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“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

Content: Book | Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

COO of 24/7 Media

Content: Thought Leader | Source: nPost.com | Subject: Management | Industry: Advertising

CEO of Site59

Content: Thought Leader | Source: nPost.com | Subject: Management | Industry: Travel/Leisure

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

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

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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

“We’ve stopped complaining about the lack of accountability and provided a tool to make it understandable, negotiable, and accessible.”

Content: Article | Authors: Bruce Klatt, Shaun Murphy | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Miscellaneous

What makes a value leader, and how much do industry dynamics determine value creation for different types of firms? Professor Gabriel Hawawini, Professor Paul Verdin and PhD candidate Venkat Subramanian re-examine the question to reveal new findings. Using 55 industries, they categorise firms within each industry into 3 main groups – the leading value creators, the value destroyers (the losers) and the rest that lie … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Gabriel Hawawini, Paul Verdin, Venkat Subramanian | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: General, Trends / Analysis

Content: Book | Author: Henry Mintzberg | Subject: Management

Many factors have played a role in shifting business operations dramatically over the past decade. Access to real-time, enterprise-wide information, expanded globalization, and changing financial and social priorities are creating new and diversified challenges for management. In this environment, corporate officers and directors must continue to build trust and confirm stockholders’ belief in the wisdom of their investments. Clearly articulating the company’s plans and … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Deloitte | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Management

co-author (with Robert Eccles, Mary Keegan and David Phillips) of The ValueReporting Revolution: Moving Beyond the Earnings Game.

Content: Thought Leader | Sources: PwC, Quisic | Subject: Management | Industry: Investing

This excellent article starts out with an introduction and a good overview of issues surrounding knowledge management and then proceeds to discuss the results of an empirical study that examined the extents of KM systems operating within sample UK enterprises with respect to each company’s use of teamwork, level of bureaucracy and centralisation of decision making, innovativeness, and the ability to cope with change. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Helen Gabriel, Roger Bennett | Source: Emerald Now | Subjects: Knowledge Management, Organizational Behavior

This article outlines some of the reasons that companies are feeling the pressure to reduce costs and then offers a five-step methodology for building a foundation of strategic cost reduction (SCR) in your organization.

Content: Article | Author: Derek F. Martin | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Management

Perception follows purpose.

Content: Quotation | Source: LiNE Zine | Subjects: Perception, Vision

A two-page summary of research by the American Management Association of workplace testing of basic skills, job skills, and psychological meaurement (2001)

Content: Online Resource | Source: American Management Association (AMA) | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

Annunzio is a Chicago-based partner at the consultant firm Nextera, an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and author of eLeadership: Proven Techniques for Creating an Environment of Speed and Flexibility in the Digital Economy

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

How often do we make false assumptions about other people based on our own culture and experiences? And even more importantly, how often do we fail to recognise and understand how individuals deal with grief and change in their personal lives or at work.

Content: Article | Author: Anne Riches | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Management