• Why Peanuts Matter
  24th Feb 2011
  Alessandro Di Fiore

  Strategy creation and achieving operational effectiveness are treated as distinct functions by executives, and they are not mistaken following that strategy. But linking strategy with operational effectiveness can lead to the creation of successful business models. Here you will find some excellent examples of how some companies have been able to do this, including the peanut story which comes from Southwest Airlines.

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• The Six Habits of a Talent Magnet
  24th Feb 2011
  Tsun-yan Hsieh with Anthony Tjan

  Tsun-yan Hsieh is the chairman of LinHart Group which specializes in CEO leadership, here he suggests six highly effective tips which anyone can apply and become a talent magnet. These include cultivating and maintaining relationships with talented people much before you actually need them, creating the right expectations about yourself and your enterprise, looking beyond talented individuals’ accomplishments into what actually drives them, getting them into your company in a planned and thoughtful manner and then mentoring them for success.

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• Harvesting Business Ideas from Inside and Out
  24th Feb 2011
  Emily Singer

  Melatonin is the world’s largest producer of medical devices, thus it needs a steady inflow of ideas for innovation. The company has been doing this successfully using modern social networking tools, which help it receive ideas from across the globe. It has developed community pages dedicated to specific topics where global workforce can learn and share knowledge. This allows knowledge to flow smoothly across all levels and empowers everyone working in the company to come out with new ideas.

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• Trusting Data, Not Intuition
  24th Feb 2011
  Erica Naone

  Intuition is not a reliable guide when it comes to evaluating the potential of ideas. According to Ronny Kohavi who is an architect at Microsoft’s Online Services division studies in the software industry have shown that when evaluated through controlled experiments less than 50% of such good-to-great ideas work. Therefore relying on intuition to judge the potential of any idea is a not advisable.

  Source: Technology Review

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• Got a Great Idea? Tell Everyone!
  24th Feb 2011
  David H. Freedman

  Protecting business ideas by covering them with a cloak of secrecy is very common, big companies like Apple are extremely secretive about new products or even updates on existing products. It works for Apple because it does not need anyone’s advice to make the right decisions. However, for most small to mid-sized business and startups secrecy can lead to failure. As an entrepreneur with a great new idea, you are so taken over by it, that you may not see the whole picture, or be able to account for all the significant factors that could affect your idea.

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Process Briefs are snippets from world wides sources summarizing demonstrated process improvements.

• Why Peanuts Matter
  24th Feb 2011
  Alessandro Di Fiore

  Strategy creation and achieving operational effectiveness are treated as distinct functions by executives, and they are not mistaken following that strategy. But linking strategy with operational effectiveness can lead to the creation of successful business models. Here you will find some excellent examples of how some companies have been able to do this, including the peanut story which comes from Southwest Airlines.

  read more
• Harvesting Business Ideas from Inside and Out
  24th Feb 2011
  Emily Singer

  Melatonin is the world’s largest producer of medical devices, thus it needs a steady inflow of ideas for innovation. The company has been doing this successfully using modern social networking tools, which help it receive ideas from across the globe. It has developed community pages dedicated to specific topics where global workforce can learn and share knowledge. This allows knowledge to flow smoothly across all levels and empowers everyone working in the company to come out with new ideas.

  read more
• Trusting Data, Not Intuition
  24th Feb 2011
  Erica Naone

  Intuition is not a reliable guide when it comes to evaluating the potential of ideas. According to Ronny Kohavi who is an architect at Microsoft’s Online Services division studies in the software industry have shown that when evaluated through controlled experiments less than 50% of such good-to-great ideas work. Therefore relying on intuition to judge the potential of any idea is a not advisable.

  Source: Technology Review

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Leadership Briefs are snippets from world wides sources summarizing demonstrated leadership and its methods.

• The Six Habits of a Talent Magnet
  24th Feb 2011
  Tsun-yan Hsieh with Anthony Tjan

  Tsun-yan Hsieh is the chairman of LinHart Group which specializes in CEO leadership, here he suggests six highly effective tips which anyone can apply and become a talent magnet. These include cultivating and maintaining relationships with talented people much before you actually need them, creating the right expectations about yourself and your enterprise, looking beyond talented individuals’ accomplishments into what actually drives them, getting them into your company in a planned and thoughtful manner and then mentoring them for success.

  read more

Other Briefs are snippets from world wides sources including news items or anything else of importance to our audiences.

• Got a Great Idea? Tell Everyone!
  24th Feb 2011
  David H. Freedman

  Protecting business ideas by covering them with a cloak of secrecy is very common, big companies like Apple are extremely secretive about new products or even updates on existing products. It works for Apple because it does not need anyone’s advice to make the right decisions. However, for most small to mid-sized business and startups secrecy can lead to failure. As an entrepreneur with a great new idea, you are so taken over by it, that you may not see the whole picture, or be able to account for all the significant factors that could affect your idea.

  read more