Tunnel-Vision Innovation Often a prescription drug designed for a specific ailment sometimes ends up being used for some other quite…
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Diversification Shoemaker, stick to your last!” The old cliché is still sound advice. The less diverse a business, the more…
Respect for the Business and Its Values The acquisition must be a “temperamental fit.” No acquisition works unless the people…
Defining Business Purpose and Mission: The Customer Who is the customer? “Who is the customer?” is the first and the…
Balancing Three Corporate Dimensions Shareholder sovereignty is bound to flounder. It is a fair-weather model. An important task for top…
Management and Economic Development It can be said that there are no “underdeveloped countries.” There are only “under managed” ones.…
Role of the Bystander The bystander sees things neither actor nor audience notices. Bystanders have no history of their own.…
The Transnational Company Successful transnational companies see themselves as separate, non national entities. Most companies doing international business today are…
Knowledge and Technology The new technology embraces and feeds off the entire array of human knowledge’s. The search for knowledge,…
Feedback: Key to Continuous Learning To know one’s strengths, to know how to improve them, and to know what one…
Management: The Central Social Function Non economic institutions need a yardstick that does for them what profitability does for business.…
Organizational Inertia All organizations need a discipline that makes them face up to reality. All organizations need to know that…
Business Not Financial Strategy “There ain’t no bargains,” and “You get at most what you pay for,” Successful acquisitions are…
Resource-Allocation Decisions The allocation of capital and people determine whether the organization will do well or poorly. The allocation of…
The New Entrepreneur History moves in a spiral; one returns to the preceding position, but on a higher level, and…
Fundamental of Communications To improve communications, work not on the utterer but recipient. It is the recipient who communicates. Unless…
The main rule is to look simulated decentralization as a last resort only. Whenever a unit can be set up…
The right organization The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction, mal performance. The pioneers…
Long-Range Planning The future will not just happen if one wishes hard enough. The future requires decisions – now. It…
Gathering and Using Intelligence Information has to be organized to test a company’s assumptions about its theory of its business.…
Steve Jobs hardly needs any introduction. He was more than just the co-founder of Apple Computer and the brains behind…
The Entrepreneurial Mindset Sergey Brin is a computer scientist and entrepreneur. He met Larry Page at Stanford University, and the…
William Henry Gates William Henry Gates is an American entrepreneur, programmer, investor and philanthropist. Bill Gates was born on October…
A Social Ecologist For me the tension between the need for continuity and the need for innovation and change was…
Society of Performing Organization “By their fruits ye shall know them.” Society in all developed countries has become a society…
Management: The Central Social Function Non economic institutions need a yardstick that does for them what profitability does for business.…
Limits of Social Responsibility “It is not enough for business to do well; it must also do good.” But in…
Business Not Financial Strategy “There ain’t no bargains,” and “You get at most what you pay for,” Successful acquisitions are…
EVA as a Productivity Measure Until a business returns a profit that is greater than its cost of capital, it…
Fundamental of Communications To improve communications, work not on the utterer but recipient. It is the recipient who communicates. Unless…
Simulated Decentralization The main rule is to look simulated decentralization as a last resort only. Whenever a unit can be…
Federal Decentralization: Strengths The greatest strength of the federal principle is that it alone of all known principles of organization…
Long-Range Planning The future will not just happen if one wishes hard enough. The future requires decisions – now. It…
The Failed Strategy Most of the people who persist in the wilderness leave nothing behind but bleached hones. When a…
Gathering and Using Intelligence Information has to be organized to test a company’s assumptions about its theory of its business.…
The Right Compromise “Half a loaf is better than no bread.” One has to start out with what is right…
Pursuing Perfection “The Gods can see them.” The greatest sculptor of ancient Greece, Phidias, around 440 bc made the statues…
Managing Oneself: Revolution in Society Managing oneself is based on these realities: Workers are likely to outlive organizations, and the…
Practice Comes First Decision makers need to factor into their present decisions the “future that has already happened.” Decision makers…
Long-Range Planning The future requires not just happen if one wishes hard enough. The future requires decisions – now. It…
Managing Oneself: Identify Strengths It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to…
Unrealized Business Potential “Opportunity is where you find it,” not where it finds you. Luck, chance and catastrophe affect business…
Managing Cash in the New Venture There is an old banker’s rule of thumb according to which one assumes that…
Social Innovation: The Lab Without Wall Steinmetz’s technology-driven science is anathema to many academic scientists. Steinmetz’s innovation also led to…
Tunnel-Vision Innovation Often a prescription drug designed for a specific ailment sometimes ends up being used for some other quite…
Managing the New Venture Every new project is an infant and infants belong in the nursery. Innovative efforts, especially those…
