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Evidence-Based Management
The Idea in Brief Managers have tough jobs: Under intense pressure to make decisions with incomplete information, even the best among us make mistakes. The good news? Evidence abounds to help us make the right choices....
Tags: Managing, Sales, Productivity, Sales Strategy, Manager, Evidence, DaVita Inc., Patient, Leading, Data, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton, Harvard Business Review, In Brief
Articles 2007-12-14
The Weird Rules of Creativity
The Idea in Brief Hire people you don't like, then promote them when they defy you. Wholeheartedly commit to risky projects. Get your happiest workers arguing. And keep your innovators away from customers. Recipes for disaster?...
Tags: Management, Robert I. Sutton, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Sutton, Idea, Team, Hiring, Harvard Business Review, In Brief
Articles 2007-12-13
When the Going Gets Tough, Get Weird
I recently posted a snide set of remarks on a hotselling iPhone application called iFart, which got me dunned for being juvenile myself. So, in an effort to redeem myself, I post this interview, in which Etan Horowitz of the Orlando Sentinel interviews Joel Comm, developer of...
Tags: Idea, Robert I. Sutton, Team Management, Handhelds, Management, Hardware, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2009-02-05

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Award-Winning Business Author Dr. Robert Sutton to Host LinkedIn Q and A Today
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- LinkedIn Corporation, the world's largest online professional network, announced award-winning author Robert I. Sutton, PhD will host a Q and A session with the company's 14 million member network today.
Tags: LinkedIn, Robert
Research articles 2007-09-13
A Mini-Management Library
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...
Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Management, Michael Fitzgerald, Strategy, Tools & Techniques
Blog posts 2008-04-28
Westvaco names leadership team for new packaging resources group.(Packaging Roundup)(MeadWestvaco Corp. appoints Robert Feeser, Sutton Baldwin and Jeff Jensen to lead a new team)
MeadWestvaco Corp., Stamford, Conn., has put into place a new leadership team for its Packaging Resources Group under Robert Feeser, president. The formation of the new Packaging Resources Group is a key aspect in the company's plan to strengthen i MeadWestvaco Corp., Stamford, Conn.,...
Tags: leadership, team
Research articles 2006-03-01
The Why, What, and How of Management Innovation
The Idea in Brief Breakthroughs in your company's management processes--such as creation of intellectual property, brand building, talent development--deliver potent competitive advantages. By perfecting the industrial research laboratory, for example, General Electric won more patents than...
Tags: Strategy, Leadership, Innovation, Belief, Toyota Motor Corp., Management Innovation, Management Innovator, Management, Gary Hamel, Harvard Business Review, In Brief
Articles 2008-04-01
What Is Forced Ranking?
Forced ranking is a controversial workforce management tool that uses intense yearly evaluations to identify a company's best and worst performing employees. Why It Matters Now Although most large organizations refuse to publicly discuss or even confirm whether they're using some form of forced ranking, as many as...
Tags: BNET Briefing, Employee, General Electric Co., Worker, Dick Grote, Jack Welch, Forced Ranking, Performance Management, Human Resources, Forced Distribution, Management, Jennifer Alsever, Termination, Workplace, Performance, Workforce Management
Articles 2007-03-20
Need to Motivate Employees? Hit These Five Books
As if it weren't tough enough to focus the shell-shocked employees still remaining on your staff, spring is coming. To the rescue is Edward Lawler, University of Southern California management professor and author of "Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage." Lawler recommended five books for improving productivity...
Tags: Employee, Books, Workforce Management, Strategy, Leadership, Human Resources, Management, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2009-03-27
London's Leonardo The Life and Work of Robert Hooke.('A More Beautiful City': Robert Hooke and the Rebuilding of London After the Great Fire)(Book Review)
London's Leonardo The Life and Work of Robert Hooke Jim Bennett Michael Cooper, Michael Hunter and Lisa Jardine Oxford University Press 224pp 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 19 852579 6 'A More Beautiful City' Robert Hooke and the Rebuilding of London after...
