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We begin with the argument that the organizational whole is, in fact, precisely the sum of its parts. "Moving a company forward takes more than a well-formulated strategy and good implementation processes: ultimately it comes down to how well each individual executive gets things done,"…
Indulge us as we ask you to imagine you were reading the following excerpt from a Fortune editorial a little while ago… "When the campaign orators start warming up next summer, they will ask the voter to believe that the difference between a Republican administration and a Democratic…
When you give employees the freedom to find their own way and make their own decisions, you’re saying that you trust them and believe in their competence, aren’t you? So it stands to reason that the greater the freedom the greater the levels of engagement and job satisfaction. Except that it…
When you give employees the freedom to find their own way and make their own decisions, you’re saying that you trust them and believe in their competence, aren’t you? So it stands to reason that the greater the freedom the greater the levels of engagement and job satisfaction. Except that it…
Most corporate compliance and ethics programs comprise less than five hours of employee training per year, notes Abbott Martin in a Corporate Executive Board blog. While some might find that number disturbing, hours spent on training may well be a red herring. The key to effective compliance,…
When companies lack a clear stance on when and how to take risks, managers often don’t take enough of them, routinely making safe investment choices over ones with higher potential. As an anecdote, McKinsey Quarterly offers a starter kit of sorts for developing an organizational point of view on…
For all the mantras, encouragement, and even training companies provide in the name of improving customer service, the wrong performance metrics will undermine good intentions every time. "Rate employees along metrics of time or cost, and they will respond in kind, even if cutting cost makes…
Knowledge@Wharton casts a questioning eye at the hype surrounding bossless offices. On the one hand, says Wharton professor Adam Cobb, hierarchy-free environments are "a very democratic way of thinking about work…Everyone takes part in the decisions." More so, "the people doing the…
"High-performing companies recognize that leadership is about more than just steering the business. It’s about nurturing, energizing, and challenging the people who help make it run — and who keep it competitive," write Rainer Strack and four co-authors of the exhaustive Boston…
At first blush, it sounds like something straight out of the mind of Scott Adams, but John McCallum’s guide to management one-liners in the Ivey Business Journal has its sincere merits. McCallum mines the cannon of executive aphorisms from the likes of Stephen Covey and Warren Buffett —…
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