Irving Wladawsky-Berger contemplates on Social Networks and Organizational Governance, arguing with a case of an “organizational system” that was streamlined too much – losing its senses and its manageability along the way. Check the actual post to see which organization he’s talking about, or take a guess … all in all this fits fine into […]
an entertaining and typically forthright argument in favor of anger and its power to drive innovation … here in a podcast of IT Conversations with Jeff Bonforte (get the mp3). […] Bonforte presents his belief that anger is the most untapped emotion when it comes to start-ups and innovation. Anger doesn’t appear on many business […]
Noch nicht gehört, aber sieht interessant aus: Leithammel und Alphatiere – Wie animalisch ist die Welt der Wirtschaft? Ein Sendung von SWR 2 Forum, Moderation durch Eggert Blum mit Prof. Dr. Michael Hutter – Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, Universität Witten-Herdecke, Harald Schumann – Journalist und Buchautor, Berlin, Dr.-Ing. Rainer Dulger – geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der ProMinent Dosiertechnik GmbH, Heidelberg, […]
Via Bob Sutton: BusinessWeek starts off another blog called Management IQ. Please, no shallow jokes about oxymorons and the like, I’ve had enough “business intelligence, har har” chatter for a lifetime. Read their mission statement and decide for yourself if you want to follow (RSS): How can you manage smarter? BusinessWeek writers Diane Brady, Michelle […]
Well, for the record, BusinessWeek columnists Jack and Suzy Welch (neutron jack, you know …, this time with a bad cold) start off explaining the rationale of the fight against organizational layers, and they go on talking about organizational pathologies and communication problems. Yet and although I’m all for flat hierarchies I don’t follow Welch’s […]
Via Business & Technology Reinvention this outstanding case of part maverick creative thinking, part case study of an informal “we’re getting blogged, wtf … danger case” and part case study for business (re-)vitalization when facing severe organizational obstacles. A bunch of Disney and Pixar Imagineers have a blog called RE Imagineering. […] RE imagineering’s site […]
Wirtschaftsethik, “gutes” Management und Leadership, strikte Governance und mangelnde Kontrolle sind Themen in SWR 2 Wissen, “Söldner des Turbo-Kapitalismus?” (mp3, ca. 28 min): Manager zwischen Rendite-Druck und sozialem Gewissen. Manager sollen die Rendite-Erwartungen der Kapitaleigner erfüllen und geben den Druck an die Belegschaften weiter. Selbst in Zeiten prallvoller Firmenkassen müssen Arbeiter und Angestellte Lohnkürzungen und […]
