Considering only 25 percent of employees are truly engaged by their work -- and if you believe 80 percent of the work is done by 20 percent of people -- that leaves a lot of employees either going through the motions or otherwise underachieving. Managers are no exception. ...
Speakers at next week's "Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future" conference, part of Harvard Business School's 100th anniversary celebration, will ask some thought-provoking questions about management's role in innovation. One question about the Internet's impact on collaboration stands out: Are management processes so out of sync with networked processes that they'll...
Do you know the average life expectancy of corporations in general? A new study shows many business leaders don't; managers in young organizations shoot too low, and managers in older ones shoot too high. It's actually less than 50 years. And according to the research, the older an organization, the higher the...