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6 Counterintuitive Rules for Being a Better Manager — Advice from Lambda School, Quip & Facebook
In this exclusive interview, Molly Graham shares her six rules for how to be a good manager. Some come seemingly out of left field, others are nuanced takes on common pearls of wisdom — but true to what we’ve come to expect whenever we sit down with Graham, all are useful rules of thumb for any startup leader or new manager to lean on. From … [ Read more ]Author: Molly Graham | Source: "First Round Review" | Subject: Management
Resilience in a crisis: An interview with Professor Edward I. Altman
Professor Edward I. Altman of the Stern School of Business, New York University, is a leading expert in credit and debt. He has written or edited two dozen books and more than 160 articles on finance, accounting, and economics. He is also the creator of the Altman Z-Score, developed originally as a means of predicting bankruptcy probabilities. McKinsey researchers successfully used the Z-Score to test … [ Read more ]Author: Molly Graham | Source: "First Round Review" | Subject: Management
How to Fix Your Hiring Process
Peter Cappelli, professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and director of its Center for Human Resources, says managers at companies large and small are doing hiring all wrong. A confluence of changes, from the onslaught of online tools to a rise in recruitment outsourcing, have promised more efficiency but actually made us less effective at finding the best candidates. Cappelli says … [ Read more ]Author: Molly Graham | Source: "First Round Review" | Subject: Management
How to Create Happier Employees
Professor Jochen Menges on the ways companies can develop well-being initiatives that genuinely make people feel better.Author: Molly Graham | Source: "First Round Review" | Subject: Management
Jim Collins: On Leadership In America
Chief Executive magazine interviews Jim Collins. This is the first of five parts.Author: Molly Graham | Source: "First Round Review" | Subject: Management
Most Popular Thought Leader Posts
Aida Alvarez
Former head of the Small Business Administration; former investment banker at Bear Stearns and First BostonSource: "FSB" | Subject: Management | Industry: Government
Jack Welch
CEO of General Electric from 1981 to 2000Source: "[email protected]" | Subject: Management
The Guru's Guru
A lively conversation with Peter Drucker, dean of the deep thinkers.Source: "Business 2.0" | Subject: Management
Michael Porter
The Master of StrategySource: "CIO Magazine" | Subject: Management
Charles Handy
Charles Handy is Europe's best known and most influential management thinker. In an interview with Joel Kurtzman, editor of Strategy & Business, Mr. Handy elaborates on his concept of 'membership community' for the corporate model of the future. 'Corporations are not things, they are the people who run them,' he says. 'In order to hold people inside the corporation, we can't really talk about them … [ Read more ]Source: "strategy+business" | Subject: Management | Industry: Other
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Recommended Books about Notable Business Persons [42 Posts]
- A Brief History of Economic Genius
- Adventures of a Bystander
- Alexander Hamilton
- Andrew Carnegie
- Best Practice: Ideas and Insights from the Worlds Foremost Business Thinkers
- Brand New : How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’ Trust from Wedgwood to Dell
- Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Essential Drucker: In One Volume the Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings
- Everybody Ought to Be Rich: The Life and Times of John J. Raskob
- Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
- False Prophets: The Gurus Who Created Modern Management and Why Their Ideas Are Bad for Business Today
- Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days
- Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built
- Henry Ford
- IEBM Handbook of Management Thinking (IEBMm Handbook Series)
- Jack: Straight from the Gut
- Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
- Lasting Leadership: What You Can Learn from the Top 25 Business People of our Times
- Matsushita Leadership : Lessons from the 20th Century’s Most Remarkable Entrepreneur
- Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace
- Moments of Truth: New Strategies for Today’s Customer-Driven Economy
- My Years With General Motors
- Myself and Other More Important Matters
- Nobodies to Somebodies: How 100 Great Careers Got Their Start
- Personal History
- Peter Drucker : Shaping the Managerial Mind-How the World’s Foremost Management Thinker Crafted the Essentials of Business Su
- Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction
- Radicals & Visionaries: Entrepreneurs Who Revolutionized the 20th Century
- The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- The Five Faces of Genius : Learn to be a Seer, an Observer, an Alchemist, a Fool, and a Sage
- The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,173 Thoughts on the Business of Life
- The Genius of Robert E. Lee
- The Guru Guide : The Best Ideas of the Top Management Thinkers
- The Guru Guide: The Best Ideas of the Top Management Thinkers
- The Hp Way : How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
- The New Alchemists: How Visionary People Make Something out of Nothing
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
- The Soul of a New Machine
- The Ultimate Book of Business Gurus : 110 Thinkers Who Really Made a Difference
- The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus
- The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
- Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change