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LinkedIn: The Business Antidote to Facebook?: Expanding on yesterday's blog on the diminishing ROI for business users of Facebook, Harvard Business Online blogger John Sviokla checks in with a positive look at its main competitor for business users, LinkedIn. His take: LinkedIn delivers tremendous reach to business professionals for a relatively small investment....; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Human Resources, Internet, Finance, Facebook, LinkedIn, John Sviokla, Roi/Tco, Blogging, Strategic Planning, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Management, Managerial Accounting, Strategy; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Do Less Than Your Competitors to Beat Them: I love products made by 37signals and now, thanks to innovation blogger Bill Taylor, I now admire the company as much as what it makes. As Taylor points out in an enlightening Harvard Online post, 37signals lives as a company by the same principles it embraces in...; Tags: Project Management, Blogging, Human Resources, Internet, It service Management, It Operations, Management, Entrepreneurship, Recruitment & Selection, Biotechnology, Tools & Techniques, 37Signals, Sean Silverthorne, Workforce Management; Blog posts 2008-06-05
Who Gets The Ax in a Recession?: Economy-driven layoffs have already begun, more will follow. Will you be one of them? Harvard Business Review editor Diane Coutu believes she has a formula to help you keep your job while others around you are losing theirs. It goes like this: ...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Recruitment & Selection, Team Management, Job, Team, Manager; Blog posts 2008-04-10
Where Can Startups Find Executive Talent?: One pitch entrepreneurs often hear from VCs and other investors is that they will help you find top talent for your organization. This is only partly true. If you want a CEO or CFO, then, yes, your venture funding partners can help recruit top names. But if...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Human Resources, Management, Finance, Financial Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Talent, CEO, Investor, Recruiting, Hiring; Blog posts 2008-03-04
How Local Firms Beat Multinationals: Wal-Mart doesn't always win when it enters a new market. In business, David can beat Goliath, or at least maintain competitive advantage, by understanding weaknesses inherent in big companies and strengths to be derived from playing smart in your own backyard. The subject of...; Tags: Human Resources, Management, Workforce Management, Strategy, Knowledge, Multinational, Talent, Sean Silverthorne; Blog posts 2008-02-28

The CEO's New Rules for Driving Strategic Change: Most of us have lived long enough corporate lives to recognize this scenario. CEO announces sweeping strategy shift for company. Managers and employees buy in enthusiastically -- everyone is on board! And the result is... Nothing. Change doesn't take hold....; Tags: CEO, Sean Silverthorne, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Strategy, Performance Management, Leadership, Paradox; Blog posts 2008-02-28
Does Fear Motivate Employees?: Some bosses lead through empowerment, others through intimidation. When I think of an empowering boss, I think of exemplars such as Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard and "The H-P Way." On the intimidation side, well, let's just say Al Dunlap earned his nickname "Chainsaw". So which...; Tags: Workforce Management, Human Resources, Management, Recruitment & Selection, Leadership, Empowerment, Leader, Hewlett-Packard Co., Job, Sean Silverthorne; Blog posts 2008-01-17
Care and Feeding of Top Performers: As most managers know, mediocre and poor employees take up most of your time. Your great performers -- well it's easy to let them do their thing without much guidance. A boat on a steady heading doesn't need much work at the helm. Or does it? A...; Tags: Human Resources, Team Management, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Star, Management, Sean Silverthorne; Blog posts 2008-01-03
What Management Experts Predict for 2008: The Wise Men and Women of business management are rolling the dice, gazing into crystal balls, and blogging the results. I've summarized 5 predictions made by the stable of authors at Harvard Business. Retiring Boomers. The first Baby Boomers will head into retirement in 2008,...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Gender And Diversity, Strategy, Business Ethics, Globalization, China, Innovation; Blog posts 2007-12-28
Sending the Right Message to Young Talent: Many of us "mature" managers remember being told at the beginning of our work careers that the quickest way to the top was by being "seen and not heard." Seen but not heard does not cut it in today's workplace. Organizations need vital contributions from every employee,...; Tags: Human Resources, Management, Career, Workforce Management, Leadership, Professional Development, Manager, Business Skill, Talent, Sean Silverthorne; Blog posts 2007-12-26
Stop the Meeting Madness! Tools for Simplifying Your Company: Is more than half your time soaked up in company meetings? How many layers of management sit between your CEO and front-line workers? Do you understand how to get a capital expense approved? The answer to these questions and 7 others in a new Harvard Business diagnostic...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, Finance, Financial Accounting, Government, Management, Strategy, Regulations, Organizational Structure, Regulatory Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Productivity, Globalization, Manager, Accountability, Tool, Complexity; Blog posts 2007-12-11
Managing Up, Down, Superstars, Bozos -- and Alphas: Many people learn instinctively the importance of managing up -- that is, keeping your boss in the loop, in your corner, and under control. More difficult and subtle is the art and science of managing peers, subordinates, different generations, geniuses, and jerks. To varying degrees, all have...; Tags: Workforce Management, Management, Career, Human Resources, Leadership, Performance Management, Professional Development, Gender And Diversity, Boss, Professor, Superstar, Sean Silverthorne; Blog posts 2007-11-09
Simplicity isn't Simple: In life, it is usually easier to say no than yes. But in product development the opposite is more likely true -- it's hard to turn down a major customer asking you to add more features to your product. Resist the temptation. Feature creep adds back-end...; Tags: Business Operations, Sean Silverthorne, Research & Development, Benefits, Human Resources, Management, Strategy, Financial Services, Retirement Plans, Product Development, Mutual Funds, Strategic Planning, Taylor, Business Productivity, ING Direct, ING Group, Simplicity; Blog posts 2007-11-08
After Steve: What Apple Needs in its Next Leader: With Steve Jobs' health in the news recently, investors, customers and Apple employees have all started to ask themselves a single question: What happens when Steve leaves? Many tech companies have made successful transitions to next-gen leadership; think Intel, IBM and Microsoft. Others have...; Tags: steve jobs, leader, apple inc., leadership, workforce management, management, human resources, sean silverthorne; Blog posts 2008-08-11
The 'Post American' Economy and How India Can Help: Are we in the US ready to talk about "post American" markets? Are we ready to concede that although we have been the world's leading, almost unilateral, economic power for much of the 20th century, today we stand on the brink of a new world order which the US shares...; Tags: India, Organizational Structure, Workforce Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, Sean Silverthorne; Blog posts 2008-08-20
Avoiding Tainted Love: How Pixar Builds Sustainable Creativity: What do these songs from the pop canon have in common? Come on Eileen She Blinded Me With Science Ice Ice Baby The Macarena Tainted Love Yes, they were all monster hits. But they were also one-hit wonders. Their creators...; Tags: Ed Catmull, Pixar Animation Studios Inc., Fomer, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Leadership, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Sean Silverthorne; Blog posts 2008-08-26
Why Corporate Jobs Ruin Entrepreneurs: Want to start your own company? Don't spend too much time in corporations. Oh, and get it done before you age much into your 40s. That's the advice of Harvard Business School professor and entrepreneurship expert Noam Wasserman, on a recent post on Harvard Business Publishing....; Tags: Job, Human Resources, Entrepreneur, Finance, Entrepreneurship, Management, Sean Silverthorne; Blog posts 2008-09-11