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This site from Welcom, a company providing project management solutions to corporations worldwide, has many useful resources pertaining to project management. On the site you will find the OnTrack newsletter; white papers covering a variety of project management software topics; a collection of project management articles; a project management glossary; and various links.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Welcom | Subject: Project Management

Content: Book | Authors: James A. Belasco, Ralph C. Stayer | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Do managers think they know more than they actually do? Are they overconfident? If so, what does this mean for their ability to make decisions? Wharton marketing professor Wes Hutchinson and Joseph Alba, a colleague from the University of Florida, examine these questions in a study that explores the links between confidence and accuracy. One conclusion: If you’re 90% sure you’ll hit a target, the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: Management

Article from Accel Partners (VCs) spells out the following important issues to consider:
– Gathering the team
– Quality
– Turning a technology lead into a market position
– Credibility
– Financing
– Organizing for change
– Defining the contribution
– Developing individual potential
– International sales
– Balancing optimism with objectivity
– Nurturing initiative
– Management information
– Legal
– Achieving value pricing
– … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Accel Partners | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Management

“Handsomely-bound strategic plans are a dime a dozen, but successfully implemented ones are rare. Similarly, many managers and executives know what they should do to achieve better employee and firm performance, but seem stymied when it comes to execution and action. Why is there such a big disconnect between many firms’ strategic knowledge and their actions? This book, written by two of Stanford University’s foremost … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

What is business intelligence (BI) and how can it benefit your organization? This article offers two examples to show how a company might use BI and then asks several questions to help you determine how well you’re putting this intelligence to work.

Content: Article | Author: Dan Pratte | Source: TechRepublic | Subjects: Competitive Intelligence, Management

Peter F. Drucker discusses how the new paradigms of management have changed and will continue to change our basic assumptions about the practices and principles of management. Forward-looking and forward-thinking, Management Challenges for the 21st Century combines the broad knowledge, wide practical experience, profound insight, sharp analysis, and enlightened common sense that are the essence of Drucker’s writings and “landmarks of the managerial profession.” –Harvard … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Peter F. Drucker | Subject: Management

This site by Professor Michael Rappa is the home for a graduate course (Managing the Digital Enterprise) taught at North Carolina State University. The course is unusual in that it depends solely on the Web for class content, and does not use a standard textbook. The course is divided into fifteen topics that serve as the basis for discussion amd cover a wide range … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Author: Michael Rappa | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Management

Content: Book | Author: Richard H. Axelrod | Subjects: Change Management, Management

Marc Andreessen is interviewed by Fast Company and discusses what he believes is still true – and what never was – about the Internet.

Content: Article | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Management | Industry: Information Technology

Information systems – even the ones with all the right technologies – often fail for reasons related to human behavior and culture. Information itself – or more specifically, how it is given meaning – is a highly social construction. Tom Davenport offers these Ten Commandments of Organizational Computing to deal with the organizational and human side of computing.

Content: Article | Author: Thomas H. Davenport | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Management

Content: Book | Author: Eric Verzuh | Subjects: MBA Related, Project Management

A service of Michael F. Corbett and Associates, Ltd., FirmBuilder.com is dedicated to providing tools and information to businesses interested in outsourcing. The site includes information for those just beginning to learn about outsourcing as well as for businesses currently using outsourcing. The Outsourcing Primer offers a series of articles by Michael F. Corbett and Associates covering basic reasons for outsourcing and techniques companies are … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Michael F. Corbett and Associates Ltd. | Subjects: Management, Outsourcing / BPO

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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Knowledge Management, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

Content: Book | Author: Charles Handy | Subject: Management

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under leadership composed of average human beings.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

What are the facts? Again and again and again–what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell”–what are the facts and to how many decimal places?

Content: Quotation | Subject: Business Plans

In this breakthrough business book, Pascale, Millemann and Gioja troll the emerging science of complexity for “ideas [that] can produce a concrete bottom-line impact.” Extracting key “dynamics of survival” from the life sciences, these three management consultants successfully show business leaders how to turn their companies into agile and adaptable “living systems” that achieve long-term vitality and sustainability in a swiftly evolving environment. Their four … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Linda Gioja, Mark Milleman, Richard Tanner Pascale | Subjects: General, Trends / Analysis