167 Posts found for Source: Across the Board (ATB)

Large companies are neglecting the development of internal executive candidates since the old paternalistic, career-oriented employment contract was destroyed with the downsizings of the 1990s…Similarly, companies invested less in career and executive development because of the new transience and heightened career mobility…So organizations aren’t doing what they need to do to develop executive talent, yet they decry a shortage. Then they poach from other organizations…that … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Organizational Behavior

Without a doubt, given the unrealistic-and sometimes conflicting-demands of boards of directors, employees, leadership gurus, recruiters, consultants, and the business press, there will forever be a leadership shortage, and it will get worse each year. And each year that passes without increasing rates of profit and share price, higher employee-satisfaction ratings, and all-around omniscience, the leader shortage will most certainly increase. Clearly, the shortage is … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Leadership

With knowledge-worker jobs heading overseas along with manufacturing and service jobs, managers are worried, too–and should be. We asked leading-edge thinkers to envision the next economy and our place in it.

Content: Article | Author: Matthew Budman | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Career, Economics

Great or miserable or in-between, the core group sets the organization’s direction. The organization goes wherever its people perceive that the core group needs and wants to go. The organization becomes whatever its people perceive that the core group needs and wants it to become. If a goal is perceived as irrelevant to the core group, then it will not be reached, no matter how … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Organizational Behavior

No one wants to be the one to challenge the importance of diversity. But a new study shows that we need to look more closely at how much diversity initiatives really contribute.

Content: Article | Author: Melissa Master | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Tedlow is a professor at Harvard Business School who specializes in the history of business.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Management

They used to say that the only thing worshipped in business was money, but these days, religion is making inroads into the corporate world. How did that happen–and what will it mean?

Editor’s Note: this article would have been much more interesting had it taken a look at this “trend” from an international perspective…

Content: Article | Author: Theodore Kinni | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Trends / Analysis

Punishing a problem employee leaves you with . . . a punished problem employee. Is there a better way?

Content: Article | Author: Dick Grote | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

While the focus on stakeholders may be a bottom-up movement, the control in corporations is still exercised top-down: The money’s at the top, the pain at the bottom. CEOs today are making well over 400 times the average worker’s salary. If there was any group in the country looking out for the mid-range executive–which there isn’t–they’d have some wicked things to say about the gap … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Organizational Behavior

It’s a popular cry that there aren’t enough first-rate CEOs to go around. Is this really the case, or are we being brainwashed by agents of the crisis industry.

Content: Article | Author: John Nirenberg | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Leadership

Count a man fortunate to be associated with a big idea. Peter Schwartz is linked with two: scenario planning and the concept of the “long boom.” Scenario planning is the methodology originally developed by thinkers at Royal Dutch/Shell (Schwartz among them) in which various alternative futures are postulated in an attempt to stretch people’s thinking about things to come. The long boom refers to Schwartz’s … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Management

If there’s been unusually high turnover in your company’s ranks, take a look at each employee’s first week on the job. Too many managers let snap judgments made during that time affect a new employee’s whole tenure with the company.

Content: Article | Authors: Jean-François Manzoni, Jean-Louis Barsoux | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior

Ahead of the customer stand at least seven other people you’d better satisfy-or else.

Editor’s Note: a look at the author’s Core Group Theory of Power.

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

One of the greatest myths going is that you’ve got to create a family-friendly company in order to recruit and retain talented employees. Well, you absolutely have to do so, but the myth is thinking that family-friendly policies are going to solve the problem of overwork. I know company after company with generous family-leave policies that enable employees to take sabbaticals and to take time … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior

For companies that can’t guarantee confidentiality, the answer is no.

Content: Article | Authors: George R. Wratney, Patrick J. Gnazzo | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Ethics

Why CEOs Make Lousy Team Players.

Content: Article | Author: Michael Finley | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Leadership, Management

There is a ready bounty of CEO material currently available, but there is an unholy alliance between risk-averse boards and executive recruiters promoting marquee candidates that gives the appearance of a shortage. That very small group can’t possibly perform at the messianic level expected of them, and the list gets shorter and shorter over time as the unrealistic expectations become apparent.

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Miscellaneous

In this day of business-by-phone-tag, the way a person sounds is almost as important as how she looks. Just as some employers took the “looks” issue a bit too far a few years back, other employers are now getting a bit too picky about the way their employees sound.

Content: Article | Author: Diane K. Faulkner | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Human Resources, Legal

What the economy has today is not service – it’s lip service, the thing that delivers what we call little murders, the daily indignities as customers that suffocate us. That’s why the service economy is giving way to what we call the support economy.

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Customer Related

The generals talk about the “new Army,” and how officers and men are encouraged to think independently instead of being conditioned to follow orders. How well is this message being transmitted to the troops, specifically to the younger officers-the Army’s “middle managers”? The following essay, written by two young officers to their peers, speaks to that point, and also has some pertinent things to say … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Nate Allen, Tony Burgess | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Leadership, Management