Business in Action, 9th Ed.
Chapter 7: Management Roles, Functions, and Skills
"Trust and cooperation are not standard in our organizations and yet we know they should be.
Any work team can run these checkups to find out how healthy it is and get remedies for problem areas.
My Next Move helps you identify careers that involve the kinds of work you like to do.
Affectiva’s website offers several ways to try emotion-recognition AI, including mapping your emotions while you watch a YouTube video.
Take the quiz at Saleforce.
"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.
"Jesse Rieser's memories of growing up in Springfield, Missouri in the 1990s unfold against a familiar retail backdrop: storming the aisles of Toys R Us with his brother; meeting friends at the mall to flirt with girls and play videogames; hunting new bands in the CD racks of Best Buy," writes Laura Mellonee in a piece at Wired.
"Leadership comes in many packages.
"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?
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Mignon Fogarty, also known as Grammar Girl, offers a wide selection of easy-to-use advice on getting things right.
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.
"'The interview is an elimination process," says Dr.
"Get hired by thinking like the employer.
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?