As opportunities for global expansion increase, so does the trend toward more diversity in the workplace. Successful companies are recruiting professionals with different backgrounds, cultures, styles and motivations. Yet this great resource presents increased possibilities for misunderstanding … [Read more...] about Going Global: Are You Ready?
The Future
Creating a Climate of Innovation
The business enterprise has two, and only two, basic functions: marketing and innovation. It is not necessary for a business to grow bigger; but it is necessary that it constantly grow better. - Peter Drucker An enterprise that does not innovate will not survive long. And management that does … [Read more...] about Creating a Climate of Innovation
A Leadership Map for the Future
Predictions for the future can be stimulating and challenging, especially if one is a top executive in a business enterprise attempting to make strategic decisions. Our rapidly changing global environment presents problems never before encountered. No one knows what will be required of leaders in … [Read more...] about A Leadership Map for the Future
Are You Ready for the Future?
Is your organization looking forward, or is it focused on the problems of the present and immediate short-term competition? Will your organization create new rules of competition in the future? Is it imagining new ways of doing business, building new capabilities, and setting new standards of … [Read more...] about Are You Ready for the Future?
Rethinking the Future: Leadership for the 21st Century
“Today’s knowledge revolution, having launched a gigantic ‘Third Wave’ of economic, technical and social change, is forcing businesses to operate in radically new, continually shifting ways….every shred of industrial-era thinking is now being rescrutinized and brilliantly reformulated.” —Alvin … [Read more...] about Rethinking the Future: Leadership for the 21st Century
The Quest for Great Customers
Most CEOs hope a stronger focus on customers will protect them from eroding profit margins and commoditization. But getting closer to customers is not a matter of installing better CRM systems or simply measuring satisfaction levels. Companies can take advantage of new, increasingly efficient … [Read more...] about The Quest for Great Customers
Open Source Innovation & Other Weird Ideas That Work
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” — Alan Kay, computer scientist Self-managed volunteer hackers pool their skills every day on the Internet. Thousands of solo programmers compete to build software that’s bought by companies with whom they have little or no contact. Open … [Read more...] about Open Source Innovation & Other Weird Ideas That Work
The End of Management as We Know It
Management is out of date. The principles upon which we run companies haven’t evolved to keep pace with the rapid changes of 21st-century business needs. Most companies continue to operate on management principles formulated in the last century and based on manufacturing needs. Like the … [Read more...] about The End of Management as We Know It
Managing Across Generations: Motivating Gen Xers
Younger generations — the so-called Gen Xers and New Millennials — comprise half the U.S. work force. The other half consists of 45% Baby Boomers and 5% veterans, many of whom are charged with motivating newer employees. But what happens when generations don’t share the same values and beliefs … [Read more...] about Managing Across Generations: Motivating Gen Xers