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Zero Space, by Frank Lekanne Deprez and René Tissen, is both a thought-provoking argument for truly open organizations–occupying the ephemeral region of their title–and a practical manual for developing them. Lekanne Deprez and Tissen, Amsterdam-based consultants who have separately and together written five previous books, are certainly not the first to suggest that intangibles like knowledge are far more relevant today than tangibles like machinery … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Frank Lekanne Deprez, Rene Johannes Tissen | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

In this article, Professor Luis Bastias from the Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso and Universidad de Vina del Mar in Chile, has undertaken a theoretical analysis of the nature of the business organisation, drawing heavily from the work of Dr. Aquiles Limone.

Content: Article | Author: Luis E. Bastias | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subject: Organizational Behavior

This article takes a look at the differences between “single-leader unit” and “real-team” disciplines. It focuses especially on the unique challenges of virtual teams and also considers the pros and cons of collaborative technology (groupware).

Content: Article | Authors: Douglas K. Smith, Jon R. Katzenbach | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Emotions get decision-making started, presenting the conscious, logical mind with a short list of possibilities. Without at least a little intuition, then, the decision process never leaves the gate.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: Decision Making

In other fields, there’s very little doubt over what it takes to be a star. But do you know what it takes to be one at work? Robert E. Kelley has the answer.

Content: Article | Author: Alan M. Webber | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior

This ‘Just Thinking’ paper (a CBI term) is a discussion-starter for an element of the topic Strategic Exploration. It offers up four general innovation boundaries: Physical, Knowledge, Context, and Time.

Content: Article | Authors: David Wallace, Rudy Ruggles | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior

We all know them. They exist in every company. Many times they are smart people, sometime very smart. They lack influence and can’t pull together a team and draw the best effort out of people. Prof. Cohen looks at a case of failed influence and provides analysis and recommendations on how to avoid losing your own influence.

Content: Case Study | Author: Allan Cohen | Source: Babson | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it … he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Adam Smith | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Capitalism, Economics, Personality / Behavior

In organizations today we need to be able to learn together from collective experience. And, insofar as knowledge today is in constant flux, it is equally important for us to be able to (un-learn) prior beliefs that have become barriers to perceiving things fresh.

Editor’s Note: article offers an interesting (mostly common sense) list of organizational learning disabilities.

Content: Article | Author: Charles Albano | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

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This article takes a look at distinctive characteristics of the high-performing companies, focusing on cultural, people and systems issues.

Content: Article | Authors: Richard L Osborne, Scott S Cowen | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others that write what men do, not what they ought to do.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subject: Personality / Behavior

Who you know and how you’re connected to them may be vital to your firm’s success when times are tough or turbulent. In this recent working paper, Professors Martin Gargiulo and Andrej Rus consider the effect of social networks on individual and firm performance after external market shocks. They formulate a new model of social capital, then test it on data drawn from … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Andrej Rus, Martin Gargiulo | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Understanding the tendency to resist can be the first step in more effectively giving and receiving feedback.

See other articles in this series:
Part 2: Delivering the Message
Part 3: Getting the Message

Content: Article | Authors: Gary R. Casselman, Ph.D., Timothy C. Daughtry, Ph.D. | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Competency models are descriptions of strong individual performance, and are the yardstick against which all performance is evaluated. A Penn State professor says that these models work.

Content: Article | Authors: Mary Anne Donovan-Wright, William J. Rothwell | Source: Work Force Magazine | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Ever wonder why your IT staff acts a little clannish? There’s a perfectly good reason – one you should know.

Editor’s Note: I can’t argue with too much in this article but I also don’t think it really says anything new, is not too specific and mostly offers advice that is equally applicable to non-Einsteins. Nevertheless, the commenters seemed to find the article very … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Jack Ivancevich, Tom Duening | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

This article discusses the Enneagram, a simple model of nine personality types and how you can spot these types in team members, co-workers, etc. The article also presents five traits of outstanding managers, as determined by the Gallup organization.

Update: You can now find out what Enneagram type you are with a short 10-question exercise (ignore the fact that it suggests 2 hours to take … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Eric Garner | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

A look at the power of intutive decision-making; induction, deduction and abduction; and matching decision-making to the four types of problems.

Content: Article | Authors: Nancy Einhart, Thomas A. Stewart | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

The new accountability reflects the new reality…a world that is changing rapidly, where information moves at lightning speed, where shared knowledge and wisdom are the true drivers of success, and where cause and effect is not what we think it is.

Content: Article | Author: Brian Ward | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

In Turkey, the apartment buildings that collapse during earthquakes are known as “bribe buildings.” In Africa, bridges dot the landscape with no roads to connect them. There’s no doubt that corruption, endemic in emerging economies around the world, throws economic development into chaos. It affects decisions made by bureaucrats, degrades the quality of those in power, and discourages foreign investment. Wharton legal studies professor Phil … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Ethics, Social Responsibility (ESG)