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Making Real Decisions In International Meetings
Jan 2010
Do you ever take part in international meetings where people say "Yes" when they mean "No"? Where some people come prepared to reach decisions and others expect only to discuss? Where you thought...
Provided by Global Integration
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White Papers
Delivering Difficult Decisions
Jul 2009
When leaders must deliver bad news - whether they're announcing layoffs, across-the-board salary cuts, or unpopular changes to corporate policy or strategy - employees' first response usually...
Provided by Gallup
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White Papers
The Best Ways To Keep Your Employees Happy
Jan 2010
A business becomes successful because it knows what types of priorities are the most important and how to put them there. The establishment of any kind of company can be an overwhelming task, but...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
Recruiting America's Military Elite To Lead Your Organization
Jan 2010
Major organizations across the U.S. have focused on recruiting former military leaders for years, well aware of their unique abilities to lead a company to success. These recruiting programs are...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
Are Team Building Events Effective For Large Groups?
Jan 2010
Sometimes you are faced with organizing team building events for large numbers and by large numbers we mean groups of one hundred delegates plus. The question is, will any team building event be...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
Want To Learn Lessons From Those Who Have Struggled And Succeeded With Organizational Effectiveness?
Jan 2010
Striving to address organisational effectiveness can be a desperately slow process. Best practice suggests use of internal improvement teams and use of the continuous improvement principle. These...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
Dealing With Difficult Staff Behavior
Jan 2010
It's probably one of the least favorite tasks for a manager, but not formally ticking off a staff member when they're out of line will cause the matter to linger, if not worsen. Disruptive...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
Searching For The Starting Point To Create The Effective Organization?
Jan 2010
The benefit of making your organization an effective organization is clear. By focusing on your customers and delivering quality and value, you build a more profitable business for yourself. The...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
Developing Effective Organization - How Can I Ensure That Each Employee Is Effective?
Jan 2010
Developing an effective organization is one of those tasks that never end. Just when you think that you are getting there, the goalposts move, and you have to engage again. All of this activity...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
How To Motivate And Inspire Your Employees To Be The Best They Can Be
Jan 2010
It would be misleading to make managers and supervisors think that there's a secret to motivating and inspiring their fellow employees. In fact, only the employees themselves can do that, and so...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
Culture With A Little C - Don't Let It Undermine Your Business
Jan 2010
Probably the most common definition of an organization's culture is "The ways do things around here." If you're an executive describing your culture, you're most likely referring to your mission,...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
A Look At The Different Important Aspects Of Change Management
Jan 2010
One of the most important aspects of businesses and organizations, change management is considered a structured approach to change in order to achieve a desired state in the future. The system...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
Change Doesn't Have To Be Difficult? If You Know How
Nov 2010
Knowing what to do and being motivated to do it do not change behavior (even though most people think it is supposed to) because behavior is driven by beliefs about people, life and themselves. If...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Choosing To Change
Sep 2010
Organizational and individual transformation is fundamentally a matter of choice: when people see a clear advantage to change, they choose, on an emotional level, to make a shift. When faced with...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
Business Coaching; Learning To Change With The Market And Times
Aug 2010
Business coaching is necessary for surpassing the current levels of performance and productivity. The challenges faced by today's organizations in terms of reinvention, reengineering, reorganizing...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
The Seasoned Executive's Decision - Making Style
Nov 2009
The job of a manager is, above all, to make decisions. At any moment in any day, most executives are engaged in some aspect of decision making: exchanging information, reviewing data, coming up...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
How Do You Manage Change?
Nov 2008
Regardless of industry or discipline, client expectations of an interim manager on assignment are extremely high. It is therefore essential to integrate rapidly into the client organization,...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
Embracing Change
Jun 2008
Change is often very difficult for people to accept and yet it's happening every minute. The only thing certain is change. When you find that things are not as you want them to be in your life,...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
Reward Now, Punish Later: Punishment Alone May Not Change Social Norms
Nov 2010
Did you ever wonder how some executives get into the position that they are in? Judging by their lack of interpersonal skills, arrogant attitude and weak sales game, they must have some damning...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Better Decisions Through Diversity: Heterogeneity Can Boost Group Performance
Oct 2010
Customer Relationship Management, otherwise called as CRM is a business strategy that aims at the concept of being customer-centric. To be customer-centric is to help an enterprise to make its...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Seven Dynamics Of Change
Jan 2010
Whatever the kinds of change that people encounter, there are certain patterns of response that occur and re-occur. It is important that change leaders understand some of these patterns, since...
