Leader vs. Manager vs. Executive … one of these 3 terms does not belong here.
Which one? Leader! In business, leadership is a trait of a manager useful to exert formal authority in interacting with others. …
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“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” Eric Hoffer
“Show me a great company and I’ll show you one that has radically changed itself and is looking forward to the opportunity of doing so again.” Lawrence Bossidy
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.” Colin Powel
”If you don’t get what you want, it’s a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.” Rudyard Kipling
”In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with the other two.” Lee Iacocca
The way we define Human Capital and the difference between the beautiful words and the reality are expressed well by the last question:
A virtual team (Geographically Dispersed Team – GDT) – is a group of individuals who work from different spaces and on different time schedules linked by communication technology.
A team justifies its existence only if it brings added value through numbers. That means if 1+1=3.
An employee has the tendency to ‘free-ride”. It is human nature.
Social loafing is an organizational behavior of an …
Cohesiveness is a characteristic of team that reflects no so much the unity of the group as it reflects the resistance to leave it.
The survival instinct, even suppressed by social norms, will still make you …
Our necessity of social recognition meets halfway with the value given to us by other people.
There will always be a tendency to behave egalitarian in an effort to make people feel good. The level of …
A role is the aggregation of actions that is expected from you. It establishes your position in a team and defines your behavior.
Roles are:
Formal
Executive (execution) roles – what to do
Management (administrator) roles – who is …
There are moments of epiphany (relevant essence of something) in a continuous learning process. I went through something like this at the last course of project management.
A simple sentence has triggered a complex process: Strategy …
A norm is a team shared concept and exists as a behavior expectation that the members of a team have regarding the other team members. A norm is created as a reflection of the need …
The performance of a team is based on what you start with, namely what type and number of people are in the team and how you define what they have to do (tasks).
The ideal tasks …
Product DescriptionThis study recommends employing “human capital contracts” wherein students agree to pay a percentage of their income over time in exchange for funds to finance their education. The main difference between “human capital contracts” ...
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Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool?
What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?
How much do parents really matter?
These may not ...
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Globalization is here to stay, and companies that avoid investing in emerging markets won’t remain competitive for long. But doing business in developing regions presents ...
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