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Tag Archives: business
Narcissistic Cadre of Senior Executives
In yet another voice against the looting mentality of the current crop of executives Chris Bones, dean of Henley Business School writes a A crisis of confidence? This has resulted in the creation of a narcissistic cadre of senior executives … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Psychology, Systems thinking
Tagged business, commentary, executive pay, overpaid executives
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Build Your Business Slowly and Without Huge Cash Requirements
Get Rich Slow by Josh Quittner At no other time in recent history has it been easier or cheaper to start a new kind of company… These are Web-based businesses that cost almost nothing to get off the ground … … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Competition, Creativity, Innovation, Investing, IT, Management, Systems thinking
Tagged business, Career, Creativity, internet, IT, Lean thinking, Software Development, Systems thinking
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Why Pay Taxes or be Honest
This kind of stuff makes me mad. I was taught about robber barons in school (or actually I think by my uncle but…). And what I was taught was that business used to be seen as an amoral area. But … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Management, Psychology
Tagged business, ethics, government, leadership, Psychology, society
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Danaher Practicing Lean Thinking
Manufacturer’s Acquisition Strategy Sets It Apart From The Pack [the broken link was removed], Investors Business Daily: “It’s adapted from the Japanese Kaizen system,” Holmstead said. “Kaizen is a way of removing waste and standardizing processes and bringing underperforming or … Continue reading
Posted in Investing, Lean thinking, Management, Management Articles, Manufacturing
Tagged business, Investing, Lean thinking
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Gladwell (and Drucker) on Pensions
The Risk Poolhttps://management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/08/21/gladwell-and-drucker-on-pensions/ by Malcolm Gladwell (author of The Tipping Point and Blink): The most influential management theorist of the twentieth century was Peter Drucker, who, in 1950, wrote an extraordinarily prescient article for Harper’s entitled “The Mirage of Pensions.” … Continue reading
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Tagged business, Data, Economics, Investing, leadership, long term thinking, Management
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Interviews with Innovators
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days by Jessica Livingston is an interesting looking book to be published in a few months. The book consists of interviews with founders of technology companies exploring the initial efforts to create a … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, business, entrepreneur, Innovation, leadership
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Secrets of the World’s Best Companies
Best-kept secrets of the world’s best companies by Paul Kaihla. Not even the most successful companies in the world are managed by the book. Great management formulas aren’t handed down on stone tablets, or found in the writings or speeches … Continue reading
Drucker Opinion Essays from the WSJ
The Wall Street Journal has posted selected opinion essays by Peter Drucker [the broken link was removed] along with several tributes to Drucker. The Five Deadly Business Sins (article removed so link removed), 1993: the worship of high profit margins … Continue reading
Excessive Executive Pay
Topic: Management Improvement Via Christian Sarkar [the broken link was removed], Too Many Turkeys, The Economist: Executive compensation in America – already far ahead of the rest of the world, despite the best efforts of overseas managers to catch up … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Psychology, Respect
Tagged business, curiouscat, deadly diseases, executive pay, leadership, overpaid executives, Systems thinking
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Engage in Improving the Management System
To actually improve management you need to engage in continual improvement of your management systems. This requires doing the hard work of challenging complacency. The job of those improving the practice of management is not to make everyone happy and … Continue reading →