Managers and leaders in high demand
In a crude sense, management can be broken into three parts - man, age and ment. It essentially speaks about people, times and actions. Veteran management thinker Henry Mintzberg often advocates that successful management involves interpersonal, informational and decisional roles.聽
Read full article: Daily FT, October 10, 2016聽
Of Empathy And Strategy
Corporations have more data than ever about their consumers and customers, and advanced analytic platforms increasingly democratize data analysis.
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Managers, et si vous appreniez 脿... vous taire!
...Bref, nombre de dirigeants d'entreprise gagneraient clairement 脿 apprendre 脿 se taire. Ne serait que pour mieux 茅couter ce que les autres ont 脿 leur dire.
Master of None: Wisdom of an MBA
鈥淚t is time to recognise conventional MBA programs for what they are,鈥� says Henry Mintzberg, professor of management studies聽at 9I制作厂免费 in Montreal, and one of the four all-time gurus of strategy. 鈥淢BA programs train the wrong people in the wrong ways with the wrong consequences.聽
Are American Voters Trumped Both Ways?
One of us is American and the other Canadian, one conservative, the other liberal. We live in Canada, a good vantage whence to watch the in U.S. election. Where, we wish to ask, are the good folks of America, in politics and in the population?
The MBA For The Anti-MBA Crowd
For decades, Henry Mintzberg, an academic at the Desautels Faculty of Management at聽9I制作厂免费, has said that the MBA doesn鈥檛 teach management properly, and if graduates enter the workforce thinking they鈥檙e trained managers, he believes they could even be a danger to society.
Read full article: Poets & Quants, September 4, 2016
How Grantmaking Can Create Adaptive Organizations
Coal mining was the economic lifeblood of eastern Kentucky for most of the twentieth century, providing families in this rural mountainous region with one of the few sources of a middle-class income. But those jobs began disappearing in the 1980s as producers switched from underground mining to surface mining and mountaintop removal. More recently, mining operations have shifted to western U.S. states as the coal seams in Central Appalachia have become depleted.
Are you a strategic thinker or just a planner?
I made the point in the first of these columns that one of the main differences between leadership and management is the ability to have a strategic perspective and think strategically. This is universally expected of leaders, almost never taught to anyone formally, and therefore often marks one of the tougher transitions for very successful managers in becoming effective leaders.
Strategy Is Better Than Good Intentions
Good intentions, energy and teamwork are necessary, but good strategy is also vital for nonprofit operations. The brainy stuff really comes in handy.
Speaking during the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Fundraising Day In New York 2016, David M. Sterling of Western New England University stressed the necessity of strategy within an organization.
World Social Forum reboots in Montreal
Fifteen years after the World Social Forum (WSF) began with a huge gathering in Porto Alegre, Brazil, organisers are hoping to breathe new life into the anti-globalisation movement.
Les altermondialistes d茅barquent 脿 Montr茅al
Environ 50 000 altermondialistes du Qu茅bec et d'ailleurs sont attendus 脿 Montr茅al 脿 partir du 9 ao没t pour participer au Forum social mondial (FSM), qui se tient pour la premi猫re fois dans un pays occidental.
Do you run for cure? How about running for cause.
You probably know people who have had some sort of cancer. You also know many more who will be getting these diseases鈥攜ou just don鈥檛 know who they are. So when you 鈥淩un for Cancer鈥�, the money likely goes for those people who have the disease, to find a cure, rather than to the investigation of cause, so that many more people needn鈥檛 get the disease in the first place.
Harvard Business School鈥檚 bricks-and-clicks spree
As dean of Harvard Business School, part of Nitin Nohria鈥檚 job is to mythologise its vast campus. The inauguration last month of yet another new building offered a perfect marketing opportunity.
Forum social mondial: par terre, pour la Terre
Vous connaissez sans doute le Forum 茅conomique mondial (FEM), ou du moins sa rencontre annuelle de Davos. Tous les mois de janvier, 2500 des personnes les plus influentes au monde envahissent ce lieu de vill茅giature suisse pour faire bouger le monde, tout en s'assurant qu'il demeure solidement enracin茅 dans la mondialisation de l'茅conomie.