Provided by Robert Bacal
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White Papers
Tips For Managing Change: A Conversation With Chris Musselwhite
Jan 2010
How people deal with change - both creating it and responding to it - is a function of identifiable individual preferences. It's helpful to think of the preferences on a continuum of conservers to...
Provided by Center for Creative Leadership
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White Papers
How Should CEOs Deal With Stress?
Jan 2010
Many people think that his health is not his private matter because so many others depend upon him. Some even raise a stock security issue. Forbes has pointed out that the Apple CEO turned to...
Provided by Chief Executive Group
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White Papers
The Regulator's Challenge: Providing Stability While Leading Change
Oct 2008
It is a paradox of our time that utility regulators are confronted with two seemingly conflicting challenges. On the one hand, regulators have their traditional and central responsibility of...
Provided by University of Florida
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White Papers
New Business Models For Energy Efficiency
Apr 2009
Energy Efficiency (EE) is recognized as the simplest, fastest, least expensive and lowest risk resource to meet growing energy demand. EE measures improve a firm or household's financial position...
Provided by CalCEF Innovations
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White Papers
Emotional Intelligence And Project Success
Sep 2009
The purpose of this paper is to introduce recent research on the correlation between a project manager's emotional Intelligence and successful projects and to outline the implications for existing...
Provided by Project Management Edge
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White Papers
Emotional Intelligence: A Critical Success Factor
May 2010
Emotional intelligence, also known as emotional quotient or EQ, is sometimes called 'Charismatic leadership' because it has a motivational and transformational effect on the team. The term means...
Provided by Drake Workwise
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White Papers
An Investigation Of Emotional Intelligence And The Use Of Online Social Media Tools In Organisations
Jul 2010
The use of Online Social Media tools in organisations is on the rise. With email approaching saturation levels in terms of usage, attention is now shifting to other forms of Online Social Media....
Provided by Knowledge Solutions
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White Papers
Smart Decision-Making In The New Era of Financial Challenges:
Mar 2009
People, businesses and nations seem fated to view much of their financial history in terms of "If only." When it comes to finances, fair warning is literally worth its weight in gold. But such...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
A Descriptive Model Of Managerial Effectiveness
Jan 2009
This study was designed to help understand what effective managers really do. Unlike previous research on managerial effectiveness, a diverse sample (N = 78) of managers was directly observed in...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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White Papers
The Role Of Empathy In Developing The Leaders : Emotional Intelligence
Feb 2010
The fundamental premise from which author start in this research is that the leader counts, that the top-level people certainly affect the productivity of any organization and that awareness of...
Provided by Ministry of Administration and Interior
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White Papers
Engineered to Lead: Emotional Intelligence - Why Leadership Is Like Calculus
Mar 2010
When engineers get to the point in their career where they transition from individual contributors to engineering leaders, they find they are trying to solve more difficult problems. All too...
Provided by A Constructive Influence
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White Papers
Emotional Intelligence And Performance
Jan 2008
Critical success factors for work and life are predicted by scores on the Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Assessment (SEI). In a sample of 665, SEI scores are strongly predictive of...
Provided by Six Seconds
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White Papers
Emotional Contagion
Sep 2008
Emotions serve to focus the attention on aspects of the world that help to thrive. They provide information about the interior world and about the relationships. For this survival function to...
Provided by Six Seconds
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White Papers
Is Emotional Intelligence Worthwhile? Assessing Incremental Validity And Adverse Impact
Aug 2008
Emotional intelligence is defined as the ability to perceive emotion, understand emotion, facilitate thought with emotion, and regulate emotion. Considerable debate exists as to whether emotional...
Provided by Texas A&M University
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White Papers
Kerberos Constrained Delegation And Protocol Transition In Smart Card PKI Architectures
Jul 2010
Kerberos delegation, as specified by version 5 of the protocol, resolved this through two new extensions to the authentication protocol: This is an important feature as it allows users to send a...
