1.CUT DOWN ON APPROVALS
As soon as one person has to ask another person for an approval, a hierarchy is created. No company can survive without such hierarchies, without checks and balances, without managers and managees.
But the more of these you create, the more your company splits into two camps — them and us, ins and outs, favored and unfavored.
Eliminate as many of these approval steps as possible.
Start with the demeaning ones, the ones that require people to get approval to spend the company’s money — travel vouchers, expense reports, overtime authorizations, and so on.
Every time a person has to ask for such an approval, his or ...
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