Why is this such a new thought to people? One of the best places to find cheap high-potentials without all of the baggage of an MBA (CEOs who are MBA substantially underperform CEOs who rose through the ranks by a substantial margin) is under you nose. Well, actually it’s under you in the organisational chart. [...]

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GEICO’s Lakeland employees received a profit-sharing bonus of 24.2 percent, up from 17.7 percent last year, employees told The Ledger.

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Yes, there is a point to all of this. The key article is the business case study from Huizenga Business School at Nova Southeastern. Very handy. W.L. Gore & Associates is the fave of most postmodern organizational theorists, who see the company’s lack of official hierarchy as the true networked organization.
I believe that Gore [...]

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Scheidegger describes a distinction between “bureaucratic hierarchy” and “hierachy per se” within organizations which shows how people currently understand the term “bureaucracy”.

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I just saw that Genevieve W. Gore, co-founder of W.L. Gore & Associates, died 2005 January 20 at 91. Gore and her husband, Bill, created the company that bore his name. It is now a billion dollar company that ranks #2 on the Top 100 Companies To Work For list.
It is a blow to [...]

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Are you a young, high-potential? Do your coworkers roll their eyes when you try to talk about something you see as a risk down the road? Do you tell yourself “Sometimes you have to do things that you don’t want to do” to justify staying in your position? Does your job bore you silly?

Then you might already be well on your way to screwing up your career beyond all recognition!

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Corante’s Outsourcing blog has reprinted T.A. Heppenheimer’s fascinating “How America Chose Not to Beat Sputnik Into Space” from the Winter 2004 issue of Invention and Techology. Also see the copyright information for the article. I’m not sure what this really has to do with outsourcing, but you can see how US leaders manipulated perceptions of [...]

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Reuters reports today that CEO compensation has changed to more long-term options tied to stock performance. MSN ran it as “Average CEO now makes $10.7 million: Pay packages 5% fatter in 2004, but corporate leaders are working harder for their stock incentives, survey finds“.
For this to be Requisite, read it in light of Mark Van [...]

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When you are a high-potential, you grow at a steeper trajectory than most people do. They advise you to do this and do that, but it doesn’t work. And it fails simply because you have grown beyond the size of the work.

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From The First Idea:
Through a field study, we have been able to show that the early capacities are mastered for the first time (and then continue to be further developed) during specific, predicted time intervals. [pp. 54]

No, I haven’t chased down the study yet and, no, I haven’t determined what these time periods are. I’m [...]

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