Business Communication
Julie Roehm got a call from her boss's assistant at 12:15 p.m. on Dec. 4. J. John Fleming, then chief of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s marketing department, wanted a word with his senior vice-president. Walking to Fleming's office at the Bentonville
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says GK Chesterton, Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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[from a blog that I am closing] Why is persuasion so difficult, and what can you do to set people on fire? A master storyteller believes that executives can engage listeners on a whole new level if they toss their PowerPoint slides and learn to tell good stories instead. In
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Movie 2006 directed by Frank Coraci. Theme: Be grateful for what you have rather than yearn for what you don’t. Cinematic language: A blend of “Family Man” and “It’s a Wonderful Life”. Possible take-away for managers: After years of slaving to “make it to the top”, meaningful
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Do you think your high-paid managers really know best? A Dutch sociology professor has doubts. The professor, Chris Snijders of the Eindhoven University of Technology, has been studying the routine decisions that managers make and is convinced that computer models, by and large, can do it better. "As
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[missing paragraph is copied below] Mintzberg argues that the best kind of leader doesn't try to effect much change. Rather, she functions like a queen bee, which "does nothing but make babies and exude a chemical that keeps everything together." It is the other bees that
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My friends at Hermann International are announcing the launch of their new website. I took the Certification training with Ann Hermann a few years ago and it helped me bring down to earth a lot of the literature on learning preferences and brain dominance. Peter Drucker is the author that
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Fortune magazine made him "manager of the century" in 1999 but it is now finding that CEOs are no longer following his rules. A leading indicator of the demise of Testosterone Inc.? Interesting debate here. Below, the new rules and excerpts of the article: “He talked about being