3 Styles Of Decision-Making
The Decision Tree
Clayton M. Christensen
Despite beliefs spawned by change-management and reengineering programs, processes are not nearly as flexible as resources are — and values are even less so.
Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Management, Process
Value Creation Potential for Learing Process
Clayton M. Christensen
Three classes of factors affect what an organization can and cannot do: its resources, its processes, and its values.
Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
Value-Based Management and the Corporate Profit Centre
Value-based management (VBM) has been defined as a means of making explicit the link between a company’s strategic and operating decisions and their effect on shareholder returns. As such it should be the natural framework for aligning executive incentives with the interests of stock market investors (Ittner and Larcker, 2000).
While many firms have embraced the VBM phenomenon in recent years, at least in their … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Jean-Pierre Ponssard, Nicolas Mottis | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Finance, Management
Warren Buffett’s Investment Checklist
How would your firm look to the premier investor? What does great investment potential look like to Mr. Buffett? Here’s his checklist.
Content: Article | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Management | Industry: Investing
Not Quite As Per The Plan: Impact of Uncertainty on Project Management
It is common for projects to miss budgets, schedules and opportunities, in spite of the heroic efforts of the project manager to keep things on track. There is a need for the project management tool-kit to expand beyond task management. Professors Arnoud De Meyer, Christoph Loch and Michael Pich classify the associated and often-neglected uncertainty, and they suggest alternative techniques for project management, depending on … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Arnoud De Meyer, Christoph Loch, Michael Pich | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Project Management
Will & Vision: How Latecomers Grow to Dominate Markets
Content: Book | Authors: Clayton M. Christensen, Gerard J. Tellis, Peter N. Golder | Subjects: Management, Strategy
Elton Mayo and the Hawthorne Studies
This article provides an overview of the landmark study by Elton Mayo, an Australian anthropologist from Harvard, and its implications for management history.
Content: Article | Author: Robin Stuart-Kotze | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: History, Management
The Nordstrom Way: The Inside Story of America’s #1 Customer Service Company
Content: Book | Authors: Patrick D. McCarthy, Robert Spector | Subjects: Customer Related, Management
Innovation in all things! Developing creativity in the workplace
“Many books and management experts have predicted a world into the next millennium of rapidly increasing change and the need for managers to be able to respond in ways that have not been previously imagined. In this article we set out a way in which both managers and trainers can act differently in order to create a creative climate within their organization.”
Editor’s Note: I found … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Almeric Johnson, Dave Sharman | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Innovation, Management
Alfie Kohn
When responsible action, the natural love of learning, and the desire to do good work are already part of who we are, then the tacit assumption to the contrary can be fairly described as dehumanizing.
Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
Serious Play: How the World’s Best Companies Simulate to Innovate
Content: Book | Authors: Michael Schrage, Tom Peters | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
What We Learned in the Rainforest: Business Lessons from Nature
Content: Book | Authors: Bill Shireman, Tachi Kiuchi | Subjects: Management, Social Responsibility (ESG)
Net Worth
Content: Book | Authors: John Hagel III, Marc Singer | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis
Warren Bennis
Managers do things right. Leaders do the right thing.
Content: Quotation | Source: Financial Times | Subjects: Leadership, Management
Now, Discover Your Strengths
Amazon.com’s Best of 2001
Effectively managing personnel–as well as one’s own behavior–is an extraordinarily complex task that, not surprisingly, has been the subject of countless books touting what each claims is the true path to success. That said, Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton’s Now, Discover Your Strengths does indeed propose a unique approach: focusing on enhancing people’s strengths rather than eliminating their weaknesses. Following up … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D., Marcus Buckingham | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
In Sync: Aligning Costs with Customer Value Creation
Is your firm applying its efforts to the things that matter most to your customers? Are you wasting resources and failing to meet customer needs while missing market share? Many companies fail to apply resources to best meet customer needs. Prof. McNair and Polutnik show the real metrics that matter here and give you a perspective on how to improve your competitive position without spending … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: C.J. McNair, Lidija Polutnik | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Customer Related, Management
Financial Times > Management Gurus
Financial Times takes a look at a dozen or people widely recognized as management gurus. Hardly a comprehensive treatment (each individual is treated in a cursory fashion and the selection of people ignores many) but of use to those interested in these types of businesslumninaries.
Content: Online Resource | Source: Financial Times | Subjects: Management, People