On a TGIF night everything’s OK, so get ready for some light food for thought, and some more “organizational pathologies” … Carmine Coyote c/o Slow Leadership calls for leaders to try something new in management, because Pragmatism is fine for second-rate businesses handling commodity products, but that route will never win long-term market leadership. Visionary […]
Slow Leadership on management fads, interesting read, yet neither them nor I know how to counter this unnerving trend: Have you noticed that management has become a fashion industry, like Hollywood, the media, politics, and marketing? No one has time today for dull, slow, and boring activities like looking for the truth, testing assumptions, or […]
Via Businesspundit I’ve learned of this research finding: “Rotten to the core: How workplace ‘bad apples’ spoil barrels of good employees” by William Felps and Terence Mitchell (professor of management and organization in the Business School and UW psychology) of the University of Washington. Yes, no surprise here, Bob Sutton’s also arguing that a******s can […]
On (business model) innovation in hypercompetitive enviroments … yes, the old rules for managing just don’t cut it … innovative thinking is needed note this gem: while in the past aspiring leaders mostly tried to emulate good managers, today there’s newfound interest in learning from managerial train wrecks read more …
