A Relentless Battle Against Bureaucracy

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The best way to institutionalise decluttering is to force managers to justify any bureaucracy they introduce. Seagate Technology, a data-storage company, and Boeing, an aircraft-maker, both hold their executives accountable for the "organisational load" that they impose on their subordinates in terms of meetings, memos and initiatives, and measure them against their peers. As Bain points out, the most valuable resource that many companies have is the time of their employees. And yet they are typically far less professional about managing that time than they are at managing their financial assets.

A Relentless Battle Against Bureaucracy - Business Insider

Some challenging points about simplifying a company with emphasis on killing meetings.