221 Posts Found

Since writing The End of Economic Man 58 years and 27 books ago, Peter F. Drucker has continued to demonstrate his gift for articulating the emerging issues of the day — and making them meaningful to the here-and-now work of managers. He recently spent several hours talking with Leader to Leader managing editor Paul Cohen about what is changing — and what is not — … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: People, Trends / Analysis

The innovator’s educator looks at why great companies fail and why theory trumps data.

Editor’s Note: I haven’t read his book, but I found his comments in this interview to be very insightful…

Content: Article | Author: Lawrence M. Fisher | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, People

The management scholar put 1,435 good companies through a rigorous performance analysis and discovered only 11 became great. Here’s why.

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

Michael Schrage is co-director of the MIT Media Lab’s e-markets initiative and author of Serious Play. In this interview, he elaborates on his concept of shared space and it’s use in fostering innovation and collaboration.

Content: Article | Author: Marcia Conner | Source: LiNE Zine | Subjects: Innovation, People

Charles Elson, director of the University of Delaware’s Center for Corporate Governance, is much in demand these days. Here, he talks about pay for performance, why a lot of directors won’t be returning next year, and how sniffing out fraud is like looking for ants.

Content: Article | Author: A.J. Vogl | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Corporate Governance, People

John P. Kotter, Harvard Business School professor, award-winning author of more than a dozen books on leadership and management, was recently rated by Business Week as America’s Number One “leadership guru.” In his best-selling book, Leading Change, he demystified the change process by distilling an eight-step process for implementing successful organizational transformations: 1. Increase Urgency, 2. Build the Guiding Team, 3. Get the Vision Right, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: John P. Kotter | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Change Management, People

Sex, death and dominance. One may say that these are the major themes of Oracle founder Larry Ellison’s life. But the headline-grabbing bad-boy image often overshadows a stark reality: the man is a brilliant entrepreneur, who created the world’s second-largest software company. Professor Manfred Kets de Vries and Elizabeth Florent-Treacy pick up the story in this new case.

Content: Case Study | Authors: Elizabeth Florent-Treacy, Manfred Kets de Vries | Source: INSEAD | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, People

“Rather than a single solution to be imposed everywhere, [spiral dynamics] is a modern evolutionary process whereby different concepts of leadership influence emerge. What this produces is a synthesis of all the different approaches to leadership, management, organization design, motivation and communication. None of them is rejected; rather they are aligned on a ‘scaffolding’ or ‘library shelf’. We use the metaphor of a spiral, an … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Don Beck, Sarah Powell | Source: Emerald Now | Subjects: Management, People

Downsizing may not be getting as much media attention as the recent corporate scandals, but Wayne Cascio hasn’t forgotten about it. A management professor at the University of Colorado at Denver, Cascio has been studying the effects of downsizing on both individuals and corporations since 1993. While Cascio is sympathetic to the victims of job cuts, he is just as concerned about the companies. His … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Melissa Master | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Human Resources, People

They have free rein, ready capital and the best boss a CEO could want. They run Berkshire Hathaway companies, and you’ve only begun to envy them.

Content: Article | Author: Russ Banham | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: People

With his potter’s hands, Bill Strickland is reshaping the business of social change. His Pittsburgh-based program offers a national model for education, training – and hope.

Content: Article | Author: Sara Terry | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: People, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Leader to Leader talks to Daniel Goleman about resonant and dissonant leadership and about the 6 leadership styles (visionary, coaching, affiliative, democratic, pacesetter, commanding)

Content: Article | Author: Daniel Goleman | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, People

How card whiz Blair Hull parlayed a $25,000 casino stake into a trading empire worth more than $500 million.

Editor’s Note: though not offering a lot of real value, this is an interesting look at the relationship between the world of gambling and investment banking.

Content: Article | Author: Michael Kaplan | Source: MBA Jungle | Subjects: Industry Specific, People | Industry: Investment Banking

This article examines the feud between two management gurus – Bob Kaplan and Tom Johnson. Together, the two developed and introduced the world to Activity Based Accounting and later the Balanced Scorecard (Kaplan). While Kaplan still is preaching these concepts, Johnson has gone on to argue that the troubles that mainstream companies get into are due to the misuse of measurement. Thus, their … [ Read more ]

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

The sum of operational, executive, and engineering cultures is greater than the corporate whole.

Editor’s Note: offers an interesting summary look at the theories of MIT OD professor Edgar Schein (three cultures) and sociologist Neil Fligstein (evolving historical corporate cultures that match the external environment)

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

In this issue of Spotlight Professor A ‘Parsu’ Parasuraman speaks to editor Sarah Powell about the concept of techno-ready marketing and the implications of techno-readiness for marketers.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Emerald Now | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, People

We locked two of the smartest management thinkers on earth (Jim Collins and Clayton Christensen) in a room with each other (and 275 readers) and asked them this question. Here’s how they answered.

Content: Article | Author: Joshua Macht | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Leadership, People

Content: Book | Authors: Steve Forbes, Ted Goodman | Subjects: Miscellaneous, People

Content: Book | Author: Paul Strathern | Subjects: Economics, People

Content: Book | Author: Robert L. Heilbroner | Subjects: Economics, People