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Fighting bureaucracy
Organizations are funny creatures, when they're small, you have to make things up as you go. There are no established systems or ways of doing things. Then as you grow, it becomes clear that you need a little more order and a little less chaos. So you create a few process models and a bunch of work rules and policies. They seem to help. They provide clarity where before there was none. As you mature as an organization, you become more and more comfortable with this reality, until you've created the opposite problems. There are so many rules and policies. You can't seem to get any work done. Why can't we see this coming? Well the truth is that bureaucracies are usually built slowly without knowing it. People think they're trying to do the right thing, they're merely trying to gain control over something at work that needs controlling, but in fact, they're usually just adding waste and inefficiency. Think of these good examples. Let's say you see a need to fix something at work. Maybe a…
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Becoming a change agent2m 59s
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Finding targets for innovation2m 45s
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Assessing your organization's change readiness2m 50s
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Embracing failure2m 33s
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Developing your creativity3m 6s
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Breaking through with brainstorming3m 16s
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Embracing the devil's advocate2m 50s
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Managing creative talent3m 2s
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Fighting bureaucracy3m 6s
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Not all best practices are best2m 57s
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Diversity’s real power2m 6s
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Initiating change conversations2m 57s
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Creating needed debate3m 2s
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Knowing when to engage positive conflict2m 42s
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Myth of creative genius2m 44s
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Making risk feel like learning2m 47s
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The difference between creativity and innovation3m 10s
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People don't hate change2m 47s
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Advocating for the unpopular2m 20s
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The upside of limited resources2m 54s
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Understanding change capacity2m 24s
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Picking a successful fight at work2m 19s
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Start, stop, change2m 44s
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