Maslow on Management
Content: Book | Authors: Abraham Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens, Gary Heil | Subject: Management
Aligning Pay and Results: Compensation Strategies That Work from the Boardroom to the Shop Floor
Content: Book | Author: Howard Risher | Source: American Management Association (AMA) | Subjects: Human Resources, Management
Knowledge Management: Practices and Challenges
This paper discusses the basic definitions of knowledge and KM followed by KM events, practices, and challenges. It concludes with remarks on the future of KM.
Content: Article | Authors: Babita Gupta, Jay E. Aronson, Lakshmi S. Iyer | Source: ManagementFirst | Subject: Knowledge Management
Memo to: CEOs
Business is at a crossroads. Scandal and recession have cast a pall on the way CEOs go about leading their companies. Three distinguished professors send this memo — Five Half-truths of Business — as a wake-up call.
The five:
1. We’re only in it for ourselves
2. Corporations exist to maximize shareholder value
3. Companies need CEOs who are heroic leaders
4. Companies need to be lean … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Henry Mintzberg, Kunal Basu, Robert Simons | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Trends / Analysis
The Living Company
The average life span of a Fortune 500 company is less than half a century, yet there also are corporations around the world that have been in business for 200, 500, even 700 years. Arie de Geus, a retired Royal Dutch/Shell Group executive, maintains after studying both extremes that the most enduring treat their companies as “living work communities” rather than pure economic machines. The … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Arie De Geus | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Trends / Analysis
Leadership and Loyalty
Do you (or your company) deserve the loyalty of customers, employees, partners and shareowners? Think about your answer from their perspective.
Content: Article | Author: Steven C. Coats | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Management
Cultural Value Chain
Managing Complexity
Hundreds of major corporations are implementing a Balanced Scorecard in their quest to increase shareholder value. But success is in the details.
Content: Article | Author: Ivy McLemore | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subject: Management
The Individualized Corporation: A Fundamentally New Approach to Management
Content: Book | Authors: Christopher A. Bartlett, Sumantra Ghoshal | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
Jack Falvey
Managing strengths and differences is far more difficult than pointing out weaknesses and requiring conformity.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Leadership, Management
For Keeps: Factors of Profitable Customer Relationships
You have the option of mailing a catalog or sending a salesperson to contact a customer, but how do you know which method is more profitable? Imagine that you can find out, and with that same information, you can divine the length of time that each customer remains profitable and know which factors are really driving the profitable lifetime duration. This study by Professors Werner … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Customer Related, Management
ATB Manager’s Toolkit Nov/Dec 2001
What new employees really need to know; how to effectively manage your telecommuters; why you should take a hard look at your holiday party; and more.
Editor’s Note: This is a regular column that appears in Across the Board magazine.
Content: Article | Author: Melissa Master | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Best Practices, Management
Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig, a professor at the Stanford Law School, is also the founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. His latest book, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, published in 2001, details Lessig’s view that commercial forces are threatening to close off the once-free and open Internet by attempting to control the software code and content. … [ Read more ]
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subject: Management | Industry: Law
Admiral Radford
A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.
Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Decision Making, Management
Why Leaders Should Reconsider Their Measurement Systems
Michael Hammer raises some issues regarding conventional uses of performance measures and offers suggestions for improvement.
Content: Article | Author: Michael Hammer | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Management
The Economics of Organizations
Winning the Competition for Capital
Gone are the days of minimalist reporting. Investors are increasingly rewarding coherent corporate communications with trust – and lower stock price volatility.
Editor’s Note: see related article, “A tale of two reports” at:
Content: Article | Authors: Aliaksandr Shyla, Alison Thomas, Miles Gietzmann | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Finance, Management
Company Vision With a Twist
Article takes a look at corporate vision, core values, core purpose and BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) and processes for developing them.
Content: Article | Author: Estelle Métayer | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Management
Another God That’s Failed
Contingent work arrangements were supposed to help companies avoid mass layoffs. What went wrong?
Content: Article | Author: Shari Caudron | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Human Resources, Management
Vinod Khosla
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Management, Venture Capital