management
Five Principles of EBM: 1. Face the hard facts, and build a culture in which people are encouraged to tell the truth, even if it is unpleasant 2. Be committed to "fact based" decision making -- which means being committed to getting the best evidence and using it to
management
at the Management Lab's conference on "Inventing the Future of Management": * Tim Brown, IDEO: Creative people aren’t interested in management. * Hal Varian, Google: ‘Statistician’ is the sexy job of the 21st century. * Henry Mitzberg, McGill: We are not living in time of great change. Companies
management
I discuss in class the five ways in which people will react when faced with an ethical dilemma: * Exit * Voice * "Loyalty" * Neglect/Sabotage * Whistle-blowing. The first three I paraphrase from a book by Albert Hirschman. The other two I picked up from research sources, as well as,
management
Ask your employees and customers for suggestions, and reward the best ones. That's what my alma mater did and it obtained over 100 suggestions. And they are leaving the suggestion page open...
leadership
My friend Maureen recently published a short article that discusses: What is a “Level 5” Leader? How many levels are there? How would I measure developmental levels including “Level 5”? How will understanding “Level 5” leadership impact my organization’s success? How can I use this information to become more
management
The winner of several international prizes, The Corporation is a documentary film that is a good discussion tool for business students/professors and -one would hope- professionals. It is based on the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan. Part 1 (with a promotional
management
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
management
What is "management innovation"? How is it different? Think of a company as a set of business processes that turn inputs into outputs. Business processes that turn labour and capital into services and products, for example. It is the business processes that govern the workflow. Things such as
management
our three greatest living academic organizational theorists are, in my opinion, The University of Michigan’s Karl Weick, Stanford’s (now retired) James March, and Jeff Pfeffer. When I say “academic,” I mean scholars who have contributed important theories and published extensively in peer reviewed academic journals. If you look
Ling- English
I describe the MBA in the book as a degree from 1908 with a 1950s strategy. Because the degree was created in 1908 and business schools have had no new degree since 1908 and the strategy was set up based on a couple of reports in the 1950s which made
management
Employees at the online movie retailer often leave for three, four, even five weeks at a time and never clock in or out. Vacation limits and face-time requirements, says Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings, are "a relic of the industrial age." "The worst thing is for
management
[A] survey last year of 400 respondents by the career Web site Experience Inc. found that 25 percent said that their parents were involved in their jobs “to the point that it was either annoying or embarrassing.” (...)“Employers are having a nightmare with this,” says Stephen Seaward, director of career