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Gordon Moore, Bob Metcalfe, and Ronald Coase are interviewed by Context magazine.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Context Magazine | Subject: Management

Founder of the Global Business Network and Long Boom proponent, Peter Schwartz, debates eminent pollster Daniel Yankelovich

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Daniel Yankelovich, Peter Schwartz | Source: Context Magazine | Subject: Management

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Culture. We blithely use the term for just about anything–a vibrant culture, a dominant culture, a corporate culture. But do we really know what we’re saying, what culture really means? Or do we most often assume that the term is just a convenient way to group those with a common purpose or goal and a method for achieving it? Isn’t a corporate culture, for example, … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Edgar H. Schein | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Paying your employees more for hitting specific targets may backfire, according to HBS professor Michael Beer. As he learned in his study of thirteen pay-for-performance plans at Hewlett-Packard, the unspoken contract may make or break these programs.

Content: Article | Author: Martha Lagace | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

BusinessWeek Online offers a new column that focuses on taking business questions from readers and posing them to CEOs who will detail how they effectively resolved that business issue for their corporation. The objective is to detail how business leaders think, lead and make decisions to the general reader, potential and current employees and investors, and to other executives who must make similar decisions … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: David Liss | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Management

CEO of Cisco

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: Management

1992, Reich left Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government to serve as secretary of labor during the first Clinton administration-the third in which Reich has served. Four years later, he resigned that position; currently, he is a professor of social and economic policy at Brandeis University and its Heller Graduate School.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Management

founder and co-chair of The Body Shop International PLC

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Management | Industry: Retail

Bossidy joined General Electric as a trainee in 1957, rising to vice chairman and executive officer in 1984. He left GE in 1991 to become chairman and CEO of AlliedSignal, a position he held until the merger of AlliedSignal and Honeywell in 1999, when he became chairman of Honeywell, the name given the combined companies. He retired from Honeywell in April 2000. After European regulators … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Management

CIOs need to consider the challenges, as well as the benefits, of adopting real-time systems.

Content: Article | Author: John Hagel III | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Management

A structured, disciplined and facilitated process designed to make the development and execution of a plan more effective by helping an organization to understand a situation much better than it could through other approaches.

Content: Article | Author: Jay Kurtz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Strategy

Competition tends to boost productivity in an economic sector. Does good management help, too? A new McKinsey study finds that it does. Managers who employ high-caliber people, reward performance, and minimize waste also raise productivity, especially in competitive environments.

Editor’s Note: This is a premium-content article that has been provided free by special arrangement – not sure how long the free link will remain valid… … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: John Dowdy, Stephen J. Dorgan | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Best Practices, Management

Outlines what leaders can do to structure, support, and guide teams in a way that enhances the social processes essential to collective work. Offers a new and provocative way of thinking about and leading work teams in any organizational setting.

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Content: Book | Author: J. Richard Hackman | Subject: Management

Anita Roddick is founder and co-chair of The Body Shop International. With more than 1,700 stores in 48 countries, the company reported 1999 sales of more than $900 million (£606 million), Roddick has won numerous business, leadership, and philanthropic awards including the Order of the British Empire. She is author of Body and Soul.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Management | Industry: Retail

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There are two standard schools of advice on how to make decisions under pressure: Use your head, or go with your gut. A third option-the experiential approach-combines the best of the rational and the intuitive.

Content: Article | Authors: Gary Klein, Karl E. Weick | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

Finding solutions to some of the most common managerial problems can prove surprisingly tough. Awareness is a great place to start the process.

Content: Article | Author: Graham Alexander | Source: Context Magazine | Subject: Management

Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people — and allow people to place themselves — according to their strengths.

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

A brief history lesson on why “reengineering” was such a hit a decade ago- and
why it’s so last-millenium thinking now.

Content: Article | Authors: Howard Smith, Peter Fingar | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: Management, Operations