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There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. | Rich Gee Group

Rich Gee Group

On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.” – Adam Osborne Get Shareaholic Tagged as: Dean Harris , Free Lunch , Milton Friedman , Ripon College , Working Hard { 1 comment… read it below or add one } Joe Bestul 01.08.11 at 1:03 PM Rich – Great entry. Unported License.

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Carnival of HR: July Edition!

Surviving Leadership

Acacia HR Solutions CEO Sabrina Baker warns against approaching leadership development as a checkbox activity versus a commitment to the growth of their employees. Dorothy Dalton , CEO of 3Plus International, presents a compelling suggestion on how to get more women in leadership …and it involves leave for men.

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Conflict Resolution in the Workplace

Strategy Driven

Even the most functional of teams will sometimes disagree or experience infighting, which can be difficult to manage. Example : Hotel Housekeeping Staff Managers are approaching employees on their lunch break to assign tasks, discuss changes and give directions. Managers are frustrated, angry and sometimes shouting back.

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Yes, You Can Brainstorm Without Groupthink

Harvard Business Review

In articles in both the New York Times and The New Yorker earlier this year, the concept of brainstorming as introduced in the 1940's by Alex Osborn has been attacked as ineffective and linked to the concept of " Groupthink.". In her NYT piece and in an HBR ideacast , Susan Cain points out that the popular view — "Lone geniuses are out.

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. These include administrative or middle management functions, which have historically provided jobs for the middle class. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A.

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Resolving the Paradox of Group Creativity

Harvard Business Review

So when you’re managing a team or working in a group, what can you do to help foster creative thinking? When advertising executive Alex Osborn popularized brainstorming in the 1953 book Applied Imagination, he predicted that it would double the number of ideas that a group of people would generate in response to a problem or challenge.

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“Government Entrepreneur” is Not an Oxymoron

Harvard Business Review

In fact, it’s from Stevenson’s list of pressures that pull managers away from entrepreneurship and towards administration. In Boston, I worked with many amazing public managers and a handful of outstanding public entrepreneurs. Of course, that’s not all bad. We must have more great public administrators.