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Knowledge Transfer - A Generational Challenge For Strategy Execution

Six Disciplines

According to a report from The Conference Board, the global research and business membership organization, most companies do not have a plan to manage and transfer knowledge and even fewer factor cross-generational challenges into business strategy. The key challenge? The solution?

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What Makes Six Disciplines for Excellence A Different Kind Of Business Book

Six Disciplines

“Harpst's book is the first book I’ve read that takes the best education from (Good To Great, E-Myth Manager, others) and combines them into one book. Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). Not so much “read”, as “used.” ” (Ethan Johnson, The Vision Thing).

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

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.

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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

Say that in a roomful of managers, and you get nervous laughter. Societies must constantly strive to ensure that novel ideas in government, business, education, and every other realm are wedded to strong ethical values. Consider " The Balanced Scorecard." "Creative accounting" is really bad. Except when it's good.

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How Women Are Faring at Business Schools Worldwide

Harvard Business Review

But business schools, which serve as talent pools for companies that are working on their own gender balance, seem stuck in yesterday’s statistics. Our Gender Balance Scorecard on Business Schools , the first scorecard we’ve done for B-schools , gives an overview of the top 100 schools (Financial Times ranking, 2015).

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this fall, The New York Post ran a story guaranteed to raise hackles among parents anxious about the quality of their childrens education in the public schools. The problem runs far deeper that the prime facie question of which party should own the right to make decisions relating to a childs education.

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities. Across Africa, many unemployed men have managed small businesses, at least once in their lives.

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