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• Dzone Lean Article

  
  Agile & Lean Software Development by Richard Durnall — Authority: 91
  Dzone just published my Lean article ‘We’re not Japanese and we don’t build cars’ . Please take a look and give me your comments. Have a great Christmas and New Year everyone!….
  4 days ago

• Terror management-- a cradle-to-grave battle

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  While our nations fight against terrorism is never far from our awareness, we are all driven by a strong fear of dying that hits us on a deeper, more personal level-even if we dont usually identify it as such. Based on ideas dating back to Plato, terror management theory (TMT) details how people develop their sense ...
  6 days ago

• Disney Organizational Chart, circa 1943

  
  Organizations and Markets — Authority: 536
  | Peter Klein | This week’s passing of Roy Disney has brought forth some interesting discussion of the firm founded by his uncle Walt and father Roy. Check out this Disney organizational chart from 1943 (click to enlarge), courtesy of design site @issue . Unlike the typical corporate hierarchy, writes Delphine ...
  1 week ago

• Edward Lawler on new management models (as what what I call “wirearchy” emerges)

  
  The FASTForward Blog — Authority: 509
  Ed Lawler is a reknowned management thinker I have studied or years. He was just interviewed (by Karl Moore, a management professor at McGill University) for the Toronto Globe and Mail on the need for new management models in the Interconnected Era. . New World Needs New Management Model Karl Moore: This is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Words of Wisdom from Williamson’s Banquet Speech

  
  Organizations and Markets — Authority: 536
  | Peter Klein | The transcript is here . My favorite bit, which can be read as a response to the econ-bashers : Being hard-headed means that we aspire to tell it like it is — be it good news or bad. Although we take no joy in the downside, it is our duty candidly to confront all circumstances whatsoever. Our ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why We are Obsessed with Celebrities

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
    Tiger Woods had sex with a lot of women while married. So too have hundreds of thousands of people all over the world. But as my Mom used to say, we do not care "two hills of beans" about that. So why the fascination? There are the obvious reasons. For instance, we know Tiger Woods name; we have seen him on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Becker and Posner on Williamson and Organizational Economics

  
  Organizations and Markets — Authority: 536
  | Peter Klein | Ruminations on the field of organizational economics from Becker and Posner . Both are inspired by Williamson’s Nobel but neither discusses his contributions very directly. Posner’s comment, the longer of the two, describes some of his own work ( with Luis Garicano ) on public organizations. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Internal and External Corporate Governance

  
  Organizations and Markets — Authority: 536
  | Peter Klein | Most of the corporate governance literature focuses on external mechanisms for limiting managerial discretion: competition in product and factor markets; discipline from banks, institutional investors, and other large capital suppliers; and, of course, the market for corporate control. Firms have ...
  2 weeks ago

• User Innovation and Collaborative Innovation

  
  Organizations and Markets — Authority: 536
  | Dick Langlois | Two of my favorite scholars, Carliss Baldwin and Eric von Hippel, have bridged the Charles to team up on a joint manifesto pushing their related views on innovation. The paper is subtitled (or is it supertitled?) “ Modeling a Paradigm Shift .” Here is the abstract. In this paper we assess the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Lazy Manager Theory

  
  Organizations and Markets — Authority: 536
  | Peter Klein | Good ideas from John Wilkins , who earned a PhD in (I think) evolutionary biology while working as a full-time manager (via Randy). Sample elements of the Lazy Manager Theory: Never do any piece of paperwork when the person who asked for it isn’t there and holding it when they make the request. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Opening Lines I Wish I’d Written

  
  Organizations and Markets — Authority: 536
  | Peter Klein | Last week was tough for Shakespeare scholars who wear tweed jackets with leather elbow patches and sip sherry in the faculty lounge. You know, the people otherwise known as Saab drivers. That’s from a Friday WSJ piece on GM’s attempt to dump its Saab subsidiary . Readers outside the US may ...
  4 weeks ago

• Bringing strategic management theory to bear on today’s economy

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 137
  In surprising news, this release claims the current economy is too complex for macroeconomics . (Psst, it’s not really surprising at all.) The release: Strategic management theory offers fresh take on the economic crisis New research published in Strategic Organization Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, ...
  4 weeks ago

• When cigarette warnings backfire

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Cigarettes are a clear public health problem. A significant number of people who smoke regularly throughout their lives will develop serious health problems including lung cancer, heart disease and emphysema. And for 30 years now, governments around the world have worked to change peoples attitudes toward smoking. ...
  4 weeks ago

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