July 4, 2008
Pick of the week
Starbucks’ decision to rein in its frightening ubiquity prompted Harvard’s John Quelch to pontificate on the limits of growth and the fickle nature of the grab-and-go customer. Special gold star to his admiring former pupil in the comments section.
Elsewhere:
- Caparo entrepreneur Lord Paul and his son Angad on handing over control of a family company to a younger generation.
- How to manage a team in a downturn.
- The wisdom of allowing an official heckler into your meetings.
- The battle between corporate centralisers and decentralisers (part of a big IMD video package on YouTube in which business people and profs are asked about key global trends).
- People aren’t the only ones that network: factories can too.
- How managers are drunk cyclists.
If you’ve stumbled across any good content that illuminates management issues this week, please post the link below.
