the capacity to establish direction and to influence and align others toward a common goal, motivating and committing them to action and making them responsible...
Much of success in business comes from listening to your customers, and the same is true for those of us writing for a management audience. Your insights shape the conversation, inspiring us all to question what defines strong leadership, what motivates employees to go the extra mile, and what propels...
GE has a rich history as an innovation leader. Managers have come up with a huge list of reasons why GE is synonymous with innovation, including diversity of businesses, constant growth and investment in R&D, commitment to eco-friendly technologies, and a global presence with a wide range of products. Imagination Breakthrough Leader Shahira Raineri outlines...
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...
Gary Hamel and Lowell Bryan offer similar perspectives on the future role of management in their respective books, "The Future of Management" and "Mobilizing Minds" (co-authored by Claudia Joyce). Each calls for organizational change so managers an direct employees with the same innovative energy that is devoted to product development -- minimizing complexity and harnessing every...
Since we just posted a blog on innovation management and the organizational changes digitalization and globalization require, it seems appropriate to link to a series of myths about change management. Viral Change TM first listed 15 myths, and has been responding to each myth, one by one, in a series of posts dating...
Microsoft's Office Communication Server 2007 -- the heart of the company's Unified Communication Strategy -- was launched this week. Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft Business Division, initially described the offerings as a "software-focused approach to bring together disparate communications technologies into a unified experience -- driving down the cost and...
Bad deals happen to good people. Perhaps your company responded to industry changes with a good-on-paper strategy that failed to be transformational. Maybe some of the big guns made decisions based on high-up relationships but failed to foster the integration of corporate cultures. Or maybe conducting due diligence became more about...
DaimlerChrysler AG may soon be just Daimler AG, signaling a separation from the company's pre-Cerberus days -- before the private equity firm bought the U.S. Chrysler division for $6 billion -- and its future as a company not dependent on "the volatile North American market." In the wake of so many failed mergers, analysts are wondering why companies keep...
Big Pharma's playing nice; at least five of the big players are collaborating with competitors, sharing intellectual property, splitting costs, and sharing proceeds of future drugs. Considering the challenges facing the industry at present -- competition from generic drugmakers, tough FDA regulations, and high costs associated with bringing a drug to market...
According to Business Week, "good enough" products are actually good for business because "a marketplace that's not hung up on fail-safe standards is open to risk and innovation, and drives down prices." But if the past is any indication, complacency can destroy a company. For example, IBM was so smug about dominating...
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