www.hbr.org How the best Indian companies drive performance by investing in people. Leadership Lessons from India by Peter Cappelli, Harbir Singh, Jitendra V. Singh, and Michael Useem Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary Idea in Brief—the core idea 2 Leadership Lessons from India Reprint R1003G Leadership Lessons from India Idea in Brief The leaders of India’s biggest and fastestgrowing companies take an internally focused, long-term
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efforts have been suggested. This paper examines two such methodologies that promote agility: eXtreme Programming and SCRUM. The process, the values and principles of the XP and SCRUM are described in detail. Crucial feature differences between XP and SCRUM and the advantages and disadvantages of both methodologies are also discussed. Keywords— XP, SCRUM, Agile INTRODUCTION The software development industry has been evolved to become the most important industries of time. This industry employs many practitioners
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selling books, Maverick: The Success Story Behind The World’s Most Unusual Workplace (1993 ) first published in 1988 as Turning the Tables, and THE SEVEN-DAY WEEKEND: Changing the Way Work Works (2004), as well as two articles he authored in the Harvard Business Review, Managing Without Managers, (1989) and Why My Employees Still Work For Me (1994), this paper provides readers with insights on how to get beyond those who say that organizations are too large and/or too bureaucratic to change. In addition
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European Languages The University of Oslo in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements Autumn Term 2009 Supervised by 1 Acknowledgments Writing this thesis has been a pleasurable process. I am grateful to my supervisor Hilde Hasselgård for her good advice and continuous support they offered. invaluable help throughout the process of writing this thesis, to the University of Oslo and to the University of Cardiff for useful information. I thank my family, mum, dad and Johannes for the University
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Leadership Development Seminars and ECQ-based Readings The success or failure of any endeavor depends on leadership. Now, more than ever before, we need leaders in our organizations and in our world. Great leaders create and communicate a vision and move people into action to achieve it. They ignite our passion and inspire us to do our best. Government leaders in the 21st century are experiencing change at a more rapid pace than previous generations. Rapid advances in technology have expanded
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INTRODUCTION TO STRATEGIC MANAGENT 1.0 Introduction This chapter introduces the concept of strategic management and provides an overview of strategic management. This chapter is divided into six sections. The first section explains the evolution of the strategic management concept. This is followed by the second section on definition of strategic management. The third section describes the context in which strategic management takes place. This is followed by the fourth section which covers the scope
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Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Email: bussakornonline@gmail.com, praweenya@gmail.com, anuchai@gmail.com 2 Received 2012 The aim of this paper is to specify the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for Online Distance Learning (ODL) in Higher Education (HE). Research methodology was analyzing and synthesizing the literature review. The literatures were reviewed to determine items relevant
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CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 Introduction to organizations and management Managerial competencies The development of management thought CHAPTER 1 Introduction to organizations and the nature of management learning outcomes After studying this chapter you should be able to: 1 Understand what an organization is and why business organizations exist. 2 Define what a manager is and what the management process involves. 3 Explain. 4 Understand the differences between the various levels of management
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analysis ‘Sources and potency of forces’ ‘Readiness and capability’ Commitment, enrolment and compliance Organisation-level change interventions Total Quality Management (TQM) Business Process Reengineering (BPR) Group-level change interventions Parallel learning structures Self-managed teams Individual-level change interventions Innovation research Securing individual behaviour change Managing Change in the NHS 2.5 How can we make change happen? Organisational development (OD) Organisational
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