Management

Four strategies to support your team.

No organization design or method of management is perfect. And any form can suffer from a variety of problems that develop because of the design itself. This is particularly true when a company tries a new form. In this article we look at one relatively new organization form—the matrix—which has gained considerable popularity in recent […]

Lessons from one organization's digital transformation.

Karen Dillon, contributing editor to the Harvard Business Review, says clear communication is the key to rescuing underperforming employees.

As Paul Kennedy sits in Cleveland's endless morning traffic, his thoughts are going in all sorts of directions, even if he's not. He's worried about his...

Organizations have long seen middle management as ripe for cutting whenever times get tight, and the current moment is no exception. The authors believe...

Should a German-Chinese joint venture follow the ethical rules of the parent company or the country of operation?

Ferrari depends on a creative workforce to build its gorgeous cars. Companies can take a lesson from its unique approach to inspiring employees.

Speeches and presentations offer an interesting catch-22: executives don't want to spend long hours creating them, and people don't want to sit for long...

Each profession has its own vocabulary. Knowing how to talk the talk is critical--in some fields more than others.

Does your organization recognize the problem?

A formal organizational chart won't reveal which people confer on technical matters or discuss office politics over lunch. Much of the real work in any...

Research shows that fixing them requires strong governance.

Cynthia Mitchell has finally gotten a plum management opportunity at AgFunds, a Houston-based company that provides financial services to farmers and...

Conventional approach to performance appraisal forces managers to make judgments on the personal worth of a fellow employee. An effective alternative...

Many people have wrongly assumed that political freedom would follow new economic freedoms in China and that its economic growth would have to be built...

Lay the groundwork for a long-term connection.

Got a great idea for a new product or service? This three-step process can help you run fast, cheap experiments to test your critical assumptions about...

It's a big driver of business success, but one that executives are loath to talk about: upgrading the management talent pool by weeding out "C" players--those...

For almost two centuries, Spain has hosted an enormously popular Christmas lottery. Based on the payout, it is the biggest lottery in the world and nearly...