Corporate mission statements often fall short when it comes to influencing day-to-day behavior within organizations.

A global electronics manufacturer seemed to live in a perpetual state of reorganization. A new line of communication devices for the Asian market required reorienting its sales, marketing and support ...

An organization, by its most basic definition, is an assembly of people working together to achieve common objectives through a division of labor. An organization provides a means of using individual ...

Widely regarded as one of the most influential management experts in the early days of classical management theory, Mary Parker Follett developed foundational concepts that redefine how organizations ...

This represents a waterfall type of approach to project planning, where one phase flows into the other. It works well for certain industries such as construction and manufacturing, but it is less ...

Scrum is a project management methodology that can be used to organize teams during project planning and delivery, in which projects are split into smaller groups of tasks typically completed by teams ...

Organizational development (OD) encompasses the actions involved with applying the study of behavioral science to organizational change. It covers a wide array of theories, processes, and activities, ...

A version of this article appeared in the Autumn 2016 issue of strategy+business. Most companies have leaders with the strong operational skills needed to maintain the status quo. But they face a ...

How often have you heard somebody — a new CEO, a journalist, a management consultant, a leadership guru, a fellow employee — talk about the urgent need to change the culture? They want to make it ...

Husband and wife Frank and Lillian Gilbreth pioneered scientific management principles that revolutionized how we think about workplace efficiency and human performance. Rather than accepting ...

Amazon has added two new leadership principles to its longstanding management code. Following public criticism, Amazon pledged to be a better employer and to ensure responsibility. The changes are a ...

More than ever, building and maintaining trust, the bedrock of every business, succeeds or fails based on how data is handled ...