Business in Action, 9th Ed.
Chapter 7: Management Roles, Functions, and Skills
"A position could be an opinion, an idea, or a plan.
"We all have to negotiate in life, whether it’s asking for a bigger raise, nailing down details of a contract or even getting your kids to do their homework.
"Trusting others doesn’t mean that you abdicate your responsibility as a leader.
"Wharton's Peter Cappelli discusses IBM's decision to rethink its remote work policy for some employees.
"What leader wouldn't want a team filled with these high-performing folks?
"When left unchecked, not only does rampant incivility make our days more tense, it also leads to a loss of focus, a loss of productivity, a deliberate slacking off among disgruntled employees, and even serious health problems.
"Content engineering or content marketing is essentially about designing the right kinds of content that might engage consumers.
"I became an HR person in 1984, when many of my readers had not been born yet.
"Serial entrepreneur, angel investor, philanthropist, author and CEO of Bizzultz May McCarthy [photo, left] explains how intuition will help you achieve financial freedom.
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"What is the secret to the unparalleled success that keeps Amazon growing while so many traditional retailers are shutting their doors?
"Studies of leaders often focus on their style or charisma, but we wanted to look at how workers are affected by their boss’s technical competence.
Julie Winkle Giulioni reports at SmartBrief.
These brief podcasts focus on marketing applications of social media.
Listen to the podcast by Noah Zandan (photo, left).
"The automation of work and the digital disruption of business models place a premium on leaders who can create a vision of change and frame it positively.
Adam Grant (photo, left) interviews Tony Hsieh at a recent Wharton People Analytics Conference.
Tor Constantino (photo, left) covers the topic at Entrepreneur.
"In Alec Ross’s new book, The Industries of the Future, he takes a deep dive into the specific fields he believes will shape our economic future, including robotics and the codification of just about everything.
"Wharton management professor Peter Cappelli [photo, left] has spent decades studying the complicated dynamics of employment.
"Knowledge@Wharton recently interviewed [Dinesh] Paliwal to talk about Harman’s transformation.
"Wharton's Mary-Hunter McDonnell discusses her research on social activism and corporate political clout.
"For their service in the 2006 Battle of Ramadi, Navy SEAL Team Three Task Unit Bruiser and its commander Jocko Willink [photo, lef] became the most highly decorated special-operations unit of the Iraq War," writes Dragan Radovanovic and Richard Feloni.