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What differentiates a winning company from an also-ran? For many analysts and investors, the answer involves technology, which increasingly permeates every step of a business’s operations. But according to a Wharton professor and an Israeli venture capitalist, a company’s ability to understand its customers’ philosophical outlook may be as vital to its success as R&D and other efforts.

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: Miscellaneous

If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Thought

Companies are frequently more different than they are similar. That’s why I am skeptical about rules of business: ten rules, six rules, eight rules, whatever. There is a tendency among consultants and CEOs and others to universalize what should not be universalized.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: Miscellaneous

We live a hypocrisy when we pursue democracy in the public sphere but accept autocracy, often fascistic, in our corporations.

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

If you want to come back to an empty inbox, take at least three weeks off. Your staff can hold anything for you for a week, important things for two weeks and nothing for three weeks. They have to handle it.

Content: Quotation | Source: CIO Magazine | Subjects: Delegation, Miscellaneous

Collaboration will be the critical business competency of the Internet Age. It won’t be the ability to fiercely compete, but the ability to lovingly cooperate that will determine success. Rather than focusing on stomping the competition into the ground, true leaders of the Internet Age will focus on creating value for their customers, intelligence and skill in their talent, and wealth for their investors and … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Trends / Analysis

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Jim Stovall contemplates:
Training
When Life Defies Definition
Knowledge and Wisdom
The Prominence of Problems

Content: Article | Author: Jim Stovall | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Miscellaneous

Business has a bad image today not because it is too focused on creating wealth but, rather, because it has defined the beneficiaries of that wealth creation too narrowly. Corporations exist to create wealth for all who provide their resources and bear the risks of their failure. Such wealth comes in the form of dividends, rising stock prices, jobs, careers, healthier communities, and valuable products … [ Read more ]

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

Just a few years ago, news that a CEO or senior executive was using a coach would have raised eyebrows in the boardroom. Now it is the height of corporate fashion to assign an executive coach to improve leaders’ management performance and/or overcome their personal development deficiencies.

Content: Article | Authors: Des Dearlove, Stuart Crainer | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Personal Development

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Thought

We’re not good about thinking about the generation part of wealth creation. Much of what we study is about appropriation, because our typical view is that generation is a one-time event. With most corporations set up for appropriation – capturing the rent – that makes it very difficult if we’re moving into a period where generation will occur over and over.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Strategy

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There’s more at stake in protecting and selling your IP than you may think.

Content: Article | Author: Erik Sherman | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Legal, Miscellaneous

The trouble with participatory design is that you often can’t go much beyond what the user knows at that particular moment. So we can either take the role of anthropologists more seriously – they are participative observers and trained to observe – or, more generally, this requires a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach which is interdisciplinary in terms not just of the sciences, but also of the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Emerald Now | Subjects: Customer Related, Miscellaneous

The question of democracy is often discussed on the assumption that we are obliged to choose between the rule of the modern beneficent despot, the expert, and a muddled, befogged ‘people’. If the question were as simple as that, most of our troubles would be over; we should only have to get enough Intelligence Bureaus in Washington, enough scientific management into our factories, enough specialists … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Expertise, Miscellaneous

Value-driven competitors have changed the expectations of consumers about the trade-off between quality and price. This shift is gathering momentum, placing a new premium on-and adding new twists to-the old imperatives of differentiation and execution.

Content: Article | Authors: Jeffrey P. George, Laxman Narasimhan, Robert J. Frank | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Case Related, Miscellaneous | Industry: Other

You are responsible for traveling employees’ safety. It’s good to tell them what not to do. It’s better to teach them how to be alert and anticipate and avoid trouble.

Content: Article | Author: Kathleen Carr | Source: CSO Magazine | Subjects: International, Miscellaneous

A top of the line corporate jet can cost a company up to $35 million. But a new study shows that when chief executive officers trade in first-class commercial tickets for private planes, the cost to shareholders can be far greater.

Editor’s Note: I am not sure what, if any value, this article offers but I must admit it was an interesting read…

Content: Article | Author: David Yermack | Source: STERNbusiness (NYU) | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Miscellaneous

How blue staters and red staters can learn to communicate and do business.

Content: Article | Author: Adam Hanft | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Miscellaneous