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Content: Thought Leader | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Management, Venture Capital

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: Management | Industry: Information Technology

If you go to the expense and trouble of sending an employee to an event, you’d better capture that knowledge for your organization. How? The answer: Integrate the art of debriefing into everyday corporate life, writes media consultant Jimmy Guterman in the Harvard Management Update.

Content: Article | Author: Jimmy Guterman | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Knowledge Management, Management

Charles Handy takes a look at organization reinvention by considering elephants and fleas and federalism.

Content: Article | Author: Charles Handy | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Content: Book | Author: Noel Capon | Subjects: Management, Marketing / Sales

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Content: Book | Author: Adele B. Lynn | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Over the last decade numerous studies have shown that “dumbsizing” sometimes provides short-term relief – and protects shortsighted managers’ bonuses – while hurting companies in the long-term.

Content: Article | Author: Jim Clemmer | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Management

Content: Book | Author: Tom Peters | Subject: Management

“I believe there are three basic styles – directing, discussing and delegating. The appropriate style provides the right amount of structure and support for each situation. Each style is unique in terms of how managers communicate, set goals, make decisions, monitor progress and recognize good performance.”

Editor’s Note: originally found on CEO Refresher site, but now a direct PDF download from author’s site.

Content: Article | Author: Paul B. Thornton | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Management

Business leaders make impassioned speeches about the advantages of a free-enterprise economic system while running some of the largest socialist bureaucracies in the world. They have central planning, central ownership of capital, central allocation of resources, subjective evaluation of people, lack of internal competition, and decisions made at the top in response to internal political pressures. These are the fundamental characteristics of a socialist economy. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

heir to Jack Welch’s CEO and chairman title at General Electric Co.

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

There are others who are stronger on the individual subjects mentioned in the title – Peter Senge and Bill Isaacs on learning, Jac Fitz-enz on performance measurement, James O’Toole on change management. But no other single volume offers more and better information and guidance on those three subjects than this one.

Content: Book | Authors: Darlene Russ-Eft, Hallie Preskill | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

There are two – and only two – kinds of variables in a system dynamics model: levels (or accumulations) and rates (or actions). Once you believe that there are only two kinds of concepts in a system, everything you look at has to be one or the other.

The existence of only two kinds of variables – levels and rates – is true of all … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Management, Measurement

“Does history repeat itself when companies seek ways to innovate? Are there patterns among the business strategies chosen by successful companies from one decade to the next?

To find out, we studied nearly 200 business strategies, most from the past 20 years, but some from a century ago. From this research we identified 10 essential “innovation themes,” which are repeated and proven over time.”

Content: Article | Authors: David Y. Choi, Liisa Välikangas | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Innovation, Management

founded Morino Associates which became Legent Corp. (sold to Computer Associates). Now heads the Morino Institute, which is building a community of “netpreneurs” through a Web site ( Content: Thought Leader | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Management

Claus Møller is the author of several books, including: Putting People First, Time Manager – the Key to Personal Effectiveness, Employeeship, A Complaint is a Gift, Be a Double Bagger and, most recently, Heart Work – Emotional Intelligence – Improving Personal and Organizational Effectiveness. Putting People First has sold more than two million copies worldwide. A Complaint is a Gift (co-authored with Janelle Barlow) features … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Source: ManagementFirst | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

Arie de Geus spent 38 years with Royal Dutch/Shell, and is widely credited with originating the concept of the learning organization. Read his comparison of vitality and frequent longevity of what he dubs the ‘living company’ with the more widespread, and generally less successful ‘economic company’ model.

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

David Clutterbuck is Chairman of the ITEM Group, a leading communications project management company which he co-founded in 1982. Read what he has to say about the benefits, challenges and spread of mentoring, the development of communications and his forthcoming book “Mentoring for Diversity.”

Content: Thought Leader | Source: ManagementFirst | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

Creativity, commitment, self-worth, purpose, fun and rebuild trust – send your employees a CARE package.

Content: Article | Author: Barbara Glanz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior