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
Project Definition Template
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
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
The Art and Practice of Japanese Management
“Japan’s extraordinary postwar industrial success was defined by lean production, consensus and continuous improvement. But lately it has been the country’s perceived weak points, such as lifetime employment and over-regulation, that have come to the forefront of the debate on Japanese management. But new ideas are emerging with the younger, more flexible generation of Japanese managers, which means there will still be plenty for the … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Adrian Wooldridge, John Micklethwait | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: International – Asia, 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
First Things Fast: A Handbook for Performance Analysis
Content: Book | Author: Allison Rossett | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
Breakthrough Creativity: Achieving Top Performance Using the Eight Creative Talents
Content: Book | Author: Lynne C. Levesque | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
What Executives Need to Know About Developing Their Leaders
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
Toward a New Business Model
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
Unkindest cuts of all – and not always a payoff in the layoff
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
Barriers to Implementing KM
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
Managing the Knowledge Manager
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
Toward a New Theory of Growth
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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Questions that Work: How To Ask Questions That Will Help You Succeed In Any Business Situation
Content: Book | Author: Andrew Finlayson | Subjects: Management, Personal Development