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
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
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
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
Seven Power Strategies for Building Customer Loyalty
Content: Book | Author: Paul Timm | Subjects: Customer Related, Management
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
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
Check Out The Gap
Use this quick quiz to check out your perceptions and intentions vs those of those who report to you. Compare the perceptions; talk about the differences; identify the opportunities; and close the important gaps.
Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Best Practices, Management
Performance Reviews: Perilous Curves Ahead
Grading employees via forced rankings is a valuable management tool, say many companies. A slew of employees beg to differ.
Content: Article | Author: Matthew Boyle | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Human Resources, Management
John Chambers
CEO of Cisco, IU MBA
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Management | Industry: Information Technology
Charles Schwab
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Management | Industry: Investing
Roger Cass
the man who invented the idea of the Long Boom…
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Management
Project Definition Template
Sam Walton’s 10 Rules For Success
A summary presentation of 10 Rules illuminated in the book, ‘Sam Walton: Made in America, My Story’
Content: Article | Authors: J. Huey, Sam Walton | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Management
Tighter Ties
Businesses are extending CRM tools and customer data to their partners to improve service and boost the bottom line.
Content: Article | Author: Jennifer Maselli | Source: InformationWeek | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Management
R.T. Pascale, Managing on the Edge
When we transcend a paradox there is often a quality of obviousness that produces a shock of recognition. No longer held captive by the old way of thinking, we are liberated to see things we have known all along, but couldn’t assemble into a useful model for action.
Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Problems / Solutions, Vision