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Manfred Kets de Vries in HBR: 1. The strategist: leadership as a game of chess. These people are good at dealing with developments in the organization’s environment. They provide vision, strategic direction and outside-the-box thinking to create new organizational forms and generate future growth. 2. The change-
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Nancy Adler: Extraordinary leadership is rooted in several capabilities: seeing before others see, understanding before others understand, and acting before others act. A leader’s unique perspective is an important source of creativity and competitive advantage. But the reality is that most of us live such fast-paced, frenzied lives
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I am observing a surge in the management and organizations literature on the life and survival of corporations. I'm keeping a watchful eye on it and will report when relevant. In the meantime, here's a visual refresher on the life and survival of empires. [youtube=https:
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Virtually all of the assumptions built into it about human beings and the world are false:It assumes that people are self-interested. Well, yes and no.It assumes that there is a common scale of value on which everything can be compared. There isn’t.It assumes that we
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Simon Caulkin [website, @nikluac] in The Guardian: So why do so many boards and managers, supported by politicians, systematically do the opposite – run companies as top-down dictatorships, pursue growth by merger, destroy teamwork with runaway incentives, attack employment rights and conditions, outsource customer service, treat their stakeholders as resources
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Roger Martin illustrates the difference between Mintzberg's emergent strategy and deliberate strategy: Every company has a strategy. Whether it 'does strategy' explicitly or not, the choices that it makes on a daily basis result in the company operating on some part of the playing field (i.
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Not yet, says Andrew Hill at FT.com: Unlike intelligent fridges that can buy their own groceries online, large data-driven companies can’t order their own strategic direction. Even if they could, they would need someone sitting in front of a dashboard to decide, on the basis of abundant
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A recent paper from Jeffrey Pfeffer at Stanford and Sanford DeVoe of the University of Toronto argues that promoting an "economic view of time" (that time is scarce and should be thought of in monetary terms) makes us less able to enjoy time off because we always think
Business Communication
The largest maritime empires of the 19th and 20th centuries. Visually, they grow and grow and -inevitably- explode. via Pedro Miguel Cruz .
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The good people at 37signals incorporate change into the work they do and the schedule they follow by taking inspiration from the change in seasons. Call it organic management? CEO Jason Fried [twitter @jasonfried] writes about it at NYTimes.com.
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So I’ve said to them that the analogy that best suits us is, “We’re a team,” and in a team, everybody’s got a role to play. And the team wins when everybody plays their roles to their best ability. The other thing that’s different in a
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Tim Brown: The biggest barrier is needing to know the answer before you get started. This often manifests itself as a desire to have proof that your idea is worthwhile before you actually start the project: “show me the business proof that this is going to be a good idea.