Curated articles from various sources.
Let’s reconsider the power of words for a moment, as the Guardian challenges the phenomena of business bullshit. A certain amount of empty talk is certainly unavoidable when humans gather together in large groups, but the kind of bullshit through which we all have to wade every day is a remarkably recent creation, this articles states….
McKinsey & Co tackles the big question on everyone’s lips nowadays: How exactly will the great succession of new technologies such as the Internet, the cloud, big data, robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence affect the future of our economy? While we are purposefully creating an intelligence that is external to humans and housed in what…
ByTED
With a masters certificate in project management, country manager for UPS Mexico/”cross-border trade specialist” Augie Picado, gives us a thorough reality check about what global trade really looks like and how shared production and open borders help us make higher quality products at lower costs. This TED arose out of his need to tackle all the rhetoric…
ByHBR.org
While it’s no new revelation that corporate transformations still have a miserable success rate, even though scholars and consultants have significantly improved our understanding of how they work… HBR dives deeper into this problem and starts with reaffirming the fact, by revealing the latest study findings, which consistently report that about three-quarters of change efforts flop – either…
ByHBR.org
Harvard Business Review contends that organizations world-wide are lacking in one key department – a crucial obstacle to their success: Leadership Development. According to the findings of relative research done by the Corporate Executive Board, the problem isn’t a lack of internal talent perse, but rather there are other identifiable predictors – curiosity, insight, engagement, and determination. That said, whilst…
Bloomberg means that Kobe Steel’s scandal over fake quality data is just the latest example of how some competition-pressed Japanese manufacturers are bending the “rules”, and of how desperate these companies have become to stay ahead of Chinese and other foreign competitors. As a fact, an increasing number of companies in China, South Korea, and elsewhere have…