Diversification Shoemaker, stick to your last!” The old cliché is still sound advice. The less diverse a business, the more…
Thales of Miletus, (born c. 624–620 BCE—died c. 548–545 BCE), philosopher renowned as one of the legendary Seven Wise Men,…
Lawrence Edward Page is an American Computer Scientist and an internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin in 1998. Larry…
Thomas Edison was America’s greatest inventor and also a great businessman. His inventions created and contributed to modern night lights, phonograph,…
Henry Ford was an industrialist in America who founded the Ford Motor Company. His company developed and manufactured affordable automobiles…
Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish-American industrialist and the greatest philanthropist in this speech, is known to be the most influential person…
Matthew Boulton was a pioneer in manufacturing, he was far from wealthy; his father was a toy maker at the…
Sarah Lewis: near win is so significant for long-term success Over the years, it is said that leaders as well…
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH was a barrister, politician and the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah served as the leader of the All-India…
To succeed in business presently, experts say that you need to be flexible and have good planning and organizational skills,…
To succeed in business presently, experts say that you need to be flexible and have good planning and organizational skills,…
To succeed in business presently, you need to be flexible and have good planning and organizational skills, experts say. Starting…
To succeed in business presently, you need to be flexible and have good planning and organizational skills, experts say. Starting…
To succeed in business presently, you need to be flexible and have good planning and organizational skills, experts say. Starting…
To succeed in business presently, you need to be flexible and have good planning and organizational skills, experts say. Starting…
To succeed in business presently, you need to be flexible and have good planning and organizational skills, experts say. Starting…
Resource-Allocation Decisions The allocation of capital and performing people converts into action all that management knows about its business –…
EVA as a Productivity Measure Measuring total-factor productivity is one of the major challenges confronting the executive in the age…
Turbulent times ahead It turbulent times, the first task of management is to make sure of the institution’s capacity to…
Various experts authored that wise leaders have certain leadership skills that transcend the daily requirements of a job, counting their…
Famous Entrepreneur: Peter Jones International source records that with a net worth of 402 million pounds, the businessman Peter Jones…
Most Inspiring Leader All Time International studies reveal that Napoleon won nearly 90 percent of his battles, a remarkable statistic…
Most inspiring leader of all time International sources reveal that very few individuals personify dedication and patience like Nelson Mandela,…
Most inspiring leader all time BILL GATES is the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation and one of the world’s most prominent individuals,…
Most inspiring leader of all time Lawrence Edward Page is an American Computer Scientist and an internet entrepreneur who co-founded…
Most Inspiring Leader Of All Time Thomas Edison was America’s greatest inventor and also a great businessman. His inventions created…
The Entrepreneurial Mindset Henry Ford was an industrialist in America who founded the Ford Motor Company. His company developed and…
Most inspiring leader of all time Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish-American industrialist and the greatest philanthropist in this speech, is known…
Most inspiring leader of all time Matthew Boulton was a pioneer in manufacturing, he was far from wealthy; his father…
Most inspiring leader of all time Nelson Mandela International sources reveal that very few individuals personify dedication and patience like…
Most inspiring leader of all time Martin Luther King Jr. It is said that very few Americans are as celebrated…
Most inspiring leader of all time Winston Churchill is long remembered as one of the greatest leaders in modern history and…
Most inspiring leader of all time Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah The Nation celebrated the birth anniversary of the Founder of…
The Success of the entire business depends on the most important resource of any organization which is certainly human resources.…
The Success of the entire business depends on the most important resource of any organization which is certainly human resources.…
Leadership and motivation The Success of the entire business depends on the most important resource of any organization which is…
Leadership and motivation The Success of the entire business depends on the most important resource of any organization which is…
Leadership and Motivation The Success of the entire business depends on the most important resource of any organization which is…
Leadership and motivation The Success of the entire business depends on the most important resource of any organization which is…
Leadership and motivation The Success of the entire business depends on the most important resource of any organization which is…
Leadership and Motivation The Success of the entire business depends on the most important resource of any organization which is…
Leadership And Motivation The Success of the entire business depends on the most important resource of any organization which is…
Thales of Miletus changed the world Wise leaders have certain leadership skills that transcend the everyday requirements of a job,…
“Fall forward” – denzel washington’s inspiring speech You’ve invested a lot in your education, and people have invested in you.…