Posted on 12 January 2009. Tags: Best Practices, Career Management, Management and Leadership, worklifebalance
In Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose (Wharton School Publishing), authors Raj Sisodia, Jag Sheth and David Wolfe suggest that the best firms in today’s marketplace are those that deliver emotional, experiential and social value to all their stakeholders, from customers and partners to investors and society. […]
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Posted on 11 January 2009. Tags: Best Practices, Career Management, Flexibility at Work, Management and Leadership, worklifebalance
Finding and replacing underperforming key managers is an arduous and time-consuming task, but you can’t tolerate underperformance. In making the choice whether to keep an underperforming manager, you owe it to yourself, your organization, and the manager in question to take at least one shot at diagnosing and addressing the underlying causes of unsatisfactory performance, […]
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Posted on 10 January 2009. Tags: Best Practices, Career Management, Life Balance, Management and Leadership, worklifebalance
I’m curious to know: what does work-life balance mean to you? Is it important, a nice to have or a must have? Is it something you value enough to forego something else – like promotional prospects or pay? I got thinking about this after reading an article in the Australian Financial Review a couple of […]
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Posted on 10 January 2009. Tags: Career Management, leadership, Management and Leadership, worklifebalance
Unique practices developed to enter the market will no longer suffice in China’s increasingly competitive environment, particularly if Chinese operations are held to lower performance standards. Instead, multinationals must lead with their strength: world-class processes honed over many years in established markets and adapted to Chinese realities. Click here to read the full article
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Posted on 09 January 2009. Tags: Career Management, leadership, Management and Leadership, worklifebalance
Not everyone in your team can be a high flyer. This is a great podcast that outlines the difference between A players and B players and how to manage the latter effectively. Click here to listen
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Posted on 08 January 2009. Tags: Career Management, Flexibility at Work, Management and Leadership, Offers
HBR has compiled all of the 2008 HBR articles on one searchable compact disc — a full year’s worth of articles from the world’s foremost management experts, and the Readers Guide indexes by topic and author. This year the expanded package includes a handy print index of articles with brief summaries. For only $49.95, […]
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