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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

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

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

Famous Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner and serial entrepreneur

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

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

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

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

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

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

Top executives should rate their subordinates on loyalty and competence. Those who are more loyal than competent should be fired because they are the dangerous ones. They will stay forever while other more competent, less loyal people will jump ship as problems develop. And the loyal, noncompetent subordinates will “protect” their bosses from the truth. Reality will be too threatening and ugly. When … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Content: Book | Author: Dinna Louise C. Dayao | Subjects: International – Asia, Management

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Success / Failure

From the chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and a research specialist in cultural studies at UC-Berkeley comes a treatise that casts a critical eye at all the hype surrounding the boom of the information age. The authors’ central complaint is that narrowly focusing on new ways to provide information will not create the cyber-revolution so many technology designers have visualized. The problem (or joy) is … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

[Winning is] a lot like cologne. If you splash it on, it makes you feel good. But it you drink it, that’s when it becomes a problem.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Success / Failure

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Progress, Success / Failure

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done.

Content: Quotation | Author: Peter F. Drucker | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

This interesting article (written before the dot.com shakeout) shows some interesting fallacies of thought but also makes some interesting and useful observations and analyses. Discusses three types of coprorations: Godzillas, Titans and Bystanders. Lists the following as features critical to Godzilla companies: Clarity of Focus; The Primacy of the Customer; Zero-Based Organization; Location Irrelevance; Value Chain Shortcuts; Pointcast vs. Broadcast; The CEO as … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Kenichi Ohmae | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Strategy, Trends / Analysis