From the Middle Ages when the first forms of business were identified and in 1836 when the first Societe Anonyme in Greece was founded (it was a maritime insurance company), entrepreneurship is constantly changing. Following the requirements of each era, the demand for products and services and of course the legislation, companies changed orientation and […]
Organizations are conceived as a result of the process of asking the fundamental question of why they should ever exist. They are therefore conceived for serving a purpose. And this purpose is essentially defined by the fact that there should be a need that has to be satisfied in some way. This does not only […]
The world has become more competitive that it had ever been before. And this is a trend that is constantly accelerating. The rate of change is just so fast that companies may easily become disintegrated from their environment, lose competitiveness, decline and eventually die. Corporate leaders are more and more often called upon to save […]
It is the belief of many, that effective managers should be able to give the right answer to every question and the right solution to every problem. They are expected to have their pockets full of them! The saying goes as follows: if somebody brinks a problem he or she is most probably an employee […]
Organizational leaders need to play a number of different roles, depending on their level in the organization as well as on the functional area that they lead. All those roles are required for an organization to function properly. However, not all of them can be played by a single individual, since they are simply conflicting. There are quite a few different approaches towards the definition […]
Το 1960, ο Theodore Levitt δημοσίευσε ένα άρθρο-σταθμό στον χώρο της διοίκησης επιχειρήσεων και ειδικότερα του μάρκετινγκ, με τον ιδιαίτερο τίτλο “Marketing Myopia”. Αυτό το εξαιρετικό δημιούργημα ενός πρωτοπόρου της σκέψης μάς οδήγησε να κάνουμε τη μεταφορά των εννοιών που πραγματεύτηκε στα ευρύτερα οικονομικά. Τα Μυωπικά Οικονομικά, λοιπόν, είναι ολοένα και περισσότερο ανεπίκαιρα, ενώ έχουν συγκεκριμένα χαρακτηριστικά που τα καθιστούν επίσης […]
Organizational leaders are proud of being able to structure organizations right. After all moving boxes around is easy and textbooks are full of relevant hints. This is why restructuring companies Is considered by executives to be the solution to any kind of problems, even the most trivial ones. And opportunities for restructuring are found anywhere. […]
Κλείσαμε ένα χρόνο από την πρώτη στιγμή που καταλάβαμε ότι η πανδημία Covid-19 αφορά την Ευρώπη, την Ελλάδα, το ίδιο το σπίτι μας. Μέσα σε αυτό το χρονικό διάστημα, οι περισσότεροι από εμάς περάσαμε τα πέντε στάδια αποδοχής που συναντούμε σε κάθε δύσκολη ή δυσάρεστη κατάσταση (άρνηση, θυμός, διαπραγμάτευση, θλίψη, αποδοχή), ενώ ορισμένοι, ελπίζω λίγοι, […]
A mediocre decision that is well-implemented is worth much more than a good decision that is either not or that is badly implemented. This is quite simply because it is only through implementation that ideas may finally come true. However, implementation is almost always the weak link and there is a reason for that. An […]
It is quite often to see teams that are comprised by stellar performers fail miserably. In fact, such teams are quite often candidates for failure, almost by default. And they fail not despite the fact that they are comprised by stars but exactly because of that. Individual performance is just a very poor predictor of […]
