93 Posts found for Source: ManagementFirst

‘Social engineering’ is a mechanistic logic that traces its rootstock to Isaac Newton and has been propagated aggressively by twentieth-century microeconomic theory. This worldview holds that businesses and organizational processes are reducible to a kind of physics. Unfortunately, social systems in general, and businesses in particular, are phenomena of organized complexity. There are definite limits to what physics (and its pragmatic cousin, engineering) can accomplish. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Richard T. Pascale | Source: ManagementFirst | Subject: Organizational Behavior

For many organizations, innovation is solely associated with “out of the box” thinking where a structured approach is unheard of. However, as more and more businesses realize that formalizing this process will ensure a steady stream of new ideas, a number of procedures and laws are coming into play. We take a look at one legal document that could help protect your innovative strategic alliances. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Michael P. Mount | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Legal, Strategy

This article takes a look at distinctive characteristics of the high-performing companies, focusing on cultural, people and systems issues.

Content: Article | Authors: Richard L Osborne, Scott S Cowen | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

This article summarizes the research of Bain & Company into successful turnarounds and transformations. They found four action principles:

1. Reward managers for hitting strategic targets not for constructing elaborate change management processes
2. Remove underperforming senior managers
3. Challenge managers to achieve higher performance levels
4. Do it fast and all at once

Content: Article | Sources: Bain & Company, ManagementFirst | Subject: Change Management

This article looks at the typical lack of formalized marketing planning programs and offers some thoughts on developing one, including possible problems.

Editor’s Note: This is a longer article that contains some good information but also a lot of useless rambling. I recommend a basic skim first. I personally found the second half of the article much more valuable than the first.

Content: Article | Author: Lyndon Simkin | Source: ManagementFirst | Subject: Marketing / Sales

An executive team development consultant/coach describes one of his assignments – the challenges faced and the tools used to address them.

Content: Article | Author: Robert A. Goldberg | Source: ManagementFirst | Subject: Organizational Behavior

The wise see knowledge and action as one.

Content: Quotation | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Knowledge, Wisdom

This article discusses the nature and the reality of managerial jobs and how managers spend their time.

The findings of the study suggest that in general, significant improvements in the use of managerial time can be obtained by addressing the following issues at work:
– the management of meetings;
– the management of paper work/desk work activities;
– delegation and supervision;
– … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Titus Oshagbemi | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

This excellent article starts by examining empirically founded communications principles that taken together can constitute a communications strategy and then applies that strategy to the Kurt Lewinian model of change (three stages: unfreezing, changing or moving, and refreezing).

Content: Article | Author: Stuart M. Klein | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Change Management, Management

“My own research shows that the creativity in organizations has much more to do with an appropriate ‘context’ and rather less to do with ‘creativity techniques’. This can be summarised by the 80:20 creativity ‘formula’. This article explores the 80 per cent.”

Content: Article | Author: Peter Cook | Source: ManagementFirst | Subject: Management

When governance has the texture of service it calls for a like response from those governed.

Content: Quotation | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Government, Leadership

The purpose of all rulers is the well being of those they rule.

Content: Quotation | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Leadership, Power / Authority

This study highlights numerous practices that characterize highly innovative organisations. The research seems to indicate that innovation requires companies to excel along two key dimensions, namely:

1. Hard innovation: which is primarily to do with the company putting in place structures for innovation, such as innovation stage-gate methodologies, suggestion schemes, reward schemes, quantitative goals, organisational systems and procedures for interaction, physical infrastructures and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Pervaiz K. Ahmed | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Best Practices, Innovation

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This paper discusses the basic definitions of knowledge and KM followed by KM events, practices, and challenges. It concludes with remarks on the future of KM.

Content: Article | Authors: Babita Gupta, Jay E. Aronson, Lakshmi S. Iyer | Source: ManagementFirst | Subject: Knowledge Management

This case looks at how IBM has modified its selling structure to accomodate various changes in the IT market environment, specifically in the Italian market.

Content: Case Study | Authors: Alessandro Gandolfo, Franco Padelletti | Source: ManagementFirst | Subject: Industry Specific | Industry: Information Technology | Company: IBM

Claus Møller is the author of several books, including: Putting People First, Time Manager – the Key to Personal Effectiveness, Employeeship, A Complaint is a Gift, Be a Double Bagger and, most recently, Heart Work – Emotional Intelligence – Improving Personal and Organizational Effectiveness. Putting People First has sold more than two million copies worldwide. A Complaint is a Gift (co-authored with Janelle Barlow) features … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Source: ManagementFirst | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

Arie de Geus spent 38 years with Royal Dutch/Shell, and is widely credited with originating the concept of the learning organization. Read his comparison of vitality and frequent longevity of what he dubs the ‘living company’ with the more widespread, and generally less successful ‘economic company’ model.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: ManagementFirst | Subject: Management

David Clutterbuck is Chairman of the ITEM Group, a leading communications project management company which he co-founded in 1982. Read what he has to say about the benefits, challenges and spread of mentoring, the development of communications and his forthcoming book “Mentoring for Diversity.”

Content: Thought Leader | Source: ManagementFirst | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training