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If the corporation were a person, would that person be a psychopath?

Content: Article | Sources: CFO Publishing, The Economist | Subject: Miscellaneous

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How clever are you? Is your relationship sexy enough? Are you living up to your creative potential?

You can find out in How Do You Compare?, which features twelve of the most interesting, scientifically devised personality tests used by professionals. With these fun quizzes and the thoughtful analysis and self-improvement hints accompanying each one, you will discover more about yourself in a short time than … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Andy N. Williams | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Personal Development

The purpose of a corporation is what gives meaning and value to the endeavors and investments of all who contribute to the corporation. Performance measurements provide a scorecard of indicators. Those indicators are used to evaluate how well a company is advancing its purpose, but those indicators do not themselves define the purpose. Share price and profitability may provide indicators of how much value the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Miscellaneous

Corporations are instruments designed to organize people and resources. Even though people assume corporations are primarily economic instruments, the purposes of the corporation actually get defined and worked out differently in different countries and in different historical periods. Inherent in the corporate form itself is not a single purpose. Rather, it is up to members of society to determine the purposes of the corporation. That … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Business Rules, Miscellaneous

New research suggests a link between religion and attitudes that are conducive to economic growth.

Content: Article | Authors: Luigi Guiso, Luigi Zingales, Paolo Sapienza | Source: Capital Ideas | Subjects: General, Miscellaneous

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Comparisons between business and warfare are not new. But while writers have sought over the years to apply military metaphors to corporate strategy, the debate on how appropriate this is remains unresolved.

Content: Article | Author: Morgen Witzel | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: History, Miscellaneous

As Eben Moglen once said: “Society has been vastly underproducing pyramids since the time of the Pharaohs.” The economic and social system that made pyramid production sensible simply doesn’t exist anymore, and no one seems to miss it, even if we’re a few pyramids short of where we’d like to be.

Content: Quotation | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: Economics, Miscellaneous

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Psychologists and managers may be surprised to discover that the origins of the world’s most widely used psychometric instrument lie in pre-modern systems of knowledge.

Editor’s Note: this article offers good insight and background on the four elements of astrology and how these along with alchemy played into Jung’s work.

Content: Article | Authors: Garry Phillipson, Peter Case | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Organizational Behavior

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In his new book, Call of the Mall, Paco Underhill explains that the reason the rest rooms in America’s shopping malls are typically located at the end of a long, gloomy corridor is because malls are built by real estate developers, not merchants. Real estate developers, says Underhill, so resent having to dedicate any space to a non-revenue producing amenity, that they tuck it out … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Paco Underhill | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Miscellaneous

Many observers have offered potential solutions. Some seek to address the issue of agency directly. Other prescriptions, including those embedded in the recently passed Sarbanes-Oxley bill, seek to increase transparency in financial reporting and strengthen the supervision of executives by boards. Although most of these provisions have merit, they raise more fundamental and often unasked questions: Can we solve the agency problem definitively and, if … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Joseph Fuller | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Finance, Miscellaneous

The 2003 PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Shareholder Value Award was held in partnership with EBF and Financial News. The competition, on the topic ‘Is there a conflict between the pursuit of shareholder value and sustainable economic growth?’ attracted submissions from more than 120 academics, consultants, business executives and students from 40 countries. Here are the top three entries.

Editor’s Note: interested in what the judges themselves and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Amit Varma, Robert Phelps, Rupert Evenett | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Strategy

America’s most successful companies, from Ben & Jerry’s to Federal Express to General Motors, rely on their mission statements for essential vision and guidance. In what the Washington Post has hailed as a “landmark” volume, Jeffrey Abrahams offers a selection of over 300 mission statements from America’s top companies and provides detailed advice on how to craft one to suit the needs of your organization. … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Jeffrey Abrahams | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Organizational Behavior

Workplace violence is seldom the freak episode that the media portrays it to be. Read what Dr. Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist, says you should be on the lookout for.

Content: Article | Author: Daintry Duffy | Source: CSO Magazine | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Organizational Behavior

Many websites, particularly media sites, now require registration, usually to gather demographic data about users. If for any reason you don’t want to register but still want to view the site, go to Content: Online Resource | Source: bugmenot.com | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Productivity / Work Tips

This guide was compiled to assist students with the “mock bargaining” exercises required for collective bargaining courses taught in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell. The information sources listed, many of which are available via the Internet, will be of use to anyone who is involved with negotiating a union contract.

Topics include:
– Comprehensive Sources
– Collective Bargaining Agreements … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Author: Susan LaCette | Source: Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Subject: Miscellaneous

It ain’t pretty, but then neither are some of the revelations in this interesting site. Simple and straightforward in design, PollingReport.com pulls together a whole bunch of recent public opinion surveys and divides them into easy-to-find categories. These polls are all from reliable sources: The Gallup Organization, the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, media organizations such as The Wall Street Journal, … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: The Polling Report Inc. | Subjects: Market Research, Miscellaneous