Provided by F5 Technical Brief
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Webcasts
HR Expert On "Fat Cat" Compensation: World Business Forum Interviews
Jan 2010
Human Resources Expert Bill Conaty addresses the topic of nurturing leaders, and how to foster a true meritocracy and build organizational vitality.
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Business Models And Evolving Economic Paradigms: A Systems Science Approach
Jul 2008
In developed economies, however, the service sector now dominates the manufacturing sector, just as manufacturing prevailed over the agricultural sector after the industrial revolution....
Provided by Helsinki University of Technology
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White Papers
Modern Restructuring Thought
Apr 2009
Companies that want to take advantage of rapidly expanding technologies are being forced to change their business structures which have existed for many years. The employees of these firms do not...
Provided by Texas A&M University
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White Papers
Analyzing Business Models For Cross Border e-Services Provided By The Chambers Of Commerce
Mar 2008
The term "Business Model" started to gain momentum in the early rise of the new economy and it is currently used both in business practice and scientific research. Under a general point of view...
Provided by LSE
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White Papers
Mobile In Motion: Potential Disruptive Business Models
Mar 2008
This white paper sheds light on these questions by examining recent news of the mobile industry through the lens of business model evolution and by suggesting implications for how mobile operators...
Provided by Oliver Wyman
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White Papers
Transforming To A Sustainable Wireless Business Model: Building Optimized Strategies For LTE Transformation
Jul 2010
To meet the ever-increasing demands for more bandwidth, flexibility and reliability, mobile service providers will soon have to make the move to 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks. But to truly...
Provided by Alcatel-Lucent
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White Papers
CEO Overconfidence In M&A Decision Making And Its Impact On Firm Performance
Aug 2008
Using a large sample of over 1,900 M&A deals from 1993 to 2005, and data on more than 3,100 CEOs, the authors explore merger and acquisition activities from a behavioral perspective, and provide...
Provided by University of Edinburgh
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White Papers
Small Menu Costs And Large Business Cycles: A Macroeconomic Model Of Monopoly
Jul 2007
The conflict between modern neoclassical and traditional Keynesian theories of the business cycle centers upon the pricing mechanism.' In neoclassical models, prices are fully flexible. They...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Getting The Windows 7 Migration Right: The Role Of Testing
Jul 2010
Windows 7 is a welcome update to Microsoft's client operating system, with research showing that 60 percent of businesses expect to migrate to it in one of the largest upgrades in recent memory....
Provided by Cognizant
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White Papers
Recognition and Motivation
Aug 2008
Many recognition theories are based on Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. In the foundational level, people want their basic needs met such as food, water, sleep, etc. In the second level, people are...
Provided by James Cook University
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White Papers
Employee Motivations, Managerial Trustworthiness, And Work Attitudes
Oct 2009
Scholars and practitioners have emphasized the benefits of a highly motivated workforce. Although scholars have studied the causes and consequences of high employee motivation, many questions...
Provided by Georgia State University
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White Papers
Guide To Motivating Employees
Aug 2010
The Human Resources (HR) Guide to Motivating Employees is intended to provide effective ideas and tools for supporting employee motivation. CU-Boulder supervisors and managers are working hard to...
Provided by University of Colorado
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White Papers
A Strategy For Building Public Service Motivation Research Internationally
May 2009
As the scholarly research on Public Service Motivation (PSM) has grown and the geographic scope of the research has expanded, there is growing concern about whether the conceptual composition and...
Provided by Indiana University
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White Papers
Motivation And Values Of European Commission Staff
Apr 2009
The concept of public service motivation has been central to the discussion of motivation in the field of public management but has never been studied in international organizations. This paper...
Provided by Catholic University of Leuven
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White Papers
The Role of Motivation In Human Resource Management
Jun 2008
This paper deals with the role of motivation within the Human Resource Management activities with the focus on two countries, the United States and the Czech Republic, and their attitudes towards...
Provided by University of Pardubice
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White Papers
Affect And Intrinisic Motivation
Jan 2010
People are intrinsically motivated when they are motivated by engaging with a work task itself rather than by external rewards. The authors develop a conceptual model which proposes that affect is...
