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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

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

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

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

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

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

Visionaries make good things happen. Managers keep bad things from happening. For your company to be successful, you need both. Unfortunately, you rarely find them in a single person.

Content: Quotation | Source: Alliance Technology Ventures | Subjects: Management, Vision

Content: Book | Author: Perry J. Ludy | Subjects: Management, Strategy

Famous Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner and serial entrepreneur

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Red Herring | Subjects: Management, Venture Capital

Article discusses the potential resurgence of Six Sigma and its implications for the New Economy.

Content: Article | Author: Lisa Yoon | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Management, Operations

inventor of Ethernet, founder of 3Com, former CEO of InfoWorld and now partner at Polaris Venture Partners.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: tnbt.com | Subject: Management

Organizations that that want the benefits of effective followers must find ways of rewarding them, ways of bringing them into full partnership in the enterprise. Think of the thousands of companies that achieve adequate performance and lackluster profits with employees they treat as second-class citizens. Then imagine for a moment the power of an organization blessed with fully engaged, fully energized, fully appreciated followers.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Includes: Vani Kola, RightWorks founder; Andreas Schmidt, president and CEO of music publisher Bertelsmann AG’s eCommerce Group; Stanford economist A. Michael Spence; Jayshree Ullal, general manager and VP of Cisco Systems’ switching group; Nancy Li, CEO iCan-ASP Inc. CA; Carolyn Osborne, founder of GoBeyond LLC; Rusty Braziel, founder and chairman of Altranet Technologies Inc.; David Neeleman, CEO of JetBlue Airways; Elliot Masie, director of the … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Subject: Management

This article ostensibly discusses the importance of CIOs presenting IT issues and initiatives to the Board and how to do so effectively. Yet, the framework they recommend is valuable for discussing IT initiatives at a high level to any audience.

Content: Article | Sources: Gartner, TechRepublic | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Management

former Pepsi executive and CEO of Apple Computer

Content: Thought Leader | Source: tnbt.com | Subjects: Management, Venture Capital

midwest entrepreneur – founder of Epigraph Entertainment, epraire.com, guitar.com, AIS.Net

Content: Thought Leader | Source: nMinds | Subject: Management

co-inventor of the Palm Pilot and co-founder of Handspring

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Management | Industry: Consumer Electronics

Article uses the concepts of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to discuss group dynamics and ways to foster better communication.

Content: Article | Author: Jocelyn Ryder-Smith | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior