interviewed several senior executives and knowledge-management practitioners on the challenges they face in managing corporate knowledge, and on the strategies they have employed to exploit business information for competitive advantage. Our sincere thanks go to all the interviewees and survey respondents for sharing their insights on this topic. June 2005 © The Economist Intelligence Unit 2005 1 Know how Managing knowledge for competitive advantage Executive summary H ow does a company
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of Leadership 1 What is Effective Leadership? 2 The Difference between Managers & Leaders 6 Leadership Roles and Functions 7 Executive Leadership “Defined” 9 A Typology of Leaders 11 Facets of Leadership Effectiveness 13 The Role of the Team Leader 15 Leader as a Change Agent 15 Leadership in High -Tech Environment 17 The Leadership Challenge 18 Conclusion 21 ‘Lots of people can have good ideas, but that’s not leadership. A real leader can turn those ideas into action, by inspiring
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Becoming an effective leader Workbook Contents |ILM Unit specification |Page 3 | |Leadership versus management |Page 5 | |Action centred leadership |Page 6 | |Mintzberg on the
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phenomenal. These organisations have started to reach for every source of information from newspapers to academic journals, from discoveries to breakthroughs to find a way to feed their growing expansion even faster. And with that has come the subject of teams. Numerous articles have been published about the benefits of teams. Peters & Waterman, (1982) as cited in Castka et al.,(2001) refer to teamwork as a critical factor in the most successful of companies. Another author, Colenso, (2000) as cited in
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discovery time for monoclonal antibodies to more than 1000 customers worldwide. Meeting Style There are basically three different styles of Abmart’s meetings: ‘information share,’ ‘creative discussion,’ and ‘consensus decision.’ The first two are the dominant forms. An ‘information share’ style of meeting consists of information flowing in one direction only, either ‘up’ to leadership from employees, or ‘down’ from senior management to employees. Requests for clarification can be entertained
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organisation. For example improving business, promote a worthy cause, achieving power and status, acquiring work experience, and so on. The goals are what the organisation as an entire is attempting to accomplish (providing innovative product and services that customers want; obtaining candidates elected; raising cash for medial research; creating a profit to reward stockholders, managers, and employees; and being socially responsible and protective the natural environment). An effective organisation
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analyze how and why organizations use benchmarking as a weapon to persist in today’s competitive business environment to see if it really is that effective. Benchmarking is the continuous analysis of processes, functions, strategies, performances and many other aspects of a business compared with or between the “best-in-class” organizations by gathering information by using appropriate methods of collection, with the intention of evaluating an organizations current standards and then carrying out self-improvement
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What is Leadership? Leadership is a process by which an executive can direct, guide and influence the behaviour and work of others towards accomplishment of specific goals in a given situation. Leadership is the ability of a manager to induce the subordinates to work with confidence and zeal. Leadership is the potential to influence behaviour of others. It is also defined as the capacity to influence a group towards the realization of a goal. Leaders are required to develop future visions, and
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Effective Communication: Dissecting a Health Care Experience Axia College of University of Phoenix Communication is an integral part of the health care interaction. Proper and effective communication can have many positive effects in all areas of health care from provider and patient interactions to inter-provider collaboration. Communication is the conveying of messages through speech, writing, and/or nonverbal methods to share a message (Oates, n.d.). This is a two-way process involving
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focus on a topic and contribute to the free flow of ideas. The teacher may begin by posing a question or a problem, or by introducing a topic. Students then express possible answers, relevant words and ideas. Contributions are accepted without criticism or judgement. Initially, some students may be reluctant to speak out in a group setting but brainstorming is an open sharing activity which encourages all children to participate. By expressing ideas and listening to what others say, students adjust
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