Thought Leadership
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Gary Hamel: Leadership Need Not Start at the Top Part 2
Thinker’s 50 hotshot Gary Hamel discusses how managers might have to change their role and behaviour in the modern environment
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Being Jilted Can Make You Yearn More — or So You Think
Baba Shiv believes being rejected increases many people’s motivation to pursue that elusive objective. But there’s a catch, say Stanford researchers. Being rebuffed, in fact, makes people less fond of what it is they think they want more. Once they obtain the desired goal, many are quicker to lose interest in it
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Managing the generation gap
Tammy Erickson is an author and expert on organizations and the changing workforce and, in particular, the generational differences between workers today. She has also done extensive research on how corporations innovate through collaboration
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Keeping Top Talent In A Down Economy
How do managers boost the performance of employees when business is down? That question is the focus of a new book by Sylvia Ann Hewlett. Top Talent explores the wide range of tools and techniques available to employers struggling with both how to motivate and keep the loyalty of workers and managers
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Think strategy. Think big
Bernd Schmitt is Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business at Columbia Business School in New York, where he directs the Centre on Global Brand Leadership.This professor, author and consultant finds customers fascinating; he even coined the term “customer experience”. Schmitt works with forward thinking companies to improve their insights into customer behaviour
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Gary Hamel: Leadership Need Not Start at the Top
Thinker’s 50 hotshot Gary Hamel discusses how managers might have to change their role and behaviour in the modern environment
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Tipping the Balance: Indirect Network Effects and Market Concentration
In markets where the value to consumers of a high-tech product depends on the actual and expected availability of software titles, the winning product can take all
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Half Of the Fish Consumed Globally is Now Raised on Farms
Aquaculture is catching on, and it feeds the world-almost
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Every CEO Puts a New Strategic Frame on the Company
Professor Govindrajan on how GE's Jeff Immelt is trying to add innovaiton discipline to the company's performance discipline
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Building a Better Brand: How Feelings Shape Product Evaluation
A Recent study states animals on wine labels are becoming an increasingly popular and lucrative way to sell wines.
