Publication: Harvard Business Review

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

For Dimon and Board Leaders: Function Matters, Not Form

One of the dumbest corporate governance issues is whether to split the roles of Board Chair and CEO. That debate is now playing out on the front pages of business sections (print and online) as shareholders will decide next week in a nonbinding vote whether ... [Published Harvard Business Review - May 17 2013]

Entities: Jamie Dimon, Lee Raymond, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Enron Corp, London Whale

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Your Assumptions About Cultural Adaptation Are Probably Wrong

The workplace has never been more global than today. But despite that, I often find the last thing on people's minds when doing international work is the global element. Instead, and often for good reason, people focus on concrete and pressing work details: ... [Published Harvard Business Review - May 17 2013]

Entities: Adaptation, Ignorance, United States

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

The Dark Side of Generic Drugs

Generic drugs can be inexpensive and effective alternatives to their branded counterparts. But according to this devastating Fortune investigation, they can also be useless on a good day and deadly on a bad one — that is, if they were manufactured by ... [Published Harvard Business Review - May 17 2013]

Entities: Drugs, Instagram, Jaron Lanier

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Define Your Organization's Habits to Work More Efficiently

We don't often think about the way we usually operate at work, whether we're performing an informal five-step process for evaluating a new proposal, or setting priorities for managing our time. But our ability to improve the ways we do things depends ... [Published Harvard Business Review - May 17 2013]

Entities: Atul Gawande, Workers, Standard Operating Procedure, Frederick Winslow Taylor, organizational activity

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

What Value Creation Will Look Like in the Future

Organizations have nearly perfected implementing the industrial model of managing work — the effort applied toward completing a task. For individuals, this model ensures that we know what we're supposed to do each day. For organizations, it guarantees ... [Published Harvard Business Review - May 17 2013]

Entities: Value Creation, Creativity, Invention

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Six Numbers Reveal the Booming Business of Auto-Analytics

For millennia people have run by feel, an "art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain," says Christopher McDougall in his anthropological study of the topic.Many of us still run this way, of course, but ... [Published Harvard Business Review - May 16 2013]

Entities: Creativity, Big Data, PDF, Benjamin Franklin

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

352: Talent Strategies for the Post-Loyalty World

Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh, coauthors of the forthcoming HBR article "The New Employer-Employee Compact." ... [Published Harvard Business Review - May 17 2013]

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Six Myths About Venture Capitalists

Photography: Courtesy of the artist and Gow Langsford GalleryArtwork: Sara Hughes, Millions of Colours 3 (detail), 2003, acrylic paint on linenSteve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin: We celebrate these entrepreneurs for their successes, and often equally ... [Published Harvard Business Review - May 16 2013]

Entities: Venture Capital, Venture capitalist, Entrepreneur, AngelList

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

No One Likes to Be Changed

Listen to the language that any leader, consultant, or HR professional uses, and you'll hear them expound at length about how "we" need to change "them." That says it all: the fact is, no one likes to be changed, even if the change is ultimately bene ... [Published Harvard Business Review - May 16 2013]

Entities: Charles Fishman, Toyota Motor Corporation, Workers

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

How To Get Others To See Your Potential

Overcoming people's past perceptions of you isn't easy. When I launched my consulting business seven years ago, I was astonished to find — years later — that acquaintances and even friends hadn't kept up with my career transition. They'd ask about my ... [Published Harvard Business Review - May 16 2013]

Entities: Wingman, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert Cialdini, Intellectual Property, LinkedIn Corp

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Just How Useless Is the Asset-Management Industry?

Writing under a pseudonym in the Financial Analysts Journal in 1960, mutual fund executive Jack Bogle made "The Case for Mutual Fund Management." Bogle took the track records of four leading mutual funds going back to 1930 and compared them to the performance ... [Published Harvard Business Review - May 16 2013]

Entities: Mutual Fund, John Bogle, Index, Wellington Management Company, Arthur D Little

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Establish Credibility in a New Job

Michael Watkins , author of The First 90 Days , explains how to secure early wins during a transition. ... [Published Harvard Business Review - May 15 2013]

Entities: Michael Watkins

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...Because otherwise we would have had a massive unemployment," says Lanier. "And so to my mind, the right question to ask is, why are we abandoning that bargain that worked so well?" (In other news, Evgeny Morozov disagrees.)

The Dark Side of Generic Drugs [Published Harvard Business Review - May 17 2013]

...Or at Starbucks, employees follow an approach that encourages them to be flexible in their customer interactions. As Kelley told me, "When customers need service in real time, workers who are empowered to be flexible within standards can better meet those needs...because you can't anticipate each one — or write a script in advance! Putting decision-making closest to the people who touch the customer is key." May do" discretion helps workers do what they probably should do, not what they must do

Define Your Organization's Habits to Work More Efficiently [Published Harvard Business Review - May 17 2013]

..."People don't like people who self-promote," Pfeffer told me. "But ironically, even if you self-promote through the mouths of other people, somehow that stigma doesn't get associated with you. It's much better to have someone else toot your horn." If you can afford one, you could certainly hire a publicist...

How To Get Others To See Your Potential [Published Harvard Business Review - May 16 2013]

...As journalist Charles Fishman writes, "that number is not just large, it's arresting, it's mind-boggling." Toyota doesn't have change management consultants driving those changes; the workers themselves make them

No One Likes to Be Changed [Published Harvard Business Review - May 16 2013]

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