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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White Papers
A Model Of Knowledge-Sharing Motivation
Sep 2009
In this white paper, the author present a model of knowledge-sharing motivation based on a combination of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Self-Determination Theory (SDT), along with a...
Provided by Concordia University
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White Papers
Motivation: How To Increase Project Team Performance
Feb 2008
Motivation can inspire, encourage, and stimulate individuals and project teams to achieve great accomplishments. Motivation can also create an environment that fosters teamwork and collective...
Provided by Project Management Institute
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White Papers
Motivation
Sep 2007
Motivating people is not an easy task. What motivates people to work? First the authors need to define what is motivation? According to Landy and Becker, motivation consists of all least one of...
Provided by IESE Business School - University of Navarra
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White Papers
The Importance Of Emotional Intelligence For Project Managers
Jun 2009
Project management requires many different types of skills in order to handle the many demands of the profession. Emotional intelligence has become a key factor in helping project managers achieve...
Provided by University of Denver
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White Papers
Management And Organisational Behaviour
Mar 2008
The module aims to provide an understanding of the practical and professional issues associated with organisational behavior and how these relate to effective management practice. The module...
Provided by City University of Hong Kong
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White Papers
Emotional Intelligence in Recruitment
Nov 2010
Emotional Intelligence (EI) has been touted as being responsible for over 85% of outstanding performance in the workplace. Whilst such estimates have been criticised as being somewhat overzealous,...
Provided by Onetest
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White Papers
Addressing Organizational Behavior Issues To Optimize It And Facilities Energy Efficiency
Jul 2008
To successfully implement enterprise-wide sustainability initiatives, senior leaders of the organization must continually advocate for the importance of sustainability to the organization. Without...
Provided by Green Grid
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White Papers
Understanding Enterprise Behavior Using Hybrid Simulation Of Enterprise Architecture
Jun 2009
Today, the design of business enterprises is much more art than science. The complex structure and behavior of enterprises makes it difficult to untangle cause and effect amidst its components and...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Improving Enterprise Decision-Making: The Benefits Of Metric Commonality
Jun 2010
The objective of this research is to identify a new approach in managing, and making internal program-level decisions from, externally tracked performance metrics. Industry observations indicate...
Provided by Cornell University
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White Papers
Development Through Innovative Business Models
Sep 2008
The responsAbility refinances microfinance institutes, and in the process indirectly supplies the necessary capital for many BoP business models. The company borrows funds for this on the...
Provided by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit
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White Papers
The Dilemma Of Decision Making
Sep 2007
One of the most important things a manager does is make decisions. How those decisions are made, and what outcomes result from those decisions can greatly influence the success or failure of any...
Provided by ArrowPoint Media
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White Papers
Decision Making, Impulsivity And Time Perception
Oct 2007
Time is an important dimension when individuals make decisions. Specifically, the time until a beneficial outcome can be received is viewed as a cost and is weighed against the benefits of the...
Provided by Elsevier B.V.
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White Papers
Self-Deceptive Decision Making: Normative And Descriptive Insights
Feb 2009
Computational modeling of human belief maintenance and decision-making processes has become increasingly important for a wide range of applications. The authors present a framework for modeling...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
Decision Making For Predictive Maintenance In Asset Information Management
Nov 2009
Asset management is a process of identification, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of physical assets (Wenzler, 2005). An asset-centric approach is vital for the success of an asset...
Provided by Loughborough University
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White Papers
Decision Making Under Uncertain And Risky Situations
Apr 2009
Decision Making is certainly the most important task of a manager and it is often a very difficult one. The domain of decision analysis models falls between two extreme cases. This depends upon...
Provided by University of Tehran
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White Papers
Barriers To Effective Leader Decision-Making
Sep 2008
The goal of most organizations is to select and retain talented employees who can build and sustain corporate success. Highly talented employees often have to compete with noise, interference,...
Provided by University of Oklahoma
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White Papers
Intuition: Myth Or A Decision-Making Tool?
Aug 2007
Faced with today's ill-structured business environment of fast-paced change and rising uncertainty, organizations have been searching for management tools that will perform satisfactorily under...
