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Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the world we know. Suresh Sethi describes the fascinating career of Herbert A. Simon, a father of artificial intelligence, renaissance man, and true polymath who made pioneering contributions to fields ranging from economics to psychology and from management to the philosophy of science.

Content: Article | Author: Suresh P. Sethi | Source: Management and Business Review (MBR) | Subject: People

Why have we lost touch with W. Edwards Deming. Through his red bead experiment he showed that we often get a false read on workers because we judge them too narrowly. Deming believed that we can improve worker performance only when we improve the entire system they work within. And he believed that managers wrongly apply incentive pay plans, forced rankings, and all sorts of … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Joshua Macht | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Management, People

Most great figures in American history reveal great contradictions, and Henry Ford is no exception. He championed his workers, offering unprecedented wages, yet crushed their attempts to organize. Virulently anti-Semitic, he never employed fewer than 3,000 Jews. An outspoken pacifist, he made millions producing war materials. He urbanized the modern world, and then tried to drag it back into a romanticized rural past he’d helped … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Vincent Curcio | Subjects: History, People

Today, consumer credit, employee stock options, and citizen investment in the stock market are taken for granted–fundamental facts of American economic life. But few people realize that they were first widely promoted by John Jakob Raskob (1879-1950), the innovative financier and self-made businessman who built the Empire State building, made millions for DuPont and General Motors, and helped shape the contours of modern capitalism.

David Farber’s … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: David Farber | Subjects: History, People

The Motley Fool interviewed Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz in his office at Columbia Business School. In this clip, Stiglitz answers the question, “What is something that is taught in the modern business school that gives a flawed sense of how risk and financial markets work?”

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz | Source: The Motley Fool | Subjects: Economics, People

Warren Buffett sits down with Fortune Magazine’s Pattie Sellers to discuss the changing landscape for women in business.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Warren Buffett | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: People, Women in Business

Management expert Henry Mintzberg has played a major role shaping the world’s concept of managing. According to him, CEO bonuses need to disappear and companies should promote “communityship.”

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Henry Mintzberg | Source: YouTube | Subjects: Management, People

The leadership expert sits down with Inc. editor-at-large Bo Burlingham to talk about what makes great companies tick.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Bo Burlingham, Jim Collins | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Best Practices, Management, People

Fons Trompenaars is one of the world’s leading experts on cross-cultural communication and international management. Together with long-time collaborator Charles Hampden-Turner, Trompenaars developed a model of national cultures based on seven dimensions: universalism vs. particularism; individualism vs. collectivism; neutral vs. emotional; specific vs. diffuse; achievement vs. ascription; sequential vs. synchronic; and internal vs. external control.

The model, developed after extensive research across over 60 cultures and … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Des Dearlove, Fons Trompenaars | Source: Thinkers50 | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, People

Leaders can learn a lot from the late Apple CEO, but not all of it should be emulated.

Content: Article | Author: Jon R. Katzenbach | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, People

Peter Drucker once dubbed Frances Hesselbein “the greatest leader in the country.” In a recent interview with Chief Executive, Hesselbein shared four of the leadership practices that she found most effective during the course of her career.

Editor’s Note: I have been consistently impressed with the writings and thought leadership of Frances Hesselbein. I encourage you to search for her name on this site to find … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Author: Jennifer Pellet | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Management, People

Paul Adams worked in the UX team at Google and was the user research lead for social. He spend a lot of his time doing research with people on how they use social media, sitting down with people, and having them map out their social network, and looking at how they use tools like email, Facebook, Twitter, their phone, and so on. One of the … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Paul Adams | Source: SlideShare | Subjects: Customer Related, Marketing / Sales, Organizational Behavior, People

MIT’s theorist of productivity draws a link between innovation in management practice and ongoing prosperity.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Education, People

When he died, Vanderbilt was probably the richest man in the U.S., with a fortune that represented US$1 out of every $20 in circulation in the country, including cash and demand deposits (to put that in perspective, Bill Gates’s wealth in 2008 represented $1 out of every $138). But Stiles has much more in mind in this weighty tome than simply documenting the rise of … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: T.J. Stiles | Subjects: History, People

Managing author Henry Mintzberg believes that to improve business schools, we must first understand the essence of what managers do.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Henry Mintzberg | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, People

From Built to Last to Good to Great and now to Why the Mighty Fall, Jim Collins has established himself as the leading management thinker of our time. The former Stanford University Business School professor turned mega-selling author and avid rock climber is the driven researcher and thinker whom many leading companies look to for advice on how to grow, how to improve their … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Jim Collins, Stephen Bernhut | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Management, People

A long-standing champion of high-tech innovation foresees a fundamental shift toward more transparent institutions and a more relationship-driven economy.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Esther Dyson | Source: strategy+business | Subject: People

Why the impact of this preeminent, farsighted management writer is still so difficult to gauge.

Content: Article | Author: James O’Toole | Source: strategy+business | Subject: People

The CEO of Silicon Valley-based design firm IDEO contends that elegant, customer-centric design stems from a simple set of thinking practices.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Tim Brown | Source: strategy+business | Subject: People

To help corporations create knowledge more consciously, the author of Managing Flow draws on Western and Eastern philosophic traditions.

Content: Article | Authors: Ikujiro Nonaka, Sally Helgesen | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Knowledge Management, People