The Future of the Database
During the first database wars in the early 1980s, it wasn't immediately obvious that the relational database model was superior to existing models. But over time, this model won due the power of SQL programming and ability to simply structure critical business data for back-office automation, e-business, and web-sites. As data growth and transaction...
Modern Management: Holacracy vs Hierarchy Organization Structure
What is Holacracy? Holacracy was originally developed by Brian Robertson in 2007. Since then this spark of an idea has spread like wildfire, having been adopted by many startups and even some larger companies like Zappos. [ideabox]Though it’s a complicated concept, its main idea is simple: eliminate all hierarchies and job titles in organizations, and replace...
What Great Executives Know and Do
Despite the huge impact executives can have on their organizations, failure rates remain high. Prescriptions for what to do continue to fall short. So it was wondered: If the executives who succeed in top jobs were closely studied , could distinguishing features that set them apart and defined their success were identified? As part of Harvard's ten-year longitudinal study...