Idea posted: May 2013
Institutions: Tuck School of Business
Building on the latest research on leadership, as well as scores of interviews with CEOs and other leaders, Professor of Strategy and Leadership Sydney Finkelstein of Dartmouth’s Tuck School of…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #137Idea posted: May 2013
Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Social media, and particularly ‘direct access technologies’ such as Twitter, Facebook, email alerts, etc., have firmly marked their place in the business world as effective tools with which to engage…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #140Idea posted: May 2013
Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)
Derailment is the term assigned to the phenomenon of once-successful managers whose careers have ‘gone off the track.’ They are no longer effective in their functions or as leaders. They…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #136Idea posted: April 2013
Institutions: Melbourne Business School-Mt Eliza Executive Education University of South Australia
To an extent, all negotiations involve a certain level of deception; participants almost always withhold information as a self-protective strategy. After all, revealing all of your cards may leave you…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #134Idea posted: April 2013
Institutions: London Business School Harvard Business School University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
Here is how most employees’ first day on a new job goes: they are shown how things are done, introduced to the company’s environment and culture, and subtly told what…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #135Idea posted: April 2013
Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business University of Utah David Eccles School of Business
CEOs are often put under the spotlight, with everything from how they spend their time to their leadership style closely scrutinized. But what about managers and supervisors lower down in…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #133Idea posted: April 2013
Institutions: IBM Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
To compete in a globally-integrated economy, it is increasingly clear that organizations need a comprehensive understanding of markets, customers, products, regulations, competitors, suppliers, employees and more. This understanding demands the…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #115Idea posted: April 2013
Institutions: University of Cambridge Judge Business School
The industrial age bought with it bureaucratic principles of work organization. Things we now consider commonplace were considered major innovations, such as employing staff in an official capacity, building hierarchies…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #132Idea posted: April 2013
Institutions: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Idea management programs can be used to increase the proportion of successfully implemented projects based on ideas contributed voluntarily by employees. This research highlights that people who come forward with…
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