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Content: Book | Authors: Arthur R. Ciancutti, Thomas L. Steding, Ph.D. | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Organizational Behavior

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want or need something … but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen … and then is when we are in bad trouble.

Content: Quotation | Source: Award Newsletter Issue 37 | Subject: Ethics

Greed and excess always end in tears for some–usually the inexperienced and last to join the party.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Finance, Personality / Behavior

Content: Book | Author: Rosabeth Moss Kanter | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Organizational Behavior

When an idea is turned down — it doesn’t matter whether the innovation is in technology, marketing, or management — most people offer one of two reasons: technology or money. Behind these two common explanations are the real reasons why ideas are killed: the four different types of uncertainty:
1. Technological uncertainty
2. Resource uncertainty
3. Market uncertainty
4. Organizational uncertainty

Content: Article | Author: Thomas Stewart | Source: eCompany Now | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior

Twenty-five years after women first started pouring into the labor force–and trying to be more like men in every way, from wearing power suits to picking up golf clubs–new research is showing that men ought to be the ones doing more of the imitating…That’s the essential finding of a growing number of comprehensive management studies conducted by consultants across the country…By and large, the studies … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Rochelle Sharpe | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Trends / Analysis, Women in Business

Now that employees in many dot-com companies have suddenly found their stock options to be substantially “out of the money,” is it time to announce the death of stock options as an integral component of compensation packages? Not so fast, argue Wharton accounting professors Christopher Ittner, Richard Lambert and David Larcker in a new paper that studies whether the performance of new economy firms is … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Our industry is full of unpleasant type-A personalities such as myself…Never stand between me and a place I want to go. Don’t confuse my civility with complacency.

Content: Quotation | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: Personality / Behavior

The Harvard Business School presents Unheard Voices: American Women in the Emerging Industrial and Business Age. This manuscript collection, housed at the Harvard’s Baker Library, was extensively researched and surveyed in May 1999. Along with detailed descriptions of the collection, the site also offers a sample of digitized manuscripts. The collection is divided into four major categories: Women at Work, Women in Business, Women as … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Sources: Baker Library, Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subject: Women in Business

CommerceNet, a nonprofit booster of e-business, won respect throughout Silicon Valley because it was an honest broker. So how did a few of the group’s executives make millions for themselves? This article explains how and also provides an interesting look at an important historical presence in the development of e-commerce.

Content: Article | Author: Dan Goodin | Source: The Standard | Subjects: Ethics, Taxation

I’m a great believer that leadership, in a large part, is moral leadership. And people want to follow moral leadership. They respect it. And they expect it, too.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Ethics, Leadership

The problem is arrogance doesn’t knock on the door and walk in—it sneaks in under the door. You never see it and you never feel it.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

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Generals are expendable just as is any other item in an army.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

In the knowledge society the most probable assumption for organizations – and certainly the assumption on which they have to conduct their affairs – is that they need knowledge workers far more than knowledge workers need them.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Knowledge, Organizational Behavior

When you find a fabulous person, hire him (or her)… then figure out where they fit later.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Content: Book | Authors: James A. Belasco, Ralph C. Stayer | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

You must not retain for one instant any man in a responsible position where you have become doubtful of his ability to do his job. This matter call for more courage than any other thing you will have to do, but I expect you to be perfectly cold-blooded about it.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

“Handsomely-bound strategic plans are a dime a dozen, but successfully implemented ones are rare. Similarly, many managers and executives know what they should do to achieve better employee and firm performance, but seem stymied when it comes to execution and action. Why is there such a big disconnect between many firms’ strategic knowledge and their actions? This book, written by two of Stanford University’s foremost … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior