - too many emails or "memos".
• Ever growing procedures and operations "manuals"
• Defensive, protective and internally competitive decisions and behaviour. Shows as fear-based thinking - "we better do this in case…" or "we better not do this in case…"
• Growing sense of mediocrity in human performance.
• Gradual loss of original purpose.
Bureaucracy is cancer of the organisation - unnecessary growth that becomes self-serving.
Because the bureaucracy grows within the culture of the organisation, it is seldom noticed by those within and rarely effectively dealt with by those within - after all, they are the unintentional cause!
Treating bureaucracy requires awareness, courage, determination and correct action with the full commitment of leadership.
Like most cancer treatment, the common approach is to cut burn and poison. The results too often are "It grew back again" or "We cured the bureaucracy but the organisation died".
Bureaucracy is best prevented and treated by leaders ensuring the culture has these characteristics:
• All systems are simple, connected and serv
Many more people are leaving the regular nine-to-five job experience to start their own businesses. Some do it in order to pursue a life long dream, others to utilise a gift or talent, in order to earn some extra income.You do not even have to quit your job to go into business. You can be a business by your self (become a consultant) in an area of your expertise and increase your cash flow. Whatever the reason for going into bus
• Ever growing procedures and operations "manuals"
• Defensive, protective and internally competitive decisions and behaviour. Shows as fear-based thinking - "we better do this in case…" or "we better not do this in case…"
• Growing sense of mediocrity in human performance.
• Gradual loss of original purpose.
Bureaucracy is cancer of the organisation - unnecessary growth that becomes self-serving.
Because the bureaucracy grows within the culture of the organisation, it is seldom noticed by those within and rarely effectively dealt with by those within - after all, they are the unintentional cause!
Treating bureaucracy requires awareness, courage, determination and correct action with the full commitment of leadership.
Like most cancer treatment, the common approach is to cut burn and poison. The results too often are "It grew back again" or "We cured the bureaucracy but the organisation died".
Bureaucracy is best prevented and treated by leaders ensuring the culture has these characteristics:
• All systems are simple, connected and serv
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Because the bureaucracy grows within the culture of the organisation, it is seldom noticed by those within and rarely effectively dealt with by those within - after all, they are the unintentional cause!
Treating bureaucracy requires awareness, courage, determination and correct action with the full commitment of leadership.
Like most cancer treatment, the common approach is to cut burn and poison. The results too often are "It grew back again" or "We cured the bureaucracy but the organisation died".
Bureaucracy is best prevented and treated by leaders ensuring the culture has these characteristics:
• All systems are simple, connected and serv
There are many events outside of the workplace that can negatively impact workplace productivity. A major holiday and major sporting events (like the Super Bowl, World Cup or NCAA Basketball Tournament) are a few of these possible distractions.As people begin to think about, talk about and focus on these events, their focus may leave their work. Think about it: how many tournament brackets are filled out on office time? How much
Like most cancer treatment, the common approach is to cut burn and poison. The results too often are "It grew back again" or "We cured the bureaucracy but the organisation died".
Bureaucracy is best prevented and treated by leaders ensuring the culture has these characteristics:
• All systems are simple, connected and serve the prime purpose of the organisation.
• A high level of functional direct personal interaction and communication throughout the organisation.
• Continuous though careful pruning of the unnecessary.
• Always challenging procedure with the "Why" question. If the answer is defensive, protective or fear-based - seek to prune it.
• Avoidance of complacency and blind acceptance of any routine. If anything requires "rationalisation" or "justification" it means something is already not working.
• Well managed yet adventurous risk taking for innovation, simplicity and above all, to best serve the prime purpose of the organisation.
• Allow appropriate time and training for new processes to be properly learned.
• Ensure crystal clear unambiguous communication of correct and useful processes.
• Continuous challenge of continuous growth - it's not natural! More often it's actually cancerous growth currently disguised as more profit, more opportunity, diversification etc.
• Stepping outside the organisation frequently to review it holistically.
Experience has shown that executive team meetings designed to eliminate the negative aspects of bureaucratic process are best facilitated by an independent external facilitator, capable of respectfully challenging the discussions.
Experience has also shown that most organisations have no processes designed to minimise bureaucracy, and in fact have processes that unintentionally create it.
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