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Organizations & People

 

How to Prevent
Self-Inflicted
Disasters

by Eric Kronenberg
 
All too often, companies unintentionally create their own worst crises. With a little awareness of your organizational DNA, you can avoid that fate — and the headlines that go with it.


Retooling Labor Costs

by Harry Hawkes, Albert Kent, and
Vikas Bhalla
Despite years of cutbacks, many companies’ pay structures are still unbalanced. Here’s a dispassionate, logical way to realign them.
 

Eat Your Peas: A Recipe for Culture Change

by Rutger von Post
 
The methods used by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver to promote health in a West Virginia city can also be used to raise organizational performance.

The Future of Women Leaders in the Middle East

by DeAnne Aguirre, Melissa Master Cavanaugh, and Karim Sabbagh
A number of high-profile women are chipping at the “cement ceiling” in the Gulf countries and making it possible for others to do the same.
 

The Right Role for Top Teams

Analysis of informal networks offers a potent leadership model for the C-suite: Make top teams the hub of the enterprise, and watch performance improve.

How Female Talent Could Transform Emerging Economies

Authors Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid argue that corporate leaders are overlooking one of the most enthusiastic, capable sources of talent in the world: women in emerging markets.

Is Creativity a Bad Trait for a Senior Leader?

Supporters of the status quo — not the creative types — are seen as more effective.

How to Balance Power and Love

Scenario planning and social change expert Adam Kahane suggests that to master large and difficult challenges, leaders need to learn to act and empathize simultaneously.

Saving a Crisis-Ridden Company

After massive fraud was discovered there, Satyam Computer Services survived by helping its employees focus on their emotional trauma.

Using Influence to Get Things Done

Convincing senior management colleagues to follow your lead requires a blend of skills that add up to influential competence.

“That’s the Way We (Used to) Do Things Around Here”

With a little knowledge of neuroscience, reframing behavior can be the essence of organizational change.

On Grabbing Power

A review of Power, by Jeffrey Pfeffer.

Getting a New Job? It Pays to Speak Up about Salary

In a soft economy, collaborative negotiation may be the winning strategy.

A Corporate Climate of Mutual Help

Edgar Schein, MIT’s sage of organizational culture, explains why the quest for accountability should start with interdependence.
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