Management
Management
Engaged, talented employees are a company’s greatest resource. Yet many mangers fail, through both neglect and ignorance, to bring out the best in their workforce. To determine the crucial components of great...
In How Risky Is It, Really?, David Ropeik discusses how the human brain determines whether a person is at risk and the methods it takes to reach that conclusion. Today, significant advances in...
In Helping, Edgar H. Schein draws not only on his career expertise but from personal life experiences to establish a “general theory of helping” that holds true no matter what the social dynamics of...
In Good Boss, Bad Boss, Robert I. Sutton relates the importance of how bosses behave and lays the groundwork for coaching bosses on how to be great while avoiding the pitfalls leading to employee...
In Enterprise Supply Chain Management, Vivek Sehgal takes a comprehensive look at the role of supply chains within a variety of industries and organizations. Supply chain management evolved out of a...
There are two dividing beliefs in the business world: (1) the belief that companies should be run according to formal organizational standards, such as job responsibilities, costs, and means of communication, and (2)...
In Making Telework Work, authors Evan H. Offstein and Jason M. Morwick define telework as incorporating and optimizing technology to be productive, to collaborate better, and to be more proactive...
When Holly G. Green was a young manager, she read a book titled The One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson. The refreshing simplicity of the book’s three basic principles...
Management is a complex position. Beyond the actual supervising of employees, a task that employs all manner of leadership, communication and delegation skills itself, managers must also possess a firm grasp on the...
Recognition is an important and powerful tool that managers often do not use to full advantage. However, the effective use of recognition becomes even more critical in turbulent or difficult times when finding and...
