Adrian Slywotsky and Richard Wise
Putting a slow-growth company on the track to double-digit growth requires senior executives to reckon with new ideas about serving customers and deploying assets. It also requires them to set aside old ideas about growth that no longer apply. One such outmoded idea is the notion that new growth invariably comes at the expense of the core business. In fact, just the opposite is true: … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Management, Strategy
Classics in Management Thought (Elgar Reference Collection)
‘Cary L. Cooper has done a masterful job of compiling a wonderful collection of classics. Each article is a must read for anyone interested in the development of management thought. A masterful, eclectic set of classic articles that provide a great overview of the field of management thinking. I am honored to have my articles included in this book.’
– Ed Lawler II, University of Southern … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Cary L. Cooper | Subjects: Management, Reference / Search
English proverb
The man who does not make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.
Content: Quotation | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: Mistakes, Success / Failure
Steve Ballmer
CEO of Microsoft
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Context Magazine | Subject: Management | Industry: Software
The User’s Guide to Reengineering
Reengineering requires clear aims and realistic goals if your organisation is to succeed with the process where so many others have failed.
Content: Article | Authors: Janet Voute, Orit Gadiesh | Source: Bain & Company | Subjects: Management, Operations
Good Ways to Deliver Bad News
Dr. Robert Buckman is a cancer specialist who teaches doctors — as well as executives at IBM, Andersen Consulting, and Upjohn — how to break bad news: “You can’t let emotions interfere with your message.”
Content: Article | Author: Curtis Sittenfeld | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Management, Personal Development
Balancing Technology, Management, and Leadership
In top performing organizations, each area of the “Performance Balance triangle” is strong and constantly improving, allowing technology, systems, and processes to serve people.
Content: Article | Author: Jim Clemmer | Subjects: Leadership, Management
Knowledge Management Strategies That Create Value
There is no one-size-fits-all way to effectively tap a firm’s intellectual capital. To create value, companies must focus on how knowledge is used to build critical capabilities.
Editor’s Note: introduces a framework based on four categories of work.
Content: Article | Authors: Bruce E. Weitzman, Jeanne G. Harris, Leigh P. Donoghue | Source: Accenture | Subjects: Knowledge Management, Organizational Behavior
Hank Greenberg
CEO of American International Group (AIG)
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Management | Industry: Insurance
5 Moves Toward Better BPM
Best practices in business performance management often start as a grassroots movement. The companies most likely to succeed take five basic actions.
Content: Article | Author: Tad Leahy | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Finance, Management
Oscar Alban
Metrics can be a dangerous thing. Everyone is good at attaining a metric goal that’s given to them. If we drove a bad behavior to reach that number, are the metrics that we’re measuring correct?
Content: Quotation | Source: InformationWeek | Subjects: Management, Measurement
Cut Loose From Old Business Processes
Making a break with conventional processes can free businesses from the ties that bind their management flexibility, product creativity, supply-chain collaboration–and profits.
Content: Article | Authors: John Hagel III, John Seely Brown | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: Management, Strategy
Conversation Style Map
Influencers of Conversational Style
Morris Chang
Morris Chang is Founder and Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Outlook Journal (Accenture) | Subject: Management | Industry: Semiconductor
Jim Champy
co-author of Reengineering the Corporation, author of X-engineering the Corporation: Reinventing Your Business in the Digital Age, and chairman of Perot Systems’ $1 billion-plus consulting practice
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Management | Industry: Consulting
Guy Kawasaki
founder of Garage.com, former “chief evangelist” of Apple Computer Inc., and author of seven books, including “Rules for Revolutionaries: The Capitalist Manifesto for Creating and Marketing New Products and Services”
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Management
Use WBS Templates to Speed Up Project Plan Creation
By using Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) templates, you can dramatically reduce the time it takes to create project plans and improve the quality of the projects.
Content: Article | Author: Dave Paradi | Source: Business Improvement Architects (BIA) | Subject: Project Management
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Content: Quotation | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure
On Target: How to Conduct Effective Business Reviews
The most common cause of failed objectives – a lack of structure, discipline, and follow-up – can be corrected through frequent review. That is the simple message of On Target. Based on the author’s 20 years of experience consulting with companies worldwide, the book presents a proven structured review process that encourages critical thinking, evaluation, and appropriate action to achieve rapid, dramatic results for meeting … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Michele L. Bechtell | Subjects: Management, Strategy