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The Mindshift Approach enables managers to anticipate and manage different corporate and managerial personalities by recognizing the life-cycle stages of an organization, group, division or product. The Six Stages identified are:
Stage 1: The Startup Stage – Adventurer Managers
Stage 2: The Hockeystick Stage – Warrior Managers
Stage 3: The Professional Stage – Hunter Managers
Stage 4: Mature and Consolidating Stage – … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Larraine Segil | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Management

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Poor team players? Here’s how to get employees to play well with others using the “GRIP” model.

Content: Article | Author: Douglas Richardson | Sources: CareerJournal (WSJ), CFO Publishing | Subject: Management

strategy+business asked twelve opinionated, acclaimed strategists, scholars, and writers to identify and assess the most important business books in strategy, management, and various other categories.

Editor’s Note: A few of these pieces offer more than just listings of recommended books. In particular, I recommend you read:

Strategy (by David K. Hurst)
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Content: Article | Author: Bruce A. Pasternack | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Management

When used as a strategic planning tool, decision analysis can help managers address issues such as how to allocate resources to ensure that the project meets specific deadlines, when to scale up or delay investments, and when to exit a project.

Content: Article | Author: Fabian D’Souza | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Finance, Management

This article takes a look at distinctive characteristics of the high-performing companies, focusing on cultural, people and systems issues.

Content: Article | Authors: Richard L Osborne, Scott S Cowen | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

How to turn innovation, often viewed as a haphazard occurrence, into a discipline

Content: Article | Author: Robert B. Tucker | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Innovation, Management

Ever wonder why your IT staff acts a little clannish? There’s a perfectly good reason – one you should know.

Editor’s Note: I can’t argue with too much in this article but I also don’t think it really says anything new, is not too specific and mostly offers advice that is equally applicable to non-Einsteins. Nevertheless, the commenters seemed to find the article very … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Jack Ivancevich, Tom Duening | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

This article discusses the Enneagram, a simple model of nine personality types and how you can spot these types in team members, co-workers, etc. The article also presents five traits of outstanding managers, as determined by the Gallup organization.

Update: You can now find out what Enneagram type you are with a short 10-question exercise (ignore the fact that it suggests 2 hours to take … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Eric Garner | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

A look at the power of intutive decision-making; induction, deduction and abduction; and matching decision-making to the four types of problems.

Content: Article | Authors: Nancy Einhart, Thomas A. Stewart | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

The new accountability reflects the new reality…a world that is changing rapidly, where information moves at lightning speed, where shared knowledge and wisdom are the true drivers of success, and where cause and effect is not what we think it is.

Content: Article | Author: Brian Ward | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

A ‘rank and yank’ system like GE’s is based on a bell curve. It assumes a random sampling, which a company is not.

Content: Article | Author: Anne Fisher | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

the father and daughter discuss their book, ‘fall of advertising’

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

discusses his book, ‘The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business’

Content: Thought Leader | Source: SAS | Subject: Management

There are few career moments as exciting — and these days, as perilous — as taking over the top job at a company, business unit, or department. But what exactly do you do once you’re in charge? This online guide provides 18 tactics — and case studies — to help you take the reigns running.

Content: Article | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Management

If you look at how companies approach knowledge management, you can see that the problem is in the execution. Companies commonly make catastrophic mistakes by falling for one of these seven myths.

Content: Article | Author: Marc Rosenberg | Source: Context Magazine | Subject: Knowledge Management

Launch a new product? Enter a new market? Invest in a cost reduction program? Do nothing? No matter what you do there is risk. This month Professor Allen begins a multi-part series examining the nature of risk and making decisions under risk.

Content: Article | Author: Stephen A. Allen | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Management, Risk Management

The most important issue facing most managers in this difficult economy is making more money from an existing business without costly new initiatives. Here’s how to do it.

Editor’s Note: Find part 2 at
Content: Article | Author: Jonathan Byrnes | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Management

As in any relationship, the keys are respect, long-term commitment, and not asking the lawyers to settle your differences.

Content: Article | Author: Rosabeth Moss Kanter | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Management, Strategy

Yikes! It’s the return of the “R” word. But this time, says Tom Davenport, no one is expecting miracles.

Content: Article | Author: Thomas H. Davenport | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subject: Management