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The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleDiversify your product line. Stick to your knitting. Hire a professional manager. Watch fixed costs. Those are some of the suggestions that entrepreneurs... -
3 Strategies for Making Better, More Informed Decisions
Cognitive bias Digital ArticleHow to overcome the limitations of our self-serving biases. -
Leader's Framework for Decision Making
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleSnowden and Boone have formed a new perspective on leadership and decision making that's based on complexity science. The result is the Cynefin framework,... -
What VUCA Really Means for You
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTo meet the challenges of a complex world, strategic planners need to understand the differences between the four elements of VUCA--volatility, uncertainty,... -
ABCs of the Critical Path Method
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe critical path method (CPM), one of a variety of quantitative tools for business decision-making, is a simple technique for analyzing, planning, and... -
How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward
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Decision Trees for Decision-Making
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleHere is a [recently developed] tool for analyzing the choices, risks, objectives, monetary gains, and information needs involved in complex management decisions, like plant investment. -
The Elements of Good Judgment
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleJudgment--the ability to combine personal qualities with relevant knowledge and experience to form opinions and make decisions--is "the core of exemplary... -
How to Stop Overthinking and Start Trusting Your Gut
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The Founder's Dilemma
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhy do people start businesses? For the money and the chance to control their own companies, certainly. But new research from Harvard Business School... -
What Great Data Analysts Do — and Why Every Organization Needs Them
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How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight
Decision making and problem solving HBR BestsellerThe absence of conflict is not harmony, it’s apathy. -
Good Leadership Is About Asking Good Questions
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYou don't need to pretend to have all the answers. -
6 Strategies for Leading Through Uncertainty
Decision making and problem solving Digital ArticleStart by embracing the discomfort of not knowing. -
How to Negotiate with Powerful Suppliers
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleIn many industries the balance of power has shifted from buyers to suppliers. Companies that have gotten into a weak position need to tackle the problem... -
The 4 Types of Innovation and the Problems They Solve
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How Information Gives You Competitive Advantage
IT management Magazine ArticleThe information revolution is sweeping through our economy. No company can escape its effects. Dramatic reductions in the cost of obtaining, processing, and transmitting information are changing the way we do business. Most general managers know that the revolution is under way, and few dispute its importance. As more and more of their time and […] -
Ambidextrous Organization
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleCorporate executives must constantly look backward, attending to the products and processes of the past, while also gazing forward, preparing for the... -
A New Model for Ethical Leadership
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleRather than try to follow a set of simple rules ("Don't lie." "Don't cheat."), leaders and managers seeking to be more ethical should focus on creating... -
Facing Your Mid-Career Crisis
Career planning Magazine ArticleShould you cope or quit?
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Hard-Won Accord: British Columbia & EDS Canada Negotiate a Complex Revenue Management Contract
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details When a public sector agency decides to privatize a large government function (as opposed to a more discreet job), the process of negotiating the service... -
Aster DM Healthcare: Budgeting for a Crisis
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In April 2020, Alisha Moopen, Deputy Managing Director of Aster DM Healthcare, a network of clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies in the Middle East and... -
Cat Fight in the Pet Food Industry (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Describes the pet food industry in the mid-eighties prior to the breakout of a major competitive battle as manufacturers fight for share. Illustrates... -
Jeanne Lewis at Staples, Inc., Video (Streaming)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study20.00View Details Jeanne Lewis, EVP/Marketing at Staples, talks with an MBA class. She describes her actions in the Jeanne Lewis at Staples, Inc. (B) case and gives general... -
Goddard Space Flight Center: Building A Learning Organization (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details While reading the Wall Street Journal, Edward Rogers notices an advertisement for a knowledge management architect at the Goddard Space Flight Center... -
The Walsham Hotel: The Mechatronic KoolNitro 346 Mini-Bar
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The Walsham hotel is an upscale hotel, located in a large southern city. Its clientele have high expectations and, given the Walsham's urban location,... -
Congestion Charging in London (A) The Western Extension
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In July 2004, Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of Greater London, had to decide whether or not to expand the system of congestion charging he had implemented... -
Organizational Alignment: The 7-S Model
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Presents the 7-S framework. This framework offers managers a tool for diagnosing problems in their organizations and for proposing corrective courses... -
Saint Elizabeth: Innovation in Health Care
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Saint Elizabeth, a leading Canadian health-care enterprise, had been managing innovation through what it called the Innovation Tripod. This had three... -
Both/And Thinking Toolkit: How to Transform Challenges into Opportunities
In their book "Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems," Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis show the importance of... -
Quaker Steel and Alloy Corp.
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Lower middle-level manager is faced with the need to bring about a change in the call patterns of the sales force selling her product. Based on an earlier... -
Kotter on Accelerating Change (2 Ebooks)
This collection offers the full digital editions of two seminal books by global leadership expert John P. Kotter: his international bestseller, "Leading... -
I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique
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Polymer Technologies Inc.
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Polymer Technologies Inc. are specialists in integrating metal and plastic to produce margin switches, relays and electromechanical products for the automotive... -
Bhutan: Governing for Happiness
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Unique among the world's countries, the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan had abandoned the traditional policy goal of increasing Gross Domestic Product (GDP)... -
Atlanta Ransomware Attack (B)
Management Case Study5.00View Details This case describes the March 2018 Ransomware attack on the information technology (IT) systems of the city of Atlanta and the response by Mayor Keisha... -
Citibank Indonesia
Global Business Case Study6.95View Details Describes a dilemma faced by Citibank's country manager for Indonesia. His superiors have asked him to raise his profit goal for 1984. But to produce... -
Edward Jones in 2006: Confronting Success
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details When Jim Weddle took over as Managing Partner of Edward Jones in January 2006, the brokerage firm was at a critical juncture. The firm's distinctive strategy... -
Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader's Guide to Solving Hard Problems
30.00View Details Bestselling authors and cohosts of the TED podcast Fixable, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss reinvent the playbook for how to lead change--with a radical...
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The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleDiversify your product line. Stick to your knitting. Hire a professional manager. Watch fixed costs. Those are some of the suggestions that entrepreneurs... -
3 Strategies for Making Better, More Informed Decisions
Cognitive bias Digital ArticleHow to overcome the limitations of our self-serving biases. -
Leader's Framework for Decision Making
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleSnowden and Boone have formed a new perspective on leadership and decision making that's based on complexity science. The result is the Cynefin framework,... -
What VUCA Really Means for You
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTo meet the challenges of a complex world, strategic planners need to understand the differences between the four elements of VUCA--volatility, uncertainty,... -
ABCs of the Critical Path Method
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe critical path method (CPM), one of a variety of quantitative tools for business decision-making, is a simple technique for analyzing, planning, and... -
How to Make Great Decisions, Quickly
It’s a skill that will set you apart. -
How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward
Business and society Magazine ArticleA research roundup -
Decision Trees for Decision-Making
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleHere is a [recently developed] tool for analyzing the choices, risks, objectives, monetary gains, and information needs involved in complex management decisions, like plant investment. -
The Elements of Good Judgment
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleJudgment--the ability to combine personal qualities with relevant knowledge and experience to form opinions and make decisions--is "the core of exemplary... -
How to Stop Overthinking and Start Trusting Your Gut
Decision making and problem solving Digital ArticleFive strategies to strengthen your sixth sense.