Samer Hamadeh
Co-Founder, Vault.com
Content: Thought Leader | Source: nPost.com | Subject: Management
Back to the Beginning – Core Values
Core ideology, core values, core purpose, “big hairy audacious goals” and envisioned future – from an HBR feature by James Collins and Jerry Porras.
Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Strategy
Stephen Messer
Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, LinkShare, Inc.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: nPost.com | Subject: Management
Patrick Spain
Executive Chairman of Hoover’s, Inc.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: nPost.com | Subject: Management
Tom O’Keefe
Founder of Tully’s Coffee (World’s second largest coffee chain)
Content: Thought Leader | Source: nPost.com | Subject: Management | Industry: Food Products/Service
Jesse Berst
CEO and Founder of IZ.com (Also founded AnchorDesk.com.)
Content: Thought Leader | Source: nPost.com | Subject: Management
Manoj Saxena
CEO and Co-Founder of Exterprise, Inc. (Purchased by Commerce One)
Content: Thought Leader | Source: nPost.com | Subject: Management
Susan Kish
Chairman of the Board, FirstTuesday
Content: Thought Leader | Source: nPost.com | Subject: Management
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Shimmy Mehta, Founder and CEO, AngelWish
Samer Hamadeh, Co-Founder, Vault, Inc.
Susan Kish, Chairman of the Board, FirstTuesday
Stephen Messer, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, LinkShare, Inc.
Patrick Spain, Executive Chairman of Hoover’s, Inc.
Todd Williamson, President, CEO and Founder of MusicSteps, Inc.
Manoj Saxena, CEO and Co-Founder of Exterprise, Inc.
Tom Tully O’Keefe, Founder of Tully’s Coffee (World’s second largest coffee chain)
Jesse Berst, CEO and Founder of IZ.com (Also … [ Read more ]
Content: Thought Leader | Source: nPost.com | Subject: Management
Are Organizational Structures the Key to Brand Success?
There is strong theoretical support for the idea that flatter structures, organized around work processes rather than functions, may be better positioned to understand customer needs and deliver appropriate brand propositions. There is, though, little empirical evidence identifying which structures best enable companies to do this. This article takes a look at Philippa Hankinson’s study comparing the organizational structures of companies taken from the … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Philippa Hankinson | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Management, Marketing / Sales
Managing By Values
What if you could give your organization the gift of a magnificent and promising future while also discovering a way for all of its stakeholders to be satisfied in the process? To do so means implementing a new and broader approach that builds on the foundation of an effective organization, namely, its mission and its values. Rather than focusing solely on results, winning companies first … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Ken Blanchard | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Management
Poachers Are Out to Plunder Your Intellectual Property – Can You Do Anything?
As more companies outsource non-core activities and enter into alliances to extend their competitive reach, the risk that someone – a potential partner or vendor – could poach their intellectual property is increasing. While the risk of such theft is hardly new, it is rapidly becoming a serious problem in today’s post-industrial, information-driven society. Wharton’s Eric K. Clemons and Lorin M. Hitt have been studying … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Legal, Management
The Warning Signs of Corporate Trouble
True, the cause of corporate death is most often written in terms of finance, markets, strategy, productivity, tactics. Occasionally embezzlement or blatant error. But the real reasons, the underlying conditions that made the company weak, are most often found in the spirit of the company where the hidden corporate killers lurk. Fortunately, indications of problems can be detected long before anything shows on the bottom … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Tom FitzGerald | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Management
Soichoro Honda
Success represents the 1 percent of your work which results only from the 99 percent that is called failure.
Content: Quotation | Source: ManagementFirst | Subject: Success / Failure
Essential Drucker: In One Volume the Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings
Ever since his first book was published some six decades ago, Peter Drucker has been essential to everyone serious about the “management of an enterprise (and) the self-management of the individual, whether executive or professional, within an enterprise and altogether in our society of managed organizations.” This distinguished 30-year Claremont University professor has continuously identified critical principles in management, economics, politics, and the world in … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Peter F. Drucker | Subjects: Management, People
Coaching for Results
Athletes and actors have known for years about the value of coaching in improving performance. Now more and more individuals are turning to coaches to help guide them through the increasing complications of day-to-day life and business.
Content: Article | Authors: John Eaton, Paul King | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Personal Development, Trends / Analysis
Leadership – How Would Your Employees Rate You?
Is there anything you can do to turn your managers into leaders? One strategy might be to seek guidance from those being led. This article offers a survey to do just that.
Content: Article | Author: T. M. Georges | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Management
Simplified Strategic Planning: A No-Nonsense Guide for Busy People Who Want Results Fast!
Content: Book | Authors: Brian Tarcy, J. Peter Duncan, Peter Duncan, Robert W. Bradford | Subjects: Management, Strategy
New Economy, Old Management
Are You a Green Thumb Leader?
What I must do to get my garden back in shape and to make it world class, is exactly what every leader must do: seed, feed, and weed.
Content: Article | Author: Eileen McDargh | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Management