Culture
What Makes Change Harder — or Easier
Before adopting any new management approach, ask: How well will its values fit our culture?
Management Approach
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IT Governance & Leadership
Don’t Forget the Basics in Digital Transformation
Managers often lose sight of the essentials because digital business is changing so quickly.
Gerald C. Kane
Leadership Skills
A Leader’s List for 2017
These dozen commitments guide how I’ll make decisions, engage with others, and focus on what matters.
Paul Michelman
Innovation Strategy
When Innovation Meets the Language of the Corner Office
What are the most effective ways to communicate the process and output of innovation to executives?
Dave Rochlin
Innovation Strategy
How to Succeed with Radical Innovation
Highly capable firms are often reluctant to take risks, but they have much to gain if they try to innovate.
J.P. Eggers (NYU’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business), interviewed by Frieda Klotz
Leadership Skills
Rethinking the Manager’s Role
No, software will not render managers obsolete, but you will need to be more skilled than ever before.
Lynda Gratton
Leadership Skills
Is Your Company Ready to Operate as a Market?
Traditional hierarchies are giving way to market forms of organizing that will recast the role of management.
Rita Gunther McGrath
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Where Digitization Is Failing to Deliver
Digitization has not resulted in increased productivity growth. A University of Chicago economist explains why.
Chad Syverson, (University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business) interviewed by Frieda Klotz
Climate Change
Sustainability Dialects
In the fourth part of the series, Gregory Unruh describes how sustainability can be introduced into the business dialects of functional areas.
Gregory Unruh
Business Models
Amoeba Management: Lessons From Japan’s Kyocera
Kyocera Corp.’s distinctive management system seeks profitable growth by extreme decentralization.
Ralph W. Adler and Toshiro Hiromoto
The Emergence of the Extra-Rational Manager
Big Data is often associated with big numbers, but less often with a big picture.
Innovation Strategy
Rethinking Management
In his book “Reinventing Management,” Julian Birkinshaw urges businesspeople to give more thought to management models.
Julian Birkinshaw, interviewed by Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Boards & Corporate Governance
How Boards Can Be Better — a Manifesto
Robert J. Thomas, Michael Schrage, Joshua B. Bellin and George Marcotte
Innovation Strategy
Implementing a Learning Plan to Counter Project Uncertainty
Project managers need a systematic, disciplined framework for turning uncertainty into useful learning.
Mark P. Rice, Gina Colarelli O’Connor and Ronald Pierantozzi
Developing Strategy
Competitive Cognition
The importance of properly identifying the strategies, and anticipating the actions, of rivals.