Tags: advertisement, Cooper, London, Newton, Robert
Research articles 2004-06-01
Why green can be wash
It is about time someone as important as Mr. Lstiburek stood up to this farce of "green" and made it clear what it is really about. I am one of the old guys who remembers projects in 1975. We were all about saving energy then, and it is...
Tags: ASHRAE
Research articles 2009-04-01
Turning knowledge into action: innovation expert Robert Sutton reveals the mind-set and strategies needed to go from theory to practice. . - Cover Story - book review
How do smart companies turn knowledge into action -- and what stops them? Over the years, I've met countless executives, managers, and engineers who were smart and hardworking, but who were unable to turn their ideas about improving performance into organizational action. Again and again, it appeared that while many...
Tags: innovation, knowledge, Leadership, Strategy, theory, Toyota Motor Corp.
Research articles 2002-08-01
Hypercom Corporation Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of George Sutton - Craig-Hallum Capital. Analyst for George Sutton - Craig-Hallum Capital This is DJ calling for George Sutton. Could you give an update on your wireless program? Norman Stout Hi, DJ. We would be happy...
Tags: Brazil, Call Transcript, Earnings, Hypercom Corp., Manufacturing, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-03-10
The "No Asshole Rule" from Stanford
There's a ton of literature out there on the topic of business leadership, but Robert Sutton is in a field of his own. The Professor at Stanford University's Management Science and Engineering department has written a volume of influential work on topics ranging from data-driven decisioning to his latest...
Tags: Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Andrew Hines, Blogging, Leadership, Stanford, Professor
Blog posts 2007-06-01
Hackett Group, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Our first question comes from George Sutton – Craig-Hallum Capital. George Sutton – Craig-Hallum Capital Rob, I wanted to specifically ask you with respect to 2009, I know you don’t give guidance but as we look out through the full year, is there...
Tags: Stall, Cash Flow, Europe, Call Transcript, Decision-making, Earnings, Hackett Group Inc., Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Personal Finance, Management, Finance, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-02-24
How Much EQ Does Steve Jobs Really Have? (Part 1)
What kicked off this blog was a excellent article by Fiona Smith in the Australian Financial Review (16 November 2009): The downside of being nice. The thrust of the article was that while every management book in recent years has stressed the importance of workplace harmony,...
Tags: Steve Jobs, Fiona, Corporate Governance, Emotional Intelligence, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Tools & Techniques, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Chris Golis
Blog posts 2009-11-22
Cbeyond, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Robert Dezego – Suntrust Robinson Humphrey. Robert Dezego – Suntrust Robinson Humphrey I just had two quick questions for you, the first is can you talk a little bit and I know you talked a lot about...
Tags: Cbeyond Inc., Call Transcript, Customer, Earnings, Stimulus, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-02-26
Hypercom Corporation Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Earnings Call ExcerptHypercom Corporation HYC Q1 2008 Earnings Call May 06, 2008 4:30 pm ET Executives Norman Stout - Executive Chairman of the Board Philippe Tartavull - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director Robert Vreeland - Interim Chief Financial Officer Scott Tsujita - Senior Vice President of Finance, Treasury...
Tags: Hypercom Corp.
Earnings calls 2008-05-27
Avoid the Perils of Employee Inbreeding
Avoid the Perils of Employee InbreedingNo Free Thinkers AllowedI agree with you, Monger. Very few organizations really walk their talk. And even fewer are willing to tolerate "misfits" or "free thinkers", regardless of how good their ideas may be.Weird Ideas That WorkRight on Target! There's a wonderful book about this...
Tags: Employee Inbreeding, Perils
Discussion threads 2008-05-27
When Will We Ever Learn? A Postscript
Last November Jeffery Pfeffer was in Sydney at the invitation of Australian Institute of Management presenting on his current topic, Evidence Based Management for Business based on his latest book Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management jointly written with Robert Sutton. I attended the...
Tags: Reason, PostScript, Evidence-Based Management, November Jeffery Pfeffer, Emotional Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Management, Chris Golis
Blog posts 2009-03-29
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