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Why Do CEOs (Still) Love Ayn Rand?
Even a major free-market economic crisis hasn't broken the love affair between business execs and their favorite free-market philosopher.
Tags: Ingersoll-Rand, Alan Greenspan, Objectivist, Kent, Entrepreneurship, Internet, Sales Strategy, Management, Sales, Ayn Rand, Capitalism, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Objectivism, BNET Briefing, Kim Girard
How to Find Your Next CEO
It's never been easy for a company's board to plan for the departure of a chief executive. Thanks to the pressures of our present ...
Tags: Board, Plan, CEO, Candidate, Minow, Lawless, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Succession Planning, BNET Crash Course, Board of Directors, Jennifer Alsever
Tomorrow's Global Giants? Not the Usual Suspects
In the largest emerging markets, established multinationals and local players are battling for dominance. Conventional wisdom says MNCs rule in high-end, knowledge-intensive businesses; local ...
Tags: China, India, Value Chain, Hong Kong, Telecom MNC Nokia, Li & Fung, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Channel Management, Government, Supply Chain, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Business Operations, Management, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Pankaj Ghemawat, Thomas Hout, Pankaj Ghemawat, Thomas Hout
Creativity and the Role of the Leader
In today's innovation-driven economy, understanding how to generate great ideas is an urgent managerial priority. And that calls for major doses of creativity. But ...
Tags: Idea, Leader, Creativity, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Teresa M. Amabile, Mukti Khaire, Teresa M. Amabile, Mukti Khaire
Shaping Strategy in a World of Constant Disruption
Hammered by relentless technological change, many companies take a reactive stance: They focus solely on keeping up, protecting their existing markets, and improving their ...
Tags: Network, Industry, Strategy, Management, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, Lang Davison, John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, Lang Davison
How to Become an Authentic Speaker
You rehearsed your speech thoroughly--and mastered that all-important body language. But when you delivered the talk, you sensed little enthusiasm in your audience.What's going ...
Tags: Body Language, Speech, Speaker, Audience, Authenticity, Morgan, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Nick Morgan
How Not to Lose the Top Job
Your CEO said, "You're the heir," so your succession to the C-suite seems assured. Don't start ordering office furniture just yet: Many "future CEOs" ...
Tags: Job, Board, CEO, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Marshall Goldsmith
The Last Act of a Great CEO
You've just won promotion to an executive role. To succeed, you'll need to get up to speed quickly. What better source of wisdom than ...
Tags: Predecessor, CEO, Team Management, Strategy, Management, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Thomas J. Friel, Robert S. Duboff, Thomas J. Friel, Robert S. Duboff
Picking the Right Transition Strategy
Are you moving into a new leadership position? If you don't correctly diagnose the situation you'll be facing in that role, you risk overrelying ...
Tags: Coach, Realignment, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Michael D. Watkins
The Quick Wins Paradox
New leaders know they must prove themselves right out of the gate. But in pursuing quick wins, they often fall into traps that undermine ...
Tags: Team, Leader, CEO, Leadership, Team Management, Management, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Mark E. Van Buren, Todd Safferstone, Mark E. Van Buren, Todd Safferstone
The Best of BNET 2008
In case you missed these, here's a roundup of some of the year's most popular features, blog posts, and videos.
Tags: Blog, Blogging, Sales Strategy, Corporate Communications, Internet, Sales, Marketing, Best of BNET, 2008, Year-End, BNET Video, BNET Feature Package, Podcast, BNET Staff
When Teams Can't Decide
When cross-functional teams have trouble making decisions, leaders blame psychological factors like mistrust or poor communication. But the problem isn't the team's people; it's ...
Tags: Team, Leadership, Team Management, Management, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Bob Frisch
The Case for Making Bigger Cars
I just watched the webcast of Paul Krugman's Nobel Prize lecture (slides here). In it, he laid out his theories of economic geography, which ...
Tags: Car, Detroit, The Auto Industry, Felix Salmon
Centered leadership: How talented women thrive
A new approach to leadership can help women become more self-confident and effective business leaders.
Tags: McKinsey & Co., Women, Gender And Diversity, Leadership, Human Resources, Management, Joanna Barsh, Susie Cranston, and Rebecca A. Craske, McKinsey & Co., Women, Gender And Diversity, Leadership, Human Resources, Management, McKinsey, Joanna Barsh, Susie Cranston, and Rebecca A. Craske
Linking employee benefits to talent management
Most companies treat benefits as a cost of doing business. They should see them instead as a competitive weapon.
Tags: Talent, Employee, Employee Benefit, Health Care, Talent Management, Benefits, Human Resources, Talent, Employee, Employee Benefit, Health Care, Talent Management, Benefits, Human Resources, McKinsey
Size Matters in Executive Pay, Too
The biggest companies give their C.E.O.'s the biggest pay raises. In a new C.E.O. survey by the Corporate Library, the median increase in total ...
Tags: Compensation, S&P; 500, Survey, Smallcap C.E.O., Benefits, Marketing Research, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Marketing, Finance, Mark Stein, Compensation, S&P; 500, Survey, Smallcap C.E.O., Benefits, Marketing Research, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Marketing, Finance, Mark Stein, Management
Is the Office Bully Back?
Volatile economic times bring out workplace volatility, too. If stress has your employees behaving badly, here's how to take back the office.
Tags: Workplace Bullying, Harassment, Team Management, BNET Feature Package
How to Handle a Workplace Bully
Half of U.S. employees have been bullied at work. Here's how to stop bad behavior before it costs your company big.
Tags: Workplace, Employee, Behavior, Workplace Violence, Person, Recruitment & Selection, Harassment, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Gender And Diversity, Jennifer Alsever, Workplace Bullying, Crash Course
Workplace Bullying: A Management Primer
Workplace Bullying: A Management Primer
Tags: Workplace, Employee, Health Care, Health Cost, Robert Rice, Hirschfeld, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Adam L. Penenberg, Adam L. Penenberg, Bully, Bullying, Bob Sutton, Gary Namie, Workplace Violence, Harrassment
Homerun Hiring
In his bestselling book Moneyball, Michael Lewis showed how concepts like risk management and statistical analysis could be used to successfully pick ballplayersso successfully ...
Tags: Talent, Superstar, Team, Baseball, Jonathan Story, Workforce Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Management, Talent, Superstar, Team, Baseball, Jonathan Story, Workforce Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Management, Hiring

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