Archive for August, 2008
Strategy: Asking the right questions
Take some time to consider the major changes that occurred in your industry over the past five years. Could you have foreseen them? Perhaps yes… perhaps no… perhaps some. More important, have you even taken the time five years ago to consider what the major changes over the next five years would be? If you [...]
The Difference Between Management and Leadership
I found this video clip of Carly Fiorina, former CEO of HP at Stanford University’ Entrepreneurship Corner. Fiorina provides an insightful distinction between leadership and management. She describes leadership as changing the order of things and management as the production of acceptable results within known constraints and conditions.
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Insightful… “changing the order of things”… works for [...]
The 21st Century MBA – Quo Vadis?
A recent article in Strategy & Business – “The 21st Century MBA” – Mary Gentile argues that management education needs to be transformed to match a world that requires business leaders to address the concerns of all their stakeholders. She states that Business schools are now at a crossroads, and that critics from both outside [...]
