Business Communication
HBS case on Wikipedia
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United States of America
A clear and present peril
An obsessive deference to such fame, and an all-consuming preoccupation with it, has become the defining mark of American culture. (IHT)
CEO
CEOs and their libraries
Phil Knight, Steve Jobs, Dee Hock, Sidney Harman and what their libraries reveal about who they are... or how they think. Poetry speaks to many C.E.O.’s. “I used to tell my senior staff to get me poets as managers,” says Sidney Harman, founder of Harman Industries, a
Elevator speech
Vator.tv - online elevator pitches
Vator.tv? The name came from "elevator," as in "elevator pitch," which is used to describe a brief overview of an idea for a product, service, or project. It's typically delivered in the time span of an elevator ride. However, since our site is
Odds and Ends
Writing strategy - Harlan Coben
From the author of the Myron Bolitar novels (one of my favorite form of airport/airplane entertainment) I don’t outline. I usually know the ending before I start. I know very little about what happens in between. It’s like driving from New Jersey to California. I may go
Dennis Austin
PowerPoint creators: Tufte is right, but...
Mr. Gaskins [one of the creators of PowerPoint; see below] reminds his questioner that a PowerPoint presentation was never supposed to be the entire proposal, just a quick summary of something longer and better thought out. He cites as an example his original business plan for the program: 53 densely
Business Basics
So what is innovation?
“Innovation is tied to time and place” "Innovation is hard to define, but when we see it, we recognize it." “The vast majority of innovation occurs where opportunity meets preparation." "One recipe for innovation involves blending two different things that come together to create a third
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Unconventional wisdom about management: Jeff Pfeffer
Question: How should people judge a company’s results? Answer: By comparison to its peers and by comparison to what its own aspirations are. Companies, as the balanced scorecard notes, depend on customers, employees, investors, suppliers, and others in the ecosystem. It is wrong to give one of those groups
Movies
Are you lucky or do you make your own luck?
Watch The Pursuit of Happyness before you answer.
management
The missing piece of the innovation puzzle
Management innovation is in many ways the missing piece of the innovation puzzle. Management innovation is often needed to make technological innovation work. It is an important driver of competitive advantage, yet it remains poorly understood and scarcely researched.Of course many of us are familiar with hallmarks of management
Resources
Visual literacy
It is as necessary to effective business communication as computer literacy is to effective business practice. References: The Virtual Literacy website is an e-learning tutorial on visualization for communication, engineering and business. You also want to explore the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) website. Resources: You cannot afford not
Teaching and Learning
Top three reasons to become an educator
June , July and August. ;-) However, Physicians no longer believe that children are too feeble for year-round instruction, and most school buildings now have effective ventilation systems. So why don't we go back to having school in the summertime? For one thing, it's expensive to keep