Patriots head coach Bill Belichick talks to players during a game against the New Orleans Saints on Sept. 17, 2017.
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According to a management scholar, a team's mindset and structure – not its stars – will often determine its success.
Steinhoff’s former CEO, Markus Jooste, is partly blamed for the corporate scandal that threatens to collapse the company.
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Gaps in the two tier board structure which is favoured in Europe may be partly responsible for the Steinhoff corporate scandal.
So many numbers, so little time.
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CFOs spend two-thirds of their waking hours working, according to a survey. The difficulty that companies are having hiring and retaining qualified employees is also at a 20-year high.
Elon Musk, head of Telsa, is an advocate for flat organisational structures.
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A flat management structure can reduce costs and boost efficiency but may be hard for larger firms to implement.
Nonprofit boards should be more diverse than this group, but too often they’re not.
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The people leading nonprofits are much less diverse than the communities they serve and there's no reason to expect that to change soon.
Giving workers a ‘voice’ is easy, and has already been proven effective as a management technique.
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Employees whose bosses give them some discretion over their work tasks are significantly more likely to engage in political behaviours outside work.
Coaching means many things, from simply listening to staff, to helping them set personal goals.
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Research shows that coaching employees makes them feel valued and empowered, and builds better relationships with management.
Intercultural relations between manager can be a difficult art.
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French managers often envision relations with their international partners in distinct – and not always ideal – ways. A specialist in cross-cultural relations looks at what can be done.
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Too much money, too few targets. Is the golden child of the 1980s starting to look long in the tooth?
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It is easy to forget that the James Bond franchise is firmly set in the world of work. Bond's evolution reflects changing attitudes to the workplace.
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The choke factor is visible in tournament-style athletics competitions, and should teach managers about incentives.
Sexual harassment scandals have altered and cut short many careers, including those of former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly (left), former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick (center) and late former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes.
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Human resources professionals should be trained at school and encouraged on the job to take employee complaints seriously. But that's not how the profession works now.
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Dave Lewis has dragged the supermarket clear of an accounting scandal. Now for the hard bit ...
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How the ride-sharing company responds to a licence refusal in the UK capital will show if its culture has genuinely changed.
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Workers will soon get to see just how fat the fat cats have become.
Merck CEO Ken Frazier, seated next to Trump, was first to resign from his manufacturing council.
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Trump's reaction to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, prompted business leaders to sever ties with two White House councils.
‘Now, where did I put that purpose?’
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Ethics and a clear vision really do matter – especially in these turbulent times.
Gen Z is the first generation born into a fully technological environment.
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Managers have barely got to grips with the challenges posed by Millennials. What are they going to do with Generation Z?
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When rowdy shareholders start battering at the door, CEOs should take a leaf from their playbook.
How should you signal that you don’t want to be disturbed?
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Business Briefing: are our standards dropping in the workplace?
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Our workplaces are becoming less formal. But there were some advantages to the old formality.