Provided by Griffith University
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White Papers
Affect And Decision Making
May 2009
As discussed, affect has the potential to influence the decision-making process in a number of ways. However, the potential may or may not be realized depending on the individual and the...
Provided by University of Baltimore
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White Papers
The Big Deal About Decision Making
Apr 2009
The effectiveness of an organization is inextricably linked to the quality of decisions its leaders make, and the speed at which they make them. There is sometimes a presumptive element in...
Provided by Generative Leadership Group
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White Papers
How Can Decision Making Be Improved?
Jul 2008
The optimal moment to address the question of how to improve human decision making has arrived. Thanks to fifty years of research by judgment and decision making scholars, psychologists have...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Making The Decision To Outsource
Jan 2010
If outsourcing appears to be the best option, an IT organization must take the time to fully understand the ramifications of its choice. Outsourcing is not a simple endeavor. The mere...
Provided by Clarity Consulting
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White Papers
Analyzing Business Models For Cross Border e-Services Provided By The Chambers Of Commerce
Mar 2008
The term "Business Model" started to gain momentum in the early rise of the new economy and it is currently used both in business practice and scientific research. Under a general point of view...
Provided by LSE
-
White Papers
Modern Restructuring Thought
Apr 2009
Companies that want to take advantage of rapidly expanding technologies are being forced to change their business structures which have existed for many years. The employees of these firms do not...
Provided by Texas A&M University
-
White Papers
Business Models And Evolving Economic Paradigms: A Systems Science Approach
Jul 2008
In developed economies, however, the service sector now dominates the manufacturing sector, just as manufacturing prevailed over the agricultural sector after the industrial revolution....
Provided by Helsinki University of Technology
-
Webcasts
HR Expert On "Fat Cat" Compensation: World Business Forum Interviews
Jan 2010
Human Resources Expert Bill Conaty addresses the topic of nurturing leaders, and how to foster a true meritocracy and build organizational vitality.
Provided by IESE School Of Business
-
White Papers
Kerberos Constrained Delegation And Protocol Transition In Smart Card PKI Architectures
Jul 2010
Kerberos delegation, as specified by version 5 of the protocol, resolved this through two new extensions to the authentication protocol: This is an important feature as it allows users to send a...
Provided by F5 Technical Brief
-
White Papers
Is Emotional Intelligence Worthwhile? Assessing Incremental Validity And Adverse Impact
Aug 2008
Emotional intelligence is defined as the ability to perceive emotion, understand emotion, facilitate thought with emotion, and regulate emotion. Considerable debate exists as to whether emotional...
Provided by Texas A&M University
-
White Papers
Emotional Contagion
Sep 2008
Emotions serve to focus the attention on aspects of the world that help to thrive. They provide information about the interior world and about the relationships. For this survival function to...
Provided by Six Seconds
-
White Papers
Making Real Decisions In International Meetings
Jan 2010
Do you ever take part in international meetings where people say "Yes" when they mean "No"? Where some people come prepared to reach decisions and others expect only to discuss? Where you thought...
Provided by Global Integration
-
White Papers
Delivering Difficult Decisions
Jul 2009
When leaders must deliver bad news - whether they're announcing layoffs, across-the-board salary cuts, or unpopular changes to corporate policy or strategy - employees' first response usually...
Provided by Gallup
-
White Papers
The Best Ways To Keep Your Employees Happy
Jan 2010
A business becomes successful because it knows what types of priorities are the most important and how to put them there. The establishment of any kind of company can be an overwhelming task, but...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
-
White Papers
Recruiting America's Military Elite To Lead Your Organization
Jan 2010
Major organizations across the U.S. have focused on recruiting former military leaders for years, well aware of their unique abilities to lead a company to success. These recruiting programs are...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
-
White Papers
Are Team Building Events Effective For Large Groups?
Jan 2010
Sometimes you are faced with organizing team building events for large numbers and by large numbers we mean groups of one hundred delegates plus. The question is, will any team building event be...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
-
White Papers
Want To Learn Lessons From Those Who Have Struggled And Succeeded With Organizational Effectiveness?
