OB Practices: Are They FEDUP?

Free food!  Subsidies for buying hybrid cars!  No lay-off policies! Paternity leaves!  Employee sabbaticals! No more performance appraisals!  The list of perks, benefits and organizational practices is almost endless, and as many managers know, simply benchmarking or imitating practices or benefits what some of the “great places to work” employers offer is no guarantee that […]

The Failure of Success When Internationalizing

Wal-Mart in Korea … Best Buy in China … Tesco in the U.S. …  The list of companies that have tried to expand internationally and have failed is long indeed, as my students learn in my classes in International Business.  Of course, there are companies that have also been successful as they internationalized, such as […]

Stephen Covey and Global Management Principles Versus Practices

When I was a young manager working for a Fortune 500 company, I signed up for a workshop that Stephen Covey was conducting at a conference center outside New York City.  I had just read his book, “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,” and wanted to learn more by listening to him live. He […]