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Microsoft’s Creative Destruction

A former Microsoft Executive describes a lack of collaboration and innovation as the forces that could bring Microsoft down. From the New York Times: Microsoft’s huge profits — $6.7 billion for the past quarter — come almost entirely from Windows and Office programs first developed decades ago. Like G.M. with its trucks and S.U.V.’s, Microsoft can’t count …

In Search of Self-Governance

Dick Morris, former consultant to President Bill Clinton, reviews In Search of Self-Governance by Scott Rasmussen. With his up-to-the-second published polls, Scott Rasmussen has revolutionized the way politics is practiced in America. Now, in his new book, In Search of Self-Governance, he bids us all remember that the real political debate is not left vs. …

Treat People Right

From Treat People Right!: How Organizations and Employees Can Create a Win/Win Relationship to Achieve High Performance at All Levels 1. Attract and Keep the Right People 2. Hire the Right People 3. Develop People Right 4. Design Work Right 5. Establish the Right Goals 6. Reward People Right 7. Lead People Right

Control versus Freedom in Management

From The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make: “The old organization was built on control, but the world has changed. The world is moving at such a pace that control has become a limitation. It slows you down. You’ve got to balance freedom with some control, but you’ve got to have more freedom than you ever …

Study: Employees with flexible hours work harder, are more satisfied

Study: Employees with flexible hours work harder, are more satisfied Cranfield management professors Clare Kelliher and Deirdre Anderson used a questionnaire to survey more than 2,000 employees at three large multi-national, Britain-based corporations. Analyzing responses, researchers found that employees who worked remotely one day a week — thus reducing their required weekly office hours — …

Fortune Magazine’s Top 100 Companies to Work For

Fortune's 2010 list is out. Top 20: 1 SAS2 Edward Jones3 Wegmans Food Markets4 Google5 Nugget Market6 DreamWorks Animation SKG7 NetApp8 Boston Consulting Group9 Qualcomm10 Camden Property Trust11 Robert W. Baird & Co.12 Bingham McCutchen13 W. L. Gore & Associates14 Recreational Equipment15 Zappos.com16 Cisco17 Methodist Hospital System18 Whole Foods Market19 Genentech20 Devon Energy

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Malcom Gladwell on The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande: Gawande begins by making a distinction between errors of ignorance (mistakes we make because we don't know enough), and errors of ineptitude (mistakes we made because we don’t make proper use of what we know). Failure in the modern world, he …

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Quotes from Seth Godin's book Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? "There are no longer any great jobs where someone else tells you precisely what to do." "You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of …

Sub Groups

LinkedIn recently added a new feature to this group that enables the creation of industry specific sub-groups. Given the size of the CRE LinkedIn group and the diversity of membership, we are considering establishing sub-groups devoted to specific disciplines within the CRE world. To do so, we will need some volunteers to assist as Managers …

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