Topic:  Operations Management

Reference: Hansen, Morten T.”The Future of Work.” CEO Magazine: January/February  2010. pp.41-46.

The style of modern business is to flatten organizations, work in teams, and foster collaboration and open communications across operating units. These steps tend to help increase productivity, increase transparency, and allow organizations to operate with fewer and fewer employees. However, fostering a disciplined work effort in this kind of environment is difficult and must be managed through constant managerial vigilance.

Sunday January 17, 2010

Topic: Executive Management

Reference:  Annunzio, Susan Lucia.”Lessons From Team Fumbles”.Chief Executive, November/December 2009. pp.35-37.

Top leadership in organizations is often trained to look for problems within the organization, but may have a blind spot for analyzing, resolving and implementing solutions for challenges faced by the senior management team itself. Call it projection, denial or plain arrogance but many senior executives are not well versed in self-diagnosis. In many ways this is a cruel twist of fate, as the functionality of the executive team often dictates the outlook and performance of the entire organization.