To put it bluntly, Val DiFebo, chief executive of advertising agency Deutsch NY, likes to be direct.
“When you’ve got something on your mind, tell it to me straight,” she explained to Adam Bryant of the New York Times. …
Management & Leadership
Simple Secret to America’s Most Loved Companies
There’s nothing complicated about the results of a new study: Consumers prefer brands featuring products, services, pricing, and other policies that they can actually understand.
Most Men Think It’s OK to Check Texts in Meetings. Most Women Don’t.
The gender divide extends to the workplace
What Globalization Really Means
A dozen years ago, Peter Drucker predicted what multinational corporations of the future would look like, saying that they were going “to be held together and controlled by strategy” rather than defined by who owned …
The Harshest Generation
It seems we’re delaying everything nowadays—including work.
According to a new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, the “lockstep march from school to work and then on to …
The Real Face of Healthcare Reform
With Washington stalemated and the government’s new online medical insurance exchanges trying to work out the kinks, much of the nation is fixed on the fate of Obamacare. To really understand where our health system may be …
The Passion Puzzle at Work
Do you feel passionate about your job? If you answered yes, then you’re abnormal, at least if you go by the numbers.
Bloomberg Businessweek’s Ira Sager reports on new research from Deloitte Consulting’s Center for the Edge indicating that “truly passionate U.S. employees” make up “a scant 11% of the workforce.”
The Long View: Why “Maximizing Shareholder Value” Is On Its Way Out
In 1986, Peter Drucker warned of a severe threat to our “long-term economic future.”
“Corporate managements,” he wrote, “are being pushed into subordinating everything (even such long-range considerations as a company’s market standing, its technology, indeed its basic wealth-producing capacity) to immediate earnings and …
Taming the Healthcare Monster
Do not panic over healthcare costs. We may finally be on the cusp of learning to control them.
Like It or Not, the Holiday Shopping Season Just Started
Many kids just started school. It’s technically still summer until September 22. On Wednesday, temperatures hit around 100 degrees throughout the Northeast. But don’t worry about any of that: Retailers say now’s the time to start thinking about Santa, snowmen, and Christmas shopping.
An Acid Test for Every Boss
Of all the famous business leaders that Peter Drucker worked with, perhaps the most confounding was Thomas Watson Sr., the great visionary who ran International Business Machines Corp. from World War I until the …
Mass Layoffs? Overpaid CEOs? Blame McKinsey!
Inside McKinsey & Co., the management consulting firm everybody loves to hate.