How did we get here anyway? We have come a long way since that cold January 17, 1925, day when then-president Calvin Coolidge proudly announced to The American Society of Newspaper Editors that, “the chief business of the American ...
Introduction Long ago in a galaxy far, far away business leaders learned the fundamentals of strategic planning. The developmental storyline was often carefully crafted like the ritualistic formulas in a Star Wars movie by George ...
Hint: They both are related to the operation of the brain. A Little Brain History Pioneering British neurophysiologist Sir Charles Sherrington imaginatively called the brain an “enchanted loom.” This comparative metaphor combined the ...
Lewis Carroll, in his classic work, Alice in Wonderland, described a world turned topsy-turvy. The inherent craziness of this world was epitomized by the character of the Mad Hatter. The Mad Hatter was in a perpetual hurry. Fashionably ...
One of movie star Clint Eastwood’s early cowboy movies was titled, “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”, as a symbolic summary of its content. It appears to me that this title is also representative of the state of current knowledge about ...
Increasingly life in the world of contemporary organizations seems to reflect Lewis Carroll’s fictional fantasy Alice in Wonderland. Everything seems to be in fast, crazy and simultaneous motion. Many of the old rules don’t seem to ...
Abstract Strategic change practitioners may feel intimidated by the highly quantitatively-based models of organizations change processes promoted by some academic researchers. Similar to attempting to apply the advice offered by the ...
An Ecological Approach to Organizational Strategy Abstract Many global business organizations today use strategy as one of their preferred means of coping with the risk and uncertainty associated with an inability to accurately predict ...
Last week on the 25th of June, I was reminded how close we were to Christmas. Not sure how many have ever gone the regifting route during the holidays, but I am sure at one point or another we have all been on the receiving end of this ...
In the Managerial Leadership (MNGT5670) course I instructed in the Spring of 2013, within the Masters in Management and Leadership curriculum at Webster University, I asked students (who consist of current or veteran military of all ...
