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- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
Summing Up Do Concerns About Job Creation By Small Businesses Miss The Point? Judging from responses to this month's column, there appears to be a visceral reaction to any suggestion that small business fails to live up to the many... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Feb 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?
thought that there was a place in the business school curriculum for the teaching of topics that provide a context for subsequent action. Dr. B. V. Krishnamurthy summed up this view by saying, "...whether we can 'teach' the craft of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jun 2003
- What Do You Think?
What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?
given to broader success factors which are ethical and value centered, are or certainly can be detrimental to the society they serve ...." A more acerbic point of view was offered by Mark Anton: "The area of ethics and values is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Apr 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?
Summing Up In the end, M&A is about buying more volume. It is a flawed process, invented by brokers, lawyers, and super-sized, ego-based CEOs." With this comment, Ellis Baxter summed up the thinking of the majority of those... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Aug 2014
- What Do You Think?
What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?
was his faculty advisor. Warren Briggs, a Professor Emeritus, wrote that "He was a favorite professor (and) an effective mentor to many, both personally and professionally." According to Karen Page, coauthor of Becoming a Chef Bennis demonstrated his lifelong... View Details
- 03 Nov 2011
- What Do You Think?
The Ultimate Question in Management
served?" (from David Witt), "What are you doing to enhance (your) company's, (your) team's, (your) organization's development"? (constructed from comments by Marlis Krichewsky), and "What are you doing for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Feb 2005
- What Do You Think?
If You Blink, Will You Miss?
process." Steve Carnevale puts it more graphically: "I think blink is very dangerous. Read the book Fooled by Randomness. The author does a good job of explaining that our brain is great at pattern recognition, but not suited to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
Summing Up Who Will Save Us From Our Work Habits? We have a problem in the workplace. Some of it is being forced upon us by forces in society. Some of it is of our own making. But we face increasing challenges in managing our work time... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
"The best way to go about it in the corporate world is to have good leaders who can lead by example with positive and solution-oriented attitudes." Kevin Bowe added, "Attitudes can be learned, and winning behaviors... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
expectations. Matt Lynch observes that seconds can drag by on some tasks, namely those associated with high tech applications, while "an hour can pass by barely noticed" on other tasks. In order to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
beyond April 2001. With that in mind, questions arise about what capabilities GE's board should seek in Welch's replacement. Are there clues in the way Welch was selected in 1980? At the time, GE was led by Reg Jones, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
leaders on work, "it is extremely naive to expect that stereotypical ideas about what women in general are like will have any meaning for the behavior of women in senior management positions. Women who arrive in such positions will be very atypical ." The... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
made possible by a shifting "mix" featuring less product-centered and more information-centered economic activity. Skyrocketing price-earnings ratios of information-rich corporations are a natural result of this. Growing ratios... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?
widely heralded. Clearly, it has enabled millions to participate in the paid workforce who otherwise would be constrained by location and disruptive commitments. But now we are beginning to see a backlash in the form of a migration of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
'positive responses' instead of finding out how we can do things better by listening and responding to 'negative responses.'" Others were not so sure. Tema Frank said she is not convinced that our ability to listen is any worse than it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
Gaurav Goel: "Analytics is a powerful weapon but we need prudent processes for data capture that ensure a consistent quality of data." The tone of responses suggested that there was little question that the analytics of "deep indicators" would be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
Summing Up Platform leadership, the process by which base technologies are developed and on which innovations created by many entrepreneurs can be based, may be characteristic of the knowledge economy. But... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
group. “Super Stretch Goals are for the agile, small groups, for two reasons. One. Missionary zeal and commitment is easily caught by small groups, particularly those who are out to show the world who they are Two. Super Stretch Goals... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Jul 2018
- News
Henry Kissinger's Lessons for Business Negotiators
- 2015
- Chapter
"Level II" Negotiation Strategies: Advance Your Interests by Helping to Solve Their Internal Problems
Many negotiators have constituencies that must formally or informally approve an agreement. Traditionally, it is the responsibility of each negotiator to manage the internal conflicts and constituencies on his or her own side. Far less familiar are the many valuable... View Details
Sebenius, James K. "Level II" Negotiation Strategies: Advance Your Interests by Helping to Solve Their Internal Problems. In Negotiating in Times of Conflict, edited by Gilead Sher and Anat Kurz, 107–124. Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies, 2015. Electronic.