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Finding the Ideas That Make a Difference An Interview with Sam Harrison
"Never stop creating. Never stop exploring. Never stop appreciating."

Why Maverick Companies Succeed in a Competitive Environment An Interview with Polly LaBarre
"The invisible decisions you make are often ten times more important than the visible ones."

The Keys to Growing a Company to $1 Billion in Revenue An Interview with David G. Thomson
"If you do all these things, the odds are far higher that you will achieve exponential revenue growth, on a consistent year-over-year basis."

Designing a Company to be Built to Change An Interview with Edward Lawler
"The dilemma is needing to take action before the need is evident, of building change capability before it looks necessary."

Offshoring and the Future of IT Jobs: Where is the Growth? An Interview with Economist Jeremy Leonard
"We are in the midst of a business revolution that is embedding the power of IT into business processes and supply chains. Making those systems work requires an intimate knowledge of both the technology deployed and the business organization itself..."

The Case for Learning Computer Science An Interview with V. Anton Spraul, author of Computer Science Made Simple
"Whether people think they are working in IT or not, there's a good chance their work depends on IT in some way."

Is the U.S. Really Losing its Technological Edge? The Case of the Vanishing Chinese Engineers
When bad statistics get reported a hundred times over, it's easy for Chicken Littles to spread bad news across the land.

A Hip-Hop MBA? By Rick Oliver
Building an “Empire of the ‘Hood” Requires Some Savvy Business Skills

Creativity in Business Bookshelf
A Guide to the Best Books for Stimulating Creative Thinking and Unorthodox Ideas

Playing Hardball in a Competitive Environment An Interview with George Stalk,
author of Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win?

A Moving Target: The Global Telecommunications Industry An Interview with Toshinari Ishii
"We are seeing the emergence of a new industry entirely. This industry will soon become the infrastructure of the next global economy and will produce a great deal of prosperity ..."

Systematically Building Leadership Capacity by Bob Morris
Effective leadership is actually one of the most powerful and sustainable competitive advantages an organization can have. ...

The Essence of Risk An Interview with Risk Management Expert Peter L. Bernstein
"Where organizations get blindsided is when something happens that is totally unexpected--and this is where communication and leadership take over." ...

Rooting Out Financial Shenanigans An Interview with Dr. Howard Schilit
What are the main reasons companies resort to financial shenanigans? Usually it is done to place the company in a better light, to make things look better than they actually are ...

Financial Literacy: From Home to the Workplace by Tim Leffel
When it comes to understanding budgets, profits, interest expense, and costs, how literate is your family--or your team?...

The Psychology of Persuasion An Interview with Psychologist and Author Robert Cialdini
"One of the best things we can do is use the process of writing things down, even if it is only in a preliminary meeting. What we've learned in research is that people live up to what they write down." ...

Artful Persuasion An Interview with Harry Mills
"We look for our leaders to say, 'This is where we are going.' It doesn't have to be a picture of paradise, with no problems, but it has to be honest." ...

Getting to "Yes" Through Mutual Interest An Interview with Roger Fisher
"Don't be a typical haggler. You have human beings involved. Much more of success in negotiation depends on finding out what else the other side cares about besides money." ...

Management Education and Practice Today An Interview with Henry Mintzberg
Prof. Henry Mintzberg of McGill University in Montreal has generated a lot of attention over the years for notable books such as Mintzberg on Management and The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning. His most recent book titled Managers, Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development, has been widely reviewed in academic publications and mainstream media ...

Achieving Information Literacy by Kim Dority
"In the business world, the lack of ability to find, analyze, and act upon best information can have terrible business consequences." ...

637 Words About Information Overload by Tim Leffel
Information overload has been with us for decades, but the problem is getting worse every year, and probably every month. In mid-2003, a Google search for "information overload" brought up 160,000 entries ...

The Evolution of Business Strategy By Dr. Richard W. Oliver
What is "strategy?" What is "strategic planning?" Like art, we know it when we see it, but it's not always easy to describe and define. One time-honored way to come to grips with a difficult concept such as strategy is to think in terms of metaphors. Business strategy has taken many forms over the past century ..."

Strategic Management: A Guide for the Classroom and the Field An interview with Fred David
"What are the competitors doing? Why are they doing it? Where are they weak? How can we take advantage of them? ..."

The Strategy Bookshelf
If you’re going to be making decisions on where your department, division, or company will be going in the future, you'll need some good references ..."

Teaching Students to Become Entrepreneurs an Interview with Jeff Timmons
"Formal education puts an enormous emphasis on not making any mistakes, of searching for the perfect solution and the underlying inventive assumption that every problem has a solution and answer. There's a lot of damage done to kids' intellect and their creative thinking because of that pervasive character of their education..."

The Entrepreneur: From Classroom to the Field an Interview with Murray Low
"The difficult decisions are not the ones where there's a clear good/bad. The ethical ones are where there's a real dilemma in that you don't like any of the choices that you're faced with."

Small Business Growth in the 21st Century an Interview with Steven S. Little
"The best growth leaders know that they are only as good as the people they hire, train and retain."

Bringing "The Entreprenurial Practices Way" to Big Companies an Interview with Larry Farrell
"The management rules--and the fads--that we learn in business schools come from studying big companies, most of which are already past their prime and in decline."

Want to See the Future? Read About It, Then Make It
"The best managers and owners are able to survive long-term by having a view of the future. They may not always be right, but they are right often enough that they are able to steer their company in a way that avoids catastrophe and finds the growth areas."

Offshore Outsourcing - Strategy and Execution
"The savings from offshore outsourcing is heavily dependent on management skill and the ability to stick with it."

A Category of One – An Interview with Joe Calloway
"Category of One companies don’t tweak, adjust, and tinker. They burn down assumptions and tear apart the way they’ve always done it."

What is Transparency?
"Scandals, lies, bad accounting...and some good guys? Richard W. Oliver dives into the issues succinctly covered in his new book, What is Transparency, and tells companies and individuals why an open book and a clear conscious is good for business."

The Very Small World of Nanofibers
"I hope the attention doesn’t get to the point of being destructive. It has been branded as the new “next big thing,” so the uninformed think that in two or three years, everybody in this space will be making heaps of money. That’s just not true."

Return on Marketing: Using Customer Equity to Focus Market Strategy
"We're not in the transaction world anymore. The key now is building profitable relationships with customers. The winners will be those people and companies that focus their resources on the areas that will generate financial return."

Meaning Business -- About Yourself
"For each of your roles, keep asking yourself, 'What are the basics here?' Then do those things extremely well."

Doing Business in Asia
"If you haven’t formed relationships in Asia, you won’t get much business done, but if you have an ever-widening circle of relationships, your opportunities will expand as well."

Corporate Governance Now
"More disclosure is probably a good thing for a lot of companies, for the stakeholder. And it probably can’t hurt the company either. But what’s the right amount?"

Execution: An Interview with Ram Charan
"Execution is not a single "concept" or million-dollar idea. It is a discipline of its own, and the critical one for ongoing success, quarter after quarter."

The Biotech Age
"By the middle of the twenty-first century, all companies will be bioterials companies."

The Time Advantage
"Because it's so cheap and easy to install, Wi-Fi is the key to next generation consumer electronics."

Instinctive Strategy
As rapid technology developments compress the decision making cycle, Strategic Instinct and organic organizations will be the only true competitive advantages.

Cold Strategy, Hot Strategy: Imagining the Unimaginable
A "hot strategy" -- one that imagines the unimaginable -- is now the order of the day.

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