January 2009

The Only Harvard Business Review Article You Need to Read

January 27, 2009

Tweet Rarely am I inspired by the Harvard Business Review. Despite Harvard Business Review’s efforts to revamp their print edition (with a zippier format, hip graphics and bite-size summaries) and to expand their online initiatives, HBR has always felt behind the times. Even when HBR has addressed issues critical to my own research or summarized […]

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An Agenda for Management Innovation: 25 Challenges

January 27, 2009

Tweet 1. Ensure that management’s work serves a higher purpose. Management, both in theory and practice, must orient itself to the achievement of noble, socially significant goals. 2. Fully embed the ideas of community and citizenship in management systems. There’s a need for processes and practices that reflect the interdependence of all stakeholder groups. 3. […]

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Read Business Books — for charity!

January 24, 2009

Tweet Here’s a great example of the concepts of "Co-donating", "Perkonomics", "Brand-butlering" and "Trynomics" — all at once. For anyone else who’s a business book junkie like me, this offer is hard to resist. It’s also a great example of being authentic. From the folks at ChangeThis and 800-CEO-READ : Continuing a tradition we began […]

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Employee Branding in Reverse: Satyam Scandal turns employees into Untouchables?

January 22, 2009

Tweet (photo of Satyam colleagues by Tony George) When the organization you work for is involved in a major ethics scandal– does this mean that you and all other members are ‘marked’ too? And does this make sense? Yes. When the organization that you are part of becomes tainted by a public scandal, you and […]

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Online Reputations and Authenticity

January 19, 2009

Tweet Through Andy Beal , the Marketing Pilgrim , I saw this interesting visual presentation (embedded at the end of this post) on the importance of online reputation management. The presentation is interesting in its design (more dense and active than your regular power-point presentation) but more importantly in its content. And, the presentation simple […]

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A Psychological Benefit of a “Black” Organization?

January 14, 2009

Tweet Here’s a nifty psychological tidbit for you, from the social research site ContextsDiscoveries , that triggers an interesting organizational question …. It’s not just life experiences that affect mental health, but also how they are resolved. While African Americans tend to have more negative events, they also tend to have more resolutions, thus giving […]

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Authentic Conversation — An opportuntity for Obama?

January 8, 2009

Tweet Maren and Jamie Showkeir, co-authors of "Authentic Conversations: Moving from Manipulation to Truth and Commitment" last month applied some of their ideas about the power of conversation to establish truth and create change, in an Op-Ed piece in the Chicago Tribune. The piece "Obama to the world: Let’s talk" , the Showkeirs write: In […]

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What if … Executive Compensation was based on Sustaining Organizational Authenticity?

January 3, 2009

Tweet I’m a big fan of linking compensation to business outcomes … as long as the amount of compensation isn’t vulgar and the right kinds of outcomes are part of the formula. So I was intrigued by a recent article about Ethics and Executive Compensation . Ed Konczal , writing about  over at Corporate Eye […]

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