Gary Hamel on Busting Bureaucracy

1h 5mGeneral2016-09-14

Authors

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

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - The bureaucracy paradox
03 - The bureaucracy problem

1. Understanding the Threat of Organizational Bureaucracy

04 - Bureaucracy is everywhere
05 - Bureaucracy is expensive
06 - Bureaucracy is disabling

2. How to Begin to Move to Positive Change

07 - Get angry
08 - Build a posse
09 - Arm yourself with data
10 - Find those who have fought and won
11 - How to approach your hack

3. Create a Management Hack

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

Conclusion

16 - Next steps