Management by Objectives
Management by Objectives (MBOs) breaks down big picture goals into manageable chunks for employees and provides a tool for measuring performance against these goals. The concept of MBOs was first popularized [...] Read More
Co-opetition – Brandenburger and Nalebuff
Co-opetition is the new buzzword. Can businesses become more competitive when they cooperate? Based on Game Theory, Co-opetition by Adam Brandenburger & Barry Nalebuff presented a revolutionary [...] Read More
Leadership Styles – Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman's Leadership styles is a classic management framework. Goleman may be best known for his bestseller, Emotional Intelligence, which demonstrated how the two minds – rational and emotional [...] Read More
Crossing the Chasm
Geoffrey Moore's seminal concept, Crossing the Chasm, is enduring and invaluable in understanding how customer adoption transpires and many products get caught in the proverbial chasm. In Crossing the [...] Read More
The Innovator’s Dilemma
Clayton Christensen's Innovators dilemma concept is a classic management framework. In this seminal book, innovation expert and Harvard Business School Professor Clayton M. Christensen revealed a startling [...] Read More
The Theory of Disruptive Innovation
Disruptive innovation is a term used by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen in his 1997 book The Innovator’s Dilemma, considered by many to be one of the most influential business ideas [...] Read More
The Brand Identity Prism
The Brand Identity Prism was conceptualized by branding expert Jean-Noël Kapferer. The prism works are a way to show how different elements of the brand work together and relate to each other. Under [...] Read More
Critical Success Factors
Identifying the critical success factors in an organization can help bring team members together to focus on the right goals. Critical success factors are essential factors of success. The management [...] Read More
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid – C.K. Prahalad
C.K Prahalad posits that there is an immense fortune at the bottom of the pyramid. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid by C.K. Prahalad reframed the world's poorest citizens as resilient and creative [...] Read More
Level 5 Leadership
Jim Collins flipped the switch on traditional leadership traits in his book, Good to Great, with his concept of Level 5 leadership. After analyzing more than 1,400 companies over four decades, he focused [...] Read More
Operational Risk Management
Operational risks span every aspect of the enterprise and operational risk management (ORM) is a vital function to identify, quantify, strategize, and act to avoid, mitigate, and control risks. Operational [...] Read More
Leadership Diversity
This article examines the leadership diversity in some of the top companies. This is not a deeply researched paper but a quick glance of the executive rosters of many companies to assess leadership diversity. In [...] Read More