I like this insightful management tip by HBS. “Measurement is critical to understanding current and past performance, but data can only tell you so much. Measurement can fall short when you need to predict the future. Many companies have been blindsided by unpredictable changes in the market: see GM and Motorola. To envision the future, use your imagination....

Interesting report by Gartner! Read it online at Gartner.com. “By 2012, Companies with the Top 25 Percent Earnings Growth Will Have an Entrepreneurial CIO Egham, UK, January 11, 2010 — The impact of an entrepreneurial CIO is greatest when the need for productivity leverage is greatest, as in the current economic environment, according to Gartner, Inc....

I’m sharing an article from HBR blogs that summarizes and adds to the 2010 IBM Global CEO Study, a wonderful and insightful piece of work to energize today’s corporations. Go thru the article, and download IBM study here. “IBM just released its 2010 Global CEO Study based on face-to-face interviews conducted with over 1,500 CEOs spanning 60...

As rightly Adam Hartung wrote: “We are taught, trained and indoctrinated to go along and get along, to not disrupt. In fact we’re constantly told to seek harmony”, though we live in a dynamic, continually changing world. Challenging status-quo is something leaders consistently emphasize on. Change is live, and as said; if you stop changing; you...

An interesting blog by Scott Anthony from HBR. Here is an excerpt while you can read the full article here. “I had an epiphany recently. The setting: a multi-billion dollar global giant. The topic of discussion: innovation. My epiphany: A simple two-word phrase that can hamstring innovation. What about… I was helping a cross-functional group review a...

This is an interesting research by Herminia Ibarra and Morten Hansen published in HBR on 20th Jan 2010. The insights Ibarra and Hansen provided are pretty much related to the age factor and entry to the executiveship. The research had concluded that CEO’s with MBAs are stronger, if they become CEO’s before year 2000 and were younger than 50 yrs old....