Blogs
- Jerks in the Workplace The latest McKinsey Quarterly (a journal of strategy and management published by McKinsey & Company) has an excerpt titled Building the Civilized Workplace, from a book by Stanford Professor Robert Sutton. Jerks and bullies in the workplace are a...... ....
- Dream Teams or Dysfunctional Nightmares A new year beckons! What do you plan to do in your firm, in 2007? Are you contemplating going out into the market, to hire brilliant individuals away from your competitors, to let the magic of Dream Teams loose...... ....
- Closed Door Policies ..... Imagine giving a group of bright, talented twenty-something professionals in your firm the following test: Question 1: Which statement most accurately represents you: A. I am determined to grow my capabilities and skills as a professional and value mentoring...... ....
- Logic Not Always Best For Real-World Decisions Real-world decisions are not always made through logical steps, and often they shouldn't be. That's the startling conclusion reached by renowned strategist Henry Mintzberg, author of the landmark book The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning and Frances Westley...... ....
- The Dangers of MultiTasking Anastasia Goodstein's blog Ypulse, which provides "daily news & commentary about Generation Y for media and marketing professionals," has a posting called The Madness of Generation M, that references a Time Magazine cover story called The MultiTasking Generation. It...... ....
- The Entitlement Generation Graphic from Nicholson Cartoons I mentioned in my previous post that Graeme Codrington is a guru of some stature when it comes to matters of intergenerational issues in the workplace. Here is a post on his blog TomorrowToday.biz, about...... ....
- 20% of UK Managing Partners want to leave the law* *According to the largest-ever research program in the UK legal profession, it appears that as the Beatles sang “money can’t buy you love” I am not certain that the numbers would be different elsewhere in the world but at least...... ....