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ron ashkenas

Simplicity-Minded Management: The Idea in Brief Big companies have always been complex. But to cope with new challenges such as globalization, they've increased their complexity--with proliferating products, tangled reporting relationships, and duplicated processes. They've become unwieldy, ungovernable, and...; Tags: Management, Simplicity, In Brief, Harvard Business Review, Ron Ashkenas, Finance, Business Operations, Human Resources, Marketing, Complexity, ConAgra, Branding, Financial Accounting, Organizational Structure, Operational Planning; Articles 2008-01-02

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
The GE Work-Out - Bookshelf: Books in Brief - Book Review: By Dave Ulrich, Steve Kerr and Ron Ashkenas McGraw Hill, 2002 326 pages; Tags: Books, General Electric Co.; Research articles 2002-10-01
How to Multitask Better: A couple of week's ago we posted on a study out of Stanford that found multitasking basically makes you bad at everything. But with teams leaner than ever and the pace of communication and business increasing steadily, plodding along doing just one thing at a time doesn't really seem like...; Tags: Team, Volume, HBR Conversation Starter, E-mail, Team Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Online Communications, Management, Investment, Finance, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Jessica Stillman; Blog posts 2009-09-11