Insightory – A Management Information Repository
By Michelle Malay Carter on May 27, 2008
If you haven’t stumbled upon it yet, you should check out Insightory. It’s a platform for management professionals, academicians and graduate business students to share their knowledge and insights with the corporate world, solve management issues collaboratively, and network with peers who have similar professional interests. Their goal is to do for management knowledge what […]
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The Dangers of Promoting from Within – Avoid “Right Place at the Right Time” Promotions
By Michelle Malay Carter on May 21, 2008
It’s a noble thing when organizations strive to promote from within, but this can really become a mess during times of explosive growth. HR’s Image Problem May Be Rooted in Promoting From Within In my last post, I eluded to the fact that this happens in HR quite frequently, and this may be why HR […]
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The Chicken-Egg, HR “Seat at the the Table” Argument
By Michelle Malay Carter on May 19, 2008
Regarding the long-suffering demand that HR be granted a seat at the table, I’d like to address this issue using my work levels goggles.? Is it really about HR needing to acquire this competency or that competency, or is it about organizational structure? I’m Talking About a Strategy Table If we assume that “the table” […]
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Requisite Organization Training Course – June 4 – Raleigh-Durham, NC, USA
By Michelle Malay Carter on May 11, 2008
Still a few seats left… Who and What Will Work, When, and Why: Using a Requisite Model to Enable Effectiveness and Engagement June 4, 2008 Regus Corporate Center, Meridian Parkway, Durham 8:30 am – 11:30 $150 – Click to Register and Pay Online-Scroll to Bottom of Page Many mainstream management models focus on fixing individual […]
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Operationalizing Innovation – Accountabilities by Work Level
By Michelle Malay Carter on April 28, 2008
I’ve said before that innovation should be an expectation at all levels, but innovation will look different at different work levels. All work has creative elements to it. Current Operations Versus Strategic Innovation at the bottom three levels of the organization will add value to current operations. Levels 4 and up should be adding “strategic” […]
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Judging Employee Potential Is Easy – Making Meaning of the Shades of Gray
By Michelle Malay Carter on April 21, 2008
I had my semi-annual dental visit last week. No cavities! As the dentist read my x-rays, I thought, how can he tell anything from that? It just looks like shades of gray. I had the same level of amazement during my children’s ultrasounds. I consider myself fairly intelligent, but I couldn’t tell a foot from […]
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Adaptive Path At Destiny’s Door
By Michelle Malay Carter on April 18, 2008
During my typical morning internet surfing, my circuitous route led me to this CEO job opening announcement at Adaptive Path.? Love the?name. ?After reading their website, I’m sure my management consulting firm, PeopleFit, could benefit from their” finding-your-market” and product design services.?? I still don’t fully understand what they do, but they seem hip, savvy, […]
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The Bookshelf Doth Mocketh
By Michelle Malay Carter on April 15, 2008
I’ve been tagged by Jim Stroup at Managing Leadership. The Assignment My assignment is to post sentences 6 – 8 on page 123 of a book that I am reading, list books yet to be read on my bookshelf, and pass the tag along. Truth be told, I’m not currently reading any books as I […]
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Elliott Who? Elliott “MidLife Crisis” Jaques
By Michelle Malay Carter on April 10, 2008
Where did the term ?midlife crisis? come from? How about ?corporate culture?? Who founded the Tavistock Institute (precursor to OD?s seminal home, the National Training Lab)? Who received a special award from General Colin Powell in 1992 for military leadership and instruction? Who created an actual science out of the arbitrary, highly subjective selection, promotion, […]
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Requisite Organization Training Course – June 4 – Raleigh-Durham, NC, USA
By Michelle Malay Carter on April 9, 2008
Now that I’ve bashed training as nothing more than lipstick on a pig, I thought I’d offer some. Quite a bit of what I write and rant is rooted in Elliott Jaques’ meta-model, Requisite Organization. On June 4, I’ll be leading a short course on some of the basics of the model and their implications […]
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