Thought Leadership
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Managing the generation gap
Tammy Erickson is an author and expert on organizations and the changing workforce and, in particular, the generational differences between workers today. She has also done extensive research on how corporations innovate through collaboration
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Keeping Top Talent In A Down Economy
How do managers boost the performance of employees when business is down? That question is the focus of a new book by Sylvia Ann Hewlett. Top Talent explores the wide range of tools and techniques available to employers struggling with both how to motivate and keep the loyalty of workers and managers
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Think strategy. Think big
Bernd Schmitt is Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business at Columbia Business School in New York, where he directs the Centre on Global Brand Leadership.This professor, author and consultant finds customers fascinating; he even coined the term “customer experience”. Schmitt works with forward thinking companies to improve their insights into customer behaviour
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Gary Hamel: Leadership Need Not Start at the Top
Thinker’s 50 hotshot Gary Hamel discusses how managers might have to change their role and behaviour in the modern environment
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Tipping the Balance: Indirect Network Effects and Market Concentration
In markets where the value to consumers of a high-tech product depends on the actual and expected availability of software titles, the winning product can take all
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Half Of the Fish Consumed Globally is Now Raised on Farms
Aquaculture is catching on, and it feeds the world-almost
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Every CEO Puts a New Strategic Frame on the Company
Professor Govindrajan on how GE's Jeff Immelt is trying to add innovaiton discipline to the company's performance discipline
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Building a Better Brand: How Feelings Shape Product Evaluation
A Recent study states animals on wine labels are becoming an increasingly popular and lucrative way to sell wines.
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Professor Vijay Govindrajan explains Reverse Innovation
Vijay Govindrajan says the biggest opportunities for multinationals in next 25 years will be customers moving from poor countries
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Improving Accountability at the World Bank
What are the main challenges to the World Bank's accountability and effectiveness today? What should it do about them?
