1297 Posts found for Source: strategy+business

Paul Leinwand, coauthor, with Cesare Mainardi, of The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy, introduces a guiding maxim for CSR success from Winning Investors Over: Surprising Truths about Honesty, Earnings Guidance, and Other Ways to Boost Your Stock Price, by Baruch Lev.

Content: Article | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

Neuroscience shows why numbers-based HR management is obsolete.

Content: Article | Authors: Beth Jones, David Rock, Josh Davis | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Despite best intentions, many businesses struggle with “commitment drift.”

Content: Article | Author: Elizabeth Doty | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

The Wharton professor says moments when you wipe the slate clean can help you meet your goals.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Katherine L. Milkman, Laura W. Geller | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Eight principles for succeeding in markets prone to ethical and legal risks.

Content: Article | Authors: Edward Clayton, Ian Buchanan | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Ethics, International

Stanford’s Robert Sutton discusses the mind-set and strategies of companies that are most adept at building and spreading high standards.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Robert I. Sutton | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategy

Future leaders will succeed by being entrepreneurial and by rethinking the balance between financial and social goals.

Content: Article | Author: Tim Laseter | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: General, History

Working with startups showed Ernesto Sirolli how anyone can have more impact: Shut up and listen.

Content: Article | Author: Sally Helgesen | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Entrepreneurship

The Stanford professor’s latest research explores the practices that enable companies to scale what they do best.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Paul Michelman, Robert I. Sutton | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Lewis P. Carbone introduces an excerpt on how to eliminate negative cues from The Effortless Experience: Conquering the New Battleground for Customer Loyalty, by Matthew Dixon, Nick Toman, and Rick DeLisi.

Content: Article | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Customer Related

Companies that only have access to “little data” can still use that information to improve their business.

Content: Article | Author: David Meer | Source: strategy+business | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

These time-honored tools and techniques can help companies transform quickly.

Editor’s Note: see the related (updated?) version of this article at Content: Article | Authors: DeAnne Aguirre, Micah Alpern | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Change Management

The leadership scholar explains why measurable, experience-based programs are key to helping executives develop their potential.

Content: Article | Authors: Cynthia McCauley, Edward H. Baker | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

The former entrepreneur analyzes the leadership skills that new companies need for long-term success.

Content: Article | Authors: Derek Lidow, Eric McNulty | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management

The storyline of capitalism—and the technological innovation that simultaneously supports and drives it forward—is almost always one of ever-greater personal freedom and opportunity. With the liberal application of hard work, inventiveness, or entrepreneurial chutzpah, anyone can rise through the ranks of society. The sky is the limit. Or is it? This is the question that Gregory Clark, economics professor at the University of California, Davis, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Theodore Kinni | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Economics

The head of MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence explains how the social intelligence factor is critical for business success.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Thomas Malone | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

When properly harnessed, an organization’s culture can be a true differentiator that no competitor can duplicate. However, as pressures on companies build, leaders often become frustrated with the comparatively slow pace of culture evolution. In the rush to implement new strategies and make performance improvements, the legacy culture—employees’ ingrained ways of doing things—can seem like the greatest barrier to change. Unfortunately, most well-intended efforts to … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Caroline Kronley, Ilona Steffen, Jon R. Katzenbach | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Management, Organizational Behavior

China’s most recognizable brand has plans to overtake Apple and Samsung.

Content: Case Study | Author: William J. Holstein | Source: strategy+business | Subject: International | Industry: Consumer Electronics | Company: Lenovo

The pressure to grow the top line is so intense that most companies pay too much attention to expansion and not enough to building differentiated capabilities. A few companies start from the opposite direction: they figure out what they’re really good at, then develop those capabilities (three to six at most) until they’re best-in-class and interlocking. For them, strategy becomes a matter of aligning what … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Cesare R. Mainardi, Paul Leinwand | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Strategy

A historian’s approach to strategic empathy can help you anticipate your rivals’ next moves.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Theodore Kinni, Zachary Shore | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior