Establishing Sustainable Change in Organizations

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Cranfield University School of Management   

Change is frequently experienced as a risky transition in today’s organizations. The impact of the failure of a change initiative can be high; as such, managers and leaders have to…

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Last Call for Social Media Sceptics

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Deloitte Consulting LLP    MIT Sloan School of Management   

How are managers today using social media tools and how important are those tools becoming to their organizations? In collaboration with Deloitte, MIT Sloan Management Review conducted a survey of…

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Managers Who Undermine the Meaningfulness of Work

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Harvard Business School   

Do managers at all levels routinely - and unwittingly - undermine the meaningfulness of work for their direct subordinates through everyday words and actions? Of all the events that can…

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Liberating Knowledge in the Organization

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Montpellier Business School    Boston University Questrom School of Business   

Truly democratizing knowledge requires an open organization where employees can deliberate, argue, compete and collaborate horizontally across fields of expertise. One possible solution to this end is the internal knowledge…

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Strategies for Successful Work/Life Balance

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)   

What are the factors that affect the boundaries between your work and personal life? By understanding those individual work/life patterns and preferences, new strategies can be identified and small changes…

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