This classic best seller vividly illustrates different management styles in action. Tony Spence is the epitome of the autocratic manager. Shouting and swearing, he bullies and generally humiliates his team of sales people. By contrast, supermarket personnel manager June takes a more bureaucratic approach, strictly applying the rules and regulations. Consultative manager Geoff believes in the human touch and says his door is always open. Marketing...

How do growth leaders such as Procter & Gamble, GE, and Amazon consistently achieve above-average organic growth? These companies pursue a disciplined, systematic process that distributes innovations across a spectrum of risk, ensuring that they balance incremental growth with breakthrough opportunities. For most companies, notes Professor Day, minor innovations make up 85% to 90% of their development portfolios. While necessary for continuous improvement,...

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How can corporations get the most out of their employees? Charles O'Reilly challenges the prevailing wisdom that companies must chase and acquire top talent in order to remain successful. He argues that companies need to abandon the obsession with hiring highpriced stars, and instead motivate ordinary people to build a great company and achieve extraordinary results. According to Dr. O'Reilly, companies should start with a set of values and a culture...

In this program, Julie Morgenstern offers invaluable new insights and tools that will help viewers take control of their time, and help each of us have the time for what's really important in our lives.

An effective leader must be prepared to offer timely and honest feedback, both to employees and to other members of the management team. Whether positive or negative, such input shows concern for the growth of each individual. David Bradford examines what it takes to have a "feedback rich" organization, while an effective leader must be prepared to offer timely and honest feedback, both to employees and to other members of the management team. Whether...

How can companies ensure that IT services are directed and optimized to implement critical business objectives? Wendell Jones of Cutter Consortium helps IT managers cope with what has become one of the most difficult -- yet exciting -- jobs in any organization. The program describes techniques that will help IT managers think and communicate like business executives, build relationships with key stakeholders, manage suppliers and providers, achieve...

This program demonstrates how to use diplomacy to successfully communicate with co-workers, team members, and supervisors. Learn how to understand different conversational roles: the escape artist, the judge, the scientist, the beggar, the commander. Communicating With Tact, Candor and Credibility covers topics including: rephrasing: making "talking points" tactfully; what to say: the art of scripting; lightweight speech patterns; and jargon-filled...

This course describes the importance of IT controls and their potential benefits to the technology staff. Major topics include what controls are, why they are needed, applying controls to IT, building a control framework, and discussing critical IT control areas. After setting out goals and objectives for the participant, the first major section delves into the types, frequencies and primary functions of controls, along with their application within...

Giving feedback to your subordinates can improve their performance and make you look better as a leader. Receiving feedback can enhance your career and make your job more rewarding. Yet there is often a two-way conspiracy of silence that subverts honest feedback and causes a downward spiral of destructive behaviors. Strober and Jackman provide a four-step process for actively pursuing the feedback you need, and methods for giving feedback that allow...