LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

David: When you are not riding in private jets or being picked up from the airport via limo, sorry, Orly and I follow each other on Facebook and thus, she’s got a way cooler book tour than I do. What’s going on there, it’s a term that’s been used for a really long time and you sort of opened the book with a discussion of that.

Human Capital 60

Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. But, celebrating the very best new thinking in management matters for three reasons. Second, management matters. It's a fair question.

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2010

This common organizational behavior ultimately corrupts decision making as senior managers make decisions based on inaccurate information derived from prospects who were not fully candid and salespeople who are not in an objective position to gather and share unbiased information.

Analysis 62

Analysis Benchmarking Newsletter Learning-by-Doing 62

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

The message for managers is clear: this is the way to outcompete your business rivals; these are the traits that will bring you and your company commercial victory. Good management is not like a competitive sport. Good management is not like a competitive sport. Why sports metaphors are damaging.

Sports 8

Sports Management Competitive Advantage Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

In an adjacent office was a colleague who had written something like 12 books and was an internationally recognized scholar in the area of organizational innovation. Compared with my colleague, I had accomplished so little over such a long career; my two measly books were more like an embarrassment, given his output.

Merton 15

Merton Black-Scholes Welch Organizational Behavior 15

Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 22, 2021

In a World of Bad Behavior, A Call for Personal Accountability. When I was a boy of about five, I loved thumbing through my grandmother’s nature books. When my grandmother left the room, I carefully and quietly tore the photo out of the book. I confessed that I knew violating one of her books was wrong.

Morale 139

Morale Advice Open-book Information 139

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

One of the biggest challenges facing management scientists has been the struggle to produce knowledge that is both academically rigorous and applicable to practicing managers. In an Academy of Management Journal editorial, we described two problems that contribute to this challenge. spiderstock/Getty Images.

Metrics 11

Metrics Ethics Incentives Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

Apple has been tremendously successful and now ranks as one of the most valuable companies in technology — and for that matter, in the stock market overall. Even those who accuse him of having a "reality distortion field" manage to find themselves talking about his devices. They only want to develop applications for hot products.

Power 15

Power Software Learning-by-Doing Organizational Behavior 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

When Ferriss wrote his first book, The Four-Hour Workweek , the manuscript was rejected by 25 publishers. But we aren't betting on the book, we are betting on you. We believe you will do anything and everything you can to make the book successful.". He is charming and open and honest about how he has become successful.

Power 14

Power Open-book Organizational Behavior Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

And when you’re half of a dual-career couple, you have both your own stress to manage and your significant other’s stress as well. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing, according to Jennifer Petriglieri, assistant professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD. “It’s been tough.”

Stress 15

Stress How To Advice Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

But at least Obama did manage to make a decision to scale back. With all these psychological tendencies acting on a leader's judgment, it's a wonder anyone ever manages to pull the plug on an effort that is consuming resources but going nowhere. His latest book is Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't.

COO 15

COO Collins PR Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Until he was fired in 2012, six months shy of his 50 th birthday, he’d done everything right — rising through the ranks of the book publishing industry, from editorial assistant to associate editor to senior editor, then into management as an editor-in-chief. So how can we turn self-defeating inaction into sensible action?

Career 8

Career Long-term Planning Learning-by-Doing 8

Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

This delightful book includes 51 four-page chapters. This is a book that deserves a place atop your reading stack. Duncan: In today’s competitive job market, what can employers do to attract and retain people who will help the business—and themselves—thrive? Check out Frank’s new book, The Path to a Meaningful Life.

Morale 116

Morale Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing Ethics 116

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

She seems to have instinctively understood a principle that marketing guru Keith Ferrazzi once articulated to my class at Stanford: Since your own ambition won't, by itself, make you successful, the key is to ensure that some people already in power are in your corner. His latest book is Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't.

Power 11

Power Class Organizational Behavior Media 11

Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 7, 2019

Last year I read more than 100 books. That’s about two books per week, or one every three or four days. In addition to stacks of books, my reading includes articles, news reports, opinion pieces, and various blog posts. Frank has written several books, including Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life.

Advice 81

Advice Learning-by-Doing Blog Morale 81

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Tools are necessary but not sufficient for behavior change. schools, books) is almost never sufficient to create behavior change, no matter how well-intentioned or logical it seems. Any manager who has ever tried to shift organizational behaviors by rolling out a new piece of software knows this well.

Metrics 13

Metrics Education Software Tools 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2011

Jim Collins and others have been writing for years about the business leaders who manage to build engagement and commitment by articulating visions that connect with people on an emotional level. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, where he has taught since 1979.

Power 14

Power Insurance Retail Politics 14

Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 14, 2019

He’s operated in the real world of real work (he was formerly a marketing executive at Ernst & Young) and still consults for many companies in multiple industries. Purdue University) is in organizational behavior, but my orientation is the real world of real work. But there’s not a drop of sanctimony in his material.

Advice 77

Advice Short-term Follow-up Ethics 77

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

But that’s exactly why it would be a mistake to look past organizational behavior and culture at GM: It is utterly inevitable that things will go wrong, according to Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson. The manager’s answer: “I don’t want to be a Chicken Little about this.”

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8