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Politics: the theory of government, the making of policy, or the power struggles within an organization; Politics definition on BNET »

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Who's Your City: How Creative Class Cities Will Beat the Recession: In this interview with BNET, Richard Florida explains why his latest book “Who’s Your City?” matters to workers during a recession and how a business's location affects not only the talent pool, but also its ability to innovate. ...; Tags: Florida, NorCal, Workforce Management, Outsourcing, Human Resources, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Paul Kaihla, Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life, Richard Florida, Books, Creative Class, City, Knowledge Worker, Urban Communities, Economic Conditions, Recession, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Barack Obama, Politics; Articles 2008-03-20
Bill Robinson: Democratic Advertising: Bill Robinson has launched a production venture that combines user-generated new media with television. Saysme.tv allows users to sponsor political ads for air in their local markets at a competitive cost. Robinson discusses his new venture and the de-localization of advertising and entertainment.; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, advertisement, entertainment, TV; Videos 2008-03-08
Film Director Joe Carnahan: Managing a $17 Million Project: Directing a film is a lot like running a business. You have a budget. You have crew. And then you have the biggest H.R. challenge the world has ever known: celebrity egos. Director Joe Carnahan has worked on the low-budget "Narc," the $17 million "Smokin' Aces" and the $180 million...; Tags: director; Videos 2007-09-26
Video: Playing Positive Office Politics: Does a sudden chill creep up your spine when you hear the words "Office Politics"? Is there a Spy, a Bully, a Gatekeeper, or a Buck-passer dragging you down in your office? It doesn't have to be that way! Business coach, Starla Sireno provides some practical tips for keeping office...; Tags: video, BNET staff, Office Politics, Microsoft Office; Blog posts 2007-07-02
Playing Positive Office Politics: Does a sudden chill creep up your spine when you hear the words “Office Politics”? Is there a Spy, a Bully, a Gatekeeper, or a Buck-passer dragging you down in your office? It doesn’t have to be that way! Business coach, Starla Sireno provides some practical tips for keeping office...; Tags: Microsoft Office, environment; Videos 2007-07-02

Strategic Activism and Nonmarket Strategy: Activist NGOs have increasingly foregone public politics and turned to private politics to change the practices of firms and industries. This paper focuses on private politics, activist strategies, and nonmarket strategies of targets. A formal theory of an encounter between an activist organization and a target is presented to examine...; Tags: University of Pennsylvania, strategy, theory, industry; White papers 2005-08-01
Evaluating Palestinian Reform: This paper shows the Arab world a deferent kind of politics, one that avoids the authoritarian, unaccountable, and highly centralized practices prevailing in the region, but it has failed to build the institutions to give this politics full substance. The logic of the PA?s origins led it to develop in...; Tags: agreement, security; White papers 2005-06-01
Market Lift Sandbagging (Part 2): The first part of this paper explored ways to keep a superior project staff with a focus on inter-team dynamics. This second and final part will focus on external dynamics such as corporate culture, politics and human resource management in matrixed and dotted-lined organizations. One of the biggest underlying reasons...; Tags: Workforce management, talent, HRM, corporate culture, workplace, Human Resources; White papers 2005-04-25
Projects & Politics: Evil Or Just Inevitable?: Sooner or later, all of us must face the inevitable. No matter what we do, where we go or how much we hope otherwise, politics eventually emerge as a force to be reckoned with. Politics are seemingly inevitable, whether it's participating in a volunteer organization, serving on a board of...; Tags: Politics, Fact, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law; White papers 2004-10-27
Politics on the Net: A Three-Way Digital Divide: It's a presidential election year in the US, and the hot topic at dinner tables, on the front pages of newspapers and on television and weblogs is politics. Among the technology set, however, the hot topic is not only politics; it's how to use the efficiencies, communication capabilities and distributed...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, blogging software, Y2K, blog, TV, strategy, software, Web; White papers 2004-07-01
SWOT Team: Internal Politics Can Sink Your Marketing Boat: Internal politics and conflicts can hamper the productivity of an organization on the whole. It may seem far from being true to sift through the politics to get the job done. Individual personalities have individual ways of dealing with political breeding grounds. This article suggests three themes to organize newsletter...; Tags: Marketing research, MarketingProfs, SWOT analysis, newsletter, job, marketing; White papers 2003-09-09
Competing For The Public Through The News Media: Interest groups seek to influence economic activity through public and private politics. Public politics takes place in the arenas of public institutions, whereas private politics takes place outside public institutions often in the arena of public sentiment. Private politics refers to action by interest groups directed at private parties, as...; Tags: Stanford Knowledgebase, activist, incentive, industry; White papers 2003-06-26
Political" Selling 101: Most people who have been selling for even a short period of time understand that some level of corporate politics is present in every organization into which they sell. As sales professionals’ experience and political savvy increases, so does what they observe in their accounts. Winners have developed a set...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, sales, leadership, asset, strategy; Webcasts 2003-05-01
The Politics Of Projects: For better or for worse, office politics is the art of getting things done: It's what makes most organizations run. Without it, most businesses will just grind to a halt as personal agendas don't get fulfilled, interests don't get satisfied and people don't get what they want. If you want...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, project management; White papers 2003-01-13
Simplify the Politics! The First Step of Corporate Renewal: Article renounce that the politics were simplified; in over a hundred different ways they were simplified. It is not really hard to do, this simplifying of politics once we know it can be done, certainly not after you have seen it done. It makes money for the company like nothing...; Tags: ROI/TCO, Refresher Publications, ROI; White papers 2003-01-01
Thinking Locally in Cyber-Politics: 'All politics is local,' Tip O'Neill, the legendary U.S. congressman, used to say. That also applies to the politics of cyberspace. Last month's meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in Shanghai, China, is a case in point.; Tags: Politics; White papers 2002-11-13
Organizational Politics: Architect Competency Elaboration: Organizational politics is essential to the effectiveness of an architect. Architectures have many and diverse stakeholders. Often they are used across organizational boundaries, by other projects, divisions, and even other companies. To gain and maintain the sponsorship of management and the enthusiastic support of other key influencers, one need to...; Tags: Bredemeyer Consulting, vision, network; White papers 2002-10-21

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William Shakespeare: playwright, poet, management guru: several critics suggest that Shakespeare's plays could be taught not just in English Literature classes but also in Business Management lectures and leadership seminars. Shakespeare provides thought-provoking insights into issues related to power, authority, leadership, management of risk, of crisis, of emotion: ubiquitous issues in the contemporary business and management scene: [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WRITTEN over four centuries ago, Shakespeare's plays continue to have a universal appeal for their absorbing stories (of kings, queens and dukes; of battles, rivalries and political turmoil of the time, of love, honour and betrayal), and also for the sensitive, rich, and eloquent use of...; Articles 2008-12-01
Zombie targets: From Zombie Targets Zombies have always been irksome. They creep along in an unholy manner, smell rank and don't have much to say for themselves. So, what can a zombie possibly be good for? How's this for a brilliant idea? Zombies would make perfect targets! They are impervious...; Articles 2008-06-01
Successful deployment: [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When the Soldiers of 1st Squadron, 12th Combined Arms Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, began their deployment, in the city of Baqouba, Iraq, the markets were closed and the leaders of the city, if not corrupt, had no power. Most families were displaced,...; Articles 2008-06-01