In many organizations, collaborative innovation teams are utilized to manage new product development initiatives. This involves different types of managers (marketing, operations, engineering, etc.) working together to allocate resources to a project. This remains an effective way to spark innovation, but the process can be greatly enhanced by understanding the role that rewards and penalties […]
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The global growth of a company depends on its developing effective leaders. Questions, such as where and how are the most important ‘lessons of leadership’ learned, and what are those lessons, have become more relevant for managers in corporate India in recent years, as it has witnessed massive growth. To investigate these important issues, the […]
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Do managers at all levels routinely – and unwittingly – undermine the meaningfulness of work for their direct subordinates through everyday words and actions? Of all the events that can deeply engage people in their jobs, the single most important is making progress in meaningful work. Yet actions such as dismissing the importance of subordinates’ […]
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Truly democratizing knowledge requires an open organization where employees can deliberate, argue, compete and collaborate horizontally across fields of expertise. One possible solution to this end is the internal knowledge market. An internal knowledge market is a protected environment where users trade their knowledge via price mechanisms. Though such markets have existed in different forms […]
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Charismatic CEOs tend to earn more total compensation than their industry peers with less charisma. Are these more charismatic CEOs are actually worth the money? Let us look at the historical trends that led to the development of this idea; the evolution of investor capitalism, the emergence of the concept of the ‘corporate saviour’,’ and […]
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