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Bubbles and career risk: The dangers of left-brained bank bosses
As the global financial system fights desperately for survival, few people are more justified in saying "I told you so" than Jeremy Grantham, a Cassandra of the investment community since long before Nouriel Roubini became Doctor Doom.
Source: Economist
Date: Saturday October 25, 2008
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MBAs in the crunch
A collection of Audio interviews from the October 2008 MBA Fair - including John Hailey of Cass Business School on the growing recognition within NGOs that they need management skills.
Source: Economist
Date: Saturday October 25, 2008
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Financier of Hip-Hope
Can Russell Simmons promote entrepreneurship as well as he sells music, fashion and finance?
"That's real hood," says Russell "Rush" Simmons, with evident disapproval. He has just screened his company's latest advertisement on his laptop and...
Source: Economist
Date: Saturday October 18, 2008
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Management Guru: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
One of the few women in recent years to have achieved genuine guru status, Rosabeth Moss Kanter (born 1943) hit the management headlines in 1977 with her first book, "Men and Women of the Corporation", which won an award as the best book of the year.
Source: Economist
Date: Sunday October 26, 2008
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Crisis gives women a shot at top corporate jobs
Do we really need a crisis to bring suitable women into focus for senior appointments? The "glass cliff theory" comes to mind - women given senior appointments only in sink-or-swim situations. No doubt all new chief executives are facing an icy precipice.
Source: Financial Times
Date: Saturday October 18, 2008
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Women in Leadership: The 20% Rule
Look around your workplace, and calculate the percentage of women. Now look at top management. How many of those corner offices are occupied by women? For the vast majority of U.S. workplaces, the answer is, 20% or less, even though women make up 48%.
Source: Business Week
Date: Saturday October 11, 2008
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The specialty generalist
Mr Wijers's path to the top of the European chemical industry has been far from straight. His unusual background, plus some lucky timing, have helped him get there.
Source: Economist
Date: Saturday October 11, 2008
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First, do no harm
Already the managers of many of the world's leading financial firms have been found wanting. Now, as the world's economy slows, attention will turn to managers of non-financial firms, to see if they are any better prepared for the rainy days ahead.
Source: Economst
Date: Saturday October 11, 2008
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Before They Float Away: Keeping Women in Management
With all the talk this election season of women smashing the ultimate glass ceiling, women in corporate America still have a long way to go.
Source: Wall St Journal
Date: Thursday October 2, 2008
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Corporate Guru: Gary Hamel
Gary Hamel (born 1954) started his working life as a hospital administrator before taking a PhD and becoming an academic, sharing his time between London and Chicago.
Source: Economist
Date: Thursday October 2, 2008
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Virgin rebirth
Two books give very different views of Sir Richard Branson, Britain's best-known businessman.
Source: Economist
Date: Thursday October 2, 2008
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Management Idea: Core Competence
The idea of core competence was introduced into management literature in 1990 by C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel. The two business academics wrote:
Core competencies are the collective learning in the organisation...
Source: Economist
Date: Friday September 26, 2008
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Sympathy for the boss
"It's lonely at the top. But at least there is something to read" observed a tongue-in-cheek billboard advert for The Economist in 1990. Little did we know how lonely. Strip away the huge salary and the executive jet, and you find much solitary misery.
Source: Economist
Date: Thursday September 25, 2008
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Little Leadership: It's the Smallest Things That Make the Biggest Difference
Samuel was ready to pull his hair out. Transferred from corporate to a struggling out-of-state plant, he had done everything he knew to establish trust and build credibility but nothing had seemed to work.
Source: Exchange Magazine
Date: Thursday September 25, 2008
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Feedback: A CEO's Secret Weapon
Sometimes we may wonder how the CEO manages to juggle his myriad priorities and indeed, himself. In between seminars, newspaper interviews and TV sound bites he also needs to put in the necessary effort to lead his organisation to results.
Source: Sify.com
Date: Monday September 8, 2008
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Leadership little to do with rank
I have always thought the best leaders were those with vision, with ideas for making better places of the world, the country, the community, and who inspired others to follow. They have the courage and conviction to forge public opinion and much more.
Source: Murray Valley Standard
Date: Monday September 8, 2008
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Corporate Guru: Pierre Wack
Pierre Wack (1922-1997) was an unconventional French oil executive who developed the use of scenario planning (see article) at Royal Dutch Shell's London headquarters in the 1970s.
Source: Economist
Date: Monday September 8, 2008
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Corporate Leadership Idea: Skunkworks
A skunkworks is a place (or sometimes the people who work in that place) designed to encourage the employees of large organisations to come up with original ideas. It usually consists of a small team taken out of their normal working environment.
Source: The Economist
Date: Wednesday August 27, 2008
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Everything I Know About Leadership I Learned from Bad Bosses
Great news! You know that boss you hate, the one who doesn't seem to know a thing about leading people? Guess what: you can learn everything you need to know about leadership if you pay close attention. Notice everything they do, and then do the opposite.
Source: Examiner.com
Date: Wednesday August 27, 2008
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The Defining Qualities Of Effective Leadership
Leadership qualities are qualities that characterize effective leadership. What are these qualities? Let me lay it out clearly. For starters, effective leaders are...
1. Humble
2. Decisive
3. Selfless and self sacrificing
Source: American Chronicle
Date: Monday August 18, 2008
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