November 30, 2005
In a crisis, always sit down and think hard about your decision, and for as long as needed (or allowed) about ways in which you can resolve it. For 8 more crisis management tips from Gerard I. Nierenberg, click the article title above or below…
Read in full Posted by Bob | Comments (0) | Filed under: Bob's Bullet Points, ManagementConrad Black and corporate fraud
November 25, 2005
The astounding, disgusting run of huge corporate fraud scandals features nothing nastier than the accusations against Conrad Black. I can hardly bear to call him ‘Lord Black’, since the peerage was plainly and richly undeserved. But the cases all contained thick veins of Blackness. I define that as treating money which belongs to the company and thus its shareholders as if it were the sole possession of the greedy plutocrats involved. Click title above or below to read in full.
Read in full Posted by Bob | Comments (0) | Filed under: Leadership and Management, In The News, ManagementGlobal Future Forum Briefing
The 2005 Global Future Forum commissioned an extensive survey
amongst renowned futurists, academics and leaders of both public and private
organisations around the world. The objective of the survey was to establish
their expert views on a variety of issues likely to affect organisations
during the next five years. Click title above or below for details.
Read in full Posted by Publisher | Comments (0) | Filed under: ManagementPeter Drucker - Efficient v Effective
November 23, 2005
I promised to let you into the late Peter Drucker’s secrets of managing effectively. First, how good are you at the five functions of the manager? Click title above or below to read in full.
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November 22, 2005
Managers and politicians should make their case from the evidence and not make the evidence fit the case. Click title above or below to read in full.
Read in full Posted by Bob | Comments (0) | Filed under: In The News, ManagementEdward de Bono - why thinking must change
November 20, 2005
The most important tool any manager has available - and which every manager should use constantly and knowingly - is thought. Edward de Bono has long been arguing that the traditional modes of thinking are not enough. The passage below shows you just how valuable his own thinking about thinking has become and why you neglect his teaching at your great peril … click title above to read in full.
Read in full Posted by Bob | Comments (0) | Filed under: de Bono SaysThe war of art
November 19, 2005
Artists who don’t (and very possibly can’t) paint, sculpt or draw now hog the headlines, win the prizes, command the big prices. My advice is not to jump on the bandwagon for its own sake. Also, the higher prices commanded by the new boys and girls must have an elevating effect on the prices of all the top class art. And if you don’t yet know what top class means, click the title above to read this post in full.
Read in full Posted by Bob | Comments (0) | Filed under: The Art GalleryRobert Goizueta: separating the sheep from the goats
November 17, 2005
You need a way to separate good projects (the sheep) from the goats. Here’s how the great Robert C.Goizueta created enormous wealth at Coca-Cola by this vital separation. Click the title above to read in full.
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Ten innovatory ideas from Robert Heller … click title above to read.
Read in full Posted by Bob | Comments (0) | Filed under: Bob's Bullet PointsPeter Drucker
November 16, 2005
A great man has gone. The greatest man in the history of management, in fact. That can only mean Peter Drucker, who has just died at the age of 95. I’ve known Peter, and enormously liked him, for nearly forty years. He had more wisdom than anybody I’ve ever met and possessed a generosity of spirit that made him a marvellous friend and splendid teacher - at whose feet sat many of the business greats of the second half of the 20th century. Click title above to read more…
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November 11, 2005
Hughes’ ‘reverse perspectives’, which are almost literally brainwaves, exploit the mental workings of human vision to generate paradoxical images that ‘move’ as they excite the eye with their wit, colour and originality. Click title above to read more and see examples of Partick Hughes…
Read in full Posted by Bob | Comments (0) | Filed under: The Art GalleryDe Bono: how to get from good to the best
Edward de Bono explains why the way we think is impressive but not good enough. He outlines how his methods can take you from a good or even excellent solution to a problem to the best solution. Click title above to read more…
Read in full Posted by Bob | Comments (0) | Filed under: de Bono Says, Lateral thinkingRobert Heller: a check list for success
November 10, 2005
A millionaire reader once told me that he had built up his eminently successful business by following these dozen points from my 1980 book, The Business of Winning. After a quarter of a century I wouldn’t change a word or a thought … Click the title above to read in full.
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November 9, 2005
You can’t have an effective meeting with 20 people. One image from the coverage of the French riots sticks in my mind - and it’s not one of those blazing cars. It’s the huge number of senior politicians and their advisors photographed round an enormous table for crisis meeting after meeting. Their numbers absolutely guaranteed that no effective action would be taken, for wasted day after wasted day. Governments, businesses and most other organisations are very prone to have excessive numbers of meetings and excessive numbers at meetings. Click the title above to read in full.
Read in full Posted by Bob | Comments (1) | Filed under: In The News, Management, Government managementRupert Murdoch - making a virtue of being late?
I can’t remember business times anything like as exciting as the present. The onrush of new ideas, new products, new services, new people, leaves even the perilous days of the dot.com boom far behind. Every one of these new developments presents an opportunity and the key to success is to spot opportunities and act quickly. But some - like Rupert Murdoch - don’t like to be first. He calls this strategic brilliance… Click the title above to read in full.
Read in full Posted by Bob | Comments (0) | Filed under: Managers, New Media, Business strategyHow do you spot an up-and-coming artist?
November 5, 2005
How do you spot an up-and-coming artist? That’s the best way of making real profits from contemporary art, getting works at what prove to be bargain prices. Flowers Central in Cork Street is showing, as I write, an exhibition of paintings by John Kirby. Kirby immediately attracted attention at art school with the strong, direct painting he brought to disturbing subjects. Click title above to read in full.
Read in full Posted by Bob | Comments (0) | Filed under: The Art GalleryGovernment management: The ferocious riots in Paris made me revise my opinion that France is a well-governed country
November 3, 2005
The ferocious riots in Paris made me revise my opinion that France is a well-governed country. But then came a second thought. Which country does deserve that compliment? None of the mainland EU states need apply. Japan is only now heaving itself out of a multi-year man-made economic hole. The US government has revealed its incompetence shamefully by the mishandling of the Katrina catastrophe in New Orleans and beyond … click title above to read in full.
Read in full Posted by Bob | Comments (0) | Filed under: Leadership and Management, In The NewsEdward de Bono - Six Thinking Hats
November 2, 2005
My last blog spoke most warmly of Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats - first described in his excellent book with that as its title. For those who want more information, try the book or the web. Master its lessons and you will no longer be locked into extremely counter-productive mental (for which read ‘emotional’) attitudes. You also learn how to understand the most crucial activity in which you engage - thinking. Click the title above to read more.
Read in full Posted by Bob | Comments (0) | Filed under: de Bono Says, Six Thinking HatsW.Edwards Deming - Fourteen Points of quality management
November 1, 2005
W.Edwards Deming was a supreme practitioner, whose teaching pointed the Japanese towards the star of quality management on which their post-war breakthrough was based. He summarised his ideas in these far-famed Fourteen Points. (Click title above to read the Fourteen Points)
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