220 Posts Found

The author of Emotional Intelligence says business leaders will need greater interpersonal awareness in an era of corporate transparency.

Content: Article | Authors: Daniel Goleman, Lawrence M. Fisher | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, People

Venture capitalist, consultant and former Apple software “evangelist” Guy Kawasaki talked about “the art of innovation” during a recent visit to the University of Pennsylvania. He offered 10 rules for entrepreneurs and innovators.

Content: Article | Author: Guy Kawasaki | Source: [email protected] | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, People

The legendary advertising innovator David Ogilvy created an enduring organization using culture, integrity, and charm.

Content: Article | Author: Kenneth Roman | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: History, People

The latest from Renehan, author most recently of a much-praised biography of another titan of 19th-century business, Jay Gould, is a thorough look at Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877), who rose from nothing to amass one of the great fortunes in American history (more than $158 billion in 2005 dollars) in the burgeoning steamship and railroad industries. A brilliant, vicious businessman with little education, manners or patience … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Edward J. Renehan Jr. | Subjects: History, People

A conversation with Marc Andreessen, co-founder and chairman of Ning and an investor in several startups including Digg, Plazes, and Twitter. Best known as co-author of Mosaic, and founder of Netscape. He is on the Board of Directors of Facebook and eBay.

Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Charlie Rose, Marc Andreessen | Source: PBS | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, People

Management guru Handy quotes Voltaire, How infinitesimal is the importance of anything I do, but how infinitely important it is that I do it. That combination of modesty and determination underlies this autobiography from title to final page. Born in 1932, raised in Ireland and educated at Oxford, Handy disappointed his family by entering trade for Shell Oil in Asia. Returning to London, he embarked … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Charles Handy | Subject: People

Charlie Rose interviews strategy Guru Michael Porter of Harvard Business School on his PBS show.

Editor’s Note: The Porter interview comes after an interview with Henry Kissinger…

Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Charlie Rose, Michael E. Porter | Source: PBS | Subjects: People, Strategy

You’ve heard of Peter Drucker, Jim Collins, and C.K. Prahalad. Here we introduce the next generation of management experts who are changing the way business gets done.

Content: Article | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: People

The seer of “semiglobalization” argues for appreciating regional distinctions.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Pankaj Ghemawat | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: International, People

In this startlingly frank account of Buffett’s life, Schroeder, a former managing director at Morgan Stanley—and hand picked by Buffett to be his biographer—strips away the mystery that has long cloaked the word’s richest man to reveal a life and fortune erected around lucid and inspired business vision and unimaginable personal complexity. In a book that is dominated by unstinting descriptions of Buffett’s appetites—for profit, … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Alice Schroeder | Subject: People

Sandra Dawson addresses the changing role of women in business over the last 40 years.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Mary C. Meaney, Sandra Dawson | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: People, Women in Business

Harvard Business School professor William A. Sahlman’s article on how to write a great business plan is a Harvard Business Review classic, and has just been reissued in book form. Now a decade old, we asked Sahlman what he would change if he wrote the article today.

Content: Article | Authors: Sean Silverthorne, William A. Sahlman | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, People

Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry’s pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce — and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Malcolm Gladwell | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Market Research, Marketing / Sales, People

The originator of multiple intelligence theory prescribes a code of ethics for business.

Content: Article | Authors: Howard E. Gardner, Lawrence M. Fisher | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Ethics, People

Most companies are operated in ways that downplay the importance of people. They have bureaucratic structures that optimize the value of financial capital, machinery, equipment, and natural resources, at the expense of talent development and the opportunity for people to use their skills. Work processes are designed with simplified, standardized jobs, and individuals are controlled through well-defined hierarchical reporting relationships, highly monitored bud­gets, and close … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Edward E. Lawler III | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, People

Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps says that Joseph Schumpeter was wrong: Entrepreneurship can generate stable growth.

Content: Article | Author: Glenn Hubbard | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Economics, Entrepreneurship, People

A founding father of public-opinion research explains why shareholder value isn’t enough.

Content: Article | Authors: Daniel Yankelovich, Lenny T. Mendonca, Matt Miller | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Management, People, Strategy

Michael Porter published an article in the January 2008 Harvard Business Review updating his famous five forces model. Here is an interview with him (12:57 minutes) on the relevance of the 5 Forces in today’s world.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Michael E. Porter | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subjects: People, Strategy

The biggest individual foreign investor in the United States discusses the pace of reform in Saudi Arabia, his investments, and the future of Islam.

Content: Thought Leader | Author: Kito de Boer | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: People | Industry: Investing

Steve Wozniak, or “Woz” as he is commonly called, is best known for co-founding Apple along with high school friend Steve Jobs. But Wozniak didn’t set out to establish one of the world’s most influential computer companies. His goal early in life was to be an engineer and a lifelong employee of Hewlett Packard — and to have enough spare time to tinker with electronic … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Author: Steve Wozniak | Source: [email protected] | Subject: People