TheOfficialBoard
Corporate data about people’s roles and functions within different organizations is becoming increasingly public. All you need to do is search on LinkedIn to get a person’s entire work history or Jigsaw to find their direct contact information. Now you can add TheOfficialBoard, a contact database which goes one step further. It shows the organization charts for 20,000 of the largest companies, so you can … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: The Official Board | Subjects: Competitive Intelligence, Miscellaneous
A Taste of the Honey Business
An Offshoring Model to Create Better Value: Interview with Narayana Murthy
Narayana Murthy, cofounder of Infosys, the global IT services company based in India, consistently makes the list of most admired/most respected/most powerful global leaders, being named one of BusinessWeek’s Stars of Asia as well as one of Time’s top 10 global leaders who are helping to shape the future of technology. Here he talks innovation, offshoring and social responsibility with IESE’s Sandra Sieber.
Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Narayana Murthy, Sandra Sieber | Source: IESE Insight | Subjects: Miscellaneous, People
Minding the Store: Great Writing about Business from Tolstoy to Now
Content: Book | Authors: Albert LaFarge, Robert Coles | Subject: Miscellaneous
The Craftsman
With this volume, author and sociologist Sennett (The Culture of the New Capitalism) launches a three-book examination of “material culture,” asking “what the process of making concrete things reveals to us about ourselves.” Taking in everything from Pandora and Hephaestus to Linux programmers, Sennett posits that the spirit of craftsmanship-an “enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake”-is … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Richard Sennett | Subject: Miscellaneous
100 Awesome Business Blogs that are Better than an MBA
Going through school to get an MBA can take a few years away from your life and work. These days you don’t always have time to take a few years and be a student. You’ve got bills to pay! This list of 100 business blogs can bring you up to speed in the briefcase world so you can take a detour around the MBA education … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Source: The Fixer-Upper Blog | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous
The Winner’s Curse and Optimal Auction Bidding Strategies
Auctions are popular mechanisms for the exchange of goods and services in the marketplace. Common examples of items offered at auctions include real estate, mineral rights, construction contracts, agricultural products, United States Treasury bills, and government procurement contracts. Auctions are now even more commonplace in our personal lives, where online auction sites have made it possible for individuals to bid for and sell items en … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Samuel L. Seaman PhD, Warren J. Hahn PE PhD | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subjects: Management, Miscellaneous
Marjorie Kelly
It has been clear since the days of Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means – who published their breakthrough book, The Modern Corporation and Private Property, in 1932 – that business ownership is often separated from its most vital element, control. These [for-benefit business] designs go further by concentrating control in a deliberately chosen group, selected as stewards of the firm’s living mission. Ownership shares can … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Marjorie Kelly | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Miscellaneous
Mark Penn
The Information Age has spawned many new professions, but blogging could well be the one with the most profound effect on our culture. If journalists were the Fourth Estate, bloggers are becoming the Fifth Estate.
All this fits with the trend toward Opinion TV. Less and less of our information flow is devoted to gathering facts, and more and more is going toward popularizing opinion. Twenty-four-hour … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Mark Penn | Source: Wall Street Journal | Subject: Miscellaneous
Why Are We in Business?
Ad man Roy Spence wants to know what your purpose is.
Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Matthew Budman, Roy M. Spence Jr. | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subject: Miscellaneous
Where are the most people imprisoned?
Why Money Messes with Your Mind
Our relationship with money has many facets. Some people seem addicted to accumulating it, while others can’t help maxing out their credit cards and find it impossible to save for a rainy day. As we come to understand more about money’s effect on us, it is emerging that some people’s brains can react to it as they would to a drug, while to others it … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Mark Buchanan | Source: New Scientist | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Miscellaneous, Organizational Behavior
Crossing the Unknown Sea
Readers who accept poet and Fortune 500 consultant Whyte’s invitation to enter into “an imaginative conversation about life and work” are likely to be challenged as well as delighted by the beauty of his writing and the expansiveness of his views. Gracefully using the metaphor of a sea voyage to depict the journey through the world of work, Whyte views work not only as a … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: David Whyte | Subjects: Career, Miscellaneous, Personal Development
From Theory to Practice
May you have the good luck to realize its importance to success.
Content: Article | Author: Michael E. Raynor | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subject: Miscellaneous
Gary Hamel
Most companies strive to maximize shareholder wealth—a goal that is inadequate in many respects. As an emotional catalyst, wealth maximization lacks the power to fully mobilize human energies. It’s an insufficient defense when people question the legitimacy of corporate power. And it’s not specific or compelling enough to spur renewal.
Content: Quotation | Author: Gary Hamel | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Goals, Miscellaneous, Mission
In praise of failure
Of course, failure isn’t an experience to be deliberately sought, and cushioning ourselves against its harshest blows makes perfect sense. But failure isn’t something to be despised or ashamed of, either. That’s not a message we hear a lot about these days. Yet some of history’s most impressive successes started out as big, fat failures. The stories of the world’s most successful failures suggest … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Marisa Taylor | Source: Ode | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development
Survival of the Fittest? Financial and Economic Distress and Restructuring Outcomes in Chapter 11
Intangible Assets Map
Better Than Free
There are a number of qualities that can’t be copied. consider “trust.” Trust cannot be copied. you can’t purchase it. Trust must be earned, over time. It cannot be downloaded. or faked. or counterfeited (at least for long). If everything else is equal, you’ll always prefer to deal with someone you can trust. so trust is an intangible that has increasing value in a copy-saturated … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Kevin Kelly | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Economics, Miscellaneous