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People who don’t share our values are cancerous to the organization, regardless of their performance. In my experience, every time you invest trying to save these people you end up regretting it. It’s simply too difficult to change people’s values.

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

The absence of a vision will doom any strategy — especially a strategy for change. A true vision shapes your hiring, assessment, and promotion of employees, and your behavior toward customers, partners, and investors. It is a more powerful tool for leading an organization than any market analysis or spreadsheet…I invest our resources in vision and values because company culture is inseparable from strategy — … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Vision

U.S. businesses hold 15 million meetings per day. No wonder it’s hard to reach a decision. But there are software tools that can help – group decision support systems (GDSS).

Content: Article | Author: Rod Chapman | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Organizational Behavior

Value Based Management is often thought of from strictly a financial perspective. In this Case Study series about a VBM initiative at Cadbury Schweppes, the authors show that managing for value is 80% about people and only 20% about numbers.

The series traces the origins of the initiative starting in 1996 and follows its progression through to 2002, showing the benefits, limitations, time frames, and … [ Read more ]

Content: Case Study | Authors: Fares Boulos, Marjolein Bloemhof, Philippe Haspeslagh, Regine Slagmulder, Tomo Nodo | Source: INSEAD | Subjects: Finance, Organizational Behavior | Industry: Food Products/Service | Company: Cadbury Schweppes

In this article, Erwan Morellec of the University of Rochester models the effect of managerial risk aversion on manager’s decision making. He shows that risk-averse mangers are more likely to invest early. In his words: “to speed up investment, leading to significant erosion of the value of the option to invest.” Why is this? Again quoting: “By investing, the manager transforms … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Erwan Morellec | Source: Social Science Research Network (SSRN) | Subjects: Finance, Organizational Behavior

Women around the world have achieved higher levels of education than ever before and today represent more than 40 percent of the global workforce. Yet their share of management positions remains unacceptably low. This timely study reviews the changing position of women in the labor market an din professional and managerial work. It examines the obstacles to women’s career development and the action taken to … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Linda Wirth | Subject: Women in Business

In this issue of Spotlight David A. Garvin, C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, talks to editor Sarah Powell about the challenges of organizational learning and the conclusions drawn in his book Learning in Action.

Content: Article | Source: Emerald Now | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, People

Gaming the numbers is squeezing the life and spirit out of many companies and their employees. It’s a mentality that says, “Do what I said last January, no matter what.”

Content: Quotation | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: Finance, Organizational Behavior

Developing people effectively “…does not include coercing them (no matter how benevolently) into acceptance of the goals of the enterprise, nor does it mean manipulating their behavior to suit organizational needs. Rather, it calls for creating a relationship within which a man can take responsibility for developing his own potentialities, plan for himself, and learn from putting his plan into action.”

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

For companies that can’t guarantee confidentiality, the answer is no.

Content: Article | Authors: George R. Wratney, Patrick J. Gnazzo | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Ethics

It’s likely your org chart doesn’t tell you where the real power lies in your company. A small number of people make the big decisions. Are you in with the in crowd?

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Collaborative leaders must balance competing and shifting requirements.

Content: Article | Author: Russ Linden | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

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Management-trend-watcher Stuart Crainer (author of The 75 Greatest Management Decisions Ever Made, 1999) has called Trompenaars one of the “new gurus.” Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner, a British management researcher, are partners in an Amsterdam-based consulting firm that specializes in cross-cultural management and training. They are also authors of The Seven Cultures of Capitalism (1993) and Riding the Waves of Culture (1994). These two books were among … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Charles M. Hampden-Turner, Fons Trompenaars | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

It’s better to choose and to choose wrongly than not to choose at all. Fence-sitters of this world have the worst of every fate.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Decision Making

C. Northcote Parkinson, an oddball with an odd name, was a British novelist and historian whose output ranged from Napoleonic-era military fiction to a history of sea-borne trade. But his major claim to fame was Parkinson’s Law which began a delightful series of books about how organizations make decisions, particularly bad ones. Here are some of Parkinson’s best-known laws:
1. ‘Expenditure rises to meet income’… … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Reason | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

In some countries, greasing palms is part of doing business. Does that mean you should?

Content: Article | Author: Janet L. Evans | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: Ethics, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Building a team is hard work — if you are not willing to do the work, don’t try to be a team.

Content: Article | Author: Patrick M. Lencioni | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

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The case of Silicon Valley provides valuable lessons for multinationals trying to exploit regional networks.

Key messages:
– Multinational companies move to hubs like Silicon Valley to raise credibility back home, set up listening posts and look for fresh expertise, ideas and markets.
– Foreign subsidiaries can benefit as much as domestic firms by embedding themselves in the network.
– Gaining access … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Lars Håkanson, Sigrid Hofer | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: International, Organizational Behavior