How To Have Employees Experience their Manager As A Leader – A Design and Screening Solution

By Michelle Malay Carter on June 10, 2009 

My last post?had the word impotent in it twice, so those who read my posts via email may have had the post hijacked by a spam filter.? Additionally, because my last post was so long, I am?repeating the end of my last post under a new title with one new context setting introductory paragraph. Managers […]

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The World May Be Flat, But Organizations Shouldn’t Be

By Michelle Malay Carter on January 21, 2009 

In my last post, I said all work levels have something to contribute to the organization.? When organizations intentionally structure themselves?to be flat, they tend to leave out work level 3.? When de-layering was en vogue, sometimes organizations cut too much, and level 3 was often the layer cut that should not have been. What […]

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Innovation at Work Level 1 – A Friday Fascinating

By Michelle Malay Carter on December 12, 2008 

My post, Innovation Snobbery Is Not Serving Organizations, which started as?my response to Harvard Business online’s question, What’s Management’s Role in Innovation?,?is one of my most visited posts. Biased Expectations = Limited Potential My contention is that all work is creative and all humans are wired to work.? All levels of the organization are accountable […]

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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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Is Training Anything More Than Putting Lipstick on a Pig?

By Michelle Malay Carter on April 2, 2008 

A friend sent me a Financial Times article written by Sathnam Sanghera, a gentleman who was thrilled when his Icebreaker training course was canceled.? Even though I frequently play the role of trainer, I found it a funny article worth a read. In the article, Sathnam cited these statistics: In 2006, Hudson, a New York […]

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