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Why are so many businesses such depressing, poorly directed messes? Ask Barry Gibbons, enlightened capitalist, high-spirited wit, and the man who nearly single-handedly pulled Burger King out of a long, disparaging slump, rendering it robust and dynamic (without cutting heads).

In this rollicking, iconoclastic book, Gibbons blasts apart the thick wall of hubris, hierarchy, regimentation, and exaggerated complexity so endemic to the corporate world–and lays bare … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Barry J. Gibbons | Subjects: General, Management

New research suggests a link between religion and attitudes that are conducive to economic growth.

Content: Article | Authors: Luigi Guiso, Luigi Zingales, Paolo Sapienza | Source: Capital Ideas | Subjects: General, Miscellaneous

Entrepreneurship is once again fashionable with policymakers, business schools, large corporations and the media. But in the light of the dot-com crash, many wonder whether it can provide the much needed spark to re-ignite growth. What exactly is the link between rates of new business formation and the wider performance of an economy? Can large corporations replicate the conditions in which small companies successfully innovate … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, General

Considering the astounding impact companies have had on every corner of civilization, it’s amazing that the development of the institution has been largely unexamined. Economist editors Micklethwait and Wooldridge present a compact and timely book that deftly sketches the history of the company. They trace its progress from Assyrian partnership agreements through the 16th- and 17th-century European “charter companies” that opened trade with distant parts … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Adrian Wooldridge, John Micklethwait | Subjects: General, History

Here are seven fundamental lessons about IT value that Mohanbir Sawhney has learned in a decade-long career as an academic researcher, consultant and teacher:
1. Value is customer-defined… To understand the true nature of value, you need to get inside the minds and hearts of your customers, whether they’re internal or external…
2. Value is opaque…Understand all factors that customers take into consideration in assessing … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Mohanbir Sawhney | Source: CIO Magazine | Subjects: General, IT / Technology / E-Business

Measuring performance can cut both ways. It can play a valuable role in improving organizations – or it can stand in the way of necessary change.

Content: Article | Author: Jim Clemmer | Subjects: General, Miscellaneous

ManagerWise offers articles, book reviews, a glossary and other resources covering a broad range of topics concerning the theory and practice of business management.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Klebanoff Associates Inc. | Subjects: General, Management

Actually, technology did, by speeding up the maturation of industries-but you can fight back.

Content: Article | Author: John Sviokla | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: General, IT / Technology / E-Business

What Management Is, by former Harvard Business Review editors Joan Magretta and Nan Stone, identifies management as the driving force behind key innovations of the past century and presents a jargon-free look at the way its core principles work. Designed to promote “managerial literacy” up and down the business food chain, as well as among those who simply “want better communities and a better world … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Joan Magretta | Subjects: General, Management

Looking over the current crop, you might think so. Look harder.

Content: Article | Author: Theodore Kinni | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: General

“Every person works within or deals with the business system and therefore needs to understand its nature and foundations,” writes Wheeling Jesuit University’s Younkins. In the best book, the noted advocate of free markets offers the vehicle to that understanding — a comprehensive overview of the philosophical basis for, and the moral and ethical rights and responsibilities that underlie, the capitalist system.

Content: Book | Author: Edward Wayne Younkins | Subjects: Economics, General

This book is an ambitiously conceived and fully realized one-volume encyclopedia of business. It includes over 150 best practice essays written by topic experts, several hundred management and action checklists, summaries of seventy seminal business, bios of business greats, a business dictionary, a world business almanac, and an extensive topic-based listing of additional information sources (books, magazines, Internet, and associations).

Content: Book | Author: Daniel Goleman | Source: Perseus Publishing | Subjects: General, Reference / Search

Jagdish Sheth and Rajendra Sisodia say their research demonstrates that in mature, competitive markets there is only space for three large volume-driven companies alongside several niche specialists.

Key messages:
– Efficient markets eventually get organised into two kinds of competitors: full-line generalists and product/market specialists.

– Generalists are large scale companies, which compete across a range of products and markets, and are volume-driven. Specialists operate … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Jagdish Sheth, Rajendra Sisodia | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Economics, General

Content: Book | Author: Lawrence E. Mitchell | Subjects: Corporate Governance, General

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Start with 1,435 good companies. Examine their performance over 40 years. Find the 11 companies that became great. Now, here’s how you can do it too.

Content: Article | Author: Jim Collins | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: General, Management

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Imagine a company (iFormation) started by the best-connected investment bank in the world, by a leading management-consulting firm, and by one of the top venture-capital firms. Give it $300 million — and set it loose to reinvent big business.

Content: Article | Author: Keith H. Hammonds | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: General, Strategy

BetterManagement is a unique mix of online educational activities combining interactive web resources and BetterManagement LIVE Business Conferences which connect decision makers with relevant information. Our staff researches business topics and industry issues from over 250 information resources worldwide – business publications, professional organizations, academic institutions, consulting firms, and solutions providers. We present fresh information for business managers every week.

The BetterManagement.com Library includes over 3,000 … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: BetterManagement.com | Subjects: General, Management

Content: Book | Authors: J. Downs, Jack P. Friedman, Ph.D. | Subjects: General, Reference / Search