Business in Action, 9th Ed.
Chapter 7: Management Roles, Functions, and Skills
Businesses will need a clear roadmap for the deployment of new technologies to help them survive and prosper, whatever social and economic headwinds they may face in the future.
Businesses will need a clear roadmap for the deployment of new technologies to help them survive and prosper, whatever social and economic headwinds they may face in the future.
"Follow the latest trends in the management industry to keep up the pace and face challenges confidently.
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"Trust and cooperation are not standard in our organizations and yet we know they should be.
"There are many different reasons why you might want to influence people.
"Chris Zook explains how you can fight bureaucracy by thinking like a founder.
"Tom Peters [photo, left] reflects on a half-century spent studying management.
"Diversity is among the most critical issues and opportunities we face today.
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"Artificial intelligence (AI) is already becoming entrenched in many facets of everyday life, and is being tapped for a growing array of core business applications, including
predicting market and customer behavior, automating repetitive tasks and providing alerts when things go awry.
"To reach that state of loyalty where people trust you at your every word requires the daily act of exposing your values, beliefs, convictions, and morals to others in close quarters.
According to John Baldoni (photo, left), "A leader’s legacy is a sum of pluses and minuses.
"The ability to think through problems to the second, third, and nth order—or what we will call second-order thinking for short—is a powerful tool that great thinkers use to their advantage all the time.
"Imagine that you’re sitting at a poker table.
"The pitfalls of leadership spring from within," warns Dan Rockwell (photo, left) in a post at his blog.
"Making mistakes is a great way to learn tough lessons, but can be costly in terms of time and resources.
"Why are weaknesses and fatal flaws so hard for us to spot in ourselves?
According to Helen Rothberg (photo, left), "Over the past 25 years, I've coached a mix of executives in for profit and not-for-profit companies like Kellogg's, Monsanto, SoCalGas, Newark City Government, The United Way, IBM, and AT&T.
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Dan Rockwell weighs in.
"Trusting others doesn’t mean that you abdicate your responsibility as a leader.
"What leader wouldn't want a team filled with these high-performing folks?