Lessons From The Farm
Metaphors can be used to communicate very powerful images to guide behaviour. The ultimate effectiveness of metaphors and images appears to be related to their simplicity, as the following lessons from the farm illustrate. Here are six simple tenets that provide simple yet important ‘country’ wisdom in application to a variety of more ‘enlightened’ contexts.
Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Management
What the CEO Wants You to Know: How Your Company Really Works
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Content: Book | Author: Ram Charan | Subject: Management
Birgit Breuel
President of the Treuhandanstalt, the independent government organization established on June 17, 1990 by the German Democratic Republic to privatize and manage state-owned assets of East Germany.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Management | Industry: Government
Frank P. Popoff
Dow Chemical CEO and Chairman
Content: Thought Leader | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Management | Industry: Chemicals
Unknown
A firm needs four resources in order to compete: physical, organizational, human and process.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Competition, Management
The Guru’s Guru
A lively conversation with Peter Drucker, dean of the deep thinkers.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: Management
What Condition is Your Technology Disaster Plan In?
The majority of U.S. companies have poorly designed, incomplete and inadequately tested recovery plans. Critical life support requires a commitment to Business Continuity Planning.
Content: Article | Author: Philip S. Wein | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Management
What happens to knowledge workers when the economy heads south?
“While KM is attractive to managers during a recession, the same conditions that make it look good also make it more complicated to apply, if you take into account the cooperation of the keepers of the intellectual capital – the employees. KM asks them to act like a team in an environment in which the company may not return the favor. If it is my … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Katherine C. Adams | Source: KMWorld | Subject: Knowledge Management
Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nalebuff
Creating value that can be captured is the essence of business.
Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Business Rules
Knowledge management: the new challenge for the 21st century (.pdf)
As its title suggests, this article presents knowledge management as the new challenge for the 21st century (it was written in late 1999). The authors define the concept and what it involves, and discuss its potential significance for business. They also present a selection of case studies and make recommendations of “best practices.”
Content: Article | Authors: Atefah Sadri McCampbell, Linda Morehad Clare, Scott Howard Gitters | Source: Emerald Now | Subject: Knowledge Management
Nine Future Catalysts
Study and research of the future or “futures” has emerged as an instrument for governments and business enterprises in identifying and studying emerging trends and envisioning the range of scenarios that they may produce. The author offers nine general ‘catalyst’ categories that will shape future business activities over the next three to five years – and possibly beyond.
Content: Article | Author: Bray J. Brockbank | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Trends / Analysis
Michelle Peluso
CEO of Site59
Content: Thought Leader | Source: nPost.com | Subject: Management | Industry: Travel/Leisure
Managing With Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations
Content: Book | Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?
“In our work with outstanding service organizations, we have found that they invariably hire for attitude and train for skills. Are street smarts attitudes or skills? If street smarts are attitudes, should MBA program admissions offices look for them in applicants? If so, how? Is it more than a matter of just age and experience? If they are skills, should the curriculum be designed to … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: MBA Related, Trends / Analysis
Tony Plesner
COO of 24/7 Media
Content: Thought Leader | Source: nPost.com | Subject: Management | Industry: Advertising
The Passionate Organization (.pdf)
The results of an American Management Association survey looking at the level of passion in organizations and its impact on success; survey also looks at various management tools and techniques and their effectiveness as a policy and withing the respondents’ organizations.
Content: Online Resource | Source: American Management Association (AMA) | Subject: Management
John Kao
My notion is that an organization is really a factory for producing new ideas and for linking those ideas with resources – human resources, financial resources, knowledge resources, infrastructure resources – in an effort to create value.
Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Business Rules
Business Continuity Planning
Extreme Analysis for Extreme Project Management
Extreme Analysis for Extreme Project Management is a collection of three original theories, Pretense Irony, Expectation Escalation, and Risk Equalizer. Based on the ‘polishing of the common sense’ model, it builds on the management best practices of corporate America, and takes the Project Management practice that one step above in the evolutionary scale.
Content: Article | Author: Shaun H. Ajani | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Project Management