Leadership
10 Questions
By: Time magazine
Don´t miss out on this incredible opportunity to ask your favorite personalities any question on your mind. Diversified celebrity and newsmaking personalities such as Meryl Streep, Daniel Radcliffe, Bill Keller, Robert Kiyosaki amongst others come together in a irresistible conjunction of wise thoughts and great facts.
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How to Grow Your Business When Everything Else Is Shrinking
By: Scott Morgan
Budgets continue to be slashed. Brands are disappearing. Media is getting more fragmented. The only thing getting bigger is our federal deficit. So as a marketer, how do you capitalize on a world that is getting smaller in so many respects?
You could ignore it and keep doing things the same way — [...]
Welch: 'No Such Thing as Work-Life Balance'
by: The Wall Street Journal
Former General Electric Co. Chief Executive Jack Welch has some blunt words for women climbing the corporate ladder: you may have to choose between taking time off to raise children and reaching the corner office.
“There’s no such thing as work-life balance,” Mr. Welch told the Society for Human Resource Management’s [...]
Best Advice I Ever Got; Two Lies; Worst Advice; Stimulus Package for Growth Firms
By Verne Harnish
“…keeping you great”
HEADLINES:
Best Advice I Ever Got — Fortune magazine produced a wonderful series featuring the best advice people like Tiger Woods ever received in their life. For Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, it was to “hire [...]
Charisma? To Her, It’s Overrated
This interview with Wendy Kopp, founder and chief executive of Teach for America, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant.
Q. Tell me about the first time you started hiring and managing people.
A. I was dismal at it. Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was [...]
This Year's Management Off Site: Necessary or Negligent?
by Melissa Raffoni
Cuts, cuts, cuts. Rightsizing, rightsizing, rightsizing. How can a conscientious CEO–one who has asked employees to contain costs, or who has even frozen or reduced their salaries–even consider spending money to take his or her leadership team off to some nice hotel with rich food and cocktails for a management retreat?
Historically, for most [...]
A practical guide to managing innovation
http://knowledge.insead.edu/contents/InnovationManual090323.cfm?vid=199
—- by Robert Goldsmith —-
What does innovation mean? It used to relate mainly to products, and that’s still important. But over the last decade or so, businesses have been putting more and more emphasis on innovating new services and business models as well. In light of this, it’s time companies take another look at [...]
The purpose of a book cover
By Seth Godin
(and I think it works for lots of products)
Is the purpose of the cover to sell books, to accurately describe what’s in the book, or to tee up the reader so the book has maximum impact?
The third.
It’s the third because if the book has maximum impact, then word of mouth is created, and [...]
Finally, A CEO Speaks Up on How to Renew America
by Steve Prokesch
HBR Editors’ Blog
A couple of weeks ago I met with GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt and we were talking about the financial meltdown, the deep recession, and what it would take to fix America. He was outspoken about how business and government had let down the American people and the need for radical change.
That’s [...]