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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001. For example, at No.2

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Possibility Maximizer: Fresh Milk Newsletter From Contented Cows

Sales Wolf Blog

  This newsletter seeks to achieve the aforementioned benefits of a happy and engaged workplace by providing you with an excellent and actionable talent management article each month that will challenge you to change the way you think about work and the way you manage within your organization. 

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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

Women on Business

As we read year-end and best-of 2010 articles and watch the tribute shows, take a moment to try to add up the cumulative wealth of those being remembered. And given the ballooning size of the US deficit, how much in revenue did our government almost miss out on because Congress forgot to fix the estate tax? billion estate. billion estate.

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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

The town, “Tehachapi, CA,” was familiar—as it was the town my family and I adopted when we were assigned to Edwards AFB in 2011. As a soldier deployed for my ninth time since the events of September 11, 2001 I’ve seen firsthand the amazing impact something as simple as a letter can have on the human spirit.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. By 2001, many charities that were still counting on pledged donations and found themselves left in a lurch (though it was also their fault for not casting other nets for funding and being too dependent upon Enron). All rights reserved.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business Review

In sum, digital strategies and rapid technological obsolescence increases the mortality rates among existing public firms, but does not correspondingly increase the demand for IPOs. Such acquisitions become more lucrative with rising first-mover advantages, pace of technological development, and network externality.

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