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If agility is chasing opportunities presented to you by a chaotic market, then agility is not a recipe for success. It’s a guarantee of incoherence and volatile performance. But if you stay true to your identity, aware of your unique strengths and where your capabilities add the most value over time, then you won’t just be agile. You’ll be “smart agile.” Yours will be a … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Cesare R. Mainardi | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategy

It pays for a company to keep its word. Research suggests that companies with strong corporate culture have higher long-term returns.

Editor’s Note: I didn’t find the research, at least as portrayed in the article, to be too convincing, but the topic and concept are interesting and worth considering.

Content: Article | Authors: Luigi Zingales, Robin Mordfin | Source: Capital Ideas | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

I don’t think there’s any perfect organizational structure. But we tend, unfortunately, to perceive reorganization as a negative thing. Companies use structures as a means to an end—to coordinate activity, to capture and share information, and to get the right expertise to bear on the right problem. There’s nothing wrong with changing structure.

But there’s a nuance to it. In a fast-moving environment, structures that require … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Rita Gunther McGrath | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Information, Organizational Behavior

Companies need to provide some stability in the midst of change. There has to be a mix. People need to be able to count on their leaders and the values of the firm. They need to have a common understanding of what’s within the strategy and what’s excluded from the strategy. There needs to be clarity about the relationships and the development of people. These … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Rita Gunther McGrath | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Complex global corporations are under unrelenting pressure to create value. But no corporate center can add value without an effective parenting strategy, and no strategy can succeed without an organizational design that translates strategy into operational reality. Learn how to turn your corporate center into a value-creation engine.

Content: Article | Authors: Fabrice Roghé, Matthias Krühler, Sebastian Stange, Ulrich Pidun | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Management, Organizational Behavior

Effective employee recognition boosts performance—but what makes a program effective?

Content: Article | Author: C.J. Prince | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

How does behavioral economics impact our decision making process?

Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Francesca Gino, John Beshears | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Economics, Organizational Behavior

Many executives and HR leaders develop competency models with little to no research on whether they have any connection to outcomes. For example, charisma, time management entrepreneurial spirit, managerial courage, and executive presence are examples of competencies that don’t predict or correlate to levels of employee engagement, profitability, sales, safety, turnover, customer satisfaction, or quality. This white paper summarizes Zenger Folkman’s extensive experience with using … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Joe Folkman | Source: The CLEMMER Group | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Reading others requires going deeper than their intentions and capabilities […] We need to get down to the level of drivers and constraints.Intentions are manifestations of a person’s underlying drivers. When you understand why people have certain intentions—what’s driving them—you can better anticipate what their future intentions will be. The same is true of capabilities. We often ask what a leader is able to do. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Zachary Shore | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Competitive Intelligence, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

I like to say that people come to work for money, but they don’t work hard for money. That’s an overstatement, but you get my point — that managers always want to incentivize everything. I think it’s a cop-out to always focus on money as the key to motivation when we have known for 100 years that it’s not the key once you get beyond … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Compensation, Human Resources, Management, Motivation, Organizational Behavior

Every senior officer I know is faking it about 30% of the time. A significant chunk of the time they’re going to look it up later, and they don’t want to appear ignorant. There is a time you can ask stupid questions, but that’s after you’ve established an aura of intelligence.

Content: Quotation | Author: Stanley Bing | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

If you want to determine beyond a shadow of a doubt whether someone’s going to be a great hire, give them an audition project. […] If you can’t find a mini audition project for a strong candidate, perhaps you’re not structuring work properly for your existing employees either.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior, Work

Bringing people from different backgrounds together to work in teams can help generate new ideas, but creating diversity across teams can unlock even greater innovation.

Content: Article | Author: Vikas Aggarwal | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Why do traditional power structures have such staying power? One reason is that hierarchies still work. Jeffrey Pfeffer writes that “relationships with bosses still matter for people’s job tenure and opportunities, as do networking skills.” He notes that research shows hierarchies also deliver practical and psychological value, in part by fulfilling deep-seated needs for order and security. Another is that individuals who believe in their … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Power / Authority

Ambidexterity—the ability to excel simultaneously in efficiency and innovation—is a rare but increasingly critical capability in today’s complex business environment. There are four distinct approaches to achieving it, and the suitability of each one depends on the diversity and dynamism of the specific company’s environment.

Content: Article | Authors: Filippo Scognamiglio Pasini, James Hollingsworth, Knut Haanæs, Martin Reeves | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategy

The Harvard Business School professor explains how leaders can harness collective genius to achieve innovation success.

Content: Thought Leader | Author: Linda A. Hill | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior

What makes Silicon Valley’s iconic IT companies tick? New research points to the unique culture created and nurtured by these high-tech players—a blend of innovation, entrepreneurship and excitement others want to kindle. But can IT executives ignite this in their own companies?

Content: Article | Authors: Allan E. Alter, Jeanne G. Harris | Source: Accenture | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Organizational Behavior

It’s not easy to help your employees develop even as you take advantage of every business opportunity, but you can make coaching easier on yourself, in part by giving feedback efficiently.

Content: Article | Author: Daisy Wademan Dowling | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Increasingly, companies recognizing the importance of diversity at the top are investing in recruiting and developing talented women. So why aren’t we seeing more women in top roles?

Content: Article | Author: John Kador | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Women in Business

Assessments can say a lot more about us than about the thing that we believe we are describing.

Content: Quotation | Author: Pete Hamill | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior