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Needs-Based Coaching: Employee Motivation in a New Light
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By Craig Perrin
Behind every unmotivated employee is a leadership problem to be solved. Yet many leaders see motivation as a game of rewards and punishment. Forget the cash. Forget the threats. To engage today’s workforce, a leader is well advised to seek the heart of what moves people: their three basic psychological needs. But to [...]
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By Michael Useem
The Leader’s Checklist comprises fifteen mission-critical, time-tested leadership principles that vary surprisingly little among companies or countries. Taken together, they constitute a playbook for leadership decisions whatever the challenge.
Imagine yourself in this position: Less than five months ago, you were summoned from the private sector to join a newly formed national government. Your [...]
Has the quality of our politicians declined or is the world becoming impossible to manage?
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By Michael Cox
We live not just in ‘interesting times‘, but in quite extraordinary times where few in the West now appear to have much confidence any longer in the notion of the West. Time therefore to take a moment to reflect on how these multiple and most unexpected changes will impact on the global political [...]
Needs-Based Coaching: Employee Motivation in a New Light
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By Craig Perrin
Behind every unmotivated employee is a leadership problem to be solved. Yet many leaders see motivation as a game of rewards and punishment. Forget the cash. Forget the threats. To engage today’s workforce, a leader is well advised to seek the heart of what moves people: their three basic psychological needs. But to [...]
Creating a Sustainable Society through Integrated Reporting Delivered via Cloud Computing
By Kyle Armbrester and Robert G. Eccles
A sustainable strategy is best reinforced through integrated reporting, a new management practice based on an integrated presentation of financial and nonfinancial (e.g., environmental, social, and governance) performance. Through cloud computing, integrated reporting can be easily and inexpensively adopted by companies of all sizes, thereby contributing to the development [...]
Leading with Ethics and Compliance
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By Mark Meaney
As millions take to the streets in a global protest of corporate malfeasance, Dean Rich Lyons of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, has taken the approach that ethics reform begins from within an organization.
The Occupy Wall Street movement has become a global phenomenon. From downtown Manhattan, the [...]
Operationalising Excellence: Making it Happen – Part II
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By Sean Culey
It is easy to look good in a boom.
It is a lesson that the executives at Chaos Corp have learnt the hard way.
In the last edition of The European Business Review, I described two very different ways that similar (in terms of products, markets and opportunities) but fictitious companies, Chaos Corp and [...]
What Leaders Do… Requisite Competency for 21st Century Challenges
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By Patrick R. Dailey
From the earliest recorded leadership teachings of Confucius to contemporary theorists and practitioners, leadership has consistently been viewed as the decisive factor in the success of an organization – be they feudal clans, religious orders, militaries, governments, sports teams, or in today’s context, global commercial organizations. Leadership seems to be the secret [...]
Inner Work Life: The Engine of Performance
By Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer
Workers around the world are becoming increasingly disengaged from their jobs. AON Hewitt found a global drop of four percent in engagement levels in 2010 – the largest single-year drop in 15 years. And Gallup recently reported that the majority of U.S. workers are not engaged in their work. Moreover, [...]
By Julian Birkinshaw
What is the future of management? Can management be reinvented to make it more effective as an agent of economic progress and more responsive to the needs of employees?
When you ask children what they want to be when they are older, how many of them say they want to be a manager? I’ve [...]
Binary Options: An Innovative and Intelligent Way of Trading
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By Banc De Binary
Founded in the wake of the 2008 decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list binary options on the US financial markets, Banc De Binary has enjoyed exponential growth over the past 14 months. With binary options trading set to rival today’s Forex market, we take a look at Banc [...]
Beyond Effectiveness: Attractiveness and Unity as Criteria For Decision-Making in Organizations
By Josep M. Rosanas
Management, has to do with people and getting people together as the first priority. Unfortunately, mechanistic models that assume a behavior has to do only with incentives, profits or value, seem to be the dominating force in the last few years. This article presents an alternative way of looking at organizational decision-making, [...]
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By Lucy P. Marcus
The board room is going through an extraordinary time of transition. More is being demanded of boards than ever before, and the activities of boards are under greater scrutiny.
Corporate boards no longer operate in a secretive world behind closed doors, beyond the watchful eyes of the public and media. Investors, stakeholders, regulatory [...]
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By Steve Hill
In his 2010 study into business-to-business payment processes, Alessandro Perego said that electronic invoicing was a “competitiveness lever.”
His study, which was carried out on behalf of the Milan School of Management, also claimed that electronic invoicing presented a tremendous opportunity to optimise both company and inter company processes.
His findings came from a survey [...]
A Total Solution for Outsize and Heavyweight Air Cargo
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Russia airlines dominate this highly specialist market, providing a solution for 75% of all such air movements and have done so since the first Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ commercial flight took to the skies in 1990.
The unique heavy and oversize air cargo market using ramp freighter aircraft is growing faster than that of scheduled services – an [...]
Overcoming the Triple Hurdle of Diversity Management
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By Winfried Ruigrok
Diversity management is a key instrument to position your company as a preferred employer. Fail to recite this mantra and you risk losing the attention of the majority of young graduates in Europe today.
Insert the words “diversity management” as a Google search term and you will receive about 1.5 million hits (early January [...]
Quality for ALL: The Power Of LEO
By Subir Chowdhury
The “New” Face of Quality
At a time when we have, more than ever, an abundance of impressive management tools to help us ratchet up performance, many businesses have made only marginal gains. Companies have invested huge quantities of time, energy, and cash into implementing systems like Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Reengineering, and Total [...]
Changing The CEO Politics and Decisions at the Top
By Guido Stein & Manuel Gallego
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Companies statistically dismiss twice as many CEOs in bad economic times as in good. Certainly, many senior executives have lost their jobs lately. Yet this new wave of dismissals masks a deeper trend: in the past two decades, the average tenure of a CEO has halved, and yet, in less [...]
Clyde Waterfront – A River of Opportunity
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The scale, pace and diversity of the River Clyde’s regeneration has re-vitalised the area, creating numerous opportunities for businesses and the public to invest, locate and live!
Clyde Waterfront Strategic Partnership (www.clydewaterfront.com) facilitates and promotes the Clyde’s regeneration from Glasgow, via Renfrew to Dumbarton, with £3.5 billion already spent or committed by the public & private [...]
So, you think you have a strategy? Five poor excuses for a strategy
By Freek Vermeulen
No matter how colourful your PowerPoint presentation, it does not mean you have a strategy. So what is strategy and what are the most common mistakes one can make when presenting a strategy?
Most companies do not have a strategy. Ok, I admit it, I do not have any solid statistics (if such a [...]
By Michael Hugos
Success will go to those companies that combine business agility and cloud computing to continuously explore new opportunities. Attempts to pick winning opportunities by doing lengthy analysis do not work in our unpredictable real-time economy.
Volatility is here to stay. Companies that create a foundational business strategy based on agility will do best [...]
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Twitter to delete posts if countries request it
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Gates donates $750M to fight disease
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