Natalie Mizik and Robert Jacobson wrote an article entitled, The cost of myopic management for the July/August edition of the Harvard Business Review in which they explored the costs paid by the organization (and ultimately investors) when they become too focused on short-term revenue targets and begin inflating their earning by cutting expenditures. During [...]
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Does short-term management pay?
Posted in CEO, CEO Pay, CEO Salary, Executive Pay, Harvard Business Review, Leadership, Management, Natalie Mizik, Robert Jacobson on September 9, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Promise-Based Management
Posted in Charles Spinosa, Corporate Culture, Donald N. Sull, Harvard Business Review, Management, Strategy on April 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Most of the vexing challenges leaders face – improperly executed strategy, lack of organizational agility, disengaged employees, and so on – stem from broken or poorly crafted commitments. Executives can overcome some of their thorniest problems in the short term and foster productive, reliable workforces for the long term by practicing what we call ‘promise-based [...]
Nasty People Drain Productivity in the Workplace
Posted in Corporate Culture, Ethics, HR, Harvard Business Review, Leadership, Nasty People, Productivity, Rant, Robert Sutton, The No Asshole Rule on April 9, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I recently re-read the Robert Sutton article entitled Nasty People. This article, which helped lead the way to his recently published book The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace, discusses the impact that employees who create a hostile work environment have on others and the organization itself. I immediately began to reflect on the [...]
Perfecting product launches
Posted in Business Plans, Corporate Culture, Harvard Business Review, Innovation, Marketing, Product Development, Product Launch, Product Management, Steelchase, Strategy on April 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The April 2007 edition of the Harvard Business Review contained the article “Preparing for the perfect product launch” by James P. Hackett, President and CEO of Steelcase. Hackett does a wonderful job of explaining the troubles that many organizations face when developing and launching new products and services – failing to adequately think out and [...]
Do companies need a second in command?
Posted in CEO, COO, Harvard Business Review, Leadership, Nathan Bennett, Stephen Miles, Strategy, Uncategorized on March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Recently I read an article written by Nathan Bennett and Stephen Miles which was published in the May 2006 issue of Harvard Business Review entitled, “Second in Command” which discusses the relationship between CEOs and COOs. The authors point out that no two COOs have the same job description – not even two that [...]
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