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- Real World Ethics for Writing Your Resume
- The Find: Practical, expert guidance on how to stay on the right side of the ethical divide when polishing your resume. The Source: Harvard Business Online's Conversation Starter. The Takeaway: When you're applying for that dream "reach" job the temptation is always there to,...
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Time Crunched? Tim Ferris Says 'Psychological Interference' May Be to Blame
- The Find: If you feel perpetually crunched for time, a Wharton School professor suggests the culprit isn't your overstuffed calendar but your leadership skills. The Source: The blog of Tim Ferris, author of "The Four-Hour Workweek" discussing "Total Leadership" by Wharton School professor Dr....
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Why (Again) It Makes Sense to Delegate, Delegate, Delegate
- The Find: Handing your employees more authority and responsibility may improve their ability to make and execute plans; conversely, limiting their ability to make decisions hampers thinking. The Source: New research in the May issue of "Psychological Science" out of Radboud University Nijmegen, VU University Amsterdam, and...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Fostering Innovation Stumps Executives
- The Find: Every executive demands those invaluable intangibles such as innovation and creativity. Yet surprisingly few know to truly nurture them. The Source: Recent surveys by Accenture and the Conference Board. The Takeaway: Saatchi & Saatchi CEO Kevin Roberts sums up how important innovation...
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Soft Drink Companies Tout Water Practices, But Many Remain Skeptical
- The World Economic Forum is set to kick off tomorrow in Davos, Switzerland. Top of the agenda: the looming shortage of fresh water. Pepsi Co's Chairman and CEO, Indra Nooyi, is co-chair of this year's meeting, and both her company and its soft drink rival, Coca Cola, have been out...
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Free Online Resources to Keep Your Skills Sharp
- We've posted a few times about the need for continuing education for managers. Learning a foreign language and keeping your skills sharp can improve judgment, broaden your point of view, and keep you competitive. But managers, we know, are also incredibly busy. If a night class or a weekend...
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Recession Fears? Don't Push the Panic Button
- Back in October BNET's The View from Harvard Business was reminding companies that "if you aren't already doing some scenario planning about what a slowing or uncertain economy means to your bottom line, you are behind the game." Unfortunately, the economic outlook hasn't grown any rosier since then, and most...
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- How Innovation Is Like Golf
- For a game that's so maddeningly difficult, golf inspires real fanaticism in its fans. Among them, apparently, is management guru, Gary Hamel. His post on today's Harvard Business Review Conversation Starters opens with a passionate description of the game's charms and aggravations (if you're a golfer, it's a must-read for...
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- What Makes a Great Leader -- Persistence or Personality?
- Managers are often advised to work on their people skills -- listening, working well with teams, flexibility. But a new study from the UK Institute of Leadership & Management has found just the opposite. Management Issues reports that ILM's research "suggested that, for chief executives, hard-nosed personal virtues such as...
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- Alarm Bells Ring About Succession Planning
- The ongoing subprime mortgage meltdown means the drumbeat of CEOs being pushed out the door at some of the world's largest financial firms is getting faster. The struggles of these companies to find new leadership highlights an issue that's already been getting a lot of attention lately: the crisis in...
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Six Keys to Better Communication and Better Financial Performance
- Our recent post centered on a Harvard Business Review IdeaCast about what skills managers were missing got a lot of attention. Managers, it seems, want to know what's more important--soft communication skills or more hard-hosed traits like perseverance? Global Consulting firm Watson Wyatt weighed in yesterday with its 2007/2008 Communication...
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Show Them The Door: 3 CEOs Who Need to Go
- With the recent departures of Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O'Neal and Citigroup CEO Chuck Price,the question on everyone's mind is who will be the next to go. Today the Motley Fool is telling it straight by offering readers "3 CEOs Who Should Go." First up, Countrywide's Angelo...
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Innovation Networks Explained
- A large part of being a manger is solving problems. No matter how carefully you plan, or how excellent your team, there are always fires to be put out, and issues that no amount of head-scratching can resolve. So what to do? This week, Knowledge@Wharton spoke to Larry Huston, managing...
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Overburdened Managers Losing Sight of the Big Picture
- UK management is overburdened and overstressed according to new research out from the Chartered Management Institute. Is U.S. management doing all that much better? CMI spoke to over 1,000 UK managers and directors and found that while over 80% are highly motivated and "can't wait to get...
- Blog posts 2007-11-02
- The Joys of Being (Occasionally) Wrong
- Most people hate being wrong. It might be an obvious truth, but sometimes it's these commonsense ideas, these truths that seem so self-evident that we accept them without question, which turn out to be holding us back. Seth Godin, author of best-selling marketing books "Small is the...
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- Are You an "Absent Presence"?
- Sometimes an oxymoron can be instructive. When thrash metal band Megadeth penned the lyrics, "Military intelligence, two words combined that can't make sense" everyone got the message. And when Lee Rainie, the Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, warned attendees at last weekend's MIMA summit that...
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- Perfectionists Despair: Digital World "Always in Beta"
- Today we mentioned that Craigslist CEO, Jim Buckmaster, will be answering questions on the always engaging Freakonomics blog. One of the principles of his management philosophy: Put speed over perfection: "Get something out there. Do it, even if it isn't perfect." Buckmaster is...
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- Are Your Customers Consumers or Citizens?
- Last week Consumerist.com conducted a poll of its readers asking whether they thought of themselves first and foremost as consumers or citizens. It wasn't exactly scientific, but nearly 70% of people responded that they thought of themselves as citizens first. Our somewhat schizophrenic nature as American citizen/...
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Oil Reaches Record High: Who's to Blame?
- Faced with the prospect of increased fuel consumption as people attempt to stay warm this winter, OPEC agreed to raise production by 500,000 barrels a day today. The commodity markets reacted with a great big shrug -- the price of crude for October delivery was up $.74 to $78.23 a...
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Who's to Blame for CEO Scandals?
- CEOs do not have the best public image. From the classics Enron and Worldcom, to more recent scandals over executive pay -- Bob Nardelli at Home Depot and Blackstone's Steven Schwarzman come to mind -- to the anonymously posted trash talk about an acquisition target from Whole Foods' John Mackey,...
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
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