Kindness and Self-Interest
In an competitive world, leaders must become students of human relations and recognize that managing by command and control rarely works in today’s economy.
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Integrative Consulting
Consultants can add value by identifying, educating, facilitating, and guiding involvement of key decision makers and stakeholders through competent social dialogue
The Covenantal Leader
This article explains the role of covenantal leaders in understanding overlooked assumptions making up the unspoken psychological contract between leaders and followers.
Doing Business with the Untrustworthy
Empirical observations, laboratory experiments, and game theory offer guidance for a prudent person doing repeat business with potentially untrustworthy partners.
Editorial: Changing the Face of Executive Management Education
Many working managers are interested in a flexible curriculum that focuses on results and are turning to web-based learning systems like knowledgesourcing.
Hiring Disabled Workers
Too often the ability of the community of disabled persons to constructively contribute to society and the recognition of their need to do so is overlooked.
Revitalizing Organizational Identity to Spark Turnaround
This article proposes a model for examining and revitalizing identity attributes as needed to support organizational turnaround and avoid organizational death.
The Benefits of Mindfulness in Leading Transformational Change
The experience of ambiguity can be unsettling and anxiety provoking for all concerned, thereby impairing organization members’ willingness and ability to change.
“Live Your Life in Crescendo”
10 moral insights Stephen Covey offered a business world that epitomized his insights and recognized him as one of America’s most highly regarded management consultants.
Summaries of the 2015 “The Future of Healthcare Symposium”
Read the summaries of the Keynote Speakers: Steve Collis and Susan Dentzer as well as the summaries of the three panels for the 2015 Healthcare Symposium.
Hollywood’s Digital Blind Spots
Hollywood’s adoption of the new has been slow and rarely strategic. Nevertheless, entertainment has not only survived disruptive technologies, but also benefited.
Big Data Decision Making
The process used to gather information in making decisions can be as important as the decisions. Do you rely more on sophisticated analytics or intuition?
Reducing Healthcare Disparities Through Strategic Social Marketing
Participatory Action Research (PAR) provides an alternative approach to marketing that can address issues in segments of the population that receive lesser quality healthcare.
A Framework To Evaluate Consulting Efforts
Evidence-based evaluation provides a rigorous, valid, and reliable approach for assessing the effectiveness of a consulting engagement.
Six Characteristics of Virtuous Organizations
The notion of a virtuous organization is the result of an evolving, but grounded, field of study in leadership and management that is a mash-up of ethics theory.