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The evolution of management theory and practice can best be seen in the context of key thinkers who have both recorded and encouraged change. Theories have influenced practice and practice has created its own theories. Focusing on the lives and writings of significant management thinkers reveals the interconnection of theory and practice as well as which factors have influenced the development of management internationally. The … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Malcolm Warner | Subjects: Management, People

Babson College history professor Hoopes traces American business theory’s antidemocratic strain by starting with “management manuals” for slave owners and overseers, seeing plantations as among the nation’s earliest forerunners of the modern corporation. The inference that modern workers are just as commodified as slaves isn’t accidental; one of Hoopes’s theses is that management gurus, by nature idealistic and utopian, are uncomfortable addressing the fundamental discrepancy … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: James Hoopes | Subjects: Management, People

An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America’s most famous and admired women — a book that is, as its title suggests, both personal and history. It is the story of Graham’s parents: the multi-millionaire father who left private business and government service to buy and restore the down-and-out Washington Post; the aggressive, formidable, self-absorbed mother, known in her time for her … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Katharine Graham | Subjects: Industry Specific, People | Industry: Publishing

A small Ozarks manufacturer has a message for big companies: Open-book management can increase productivity and release entrepreneurial spirit.

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, People

CEOcast is a financial news site for investors that specializes in interviews with chief executives of small- to medium-sized public companies. The CEOs are given a chance to describe their businesses and then are questioned about recent financial results. Not exactly hostile interviews, these sessions are nevertheless an interesting chance to hear top execs discuss their industries and how they run the business. What we … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: CEOcast | Subjects: Industry Specific, People | Industry: Investing

Harvard’s Ronald Heifetz offers a short course on the future of leadership.

Content: Article | Author: William C. Taylor | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, People

Two of management’s foremost gurus-Peter Drucker and Peter Senge-discuss when the time is right to walk away from a good thing.

Content: Article | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Management, People

Why have management gurus become the rock stars of business? Because, to put it mildly, business is confusing. And because, to put it simply, they’re as shrewd about their business as they are about yours.

Content: Article | Author: Erick Schonfeld | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Miscellaneous, People

A management classic told by the man who in many ways revolutionized GM and much of modern management.

Content: Book | Author: Alfred P. Sloan | Subjects: Management, People

We hear a lot about “business mentoring” as leaders, but much of what we hear sounds so fuzzy! Still, helping people learn and guiding their growth are critical to leadership development – no “leader” can be really successful without becoming a good business mentor.

Content: Article | Author: A. J. Schuler | Source: ManagerWise | Subjects: Leadership, People

In one of the least widely reported stories I have stumbled upon, Wilber Ross is purchasing the assets of steel operations that have gone bankrupt and is potentially in the position to make a lot of money. How? By purchasing the assets of the firms and leaving the so-called legacy costs (example pension and heath-care costs) out. It is a great example of several important … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Daniel Gross | Source: Slate | Subjects: Finance, People

In customer service, is it more important to be a good sender of information or receiver? For customer service providers, it is just as critical to listen as to speak. Is there an art to being a good listener? Absolutely. Does it come naturally? I think not. In fact there was some interesting research that indicates that we hear half of what is said, listen … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Patti Hathaway | Subject: People

In this issue of Spotlight, Professor John Child speaks to editor Sarah Powell about the challenges of establishing successful joint ventures in China.

Content: Article | Source: Emerald Now | Subjects: International – Asia, People

Marketing sage Regis McKenna on why smart companies are spending through the recession.

Content: Article | Author: Amy Johns | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, People

Nissan, Japan’s third-largest automaker, was stodgy, insular, debt-ridden. It was exhibit A in what was wrong with Japanese corporations. Then it brought in an irrepressible French Lebanese guy named Carlos Ghosn.

Content: Article | Author: Andy Raskin | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Case Related, People | Industry: Automotive

Peter Drucker, in this interview with Context, says to forget the dictum, “know your customer.” The key, he says, is to understand those who aren’t your customers.

Editor’s Note: A year after this interview, Context visited Peter Drucker for a follow-up interview. Read that at:
Content: Article | Author: Peter F. Drucker | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: Management, People

Moments of Truth is Carlzon’s story of how, under his leadership as president and CEO, Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) emerged from deficits to profitability, improved services, and enhanced its market position by becoming a customer-oriented company organized for change. His strategiesa focus on the customer, encouraging risk-taking, delegating more authority to front-line employees, and eliminating vertical levels of hierarchy for a more horizontal organizationbear the … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Jan Carlzon | Subjects: Customer Related, People

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Cesar Labitan, Jr. MD (an MBAE student at Purdue University – Calumet) has assembled a collection of selected passages from the letters of Warren E. Buffett to the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. The idea was borrowed from Professor Lawrence Cunningham’s 1997 book, “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America” but differs from that book in the manner and order the sections are … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Author: Cesar Labitan Jr. | Subjects: Finance, People | Industry: Investing

The first authoritative ranking of business intellectuals offers managers and executives an objective way to evaluate who’s who among purveyors of management advice and new ideas.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Outlook Journal (Accenture) | Subject: People