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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

Content: Book | Author: Allison Rossett | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Content: Book | Author: Lynne C. Levesque | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

How do we ensure that our leadership development efforts are targeted, focused, relevant, and directly linked to our business results? Here are six things every executive must look at.

Content: Article | Authors: Janet Oliver, Joe DiSabatino | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Authors contend that the current business model, which arose in the mills of Britain more than a century ago and has evolved ever since, is no longer sufficient for these times. They claim to propose a “new” business model (see comments).

Content: Article | Authors: Albert J. Viscio, Bruce A. Pasternack | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management

Summary of main issues raised in a journal article about the consequences of corpporate layoffs.

Content: Article | Author: Peter Allan | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

Article takes a high-level look at the problems associated with identifying, codifying and using knowledge in knowledge management implementation efforts.

Content: Article | Author: Richard Dunford | Source: ManagementFirst | Subject: Knowledge Management

What can be done to ensure that the CKO unlocks a company’s latent potential? To find out, we asked CKOs at various companies for their views about the make-or-break factors. Although the CKOs had different experiences, all concurred that success depends on two things: first, on the ability of senior management to agree about what it hopes to gain from managing knowledge explicitly and from … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Eric Matson, Nathaniel Foote, Nicholas Rudd | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Best Practices, Knowledge Management

Dismissing the conventional wisdom linking revenue growth and shareholder value as only partially accurate and potentially misleading, the authors advance preliminary ideas on a new theory of growth – part of an ongoing research effort at Booz-Allen & Hamilton. In fact, they identify two fundamentally different paradigms, calling them Managed-Growth and Innovative-Growth.

Content: Article | Authors: Amy Asin, Charles E. Lucier | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management

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Content: Book | Author: Andrew Finlayson | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

This is a detailed examination, with a case study, of how “re-engineering for growth” should work now that classic business process re-engineering (B.P.R.) has run its course. The first wave of re-engineering emphasized cost. The next wave focuses on creating value and repositioning companies to capture future opportunities.

The authors cite three basic principles for the post-B.P.R. organizational and operational approaches:
1) Enhance … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Bud Moeller, Jeffrey S. Tucker, John Devereaux | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
– In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties.
– Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Business Rules, Organizational Behavior

founder and chairman of the Acer Group

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Personal Computer

Striving for excellence or building to last is one thing. Sustaining superior performance over the long haul is another matter entirely, as longtime McKinsey & Company executives Richard Foster and Sarah Kaplan persuasively point out in Creative Destruction. Based on a concept first advanced some 70 years ago by economist Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Foster and Kaplan propose that corporations can outperform capital markets and maintain … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Richard Foster, Sarah Kaplan | Subjects: Management, Strategy

America’s best B-school profs share the one thing they hope their students will remember after graduation.

Content: Article | Author: Various | Source: MBA Jungle | Subjects: Management, MBA Related

Man was not made for business; business was made for man.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Business Rules, Life

Head of Rhone-Poulenc, France’s chemical giant; previously C.E.O. of the largest French consulting firm

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Chemicals

author of ‘The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization’

Content: Thought Leader | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Management | Industry: Other

Touted as “your portal to today’s most prominent business,” INSEAD Knowledge is a publication of INSEAD business school, which is based in France with campuses in Europe and Asia. INSEAD Knowledge prides itself on its easy-to-use format including simple, intuitive navigation, quick-reading abstracts of working papers and case studies, professors’ insights into a variety of business-related issues, and in-depth examinations of business research. Along the … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: INSEAD | Subjects: Management, News / Magazine