Peter F. Drucker
By now we know that government cannot take care of community problems. We know that business and the free market also cannot take care of community problems. We have now come to accept that there has to be a third sector, the social sector of (mostly nonprofit) community organizations. But we also know that all institutions, no matter what their legal status, have to be … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Social Responsibility (ESG)
John Sviokla
Fundamentally, prediction is never valued as much as explanation in academia.
Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Trends / Analysis
Monthly Parking Rates in Select US Cities
High Performance Organization Structures and Characteristics
Research and experience shows that the shape and characteristics of high performing organization structures have a number of common features.
Content: Article | Author: Jim Clemmer | Subject: Miscellaneous
What Warranties Cost
Negotiating Skills: Success Tips
Six tips that will help you improve the outcomes of your negotiations.
Content: Article | Author: A. J. Schuler | Source: ManagerWise | Subject: Miscellaneous
Blogging By The Numbers
Designed to be loved
As consumers are increasingly drawn to ‘lively’ designs with an element of surprise, creating products with true charisma becomes an important way to differentiate a company from its rivals.
Editor’s Note: I am not sure how useful this article will be in application but it is interesting background reading. If this article does interest you, read the companion opinion piece, “Ismael Fernandez on ‘Designed to … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Josiena Gotzsch | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subject: Miscellaneous
Unethical Negotiating Gambits and How to Protect Yourself Against Them
Unless you’re so familiar with the unethical gambits that people can use to get you to sweeten the deal that you spot them right away, you’ll find that you will make unnecessary concessions just to get the other side to agree with your proposal.
Content: Article | Author: Roger Dawson | Source: ManagerWise | Subject: Miscellaneous
Corporate Barter Barometer Rises
Unknown
If two people agree all the time, one of them is redundant.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subject: Miscellaneous
Company Man: The Rise and Fall of Corporate Life
In this provocative and incisive social history of the corporation, British journalist Sampson observes that the “organization man” of the 1950s and ’60s – a loyal worker confident of annual raises and a growing pension – is virtually extinct. Today’s company men and company women face insecurity in offices that seem placeless networks of telecommuters and data banks, with short-term specialists and consultants increasingly replacing … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Anthony Sampson, John Mahaney | Subjects: History, Miscellaneous
A Higher Plane of Problem-Solving
Can the theories of a dead Russian dissident solve your company’s most vexing technological challenges? A cult of business consultants swears that they can.
Editor’s Note: article looks at Genrich Altshuller’s TRIZ theory of inventive problem-solving.
Content: Article | Author: Andy Raskin | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: Miscellaneous
Annual cost of computer crime
The Silent Takeover : Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy
Cambridge University economist Hertz asserts that Reagan’s and Thatcher’s brand of free market capitalism has had dire social and political repercussions, although it has triumphed as the dominant world ideology and brought prosperity to many. She sensibly argues that with government in retreat from its traditional rule-setter role, multinational corporations have grown so powerful (51 of the hundred biggest economies in the world are corporations) … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Noreena Hertz | Subjects: Economics, Miscellaneous | Industry: Government
$50,000 for Your Thoughts
Why have management gurus become the rock stars of business? Because, to put it mildly, business is confusing. And because, to put it simply, they’re as shrewd about their business as they are about yours.
Content: Article | Author: Erick Schonfeld | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Miscellaneous, People
U.S. Garden Market
Pets – a $30 Billion Business and Growing
Abortion Decisions
All the Right Moves
Think fast. Think under pressure. That’s how you win in business — and in chess. Here is a master class from Bruce Pandolfini, one of the world’s great chess teachers, on how to think like a champion.
Content: Article | Author: Anna Muoio | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Strategy