Business Library Topics

• Business Ethics
• Corporate Culture
• Decision making
• Delegation
• Innovation
• Leading Change

Managing Remote Teams: Does Collaboration Technology Work?

Managing remote workers is a reality at a growing number of businesses, but how good are collaboration tools at meeting the needs of a ...

Tags: Team, Tool, Productivity, Team Management, Collaboration, Groupware, E-mail, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, remote working, management, Outlook, Google, WebEx, LiveMeeting, Dimdim, iLinc, Google, Ning, Sharepoint, flexible working, employment, collaboration tools, Wayne Turmel

The New Normal

The business landscape has changed fundamentally; tomorrow's environment will be different, but no less rich in possibilities for those who are prepared.

Tags: Financial, Income, Financial Accounting, Finance, government, recession, economic future, Ian Davis

Surveying the Economic Horizon: A Conversation with Robert Shiller

The noted economist explains and explores the downturn's root causes and possible ways forward.

Tags: Innovation, Financial, Robert Shiller, Financial Innovation, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Functions, Economic Studies, Productivity & Performance, Noah Buhayar

Navigating Uncertainty

In this unprecedented financial crisis, prior experience won't tell you what's coming next. The solution? Learn from people who lead through uncertainty every day.

Tags: Uncertainty, BNET Feature Package, Downturn, Recession, Situational Awareness, Managing a Team, Ram Charan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Conflict, FedEx, ExxonMobil, Credit Crunch

How to Decide in a Time of Confusion

A practical five-step plan to make sure you have the data (and the mind-set) you need to make great decisions in a time of ...

Tags: Team, Korean Air, Worker, Ram Charan, Team Management, Management, Uncertainty, BNET Crash Course, Decisionmaking, Downturn, Recession, Managing a Team, Kim Girard

Carl Spetzler: The Six Elements of a Good Decision

The expert on strategic decision making explains how to think straight and act wisely in an uncertain economic environment.

Tags: Decision, Tools & Techniques, Management, Kim Girard

Three Tools to Manage Uncertainty

Leaders who deal with the unpredictable every day don't just wing it. They have a set of proven methods for making the best possible ...

Tags: Tool, Basics Step, Enterprise Risk Management, Business Security, Business Operations, Airline pilots, risk managers, and entrepreneurs operate in environments that are practically defined by uncertainty. As a result, they’ve developed techniques that make uncertainty more manageable — and less perilous. There are three proven strategies for navigating short- and long-term uncertainty. With a little creativity, you can apply any of them to the decisions you face in these uncertain times., Kim Girard

What Went Right — and Wrong — in Three Real Cases of Uncertainty

Organizations deal with uncertainty all too often these days. You can learn a lot from examining what these companies have done (and why), even ...

Tags: Firefighter, Exxon Mobil Corp., Federal Express, Plumes, Operations Integrity Management System, Team Management, Benefits, Management, Human Resources, Kim Girard

Ram Charan Grades the President

The influential management guru gives President Obama and his team high marks for their management of the economic crisis and discusses what the auto ...

Tags: Bank, Barack Obama, Administration, Ben Bernanke, Balance Sheet, RAM, Timothy Geithner, Ram Charan, Balance Sheets, Workforce Management, Financial Services, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Obama Administration, Credit Default Swaps, Auto Industry, Cait Murphy

Mastering Confidence

It's easily lost, dangerous in large quantities, and elusive to pin down. Learn how to maintain and wield the perfect amount of ...

Tags: Confidence, Managing, Managing a Team, BNET Feature Package, Downturn, Recession, Overconfidence

Keeping Your Cool — and Your Confidence

Here's how three leaders in three very different situations responded confidently to crises.

Tags: Job, Honda Motor Co., Leader, Client, Worker, Delly Tamer, Leadership, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Confidence, Customer Service, Recession, Downturn, Recession Survival, Economy, Layoffs, Leading, Delegating, Team Management, Andrew Tilin

Confidence: A Vicious Cycle

During a hobbled economy isn't the only time that people struggle with confidence, of course. The truth is, issues surrounding confidence bubble up 365 ...

Tags: Confidence, Performance Management, Tools & Techniques, Leadership, Real Estate, Mergers & Acquisitions, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Business Operations, Investment, Finance, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Managing, Managing a Team, Overconfidence, Economy, Downturn, Recession, Andrew Tilin

Five Ways to Deal with Stress

Feel stress often resulting from the idea that you've lost control, which is a common sensation nowadays and confidence erodes. Different people ...

Tags: Leader, Rosch, Leadership, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Stress, Confidence, Recession, Downturn, Economy, Managing, Managing in a Recession, Andrew Tilin

How Confident Are You? Take the Test

Here's a quick guide to seeing where you land on the confidence spectrum, plus advice for improving your game.

Tags: Employee, Leader, Leadership, Corporate Governance, Games, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Confidence, Leading, Downturn, Recession, Managing in a Recession, Overconfidence, Michael Dell, Jack Welch, Andrew Tilin

From Lean to Lasting: Making Operational Improvements Stick

By focusing on the soft side of lean and Six Sigma initiatives, leading global companies gain substantial, scalable, and sustainable advantages.

Tags: Tool, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Productivity, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations, Functions, Operations, Performance, McKinsey

Perspectives on Change: A Former Chief of Staff Reflects

Leon Panetta discusses how to make change happen, public-private partnerships and their effect on policy, and the major management challenges confronting the new administration.

Tags: Team, President, Leader, Leon Panetta, Quarterly, Government, Vertical Industries, Team Management, Leadership, Business Structures, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Finance, Human Resources, Industries, Public Sector, McKinsey

Better Communications for Better Investors: An Interview with the CFO of Gartner

Gartner CFO Christopher Lafond discusses the company's assertive approach to managing relationships with investors

Tags: Metrics, Gartner Inc., Investor, Quarterly, Financial Accounting, Finance, Functions, Corporate Finance, Performance, McKinsey

Turning Around a Struggling Airline: An Interview with the CEO of Malaysia Airlines

Idris Jala led the state-controlled carrier from the brink of bankruptcy to record-breaking profits. Now he wants it to become what he calls a ...

Tags: P&L, Quarterly, Functions, Governance, Leadership, McKinsey

Why Do CEOs (Still) Love Ayn Rand?

Even a major free-market economic crisis hasn't broken the love affair between business execs and their favorite free-market philosopher.

Tags: Ingersoll-Rand, Alan Greenspan, Objectivist, Kent, Entrepreneurship, Internet, Sales Strategy, Management, Sales, Ayn Rand, Capitalism, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Objectivism, BNET Briefing, Kim Girard

How to Find Your Next CEO

It's never been easy for a company's board to plan for the departure of a chief executive. Thanks to the pressures of our present ...

Tags: Board, Plan, CEO, Candidate, Minow, Lawless, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Succession Planning, BNET Crash Course, Board of Directors, Jennifer Alsever

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