Gary Eckstein Management 0 business, drucker, government, Management
No wonder the gap between what the ‘average’ person earns and what top executives earn is growing. Today we hear the CEO of HP is being replaced and is walking away with a $25 million payout. WTF! The stock price of HP under Apotheker has plummeted (40% down this year alone). When employing Leo Apotheker [...]
Gary Eckstein Management 3 ayn rand, complexity, drucker, Frank Lloyd Wright, George Eliot, how to, Management, management theory, Mary Anne Evans, MBO, objectives, Occam's razor, Organizations, peter drucker, Richard Dawkins, simplicity, Stephen Hawking
“Think simple” as my old master used to say – meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles. Frank Lloyd Wright Why is it that so often people look for complex solutions to problems? One reason is that people tend to mistrust that a simple solution can [...]
Gary Eckstein Management 3 bottleneck, business, business change, business process, business school, change, drucker, education, eli goldratt, generic strategies, harvard business review, harvard business school, konosuke matsushita, kotter, leadership, Management, mba, mba program, mba programs, objectives, operations management, peter drucker, process improvement, quality management, small business, strategy, toc, training, transformation
Thinking of enrolling on an MBA program? Then these five books are essential reads (in no specific order): 1. Michael Porter – Competitive Strategy: Porter’s frameworks are covered on every quality MBA program. The three most commonly taught frameworks are the Value Chain, Porter’s Five Forces Analysis and Porter’s Generic Strategies.
Gary Eckstein Management 4 business, drucker, leadership, Management, mba, models, objectives, strategy
Management by Objectives (MBO) is a term and concept made popular by the late management guru Peter Drucker. In its simplest form, MBO is about communicating the vision, mission and strategy throughout the organization in terms that ‘make sense’ to the level of organization for which the objectives are being set (aligning the vision and [...]
