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
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
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
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
Rayona Sharpnack (founder and president, the Insti
Leadership is an army you have to enlist in. You can’t get drafted into leadership. You can get drafted into management.
Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Management
Corporate Decisiveness
One attribute – corporate decisiveness – stands out above all others as having the greatest effect on success and profitability, and this attribute is a key component of most of the others.
Content: Article | Author: Tom FitzGerald | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Management
Andy Pearson
Leader of Tricon Global Restaurants Inc., former CEO of PepsiCo, former senior director at McKinsey & Co. and former professor at Harvard Business School.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Management
C.K. Prahalad
article looks at Prahalad’s foray into the business world with his and partner Ramesh Jain’s new startup, Praja.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
The Guru Guide: The Best Ideas of the Top Management Thinkers
Content: Book | Authors: Jimmie T. Boyett, Joseph H. Boyett | Subjects: Management, People
Flip Your Competition
Harvard Business School professor David B. Yoffie takes the martial arts into the executive suite. Your rivals will flip over his ideas (if you apply them right).
Content: Article | Author: Jennifer Reingold | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Management, Strategy
Managed Learning
Big Bets, Fast Failures
Fast Company speaks with David Nadler, who has advised the CEOs of some of the biggest and best-known companies in the world through the consulting company he started, Delta Consulting Group. Topics discussed include:
At 70 MPH, Failure Comes Faster
Beware: Balance Sheets Can Kill
Ask Yourself: How Elastic Is My Enterprise?
Understand What It Really Is That You Do … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Keith H. Hammonds | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Management, People
Seven Power Strategies for Building Customer Loyalty
Content: Book | Author: Paul Timm | Subjects: Customer Related, Management
Why Good Management Ideas Fail – The Neglected Power of Organizational Culture
Why do some management ideas take root and remain viable and others wither and die? This article offers four fundamental reasons:
– All organizations are, fundamentally, living social organisms;
– Organizational culture is more powerful than anything else;
– System-focused interventions work; component-centered interventions usually do not;
– Interventions clearly tied to business strategy work; interventions not … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: William E. Schneider | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
Charles Handy
more good insight from this British luminary
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Context Magazine | Subject: Management