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Global competition, supply-chain partnerships, knowledge management, and 24/7 operations are among the trends driving changes in business processes and business structures. As information and decision-making power filter deeper into the organization, traditional command-and-control, hierarchical structures are giving way to new, matrix formats. CIOs who look beyond the technologies to the culture changes they bring can lead their companies through the transition. Editor-in-chief Brian Gillooly invited … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: Miscellaneous, People

Executives and directors associated with corporate failures can get branded for life. But the stigmatization process is not always rational or efficient. Why are some executives tarred with failure while others seem to be Teflon-coated?

Content: Article | Authors: Batia M. Wiesenfeld, Donald C. Hambrick, Kurt Wurthmann | Source: STERNbusiness (NYU) | Subjects: Career, Miscellaneous

Nineteen essential strategies for business owners. Includes How To…
…Work With a Partner (Year After Year After Year)
…Hire Wisely
…Fire Decisively
…Be a Great Boss
…Work (If You Must) With Your Spouse
…Groom a No. 2 (or, Gasp, a Successor)
…Keep an Assistant
…Star in an Ad (Without Looking Like an Idiot)
…Crack Big-Box Retail
…Spot Trouble in Your Financials
…Talk to an Investment … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Miscellaneous

Over time, the pay and promotion curves for managers and engineers handling production-process problems have fallen behind those in design and new product development. In the United States, production has ceased to be the route to the top. Among today’s CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, 34 percent come from marketing, 25 percent from finance, 24 percent from general management, and only 4 percent from production. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subjects: Career, Miscellaneous

In my previous book, I said that top management and employees are disconnected. That is still true-in fact, if you look at all the scandals, it’s because the disconnect became even larger in the last ten years. This book says that there’s a huge disconnect between all managers in multinational companies-not just senior managers-and 5 billion potential consumers. Because we don’t see poor people, we … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Euphemisms are widely employed by corporate executives. Thus, in standard financial reporting, companies “earn profits” – a phrase that conjures up the notion of positive achievement of their own doing. In contrast, firms “suffer losses.” That sounds like an unexpected blow inflicted by some sinister force in the external environment beyond corporate influence.

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Communication, Miscellaneous

Your data is more at risk than ever as easily stolen laptops become more and more prevalent.

Content: Article | Author: Michael Fitzgerald | Source: CSO Magazine | Subject: Miscellaneous

Many management fashions’ advocates look around for examples of corporate practice that seem to work, and then sum up the “lessons learned,” with all the carelessness and arrogance that comes with intuitive philosophizing – instead of asking, in some robust theoretical way, why these principles would work and others would not.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Miscellaneous | Industry: Consulting

Are the habits of today’s knowledge workers unique in history? Actually, the Gen X style of working appears to be the oldest on earth.

Content: Article | Author: David Berreby | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Economics, Miscellaneous

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The Embezzler comes from a time when Americans still remembered the great depression and the old-money blue-bloods hadn’t entirely released their hold on New York. Auchincloss captures their views of themselves more realistically than a lot of writers probably have done. That, if no other reason, probably makes this book a worthy expenditure of time.
However, Embezzler is also a study in the tension between honor … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Louis Auchincloss | Subject: Miscellaneous

What do a stand-up comic, a former POW, an astronaut, a basketball star, a cancer survivor, and Bill Clinton have in common? You’ll find out in this tour of the corporate speaking circuit.

Content: Article | Author: James Krohe Jr. | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Miscellaneous

Recent scandals at family-held companies such as Parmalat, Hollinger and Adelphia reinforce a common misperception that family firms operate at a disadvantage to other companies. Bain & Company’s Robin Buchanan, Cyrus Jilla and Martha Stack explain what sets the best of family firms apart from the rest.

Content: Article | Authors: Cyrus Jilla, Martha Stack, Robin Buchanan | Source: INSEAD Quarterly | Subject: Miscellaneous

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Once upon a time, a business magazine wanted to understand the popularity of business fables.

Content: Article | Author: Ryan Underwood | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Miscellaneous

When you think of fun services you think of the experiences provided by Disneyworld or Southwest Airlines. But most services are so routine that users don’t even remember doing them. Can fun experiences be built into these neutral services to create a market advantage? This article looks at successful funsters like Commerce Bank and Jordan’s Furniture to draw some lessons on how to add fun … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Ivor Morgan, Jay Rao | Source: Babson Insight | Subject: Miscellaneous

In Gain, Powers puts our modernity through the wringer once again. This time, though, he points the finger at one villain in particular: rampant, American-style capitalism, as exemplified by a conglomerate called Clare International. His novel, it should be said, is no piece of agitprop, but an intricate lamination of two separate stories. On one hand, Powers describes the rise (and fall and rise) of … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Richard Powers | Subject: Miscellaneous

“Txt msgs bad 4 corp comms. Pls rd.” Confused? So are a lot of people. Here’s what happened to good business writing.

Content: Article | Authors: Des Dearlove, Stuart Crainer | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Personal Development

This slim (172 pages) volume is a fun collection of short essays by a much-published professor of psychology at University College London. Nothing is sacred to Furnham, neither “Expensive Experts: The Consultant, the Trainer, and the Facilitator” (the subject of one essay) nor “Strategic Planning: Who Needs it?” (of another). Not that he is wholly a management skeptic; Furnham is, after all, a consultant to … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Adrian Furnham | Subjects: Management, Miscellaneous

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s conventional wisdom increasingly had it that the ‘commanding heights’ should be controlled by the private sector. Privatisation flourished almost everywhere – and where it didn’t, ‘market driven’ solutions have been widely employed to deliver public services.

But what have we learnt from privatisation? Has it been a success – or were expectations overblown?
Is the public sector really lagging in … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Various | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Industry Specific, Miscellaneous | Industry: Government