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Layoffs Without Broader Strategic Planning = Bad News
Vonage is in serious trouble. First it lost a patent suit to Verizon, and it was ordered to pay up $58 million. Then a district court issued an injunction forcing Vonage to stop signing up new customers. And today the company announced that it would slash an undisclosed amount of...
Tags: Strategic Planning, Layoff, Job, Wharton School, Human Resources, Construction, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Useem, Vonage Holdings Corp., Joseph De Avila
Blog posts 2007-04-12

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"Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win". (Book Review).~(book review)
"Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win" By Michael Useem Leadership is usually about the boss leading and the subordinate following, and perhaps complaining. Michael Useem, a professor of management at the Wharton School, suggests a shift from viewing leadership as...
Tags: leader, Leadership, professor, subordinate, Wharton School
Research articles 2002-05-20
To Learn to Lead, Wharton Students Travel Far from the Classroom.
By Miriam Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 17--Michael Useem has some unusual ways of getting Wharton M.B.A. students to unleash their inner General Pattons. He has put them through Marine officer candidate training at Quantico, led...
Tags: Leadership, Wharton School
Research articles 2002-02-17
Investor Capitalism: How Money Managers Are Changing the Face of Corporate America. (book reviews)
By Michael Useem. New York: BasicBooks. 1996. Pp. vii, 332. $30. Ideally, Thurman Arnold should review this book. In his The Folklore of American Capitalism,(1) Arnold dissected the ideology and rationalizations by which the business community of an earlier day defended its legitimacy...
Tags: activism, activist, board, CalPERS, Capitalism, Council, FINANCE, investor, shareholder, stock
Research articles 1997-05-01
Was GM's Board Negligent?
The Find: When President Obama took the unusual step of ousting GM's CEO Rick Wagoner it raised an immediate question: why hadn't the board forced Wagoner out earlier? The Source: An article on Knowledge@Wharton from The Wharton School. The Takeaway: Usually it's boards not...
Tags: Barack Obama, Board, General Motors Corp., Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2009-03-31
Delegating Upward
Good delegation is an art. It keeps work flowing efficiently and helps employees learn new skills and advance in their professions. Poor delegation reduces motivation and often makes people feel exploited. No delegation at all will lead to bottlenecks and prevents organizational growth.As a rule, delegation moves downward from the...
Tags: job, barrier, BNET Editorial, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Recruitment & Selection, Motivation, Task, Management, Leadership, Delegation, Boss
Articles 2007-10-08
The Ultimate Resource
oeing faced a leadership crisis in December 2003 when Phil Condit, the CEO, stepped down after an ethics scandal involving the company's CFO and a former Pentagon official. These problems surfaced at a time when the airline manufacturer was already under severe competitive pressure from Europe's Airbus. Boeing's non-executive chairman,...
Tags: Boeing Co., Ethics, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Businesses And Industries
ever since two rovers -- Spirit and Opportunity -- began to beam back streams of data from Mars in January, answers have begun to appear to questions that have baffled people for centuries. Sending robots to explore another world might sound like stuff out of Star Trek, but it is...
Tags: Emerging Technologies, Humax Co. Ltd., Leadership, Management, Robots, Team Management
White papers 2003-01-01
10 Books for Leaders
Here's a list on books on leadership put together by CIO Insight. "Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value," by Bill George "Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls," by Noel M. Tichy and Warren G. Bennis "Leading...
Tags: Leader, Books, John Kotter, Leadership, Management, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2008-10-29
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