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...
One of the most interesting emerging ideas in business today is tapping into user communities for innovative ideas. Open source software offers a prime example of this sort of citizen innovation (a phrase I may be stealing from someone, but if so, it's inadvertent). Software isn't the only...
Are we not yet completely bored by top 10 lists of the things you need to be to succeed? Here's a great example, from Peterson's, a college-oriented site that has built a scholarship program around a top 10 list of things to do to succeed. Here's part of the...
ChangeThis has posted John Spence's essay Achieving Business Excellence . In it, Spence argues that there are six things all excellent businesses have in common I have summed and in some cases paraphrased: 1. Vivid vision, well articulated. 2. The best people, who...
I spent part of my day at an old-line manufacturing firm that is in an industry facing disruption by new technology. Rather than reacting to its fear of this technology by entering into despair or denial, it has become a leader in applying the new technology. The CEO...
Newspapers aren't famous for their knowledge of management. But Jill Geisler, the management guru at the Poynter Institute, a news industry think tank and training ground, has put together a not-bad list of management books. For improving as a manager: "Understanding and Changing...
To boost your organization, fire all the managers. That's one aspect of Ralph Sink's views on management. He's interviewed by strategy+business titled Business Success from the Bottom Up registration required. Sink is a proponent of high-performance systems, which the magazine describes thusly: ...
How can you tell if you're a great leader? Simple, says Jack Hayhow, CEO of a training firm and author of a whimsically named book, "Wisdom of the Flying Pig." 1. Amazingly Engaged Employees 2. Evangelical Customers 3. Consistently Solid Financials...
In "Creating a World Without Poverty," Muhammad Yunus has written a dangerous book. Not so much for his goal – that's merely outlandish, since most people expect the poor will always be. Besides, Yunus knows how to make audacious ideas real – he created Grameen Bank to bring financial...
The amusingly named Hillbilly PhD blog has a post on the five qualities of leadership: Don't let circumstances control your behavior Be persistent Assess yourself honestly and thoroughly Learn from failure Follow your purpose. This is my condensation of his...
Feeling shock, schadenfreude or maybe a little smirky over Eliot Spitzer's resignation? Good. Now look in the mirror. Lots of leaders are prone to the same issues that probably caused Spitzer to misstep, says Michael Stallard, a management consultant and author (here's Big Think's review of his...
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco By Bryan Burrough and John Helyar Widely considered one of the best business books ever written. Potentially sobering for Mr. Ballmer, given how poorly this worked out. It's especially appropriate because it was an example...
The book Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls, by Noel M. Tichy and Warren G. Bennis was published in November 2007 and garnered a fair amount of attention, given that Tichy and Bennis are well-known management thinkers. Business Week ran an excerpt from the book, they wrote a...
There's a clever look at leadership in the winter issue of Strategy + Business. It's posted as Shall I compare thee to an Andy Grove? The piece asserts that business and political leaders hit their heights when they create effective characters to present to people. It then...
In early December, I posted on Tony Judt's stinging essay on the future of capitalism in the New York Review of Books, which used Robert Reich's Supercapitalism as a jumping-off point (see Tony Judt: Innovation Ain't Always Progress). Reich has responded in the latest issue of NYRB. He calls for...
Software pioneer Dan Bricklin uses U.S. maritime strategy and The Little Prince as guideposts to creating long-term trust. The post, Trust and cooperation cannot be surged, highlights some of the essential and seemingly simple steps leaders need to take to build relationships, especially with other organizations. It also includes some...
In the first two parts of his "Future of Management," Gary Hamel has been a witty, engaging visionary, beguiling and impressing managers into thinking they must change (indeed, I find myself randomly rethinking my own approaches to problematic issues here at Fitzgerald Enterprises). In part three, the...
The second segment of Gary Hamel's "The Future Of Management" features case studies of three companies with unusual management structures: Whole Foods, W.L. Gore and Google. All of them have been written about heavily in the business press over the years, and so some of Hamel's work may seem familiar...
It's almost pompous to title a book "The Future Of" anything. The future usually flummoxes forecasters of all stripes, though they may get pieces of things right. In fact, an executive I was interviewing once told me he saved time by not reading anything that aimed to predict...
While reading up on the psychology of religion this summer, I ran across a theologian who has reframed the way I think about business leadership: Jurgen Moltmann. Moltmann wrote broadly about hope, and in a sense every business, and especially every new business, is a testament to...
Bank of Georgetown, a community bankchartered in Washington, D.C., has hired Tyisha Cottman to lead its newdowntown D.C. branch as vice president and branch manager. "We are excited to have Tyisha join our leadership team as we prepare toopen our new downtown D.C. branch at Connecticut and L," said Bank...
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