Jim Clemmer
Far more people act themselves into a new way of thinking than think themselves into a new way of acting.
Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, People
The Top 25 Managers of the Year (2001)
BusinessWeek takes a look at the top (and fallen) managers and entrepreneurs for 2001 (and those to watch in 2002). Some include:
Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
Howard Schultz
Fujio Mitarai
Oprah Winfrey
Robert A. Eckert
Richard S. Fuld Jr.
Daniel Vasella
John Browne
Kent Kresa
Carole Black
Barry Lam
L. Dennis Kozlowski
Jeffrey L. Bewkes
Charles Lee and Ivan Seidenberg
Jeffrey C. Barbakow
Maurice R. … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: People
All Shook Up
Why does an entrepreneur reshuffle his entire management team at the peak of his company’s success?
Content: Article | Authors: George Gendron, Michael Bloomberg | Source: Inc.com | Subjects: Best Practices, People
Jack: Straight from the Gut
Content: Book | Authors: Jack Welch, John A. Byrne | Subject: People
The Business 2.0 Guru Guide
Learn about the business of being a business guru. Plus, browse through our gallery of guru trading cards.
Editor’s Note: Find the second annual collection at
Content: Article | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Management, People
The Welch Legacy: Creative Destruction
“Corporations are built on the assumption of continuity; hence their focus is on operations. Capital markets are built on the assumption of discontinuity; their focus is on creation and destruction. This is the central contradiction of the life of a corporation: It cannot succeed without excellent operations, but it will fail if it focuses primarily on operations. Corporations are afflicted with the survivor’s curse: Most … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Richard Foster | Source: Wall Street Journal | Subjects: Management, People
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
Content: Book | Authors: David Diamond, Linus Torvalds | Subject: People | Industry: Software
Open to Women?
It was another promise of the new economy: We’d finally move from the old-time rules of the old boys’ network to a workplace based on merit, performance, and skill — a workplace that would be more open to women. Forget about breaking the glass ceiling, the logic went, the new economy would break out of the whole box. That was the promise. Just how well … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: People, Women in Business
Essential Drucker: In One Volume the Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings
Ever since his first book was published some six decades ago, Peter Drucker has been essential to everyone serious about the “management of an enterprise (and) the self-management of the individual, whether executive or professional, within an enterprise and altogether in our society of managed organizations.” This distinguished 30-year Claremont University professor has continuously identified critical principles in management, economics, politics, and the world in … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Peter F. Drucker | Subjects: Management, People
Roger Cass, The Last Optimist
Roger Cass is the man who invented the idea of the Long Boom — the notion that we’re only 7 years into a 27-year expansion, the likes of which the world has never seen before. The future, Cass says, is already written. All we need is the confidence to accept it.
Content: Article | Author: Harriet Rubin | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Economics, People
The Guru Guide: The Best Ideas of the Top Management Thinkers
Content: Book | Authors: Jimmie T. Boyett, Joseph H. Boyett | Subjects: Management, People
Big Bets, Fast Failures
Fast Company speaks with David Nadler, who has advised the CEOs of some of the biggest and best-known companies in the world through the consulting company he started, Delta Consulting Group. Topics discussed include:
At 70 MPH, Failure Comes Faster
Beware: Balance Sheets Can Kill
Ask Yourself: How Elastic Is My Enterprise?
Understand What It Really Is That You Do … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Keith H. Hammonds | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Management, People
Whither Germany? Whither Europe? An Interview with Prof. Norbert Walter
This piece is a little dated (1996) but it discusses some general issues regarding the German economy and culture that will be of interest to those with little background. Norbert Walter is (was?) Chief Economist with Deutsche Bank Group.
Content: Article | Author: Joel Kurtzman | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: International – Europe, People
Profile of H. J. Heinz
Brand New : How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’ Trust from Wedgwood to Dell
Content: Book | Author: Nancy Koehn | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, People
Andrew Carnegie
Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Management, People
Radicals & Visionaries: Entrepreneurs Who Revolutionized the 20th Century
Content: Book | Author: Thaddeus Wawro | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, People
Spotlight on Paul Quintas and Knowledge Management
Paul Quintas is Professor of Knowledge Management at the Open University Business School (OUBS) and founding Director of the Management of Knowledge and Innovation Research Unit. In this Spotlight, Professor Quintas talks to editor Sarah Powell about the concept of knowledge management and its development, and his role and research in the field.
Content: Article | Authors: Paul Quintas, Sarah Powell | Source: Emerald Now | Subjects: Knowledge Management, People
The Genius of Robert E. Lee
Content: Book | Author: Al Kaltman | Subjects: Leadership, People