Playing the Character Card Exclusively – Let’s Get a New Deck

By Michelle Malay Carter on December 9, 2007 

Clemson University professor of management, Terry Leap, wrote an Article in the Wall Street Journal entitled, Keys to Spotting a Flawed CEO,?which gave a list of behaviors which should call into question a CEO’s character.? Michael McKinney’s Leading Blog featured the list of suspect behaviors,?and I, as a commenter, suggested that some of the behaviors […]

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Creativity Versus Innovation – A Friday Funny

By Michelle Malay Carter on December 7, 2007 

Creativity is the bursting forth of new ideas.? Innovation is putting them into application.? Many creative people have no interest in the application of their ideas.?? Their satisfaction comes solely from the creation of the idea.? If you are a manager creating a team, keep in mind that you need both.? All talk with no […]

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Work, Work Everywhere, But Not a Drop of Understanding

By Michelle Malay Carter on December 6, 2007 

Not all work is the same.? Would you agree?? Aren’t some roles more complex than others???Having a definition of work levels and a common language to discuss them would advance the field of management by leaps and bounds. I went to a business simulation yesterday and the crowd was loaded with human resource and organizational […]

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Snappy Boring Quotes from Timothy Ferriss

By Michelle Malay Carter on December 4, 2007 

I’ve talked about the fact that 20% of workers are underutilized and bored.? Further, we often fiind that many higher level jobs within organizations are not “fully loaded”. ?Meaning although an employee might be matched to his job on paper, much of the employee’s time is spent doing tasks that are substantially lower in complexity […]

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Innovation Snobbery is Not Serving Organizations

By Michelle Malay Carter on December 2, 2007 

Harvard Business Online has posed the question, what is management?s role in innovation?? I ask, what isn’t management’s role in innovation? Executive management?s role is to ensure that it institutionalizes the?expectation that managers will lead the continuous?improvement of their teams AND that time is allotted?for them to lead?improvement initiatives.? Innovation should be an expectation of […]

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