BizAnalyst Network: MBA Depot Monthly Newsletter (Nov 2005)

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MBA Depot Monthly Newsletter (Nov 2005)

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Most Popular Entries for October:
- Articles and Links
- Market Research Entries
- Business Related Quotes
- Vault Files
- Recommended Books
- Business Graphics
- Thought Leader Entries
- Expert Center Entries
- Case Study Entries
- Prospective MBA Entries

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Most Popular Articles / Links

Title: The Four Disciplines of Sustainable Growth
Subject: Human Resources
Source: Gallup Management Journal

Title: Does Your Leadership Have Style?
Subject: Leadership
Source: CEO Refresher / Ken Buist

Title: After "Competence," "Emotional Intelligence," and "Learning and Growth": What's the Next Step?
Subject: Human Resources
Source: BetterManagement.com / Dr. Otto Laske (Laske and Associates LLC)

Title: Strategic Workforce Engagement: Defining the Behavior of Organizations for Competitive Advantage
Subject: Organizational Behavior
Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) / Yves Morieux, Robert Howard

Title: Wanted: Leaders With Courage
Subject: Leadership
Source: LeaderValues / Ray Weekes

Title: Some Pros and Cons of Six Sigma
Subject: Operations
Source: BetterManagement.com / Jiju Antony (Quality America)

Title: The decision-driven organization
Subject: Organizational Behavior
Source: Bain / Paul Rogers and Marcia Blenko

Title: WhitePaperSource
Subject: Marketing/Sales
Source: Stelzner Consulting

Title: Command and Control?
Subject: Organizational Behavior
Source: STERNbusiness / Steven L. Blader and Tom R. Tyler

Title: Peter F. Drucker on a Functioning Society
Subject: People
Source: Leader to Leader / Joseph A. Maciariello

Most Popular Market Research Entries

Title: 8-to-14-year-old Girls Spending
Subject: Demographics
Source: CMO Magazine, June 2005

Title: Crunch Time: The Competitiveness Audit
Subject: Industry Specific
Source: A.T. Kearney

Title: Worldwide spending on Software as a Service
Subject: Industry Specific
Source: CFO IT Magazine

Title: Mobile Content Around the World
Subject: Industry Specific
Source: eMarketer

Title: Most Vote "No" On Mobile Video
Subject: Industry Specific
Source: eMarketer

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Most Popular Business Related Quotes

Author: Jim Collins
Quote: A "stop doing" list is more important than a "to do" list.
Source: Business 2.0
Subject: Management

Author: Jonathan Byrnes
Quote: Someday your current job will be a line entry on your resume. Under the entry, you'll have two or three bullets to describe your major accomplishments. "Did a good job of doing what always was done" can't be one of them.

There is a lot of power in reflecting at the beginning of a new job on what you want the two or three bullets to be, and deliberately setting about building them over the course of your job tenure. Otherwise, you run the risk of having them simply be the incidental byproduct of what opportunities happened to come your way.
Source: HBS Working Knowledge
Subject: Career

Author: Charles Darwin
Quote: It's not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.
Source: Global Dharma Center
Subject: Change Management

Author: Jonathan Byrnes
Quote: How can you recognize leadership potential in a young person? The most important clue is whether the person has identified and sought out a work situation in which he or she feels real passion. If a person doesn't have the drive or ability to get his or her own situation right, how will he or she be able to do this for a company?
Source: HBS Working Knowledge
Subject: Leadership

Author: Michael Porter
Quote: Subsidy delays adjustment and innovation rather than promoting it. . . . Ongoing subsidies dull incentives and create an attitude of dependence. Government support makes it difficult to get industry to invest and take risk without it. Attention is focused on renewing subsidies rather than [on] creating true competitive advantage. One subsidized industry propagates its noncompetitiveness to others. Once started, subsidy is difficult to stop. What is worse, subsidies to one ailing industry encourage others to seek them.
Source: The Independent Review / The Competitive Advantage of Nations
Subject: Government

Most Popular Vault Files

Title: A template and checklist for drafting an employment contract
Subject: F|ree Stuff / Tools
Source: TechRepublic

Title: DICE Score
Subject: Project Management
Source: Barbara Kernos

Most Popular Recommended Books

Title: Discover Your Sales Strengths: How the World's Greatest Salespeople Develop Winning Careers
Subject: Marketing/Sales
Source: Benson Smith, Tony Rutigliano

Title: Strategic Marketing Management
Subject: Marketing/Sales
Source: David A. Aaker

Title: Influencing with Integrity: Management Skills for Communication and Negotiation
Subject: Career/Employment
Source: Genie Z. Laborde

Title: Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies
Subject: Leadership
Source: Robert J. House, Paul J Hanges, Mansour Javidan, Peter W. Dorfman, Vipin Gupta

Title: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Subject: Organizational Behavior
Source: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Most Popular Business Graphics

Title: Engaging Employees (BCG)
Subject: Human Resources
Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Title: Greiner's Model of Five Phases of Growth
Subject: Organizational Behavior
Source: TheManager.org / Oliver Recklies

Title: Value Option Portfolio
Subject: Finance
Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Most Popular Thought Leader Entries

Thought Leader: Richard Florida
Source: Fast Company

Most Popular Expert Center Entries

Title: Trying to form acquisition team
Category: Business - Private Equity - Other
Industry: ANY
Question: I am trying to acquire a mid-size company in the mid-atlantic area (MD,VA, DC, or WV) I would like to post a notice asking interested MBAs who would like to work on the project for a piece of the action to email me. Where should i post my notice? Thanks.

Jerry Wing MBA

Most Popular Case Study Entries

Title: Skoda Leaps to Market
Subject: Industry Specific
Source: strategy+business

Most Popular Prospective MBA Entries

Title: B-School Tries Online Game, Scholarship to Spur Interest
Source: CareerJournal.com / Ron Alsop

Title: Should I Seek an M.B.A. Degree From a For-Pr ofit University?
Source: CareerJournal.com / Perri Capell

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