[In response to Gary Hamel’s post related to Rob Wiesenthal’s WSJ opinion piece “Elon Musk Slashes Bureaucracy, Giving Twitter a Chance to Soar” — see below]
Let me say firstly that I’ve been a fan of Gary’s provocative and insightful work forever, and his lectures at London Business School were classics. But. I must admit I’m really starting to get annoyed with these simplistic slogans. “War with bureaucracy”? “CEOs like Elon Musk”? Really? An organizational form is the root cause of the world’s troubles? And more narcissistic and immature leaders who drive organizations egotistically to extract as much profit as possible — is our best answer?
With all due respect, having run large businesses for all my career, this isn’t responsible. And just as another guy who cares deeply about organizational transformation and about fruitful collaboration between research and practice, let me add, this isn’t professional — as far as I’m concerned, we have enough populism in the world, we don’t need it in academia…
#leadership #transformation #leaders #grli #gpdf2023 #wef #agile #business #personaldevelopment #lbs
Original Post
“Eventually, every CEO, like Elon Musk, must go to war with bureaucracy. Most orgs have 3X too many layers, staffers and rules. Bureaucracy is crippling the spirit of enterprise and costs major economies $10 trillion per year in lost output.”
