27 Posts found for Author: Sally Helgesen

The former CEO of the Girl Scouts has spent decades bringing professional management to nonprofits.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Frances Hesselbein, Sally Helgesen | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Nonprofit

Working with startups showed Ernesto Sirolli how anyone can have more impact: Shut up and listen.

Content: Article | Author: Sally Helgesen | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Entrepreneurship

Real engagement doesn’t flow from trying to convince yourself that what your company produces will change the world for the better–– a fairly fruitless quest for many. Rather, meaning must be sought in how the scope of our work allows us to reach our highest potential.

Content: Quotation | Author: Sally Helgesen | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Organizational Behavior

We believe that what women see—what they notice and value and how they perceive the world in operation—is a greatly under-exploited resource in organizations. In this manifesto, we explore what the female vision is, what it has to offer, and why it matters—to women, to organizations and to the world. In this manifesto, we explore what the female vision is, what it has to offer, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Julie Johnson, Sally Helgesen | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Women in Business

To help corporations create knowledge more consciously, the author of Managing Flow draws on Western and Eastern philosophic traditions.

Content: Article | Authors: Ikujiro Nonaka, Sally Helgesen | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Knowledge Management, People

An organization’s conception of human capital is manifest in its culture, and culture is inculcated by process and behavior guidelines that are passed along as one employee imitates another. The process is most effective when the capacity for self-expression in the ranks is consonant with expectations set at the top and an autonomous spirit flourishes.

Content: Quotation | Author: Sally Helgesen | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Culture, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

In many companies, people automatically assume that explicit knowledge is more reliable and accurate—a way of thinking that dates back at least to the era of scientific management.When an executive says, “Cut to the chase, just give me the numbers,” he or she is declaring his allegiance to episteme by attempting to exclude information that arrives through subjective means.

But organizations that favor explicit over tacit … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Sally Helgesen | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Knowledge