Summer school 2005
Resources
In depth
People skills still rule in the virtual company
Increasingly, managers and those who work for them are no longer in the same location. This can succeed only if managers have a good sense of how to structure virtual projects, set appropriate goals and milestones, shape behaviour, and develop metrics to analyse what progress is being made.
A product of the corporation
To be successful, leaders of large corporations must have certain characteristics.
The dangerous insecurities behind our masks
High achievers are often ‘neurotic imposters’.
Think small for a change
The majority of innovations consists of small incremental changes.
Flatter is not necessarily fitter
Some believe organisations with few levels of hierarchy have all the virtues.
Related content and features
Product planning
Anthropologists get to the bottom of customer needs
Large technology companies, such as the chip-making giant Intel, are hiring anthropologists to find fresh insights into how people use their products.
Management sayings
Sustain your company’s heart
Companies and government departments insist in their mission statements that they are “concentrating on their core competencies”, as though an assertion of this devalued buzz phrase is a virtue in itself.
Good behaviour
Ethics means more than ticking boxes
Corporate governance codes have proliferated and business ethics is a fast-growing industry. But has corporate behaviour changed?
Supply chain
A demand for a steady supply
The central task of the supply chain manager has always been a formidable one: to provide parts and products in the right quantity, at the right place and time, at the lowest possible cost.
