The Advantages of Disadvantages:
How Challenges Propel Great Performances
-- Dan Coughlin
The list of people converting disadvantages into great successes is endless and inspiring. Now turn toward yourself. Write down one great success you’ve had in your lifetime. Then write down the disadvantages or challenges that you had to overcome to achieve that success. Then identify how those disadvantages forced you to look at your situation differently and ultimately help you achieve success.
© 2011, Dan Coughlin. All Rights Reserved.
Fashioning Well-Rounded Leaders
-- L Prasad
Teaching students requires a mastery of the class material. Aiming to bring about a fundamental change in the attitudes, beliefs and behaviors of seasoned executives calls for an appreciation of very subtle nuances, the political dynamics rarely captured in textbooks or scholarly publications. The sixty-four thousand dollar question is: Are we academics capable of rising to the challenge?
© 2011, L Prasad. All Rights Reserved.
How to Manage the Boss:
A Cross-cultural Interpretation
-- Stephanie Jones
Indian bosses are very ‘collectivist’ and are low in ‘individualism’ in their thinking, identifying with a family, caste, religious group—and their employer—although again, things are changing as the economy continues to grow, and especially in the high technology sector. The diaspora of many Indians to Britain and US means that managerial habits are changing, but Indians hang on to their culture despite integration into a new country. The Indian boss in a western company is quite capable of being western in appearance during the working day but very traditionally Indian when at home. He’s risk-averse in so far that he’s extremely concerned with job security and continuity, and ‘uncertainty-avoiding’ and blame-avoiding and not doing the wrong thing.
© 2011, Stephanie Jones. All Rights Reserved.
Managing the Difficult Boss
-- Robert L Jolles
One of the pleasures I get out of life is mentoring young people as they make their way into the real world. I help them prepare for their interviews, I help them understand the corporate politics they are about to be a part of, and I help them figure out how to conduct themselves in meetings. By far, the hardest thing I can help them learn how to do is manage their boss.
© 2011, Rob Jolles. All Rights Reserved.
Managing Your Boss:
Twelve Problems and Twelve Suggestions
-- John Tropman
Indian bosses are very ‘collectivist’ and are low in ‘individualism’ in their thinking, identifying with a family, caste, religious group—and their employer—although again, things are changing as the economy continues to grow, and especially in the high technology sector. The diaspora of many Indians to Britain and US means that managerial habits are changing, but Indians hang on to their culture despite integration into a new country. The Indian boss in a western company is quite capable of being western in appearance during the working day but very traditionally Indian when at home. He’s risk-averse in so far that he’s extremely concerned with job security and continuity, and ‘uncertainty-avoiding’ and blame-avoiding and not doing the wrong thing.
© 2011, John Tropman. All Rights Reserved.
Managing Upward – Influencing and Developing Your Boss
-- Bob Murray and Alicia Fortinberry
You can’t go wrong by focusing on the person and the relationship. Ask questions to show interest and help you understand your manager and his needs. Find ways to show you appreciate his work and the relationship. Be clear about your own needs and boundaries and let him know gently but firmly if he oversteps the line. Be positive and optimistic about him and the company. Remember that for better or worse, the relationship will be a powerful influence on both of you, and do your best to make it constructive.
© 2011, Bob Murray, Alicia Fortinberry. All Rights Reserved.
How Alliance Management Delivers Value: Moving Beyond Best Practices
-- Janice Twombly and Jeffrey Shuman
Being an alliance manager is one of the most strategic and essential jobs in any organization today. It must be acknowledged that the profession is at a delicate point in its development—what we’ve coined ‘the crossroads’. Best practices aren’t sufficient to sustain a profession. An acknowledged alliance management discipline—practiced in organizations, taught in business schools, and respected as a career choice—is essential. It is up to those of us who are practicing it, teaching it, and developing it to ensure that it is recognized as such and flourishes.
© 2011, Janice Twombly and Jeffrey Shuman. All Rights Reserved.
The Most Important
Management Skill
-- Terence Traut
Terence Traut from Entelechy, Inc. draws from interviews, research, and extensive experience to identify the most important management skill.
© 2011, Terence Traut. All Rights Reserved.
Character:
The Epitome of Leadership
-- GRK Murty
It is commonsensical that everyone loves a leader, whose behavior displays an amalgamation of virtue, courage and righteousness. Such leaders carry the followers with them. But we seldom come across such characters in management theories/models, for they are ‘living’. Of course, such live-experiences can be found aplenty in classic literature and that is what this essay attempts to explore.
© 2011, GRK Murty. All Rights Reserved.
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