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Krugman, Soros and Roubini: how to fix the crisis
in Sox First, on May 26, 2009
...arkets are imperfect, regulators are even more imperfect: not only are they human, they're also bureaucratic and subject to political influences. So we want to keep regulation to a minimum, but we...
Speed Sourcing - An Over-Reaction to Long Procurement Cycles?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on May 19, 2009
... bidding process required by corporate procurement departments. Sure, these can be frustrating and bureaucratic, however they also do instill a large amount of discipline into the deal-making process....
GM-Chrysler merger: a bad idea for bad times
in Sox First, on October 11, 2008
...aid: "Too many mergers resemble the marriage of two cripples who become twice as old, twice as bureaucratic and twice as undynamic." Tom Walsh from the Detroit Free Press sums it up well wh...
30 ideas to be funded - meet ycombinator
in TJ's Weblog, on July 30, 2008
...at takes on such a project will be helped along by Microsoft itself, who between their increasingly bureaucratic culture and their desire to protect existing desktop revenues will probably do a bad jo...
SEC-PCAOB arm wrestle
in Sox First, on February 27, 2008
...questions whether the SEC and PCAOB can work together to enforce Sarbanes-Oxley. But then maybe the bureaucratic arm-wrestle and power struggle was inevitable. When the PCAOB was created, it was takin...
Garcia Márquez Banned in Iran and Criticized in Colombia
in Latina Viva, on November 15, 2007
...arcia Marquez, saying the initial publication of "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" was a bureaucratic error". (...) The culture ministry refused to issue a permit for the reprinting of...
Breakin' the law
in The CIO Weblog, on October 31, 2007
...f they are so broadly ignored? Is it just a CYA mentality, or the inevitable crush of paperwork and bureaucratic sludge that accumulates in any organization over time? Too many lawyers? What's the...
Blogger Detests Quote Abuse
in The Search Engine Weblog, on September 21, 2007
...oy, director of the expository writing program at New York University. "Whether in academic or bureaucratic writing, it's giving up responsibility for what you're writing. It's a push...
ACLU Blames FCC For 'War' Objectors
in The Digital TV Weblog, on August 28, 2007
... like the coarsening of our airways for cultural reasons. But, the FCC is proving once again that a bureaucratic solution will never work.
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Six organizational pathologies
in Sox First, on July 9, 2007
...eliminated. The organization is caught up in group think. One of the best examples is Enron. 2. Bureaucratic organizations : Rigid and inflexible places. Not welcoming of ideas or creative people....
What The Shawshank Redemption Can Teach You About Entrepreneurship
in Businesspundit, on June 7, 2007
...r point that is relevant is that if you have an entrepreneurial spirit, too much time inside a slow bureaucratic company can kill it off. Here is the rest of Red's quote about Brooks.
..these wa...
Speed As A Competitive Advantage
in Businesspundit, on May 23, 2007
.... Speed is the one advantage that the big competition can't duplicate easily. Big companies are bureaucratic, dysfunctional, and self-absorbed. They don't listen, they are slow to change, and ...
My take on America and immigration
in TJ's Weblog, on March 25, 2007
...edures in the
last years and while I must say it's not easy - it's a fair system. As
most bureaucratic systems it works well as long as you fit in one of the
main visa and green card stereo...
Paul Otellini at IDF San Francisco: Will Intel ReTake the Lead From AMD?
in Businesspundit, on September 27, 2006
...company is pushing an aggressive technical development schedule that won't succeed in a bloated bureaucratic company.
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Big Sur Bio-Diesel Co-Op
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on August 29, 2006
...re too prohibitive and this trailer is small enough (by about 10 gallons) to get below the radar of bureaucratic red tape.
On September 1st the bio-diesel trailer will move into its permanent locati...
Links of the Day
in Businesspundit, on August 22, 2006
...Town Car.
Director Mitch discusses going to bat for your people, and looks at a situation with a bureaucratic catch-22.
Some people are saying the minimum wage no longer matters .
Are entreprene...
Trade Agreements Mean Less Red Tape
in Small Business Unplugged, on August 4, 2006
...r to ship the hay down through the United States, says Mar. This will change under TILMA.
What a Bureaucratic Nightmare!
Then it dawned on me, trade agreements whether we are talking NAFTA or Int...
A Wine Sign
in Celebrate Wine, on June 9, 2006
...eat for the wineries, great for tourism. But the state's wine and tourism bureaucracies are too bureaucratic, too politicized to make this happen.
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Untangling SOX: the post-Enron debate
in Sox First, on May 30, 2006
Now that Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling are set to spend the rest of their lives in the slammer, questions are being asked (again) whether it's time to unwind Sarbanes-Oxley. Apparently the system has been shown to work so well that we don't need it.
Industry association opposes nanotech export controls
in Nanotechbuzz, on May 24, 2006
...iminary phase could compel companies to consider locating outside the United States to avoid overly bureaucratic regulations. It would be counterproductive to adopt policies that may spur development ...
The Audeamus Mission ...
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on April 7, 2006
...tion, pragmatically progressive- libertarian in its political views (my own), as well as anti-bureaucratic, and anti-status-quo. Audeamus will try to look at these issues on both a macro level...
Niklas Zennstroem interviewed
in TJ's Weblog, on December 14, 2005
...str�m is confident. The national telecoms companies, he says, are simply too slow and too bureaucratic to catch up." It seems Niklas is taking it as every good entrepreneur should with a good sha...
Giving Employees What They Want
in Businesspundit, on April 27, 2005
...ol Publishing), believes far too many managers stifle employee enthusiasm across the board by using bureaucratic or punitive techniques that should be reserved for a troublesome few.
Yet his book, wr...
Carnival of the capitalists on the Outsourcing Weblog
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on July 10, 2004
...essorBainbridge.com" argues using the example of emerging predictive markets within firms why bureaucratic hierarchies can become vices over time
Giselle at "OSCommerce Experts" id...
I am not a hard worker
in Businesspundit, on January 30, 2004
... exchange for the length of time worked. Working long hours was a sign of loyalty. In sum, it was a bureaucratic time system. I call it the Time-and-Effort Economy.
Today, bureaucratic systems are br...
Generalists vs. Specialists
in Businesspundit, on December 19, 2003
...the environment in which it operates. People who have been socialized into mechanistic, bureaucratic [specialized] systems are less likely to be comfortable in organic ones. They are used to being tol...
Fixing Social Security
in Businesspundit, on November 7, 2003
...This month's Mensa Bulletin has a section on "Bureaucratic Inefficiency." Readers sent in letters on the topic, and the last one printed contains what I think is a very interesting ide...
More Unintended Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
in Businesspundit, on October 9, 2003
...ecruitment costs to the startup equation far earlier than previously required. Dotting all of those bureaucratic i's can distract management from other pressing tasks. And finding independent boar...
Lesson 1: Competition Can Be Good
in Businesspundit, on September 22, 2003
...s facing new competition, but doing so can be a spark. Consider General Motors circa 1980: bloated, bureaucratic and building lousy cars. After Toyota's and Honda's arrival, it took years for ...