Category: management
A spotter’s guide to bad angels
Here is a nice list of business angle types: Shark angels Crazy, rich uncles Litigious angels Superior angels Megalomaniac angels Chief executive angels Meddling angels Has-been angels Dumb angels For a list of the definitions of these follow this link: FT.com / Entrepreneurship – A spotter’s guide to bad angels.
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Ashridge on strategy
Going back to the 1970s, strategic planning was seen as being about linking opportunities to capabilities. Since then great progress has been made in developing strategy tools to examine both opportunities and capabilities. But, not much progress has been made on how to develop winning strategies. Most strategic planning processes are seen as analysis paralysis…
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Is the office dead?
On Neal Gandhi’s blog: Just read this article – very interesting. It discusses the rise of micro-multinationals and attitudes related to the usefulness or otherwise of the traditional office. via Diary of a globalization champion. The full piece at Collision Detection makes good reading, especially at a time when we are looking at new office…
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Marketing Professionalism
Now here is a subject to debate: is marketing a profession? David Pearson, a previous managing director of mine, says on his blog: Some argue that Marketing is the oldest Profession because the ladies who traditionally claim that status must have their charms Marketed. I am not sure I am comfortable with equating Marketing with pimping.…
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HR impact on business success
I wonder who will win? We, that is Sodexo Motivation Solutions, are sponsors of the HR impact on business success award this year at the CIPD People Management Awards 2010. The winner was decided back in September by a panel of judges and will be announced at the award ceremony this week, on 10 November 2010,…
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