1297 Posts found for Source: strategy+business

Innovations from call waiting to the remote control to the DVR have given us the ability to break into conversations, change channels, or fast-forward through stories. This challenges our sense of continuity as well as our dependence on linear stories to create meaning

Content: Quotation | Author: Douglas Rushkoff | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Storytelling

The Industrial Age was based on a new relationship with time. Instead of paying people for the things they produced, we began to pay people for their time. The Industrial Age also brought a new kind of time-based money. In order to transact, merchants and companies needed to borrow coin, and then pay it back with interest. In a sense, it is money with a … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Douglas Rushkoff | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Economics, History, Money, Time Management

Surprises can be frustrating, but they often come with big opportunities.

Content: Article | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Project Management

Thinking outside the box is a complete myth. It is based on flawed research from the 1970s. Subsequent research shows that simply telling people to think outside the box does not improve their creative output. It sends people on cognitive wild goose chases.

Thinking inside the box constrains the brain’s options and regulates how it produces ideas. By constraining and channeling our brains, we make them … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Drew Boyd, Jacob Goldenberg | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Creativity, Innovation

Judith E. Glaser, author of Creating WE: Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy Thriving Organization, introduces a passage illuminating the drivers of success from Leadership and the Art of Struggle: How Great Leaders Grow through Challenge and Adversity, by Steven Snyder.

Content: Article | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Economic growth over the past 250 years is best understood as the product of a “three-player game.” In this game, the market economy and the state compete to direct the allocation of resources to new technologies—to canals and waterpower in one century, to steam and electricity in the next, and to computers after that. Financial capitalism, the third player, which includes bankers of every sort, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: David Warsh, William H. Janeway | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Economics, Finance

Michael J. Mauboussin offers this rough-and-ready test for discerning the difference between skill and luck in any given event: Ask yourself if you can lose on purpose. If you can, skill is involved; if you can’t, it’s pure luck. For a more mathematical assessment, figure out the correlation between a supposed cause and its effect. If the correlation is high, the cause is likely related … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: David K. Hurst, Michael J. Mauboussin | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Luck, Skills

When leaders substitute visions, missions, purposes, plans, or goals for the real work of strategy, they send their firms adrift.

Content: Article | Author: Ken Favaro | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Strategy

Launching a product shouldn’t be like having a gauntlet to run, but rather having a series of people holding water for the person running the marathon, getting behind them, coaching them, and participating with them.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management

James A. Ogilvy, author of Creating Better Futures: Scenario Planning as a Tool for a Better Tomorrow, introduces a passage on the limits of executive compensation from Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business, by John Mackey and Raj Sisodia.

Content: Article | Authors: John Mackey, Rajendra Sisodia | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Human Resources

Why the best innovation strategies are rooted in the art of subtraction.

Content: Article | Author: Matthew E. May | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Innovation

Not just a rundown of the top book choices by strategy+business, but a good look at the topic in general and the issues discussed in particular.

Content: Article | Author: James O’Toole | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Economics

To eminent systems therapist David Kantor, learning to recognize the hidden patterns in conversation is the first step toward more effective executive leadership.

Editor’s Note: see a related video by David Kantor, which describes how leaders can uncover hidden patterns in conversation in order to more effectively inspire their teams, and shape group conversations.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: David Kantor | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Even as the world’s population reaches 7 billion, the rate of growth is slowing and workforces are aging. Companies and countries can prosper by preparing for the changes to come.

Content: Article | Authors: Chadi N. Moujaes, Mazen Ramsay Najjar, Richard Shediac | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Demographics, Economics

Four steps to implementing a shared-services model to capture scale and develop advanced capabilities.

Content: Article | Authors: Edward C. Landry, Namit Kapoor, Thomas Ripsam | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Marketing / Sales

Analysis of informal networks offers a potent leadership model for the C-suite: Make top teams the hub of the enterprise, and watch performance improve.

Content: Article | Authors: Jon R. Katzenbach, Rob Cross | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Organizational Behavior

If you’re focused on the job that has to be done, you’ll be more likely to catch the next technology that does it better. If you frame your business by product or technology, you won’t see the next disruptor when it comes along.

Content: Quotation | Author: Clayton M. Christensen | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Competition, Innovation

A good theory is really a fundamental statement of causality, and it ought to be as applicable to a business unit as it is to a nation, or vice versa.

Content: Quotation | Author: Clayton M. Christensen | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Business Rules, Thought

I’ve met two types of leaders. The first is like Tom West, the leader of the computer-building team at Data General in The Soul of a New Machine. West says in the book that success is like pinball. If you win with one project, you get to play again. I think a lot of senior executives are just that kind of person: They like to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Clayton M. Christensen | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Data is heavy. It wants to go down, not up, in an organization. In other words, most employees, just by the nature of their responsibilities, don’t want to provide data to their bosses. When there’s a problem, they want to solve it and tell the people above them that they solved it. Information about problems thus sinks to the bottom, out of the eyesight and … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Clayton M. Christensen | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Decision Making, Information, Knowledge, Management, Organizational Behavior