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By Ernie A. Cevallos Based on decades of scientific research on human motivation, Daniel Pink shows in this RSA Animate video the mismatc...

By Ernie A. Cevallos Watch how Gary Hamel,  management thinker extraordinaire , makes the case for reinventing management for the 21st ce...

By Ernie A. Cevallos For generations and to this day many managers swear that obtaining commitment or closing the sale is the most importan...

B y Ernie A. Cevallos The purpose behind Google’s Project Oxygen initiative was to seek an answer to a simple question: How to build bett...

By Ernie A. Cevallos Widely regarded as one of the world's most influential psychologist, Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize for his ...

By Ernie A. Ce vallos This classic eulogy to one of the greatest business thinkers was published By Scott Thurm and Joann S. Lublin, staff...

By Ernie A. Cevallos For books with pathos, dark human behavior, insights on how to gain power, and business leadership lessons there are ...

By Ernie A. Cevallos Perfect competition is at one end of the competition spectrum, and one of the basis of the concept is that since firm...

By Ernie A. Cevallos For a business to have sustainable growth, one of the fundamentals that must be right is that of keeping talent for e...

By Ernie A. Cevallos The topics of energy conservation, green initiatives, global warming, renewable energy, and environmental responsibi...

By Ernie A. Cevallos The notion that quality management is about minimizing defects, especially in production, is an outdated view of what i...

The work of Good to Great best seller author Jim Collins—whose research suggested that great performing companies had leaders with two uniqu...

The Creative Commons movement founder director Hal Abelson is also credited with influencing the creation of the OpenCourseWare concept, w...

By Ernie A. Cevallos Business l eaders are often asked the question “What keeps you up at night?” The more direct and better question sho...

By Ernie A. Cevallos What brought about the transformational change and growth that United Technologies ( UTX ) has experienced under the ...

By Ernie A. Cevallos Most of us spend over fifty percent of our waking hours trying to win in the race of work and climbing the career lad...

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and Pixar Animation Studios is a greatly admired contemporary leader that continues to enjoy tremendous su...

Healthy skepticism, questioning your underlying assumptions and introducing doubt, can be helpful. There are many traps that can cloud our c...

By Ernie A. Cevallos At every step of decision making misperceptions based on incorrect input, biases, lack of information, and other trap...

By Ernie A. Cevallos One of the most respected and sought after executive coaches is Marshall Goldsmith. His primary insight is that “good...

By Ernie A. Cevallos A person dealing with challenges that require leadership, skill, persistance, and courage is referred to as "The ...

By Ernie A. Cevallos The record clearly indicates Warren Buffet is a businessman extraordinaire who continues to enjoy a long and excepti...

By Ernie A. Cevallos Leadership and managerial ability are not about mystical skills or pure personality traits that only a chosen few wer...

By Ernie A. Cevallos Sample 1,435 good companies. Evaluate their performance over 40 years. Distill it to eleven great companies THE G...

By Ernie A. Cevallos “The Six Sigma master was once the undisputed authority in management. But Fortune is finding that today's smart...

By Ernie A. Cevallos Management à la Google Worldwide best seller business writer of “Competing for the Future” and strategy and managem...

By Ernie A. Cevallos Peter Drucker understood the value of people in the business equation a long time ago. In his last best seller book a...

By Ernie A. Cevallos A Knowledge@Wharton article based on joint research with the Harvard Business School says now may be the time to re-e...

By Ernie A. Cevallos What is wrong with value propositions? In today’s competitive environment creating and delivering winning value pro...

By Ernie A. Cevallos While conversing with an experienced sales manager, I wanted to learn if the resources being invested on a particular...

By Ernie A. Cevallos This paper is based on personal experience with the larger or major sale, and insights from the research conducted b...

Books on management are published by the hundreds each year, but for your money you can skip a great deal of these publications and simply r...

By ERNIE A. CEVALLOS (This document was submitted to Professor Howard Gitlow of the University of Miami as a term-paper for MAS 610 Statist...

Deming's 14 Points (Excerpted from Chapter Two of OUT OF THE CRISIS by W. Edwards Deming). 1. Create constancy of purpose toward impr...

By Ernie A. Cevallos Fortune 500 firms appreciate the importance of brands. Today, in the age of Globalization where digitization, virtual...

There are many aspects of our lives that require making choices and determining how we invest our time and energy. If we waste the opportuni...