Jan 2010
Striving to address organisational effectiveness can be a desperately slow process. Best practice suggests use of internal improvement teams and use of the continuous improvement principle. These...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
-
White Papers
Dealing With Difficult Staff Behavior
Jan 2010
It's probably one of the least favorite tasks for a manager, but not formally ticking off a staff member when they're out of line will cause the matter to linger, if not worsen. Disruptive...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
-
White Papers
Searching For The Starting Point To Create The Effective Organization?
Jan 2010
The benefit of making your organization an effective organization is clear. By focusing on your customers and delivering quality and value, you build a more profitable business for yourself. The...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
-
White Papers
Developing Effective Organization - How Can I Ensure That Each Employee Is Effective?
Jan 2010
Developing an effective organization is one of those tasks that never end. Just when you think that you are getting there, the goalposts move, and you have to engage again. All of this activity...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
-
White Papers
How To Motivate And Inspire Your Employees To Be The Best They Can Be
Jan 2010
It would be misleading to make managers and supervisors think that there's a secret to motivating and inspiring their fellow employees. In fact, only the employees themselves can do that, and so...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
-
White Papers
Culture With A Little C - Don't Let It Undermine Your Business
Jan 2010
Probably the most common definition of an organization's culture is "The ways do things around here." If you're an executive describing your culture, you're most likely referring to your mission,...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
-
White Papers
A Look At The Different Important Aspects Of Change Management
Jan 2010
One of the most important aspects of businesses and organizations, change management is considered a structured approach to change in order to achieve a desired state in the future. The system...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
-
White Papers
Change Doesn't Have To Be Difficult? If You Know How
Nov 2010
Knowing what to do and being motivated to do it do not change behavior (even though most people think it is supposed to) because behavior is driven by beliefs about people, life and themselves. If...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Choosing To Change
Sep 2010
Organizational and individual transformation is fundamentally a matter of choice: when people see a clear advantage to change, they choose, on an emotional level, to make a shift. When faced with...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
-
White Papers
Business Coaching; Learning To Change With The Market And Times
Aug 2010
Business coaching is necessary for surpassing the current levels of performance and productivity. The challenges faced by today's organizations in terms of reinvention, reengineering, reorganizing...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
-
White Papers
The Seasoned Executive's Decision - Making Style
Nov 2009
The job of a manager is, above all, to make decisions. At any moment in any day, most executives are engaged in some aspect of decision making: exchanging information, reviewing data, coming up...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
-
White Papers
How Do You Manage Change?
Nov 2008
Regardless of industry or discipline, client expectations of an interim manager on assignment are extremely high. It is therefore essential to integrate rapidly into the client organization,...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
-
White Papers
Embracing Change
Jun 2008
Change is often very difficult for people to accept and yet it's happening every minute. The only thing certain is change. When you find that things are not as you want them to be in your life,...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
-
White Papers
Reward Now, Punish Later: Punishment Alone May Not Change Social Norms
Nov 2010
Did you ever wonder how some executives get into the position that they are in? Judging by their lack of interpersonal skills, arrogant attitude and weak sales game, they must have some damning...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
-
White Papers
Better Decisions Through Diversity: Heterogeneity Can Boost Group Performance
Oct 2010
Customer Relationship Management, otherwise called as CRM is a business strategy that aims at the concept of being customer-centric. To be customer-centric is to help an enterprise to make its...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
-
White Papers
Seven Dynamics Of Change
Jan 2010
Whatever the kinds of change that people encounter, there are certain patterns of response that occur and re-occur. It is important that change leaders understand some of these patterns, since...
Provided by Robert Bacal
-
White Papers
Tips For Managing Change: A Conversation With Chris Musselwhite
Jan 2010
How people deal with change - both creating it and responding to it - is a function of identifiable individual preferences. It's helpful to think of the preferences on a continuum of conservers to...
Provided by Center for Creative Leadership
-
White Papers
How Should CEOs Deal With Stress?
Jan 2010
Many people think that his health is not his private matter because so many others depend upon him. Some even raise a stock security issue. Forbes has pointed out that the Apple CEO turned to...
Provided by Chief Executive Group
-
White Papers
The Regulator's Challenge: Providing Stability While Leading Change
Oct 2008
It is a paradox of our time that utility regulators are confronted with two seemingly conflicting challenges. On the one hand, regulators have their traditional and central responsibility of...
