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- 02 Jun 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Weigh Strategy, Execution, and Culture in an Organization’s Success?
execution." The importance of execution was advanced, for example, by Mercedes Fernandez, who reminded us that "execution makes things happen." Bob Legge said: "An outstanding strategy weakly executed will always be trumped by a View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
resulting void at the center of the business school curriculum eventually caused business educators to take a second look at the discipline of economics. Economics, in the decades prior to World War II, had occupied a relatively weak... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
critical thinkers Patterns of behavior strive to persuade othersdefend your positiondownplay weakness present balanced argumentsremain open to alternativesaccept constructive criticism Minority views discouraged or dismissed cultivated... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
pairs and filled out worksheets about their strengths and weaknesses as salespeople. They then compared notes and talked through how they could improve. In the other, pairs of employees received a financial bonus based on their combined... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
are right. The overall success on global export markets as well as the particular pattern of industries that successfully export provides valuable "revealed" information on underlying competitiveness conditions. Low levels of exports are an indication that... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
value of their intellectual property. Q: How effective are copyright law and patent law, both here and globally, in protecting IP? What are the weaknesses that companies need to think about? A: The range of patent and copyright... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
when big scandals happen, like Enron and WorldCom, the weak link often turns out to be auditors. Managers are mostly truth-tellers but have incentives to embellish and sometimes commit fraud. So we rely on auditors to mitigate that... View Details
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
organization culture as the culprit. He identified a dysfunctional culture as a cause of poor timing, one that magnifies a “confirmation bias that causes companies to stick with obsolete or weak strategies ... far too long.” Subrata... View Details
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
successful. They should pursue situations in which their strengths are really needed, important weaknesses are not a serious drawback, and their core values are consistent with those of the organization; in other words, the stretch should... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 18 Dec 2017
- Op-Ed
Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs
Credit: Pixsooz American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
serve its customers well, are weaknesses when the game changes and new capabilities are necessary. Fleeing from the disruptive attacker feels good in the short term but further deprives the incumbent of the necessary skills to compete.... View Details
- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
experiments. Booking.com conducts thousands of tests every month. Evidence from a test always trumps executive opinion. Even the failures that tests often produce are regarded as opportunities for learning rather than costly mistakes. The only failure is a... View Details
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
of the family business system, we need to understand what capable leaders in family business systems actually do. I've spent much of my professional life figuring this out. I've gotten to know a number of excellent family business leaders in my long career, along with... View Details
- 10 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points
promotion. What she did know was that the economy was weak and she had invested ten years at the company, so she was hoping for the best. When I finished the story, Howard shook his head, kicked a pinecone out of his path, and grumbled,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal
ultimatum game to allow us to study situations just like this one. Together they allowed us to study how the clause influenced outcomes in situations in which the right holder starts off in a powerful position, or a weak one. Q: Where... View Details
- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
boss make a difference? Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman have written about "how to manage around a weakness" not by changing people but by balancing "the strengths and weaknesses of each individual." What have been... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Mar 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO
hesitant. Yet sometimes, this is necessary. But when? You should fire your CEO under two of these three conditions: (1) there is a weak and unfixable fit between the CEO's skills and the needs of the company, (2) the CEO disrespects the... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
unfair to high performers—that it was fairer to lay off the weak links and support the strong ones. “It’s a little surreal to watch a room full of people discuss what you did,” Cote said following the class sessions. Cote explained that... View Details
- 29 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Organizations Create Social Value
management and personnel, they said. What creates superior performance management? Attention to outcomes. Focus on stakeholders. (Surveys, satisfaction. How do funders and community perceive what we do?) Reversing a weak culture of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls