Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream : How One Woman Changed the Face of Modern Business
Content: Book | Author: Jane R. Plitt | Subject: Women in Business
Charles de Gaulle
Nothing more enhances authority than silence.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Leadership, Power / Authority
Rayona Sharpnack
Most change programs inside of companies don’t work because they address content (the knowledge, structure, and data in a company) or process (the activities and behaviors), but they never address the context in which both of those elements reside. The source of people’s action isn’t what they know but how they perceive the world around them…Context can be an individual’s mind-set or the organizational culture. … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior
Natural Leader
Rayona Sharpnack is a teacher and a mentor to some of the most powerful women in some of the most important companies around. Her message: Don’t worry so much about what you need to know. Instead, figure out who you need to be.
Content: Article | Author: Cheryl Dahle | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Women in Business
Self-Renewal : The Individual and the Innovative Society
Content: Book | Author: John W. Gardner | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
Case Studies in Business Ethics – Inc.com
The most recent guide from Inc.com offers case studies in business ethics and includes coverage of businesses striving to become more environmentally aware, provide community growth, and activate global change. The case studies are generally quite short and easy to read; additionally, they link to several online polls that test users’s business ethics skills.
Content: Online Resource | Author: Shane McLaughlin | Source: GUIDES @ inc.com | Subjects: Ethics, Social Responsibility (ESG)
Warren Bennis
The problem facing almost all leaders in the future will be how to develop their organizations’ social architecture so that it actually generates intellectual capital.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior
Chinese Proverb
If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years, grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Strategy
Lyndon B. Johnson
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few we can solve by ourselves.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Problems / Solutions, Teamwork
The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization
The importance of teams has become a cliche of modern business theory, but few have a clear idea of what it means. In this new edition of their best-selling primer, Katzenbach and Smith try to impart some analytical rigor to the concept. Drawing on their experience as management consultants and a plethora of case studies at companies like Burlington Northern and Motorola, they cover such … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Douglas K. Smith, Jon R. Katzenbach | Subjects: Operations, Organizational Behavior
Tom Peters
…success in the marketplace today is directly proportional to the knowledge that an organization can bring to bear, how fast it can bring the knowledge to bear, and the rate at which it accumulates knowledge.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Knowledge, Organizational Behavior
Your Job Is Change
When change programs are doomed before they start … When old leaders are stumped by new challengers … When change itself is changing …
Content: Article | Author: Robert B. Reich | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior
Peter F. Drucker
The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Organizational Behavior
Chilon
Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
Content: Quotation | Subject: Ethics
Petronius
We tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing inefficiency and demoralization.
Content: Quotation | Subject: Reorganization
Leaders Among Leaders
IT has traditionally been a mna’s world, especially in the upper echelons of management. But women who’ve made it to the top ranks of technology managers say there’s never been a better time for women to succeed in IT. Article discusses this issue by profiling 10 prominent women in IT.
Content: Article | Author: Marianne Kolbasuk McGee | Source: InformationWeek | Subjects: People, Women in Business
High Impact Hiring : How to Interview and Select Outstanding Employees
Content: Book | Author: Del J. Still | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
Twenty-One Ideas for Managers: Practical Wisdom for Managing Your Company and Yourself
Content: Book | Author: Charles Handy | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People
This inspirational book challenges the conventional wisdom that companies are engaged in a “war” for talent. Instead, the authors argue the challenge is hiring people you know you want to keep and cultivating their talent. You won’t get vague prescriptions here; O’Reilly and Pfeffer make their case with compelling stories of maverick companies, from Southwest Airlines, AES, and Cisco Systems to Men’s Wearhouse and New … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Charles A. O’Reilly III, Jeffrey Pfeffer | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
Colonel Lyndall Urwick
Only so far as business leaders…can identify themselves with the underlying social impulses of their time can they hope to plan and build great organizations. They must be in accord not only with the interests of their stockholders, the desires of their consumers and the temper of their workers, but also with the deep flowing currents of opinion which are shaping the society of … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: The Capitalist Philosophers by Andrea Gabor | Subject: Organizational Behavior