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- 03 Jan 2008
- What Do You Think?
Does Judgment Trump Experience?
Summing Up How is good judgment developed? Whether judgment trumps experience quickly gave way in this month's rich exchange of views to other questions about how (and the extent to which) judgment is developed. Most of those addressing the question agreed with the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Oct 2009
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?
concludes that "These are terribly important questions with no easy answers." Bill George, former Chairman and CEO of Medtronic and now a professor at the Harvard Business School, thinks he knows the answers. George lays out the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
Summing Up The depth of the global financial crisis is becoming clearer day by day. In the United States, it is being used as a reason to set aside ideology regarding government ownership of important financial institutions, possibly including those that also... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
Summing Up To remain sane and relevant, must we smell the flowers as well as the ozone? This month's question of how much obsolescence business and society (and by implication, we as managers) can absorb brought out both the poets and the engineers among respondents.... View Details
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
Summing Up Will management innovation be "pushed" or "pulled"? Competitive organizations in the future will be managed differently. This will require new roles for managers. But according to respondents to this month's column, just how this will... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
Summing Up Low-skilled immigrants: burden or opportunity? Immigration is apparently a topic that stirs passions globally, judging from the responses to this month's column. As Nauman Lodhi pointed out, "Tough times give rise more than ever to tough thoughts... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Mar 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?
Summing Up This month's exchange of ideas regarding U.S. healthcare reform ranged far and wide. Some of us were interested primarily in the issue of cost escalation and how to contain it. Others addressed issues of quality. For still others, it was a matter of... View Details
- 04 Nov 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Do We Chase Stars?
Summing Up Three themes appear to characterize many of the responses to this month's column: (1) leadership talent is portable, (2) the reasons that we chase stars are traceable to human nature, and (3) women have qualities that explain why they have greater success in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
Summing Up The variety of responses stimulated by this month's column may help explain why our public institutions are so often perceived as responding slowly to natural or man-made "meltdowns." First, as Ravindra Edirisooriya suggests, we had better have a... View Details
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
Summing Up The Dodd-Frank legislation provision requiring the publication of the ratio of CEO compensation to that of the average compensation level of all employees in public companies will have little or no impact on CEO compensation levels. That's the conclusion of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
leaders of our largest financial institutions worldwide struggling to justify decisions that have placed their organizations in jeopardy. I was reminded, too, of the CEO of a well-known retail organization who, I believe, would be regarded by View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
Summing Up Customer inputs to the product development process count, but in different ways and at different times, according to many responding to this month's column. As Alexander Gat put it, competing and pioneering products "should take significantly different PD... View Details
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
Summing Up Why do managers choose to pursue profit so directly? The word "profit" in this month's column provoked a wide range of issues and emotions among respondents. It set off several debates. They ranged from definitions of "acceptable" profit... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Feb 2007
- What Do You Think?
Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?
Summing Up The central debate among respondents to this month's column was joined early when the first respondent, Aaron Tice, commented, "Without the execution of business objectives in the pursuit of that purpose, the purpose will never be reached." Elvira... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 27 Nov 2006
- What Do You Think?
What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?
Summing Up The topic of performance reviews triggers a wide range of complex responses. The fact that most of their strongest critics elected to reply anonymously to this month's column suggests that there are also political overtones to the subject. This month's... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
Summing Up A since deceased, highly-regarded fellow faculty member, Anthony (Tony) Athos, occasionally sat on a bench on a nice day at the Harvard Business School, apparently staring off into space. When asked what he was doing, ever the iconoclast, he would say,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 07 Mar 2019
- News
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- 11 Oct 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
Summing Up Dependency ratios are useful as general indicators of future economic and social health. But they must be managed downward on both a micro and macro basis, in the opinion of the majority of respondents to this month's column. And it will take time. There was... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
Summing Up Among responses to this month's column, there was little disagreement with the premise that attitude trumps skills in the selection of new employees. C. J. Cullinane commented: "Attitude is all! I have worked with a group of Cuban refugees in Newark who... View Details
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