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An innovative approach to managing product portfolios—the strong-form model—can help companies stay ahead of change.

Content: Article | Authors: Barry Jaruzelski, Ian MacDonald, Richard Holman | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Project Management

How can a company sustain profitable growth?

It’s no easy feat. As a benchmark, consider an annual growth rate in revenue and earnings of 5.5%. Most companies say they expect to attain that level or better— at least that’s what their strategic plans call for. But a Bain & Company study of more than 2,000 companies indicates that only about one in 10 actually … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Chris Zook, James Allen | Source: Bain & Company | Subjects: Best Practices, Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategy

Since expectations of leaders change from country to country, how should multiculturals adjust?

Content: Article | Author: Caroline Rook | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: International, Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Giving feedback is one of the most difficult things a manager has to do. But Carole Robin says “if you do it right, the other person also feels cared for, valued, and closer to you.” Here’s how.

Content: Article | Authors: Carole Robin, Deborah Petersen | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

To U.C. Berkeley’s long-standing strategy thinker, companies gain an edge only when they evolve in ways no one else can match.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, David J. Teece | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Strategy

There’s a fascinating literature called person perception: the study of how people evaluate others. You tend to do this very, very quickly—within minutes of meeting a person, you’ve already sized him or her up. More than 90 percent of the evaluations you make are based on just two dimensions. The first is your perception of people’s competence. Do they seem to know what they’re talking … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Loran Nordgren | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

It’s is easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than it is to think your way into a new way of acting.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Action, Culture, Thought

In our view, leaders would do well to take a more systematic approach to developing their decision-making capabilities. The place to start is… with intellectual integrity. In common usage, the word integrity means honorable or virtuous behavior. For our purposes, though, we draw a distinction between exhibiting honorable behavior (moral integrity) and exhibiting discipline, clarity, and consistency so that all of one’s decisions fit together … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Decision Making, Integrity, Thought

Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ethan S. Bernstein explains why decreasing workplace transparency can increase productivity.

Content: Article | Authors: Carmen Nobel, Ethan S. Bernstein | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Organizational Behavior

While all business leaders seek to create high-performing corporate cultures, few succeed. What do those that succeed have in common? They all understand that the perceptions of the workforce are as significant in shaping behaviors as are the formal mechanisms.

Content: Article | Authors: Ira Gaberman, Marieke Witjes | Source: Kearney | Subject: Organizational Behavior

High power makes you deaf and low power gives you laryngitis.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Allan R. Cohen, David L. Bradford | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Power / Authority

The existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre wrote about the “courage to choose,” and understood that choosing isn’t just an intellectual thing; it takes guts.

Content: Quotation | Author: Cynthia A. Montgomery | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Decision Making

Learning is a four-letter word in most companies; learning means you failed to do what you said you were going to do, which, in turn, means you’re a bad manager.

Content: Quotation | Author: Eric Ries | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Learning, Organizational Behavior

The problem is that in finance, equities never become bonds. They’re separate assets. But successful entrepreneurial products grow up to become established products. Under the old system, the people who launch a product tend to migrate with it. That causes a lot of problems because the skills and at-titudes that make for effective entrepreneurs don’t necessarily make for effective managers of status quo operations.

Content: Quotation | Author: Eric Ries | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Organizational Behavior

It’s very hard to figure out which capabilities are most important, which aspect of “the way things are done around here” is the one that leads to superior performance. Sometimes people in an organization don’t know why their own capability is successful. They attribute their success to the wrong factors.

Content: Quotation | Author: David J. Teece | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Culture, Organizational Behavior

Leaders don’t all walk and talk the same. Staying true to one’s culture is integral to empowered leadership.

Content: Article | Author: Li Huang | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: International, Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Coming to terms with that reality is invaluable for women trying to find fulfillment as both great leaders and great parents.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Sheryl Sandberg | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Women in Business

Maybe you’ve heard the old cliché – if you’ve got “too many chiefs,” your initiative will fail. Every time I hear it, I wonder, “Why can’t everyone be a chief?”

Content: Article | Author: Tim Kastelle | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Even in this age of abundant data and rocket-science analytics, many decisions force people to draw on their accumulated wisdom to make the right call. Sometimes that’s because the absolute right answer can’t be known; the question at hand relates to a future too full of uncertainty. Other times, the optimal solution could be determined based on accessible information, but the urgency of the situation … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Brook Manville, Thomas H. Davenport | Source: Babson Insight | Subject: Decision Making

Art Kleiner introduces a leadership lesson from Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning, 3rd Edition, by Chip R. Bell and Marshall Goldsmith.

Content: Article | Authors: Art Kleiner, Chip R. Bell, Marshall Goldsmith | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development