Provided by University of Florida
-
White Papers
New Business Models For Energy Efficiency
Apr 2009
Energy Efficiency (EE) is recognized as the simplest, fastest, least expensive and lowest risk resource to meet growing energy demand. EE measures improve a firm or household's financial position...
Provided by CalCEF Innovations
-
White Papers
Emotional Intelligence And Project Success
Sep 2009
The purpose of this paper is to introduce recent research on the correlation between a project manager's emotional Intelligence and successful projects and to outline the implications for existing...
Provided by Project Management Edge
-
White Papers
Emotional Intelligence: A Critical Success Factor
May 2010
Emotional intelligence, also known as emotional quotient or EQ, is sometimes called 'Charismatic leadership' because it has a motivational and transformational effect on the team. The term means...
Provided by Drake Workwise
-
White Papers
An Investigation Of Emotional Intelligence And The Use Of Online Social Media Tools In Organisations
Jul 2010
The use of Online Social Media tools in organisations is on the rise. With email approaching saturation levels in terms of usage, attention is now shifting to other forms of Online Social Media....
Provided by Knowledge Solutions
-
White Papers
Smart Decision-Making In The New Era of Financial Challenges:
Mar 2009
People, businesses and nations seem fated to view much of their financial history in terms of "If only." When it comes to finances, fair warning is literally worth its weight in gold. But such...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
A Descriptive Model Of Managerial Effectiveness
Jan 2009
This study was designed to help understand what effective managers really do. Unlike previous research on managerial effectiveness, a diverse sample (N = 78) of managers was directly observed in...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Greensboro
-
White Papers
The Role Of Empathy In Developing The Leaders : Emotional Intelligence
Feb 2010
The fundamental premise from which author start in this research is that the leader counts, that the top-level people certainly affect the productivity of any organization and that awareness of...
Provided by Ministry of Administration and Interior
-
White Papers
Engineered to Lead: Emotional Intelligence - Why Leadership Is Like Calculus
Mar 2010
When engineers get to the point in their career where they transition from individual contributors to engineering leaders, they find they are trying to solve more difficult problems. All too...
Provided by A Constructive Influence
-
White Papers
Emotional Intelligence And Performance
Jan 2008
Critical success factors for work and life are predicted by scores on the Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Assessment (SEI). In a sample of 665, SEI scores are strongly predictive of...
Provided by Six Seconds
-
White Papers
Emotional Contagion
Sep 2008
Emotions serve to focus the attention on aspects of the world that help to thrive. They provide information about the interior world and about the relationships. For this survival function to...
Provided by Six Seconds
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White Papers
Is Emotional Intelligence Worthwhile? Assessing Incremental Validity And Adverse Impact
Aug 2008
Emotional intelligence is defined as the ability to perceive emotion, understand emotion, facilitate thought with emotion, and regulate emotion. Considerable debate exists as to whether emotional...
Provided by Texas A&M University
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White Papers
Kerberos Constrained Delegation And Protocol Transition In Smart Card PKI Architectures
Jul 2010
Kerberos delegation, as specified by version 5 of the protocol, resolved this through two new extensions to the authentication protocol: This is an important feature as it allows users to send a...
Provided by F5 Technical Brief
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Webcasts
HR Expert On "Fat Cat" Compensation: World Business Forum Interviews
Jan 2010
Human Resources Expert Bill Conaty addresses the topic of nurturing leaders, and how to foster a true meritocracy and build organizational vitality.
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Business Models And Evolving Economic Paradigms: A Systems Science Approach
Jul 2008
In developed economies, however, the service sector now dominates the manufacturing sector, just as manufacturing prevailed over the agricultural sector after the industrial revolution....
Provided by Helsinki University of Technology
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White Papers
Modern Restructuring Thought
Apr 2009
Companies that want to take advantage of rapidly expanding technologies are being forced to change their business structures which have existed for many years. The employees of these firms do not...
Provided by Texas A&M University
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White Papers
Analyzing Business Models For Cross Border e-Services Provided By The Chambers Of Commerce
Mar 2008
The term "Business Model" started to gain momentum in the early rise of the new economy and it is currently used both in business practice and scientific research. Under a general point of view...
Provided by LSE
