business category archives

I've come across the "Leading with Insight" slides from Matthew Milan that touches on some interesting ideas on insight.

The concept of the supply chain is applied to talent management in a recent HBR IdeaCast with Peter Cappelli, and I am reminded of Reaching the Goal by John Ricketts.

The AMA Moving Ahead newsletter for February 2008 includes the article "How to Disagree with Your Boss—and Win." But my brain is funny: I misread the first line.

A number of friends pointed to 50 reasons not to change and the accompanying graphic from the Biocultural Science & Management Blog.

Q: What’s the easiest way to charge money for software?

Via StumbleUpon, I found Idiagram's / Marshall Clemens' beautifully-illustrated The Art of Complex Problem Solving with mouse-over detail to the baseline graphic.

Many things can happen in 20 years. In early October, Gary Hamel (and Tom Stewart) re-asked "What Does the Future of Management Look Like to You?" There have been a lot of responses since then.

My friend and MeshForum colleague, Shannon Clark, is a consummate networker. He has some "Networking Advice - useful business cards and other tips."

At least two items in my stream today have to do with effective meetings. One comes from CIO.com, Eight Steps to More Effective Meetings, and the other from the BusinessWeek Climbing the Ladder podcast on Managing Teams.

Craigslist CEO, Jim Buckmaster, has an interesting management philosophy. Besides being the CEO who puts profits second, he has some refreshing views on how things should work on the inside.

Andrew McAfee has a pair of interesting articles on decision making in the world of cheap and fast information transfer. I am interested because decision making is one of the key aspects of management.

Another interesting discussion from Sig at Thingamy: mindless stuff and leadership vs. management. He starts with an example of "managing" teenagers and gets to the key that they can only be led.

Just to be clear that Director Magazine is completely negative on blogging, here is an article in the May 2007 issue, Strategic business blogging by Matthew Stibbe.

After writing about how important it is to understand the business problem first, here is a story from CIO Magazine where the project started with the technology.

People have expressed plenty of paranoia about social network analysis techniques that exploit existing corporate data stores. So, it shouldn't be surprising to see reports of companies that are selling their tools to snoop on their employees.