Journal of Business Strategy articles from September 2002

Journal of Business Strategy archives from September 2002

The 21st century numbers games. (Publisher's Note).(corporate accounting practices)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
September 1, 2002... For awhile there, it was getting so I absolutely hated opening the business pages of the newspaper. Every day, the business coverage got more depressing, Of course, short of ignoring all news all the time, I couldn't avoid the latest business...

Corporate citizenship. (Short Takes).(becoming central concern)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Once seen as a purely philanthropic activity, citizenship is becoming a central concern at leading companies, according to a recent report by The Conference Board. More and more companies see corporate citizenship as a new strategic and...

Just the facts. (Short Takes).(average salary increases, stock options, corporate ethics)(Brief Article)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2002... Pay's Down. For the first time in nine years, average salary increases in many key industries, including manufacturing, trade, and utilities, have dropped below 4% for some major employee groups, The Conference Board found. Estimates for 2003...

Tilting the playing field. (Negotiations).(from Breakthrough Business Negotiation: A Toolbox for Managers)(Brief Article)(Excerpt)
September 1, 2002... From Breakthrough Business Negotiation: A Toolbox for Managers, by Michael Watkins, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2002. Breakthrough negotiators never treat the structure of a negotiation as preordained or fixed. In other words, the game can...

Design for learning. (Leadership).(from The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win)(Brief Article)(Excerpt)
September 1, 2002... From The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win, by Noel M. Tichy with Nancy Cardwell, Harper Business, New York, 2002. One way to describe the fundamental job of leaders today is as the generation and...

Lessons from bankruptcy. (Strategic Planning).("A CEO's Nightmare: High-Performance Lessons from the Edge")(Brief Article)(Excerpt)
September 1, 2002... From "A CEO's Nightmare: High-Performance Lessons from the Edge," by David Hofrichter, in 2003 Handbook of Business Strategy, Thomson Media, New York, 2002. Devising a strategy guaranteed to work requires an extraordinary tough-mindedness....

Simple solutions. (Change Management).(from The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations)(Brief Article)(Excerpt)
September 1, 2002... From The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations, by John P. Kotterand Dan S. Cohen, Harvard Business School Press, 2002. Deep into a transformation, even if urgency remains high, even if people want to...

Instinctive strategy: organic organizations rule. (Real-Time Strategy).(technology adoption)(Column)
September 1, 2002... In the last issue, I briefly outlined the history of strategy and promised, for this issue, my views on the strategy of the future. In the two issues immediately prior to the last one, I "presaged" those views when I argued that an accelerating...

Managing the chaos of change. (Project Management).(work breakdown structure)
September 1, 2002... Almost daily, the media report on dramatic cost overruns in projects from IT systems to small rail systems to the International Space Station. The reason? Organizations are not using cutting-edge project management techniques that could help...

Redefining leadership for the 21st century. (Executive Perspective).
September 1, 2002... Back when I was studying for my MBA, the world was a different place. Then, business change was measured in years, sometimes even decades. Now, we measure the rate of change in months and, in some cases, even days. These changes are just as...

Tenth annual strategists to watch: the accounting scandals and the war on terrorism have produced special challenges for this year's crop of strategists. (Special Focus).(AES Corp.)(American International Group)(ClearOne Communications Inc.)(FBI reorganization)(FLIR Systems Inc.)(Merrill Lynch & Co.)(Securities and Exchange Commission)(United Airlines)
September 1, 2002... THE LAST YEAR HAS BEEN A NIGHTMARE FOR most in the business community and many in government. To say that economic conditions have been difficult is to grossly understate the case. The Wall Street roller coaster has been in a downhill plunge so...

The Mark Twain Dilemma: the theory and practice for change leadership; the best time to change a company is when it's successful, but that's also the time when resistance to change is at its highest. (Change Management).
September 1, 2002... HUMORIST AND SOCIAL CRITIC MARK TWAIN LIVED THROUGH many of the most profound transformations in American history, from the Civil War to the settling of the West and the advent of industrialization. He once summed up his feelings about it in...

Five habits of highly strategic thinkers: strategic perspective--the ability to step back and see the big picture--an be learned. (Leadership).
September 1, 2002... IDEAS CHANGE THE WORLD. CHARLES DARWIN'S ideas about natural selection fundamentally altered our perception of ourselves as a species. Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and Rachel Carson were instrumental in shaping the modern environmental...

The advent of information industrials: technological convergence is transforming business models, and new digital business paradigms are emerging. (Theory in Practice).
September 1, 2002... ARE WE AT THE CUSP OF AN ENTIRELY NEW BUSINESS paradigm? Proponents of the power of convergence--the turbulent confluence of telecommunications, computing, commerce, and media--will tell you that we are. Comparable to the impact of the steam...

Honesty. (The Last Word).(quotations)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The relative honesty of senior business executives is in serious doubt these days, and not without reason. You get the feeling that maybe the parents of a few of the honchos we've seen in the news never told their sons, "Honesty is the best...