Nurturing leaders
Organizational psychologist and consultant Noel M. Tichy has a new "mantra," one that he repeats to his children, to M.B.A. students, and to executives: "Leaders developing leaders," he reiterates, is the key to a successful enterprise. Winning companies ...
A View From The East
Despite vastly increased contacts over the last four decades, Western managers continue to be confounded by their Japanese counterparts' business behavior--but certainly not for want of information. An avalanche of books and articles have been published ...
Disruptive Forces
The arch, the pulley, the compass, movable type, the steam engine, asphalt, the Model T, structural steel, the atomic bomb. All of these inventions had ramifications far greater than what their creators envisioned. In today's high-tech lingo, such an ...
Economic Growth: Success in An Interdependent World
The increasingly interdependent global economy poses both opportunities and threats for individual nations and businesses. The benefits that are derived from cooperation and collaboration can be rapidly offset by global competition and conflict. In The ...
Practical Guide To Gurudom
The Guru Guide: The Best Ideas of the Top Management Thinkers (1998, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 800-225-5945) It was probably inevitable. As the number of management theorists and their books have grown, so has the need for a distillation of the gurus' ...
Ministry Of Finance -- Or Failure?
Everyone likes a good expos . . . everyone, that is, except for the individuals or institutions being exposed. For Japans Ministry of Finance, the publication of Peter Hartchers The Ministry: How Japans Most Powerful Institution Endangers World Markets ...
Workbooks For The Wired
The Internet is just one of the information-technology phenomena that David C. Moschella explores in Waves of Power: Dynamics of Global Technology Leadership, 1964-2010. Moschella, senior vice president of research and a columnist for Computer World ...
Change Management: When Good Companies Fail
It's not just weak, poorly managed companies that are vulnerable to the competitive pressures spawned by technological change. "Well-managed companies that have their competitive antennae up, listen astutely to their customers invest aggressively in new ...
R&D Stars To Watch
IW celebrates the contributions of individuals who drive innovation and provide the initial spark to economic growth.
R&D Stars to Watch
Baruch S. Blumberg, biochemist and director, NASA's Astrobiology Institute (NAI), Moffett Field, Calif. Blumberg is leading NAI's research efforts to discover microorganisms and primitive evidence of lifelike matter in hostile environments such as Death ...
R&D Stars To Watch
IW selects 50 individuals whose achievements are shaping the future of industrial culture and technology policy.
50 R&D Stars To Watch
Clay Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia; Bertil Hille, University of Washington, Seattle; and Roderick MacKinnon, Rockefeller University, New York. The medical researchers are winners of the 1999 Lasker Award for ...
