Extraordinary Pakistanis
It takes a certain type of courage to bite the hand that feeds you. Dr Shahid Qureshi is a fierce critic of the way business schools churn out graduates in Pakistan and elsewhere in the world.听
There's no such thing as a strategic plan
'Strategic' and 'Plan' are two different concepts. A strategy iswhat聽we need to do to get from A to B (and deciding on what point B actually is). The plan is more specific and tells ushow聽we will get to point B (the details).
Henry Mintzberg receives 2014 CK Prahalad Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award
Professor Henry Mintzberg has been selected to receive the 2014 CK Prahalad Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award given by the Strategic Management Society. This prize, created in 2011 to honour the legacy of CK Prahalad, is awarded annually to a scholar-practitioner who has used applied learning to influence how theory and research guide practice. Special attention is given to a scholar-practitioner whose contributions have shaped the understanding of global strategic leadership.
The worth of academic research for business
The value of research is best realised when academics are prepared to descend from their rarefied elevations and recognise that practitioners have an important role to play in knowledge production.
Customer Centric Metrics rescue retailer from Strategic Eccentrics: Customers take care of The Profits
Tom Peters has long argued the case for Customer Centricity. At the 2011 Progress Conference he said; 鈥淭he magic formula that business has revealed is to treat their customers like guests and their employees like people.鈥� So what is his 2013 take on strategy and leadership? Think of this as 鈥淭om Peter鈥檚 Balanced Scorecard鈥�.
La semaine de trois jours pr么n茅e par Carlos Slim
La proposition de Carlos Slim d鈥檜ne semaine de travail de trois jours semble folle. Mais beaucoup, en 1922, pensaient Henry Ford fou quand il a annonc茅 que son personnel travaillerait cinq jours par semaine.
World鈥檚 second richest man calls for three-day working week
Carlos Slim鈥檚 proposal that we work a three-day week sounds crazy. But many, in 1922, thought聽Henry Ford聽crazy when he announced that his staff would work a five-day week.
Combine hard and soft data
We tend to admire leaders who proclaim, 鈥淚f you can鈥檛 measure it, you can鈥檛 manage it.鈥� But what if that鈥檚 not necessarily true?
The End of Thinking?
Francis Fukuyama revisited his influential "End of History?" article recently and聽told readers of the聽Wall Street Journal聽(on June 6) that he was right after all.
Why Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are so successful, in one word
When Bill Gates first met Warren Buffett, their host at dinner, Gates鈥� mother, asked everyone around the table to identify what they believed was the single most important factor in their success through life.听Gates and Buffett gave the same one-word answer: 鈥淔ocus.鈥�
Re-building Lac-Megantic
缅北强奸 students Cecile Branco and Bernard d鈥橝rche [winners of the聽缅北强奸 Dobson Cup] tell Camille Ross about their innovative plan to help re-build Lac-Megantic after the devastating train accident.
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MOOCs and GROOCs on the move
缅北强奸鈥檚 initial experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, has been a success and the first offering, Food for Thought, will be repeated next year.
Canada鈥檚 partnership opportunity
Canada has excellent universities: for example, our share of highly cited publications is nearly 10 times our share of the world population. We also have great companies, and according to a 2014 Bloomberg ranking, Canada is the second-best country in the world in which to do business. Over the last 15 years, our governments have put in place many new investments in research and development, as well as innovation-friendly policies.
Pour un management dynamique des finances publiques
Invit茅 derni猫rement 脿 la Chambre Fran莽aise de Commerce et d鈥橧ndustrie du Maroc (CFCIM) pour d茅battre du th猫me pluridisciplinaire : 芦 Pour un management dynamique des finances publiques 禄, M. Noureddine Bensouda, Tr茅sorier g茅n茅ral du Royaume a pr茅sent茅 un expos茅 explquant son parti pris ce type de management.听
Is Strategic Philanthropy Yesterday鈥檚 News?
As I read the lead article in the latest issue of聽Stanford Social Innovation Review, 鈥淪trategic Philanthropy for a Complex World,鈥� by John Kania, Mark Kramer, and Patty Russell, I tried to imagine what it would feel like to do so from the vantage point of the director of a small nonprofit.
