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Ivan Glickman
INNOVATION   |  Comment

The Survey Secret

Here's a piece I wrote for Sunday's "Boston Globe" that ran in the Ideas section. Once you realize how this game operates, the old selective perception phenomenon will guarantee that you'll start seeing examples of these sponsored ...READ»

Operation: Enduring Institution

Booz Allen Hamilton has released a list of what it considers the top 10 most enduring institutions. Parallel to the storied Built to Last, the study considered characteristics such as innovation, leadership, culture and values, ...READ»

Books Worth a Look

Strategy+Business, Booz Allen Hamilton's ever-useful management journal, has published a list of what contributors consider to be the best business books in the realms of strategy, innovation, leadership, and change this year. ...READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Where Private Equity Collides with Donuts and National Security

Pop quiz: What do donuts and national security/intel have in common?  Better stated, what do Dunkin' Donuts and Booz Allen Hamilton have in common? Answer: They may soon both have the same owner, the Carlyle Group.  Carlyle ...READ»

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Does Your Firm Have a Compelling Position?

Based on studies conducted by the American Marketing Association, the CMO Council, and Booz Allen Hamilton: • Salespeople are spending approximately 40% of their time preparing customer-facing deliverables while leveraging less ...READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Booz Allen's Story of Resilience

Booz Allen Hamilton’s Dr. Ralph Shrader has the CEO look.    Neatly coiffed silver hair.  Check.  Well tailored dark suit, pressed shirt and bold tie.  Check…check…check.  Cufflinks embossed with the ...READ»

Where Women Want to Work

Earlier this week, I was pleased to see former Fast Company staffer Jill Kirschenbaum on television, as well as quoted in several newspaper articles. The reason? Now editor in chief of Working Mother magazine, Jill was talking about ...READ»

Spirit at Work

FC Now reader Don Miller recommended that I take a look at a new article published by Strategy+Business. Klaus-Peter Gushurst, Munich-based vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton, offers "The New Leadership: Sober, Spirited, and ...READ»

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In Today's Papers

From the reading pile: Al Shugart, 76; Was Silicon Valley Pioneer An early innovator in hard drives died recently The F-Word Finally Falls from Favor (Registration may be required) A kindler, gentler comedy? A Pentagon Agency Is ...READ»

BUSINESS   |  Comment

Stop Playing Corporate Dodgeball…

Every company has untapped capacity for growth and success within its own four walls. But we are so busy playing a game I call ‘Corporate Dodgeball’ that we fail to drive great unifying ideas and success through our organizations. READ»

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Advertisers in Issue 23

3Com Palm Computing www.palm.com Achieve Global www.achieveglobal.com Altigen www.altigen.com Altoids www.altoids.com American Century www.americancentury.com American Electric Power www.aep.com American Express Financial Advisors ...READ»

In Today's Papers

From the reading pile: Alvin Toffler: The Thought Leader Interview "Thirty-six years after his book Future Shock, the world’s most influential futurist sees the informal economy as a basis of revolutionary wealth." At New Video ...READ»

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Learn More With Less: Corporate Education in the Current Economy

With less money available for corporate education efforts, how can organizations learn more now? Some suggestions are old school, others post-modern. This is the first in a series of articles focused on learning as the money runs out.READ»

How to Work Extremely Well

Tips from the trenches.READ»

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Can New York City's MTA Run On Carbon Credits?

One creative source of revenue New York City is considering: Carbon credits. Yesterday, public transit chief Eliot Sander was on the Brian Lehrer show discussing the "doomsday budget", which basically is a choice between bad and ...READ»

Ivan Glickman
GEN Y   |  Comment

Using CSR to Motivate Gen Y and Boomer Employees

Boomers and Gen Y, the largest cohorts in the workplace, both want to “contribute to society through their labor,” according to a new article in Harvard Business Review by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Laura Sherbin, and Karen Sumberg, of ...READ»

Hazardous Road Ahead: the 'Scenic' Career Route

Can women who opt out of the workforce ever get back in? That's the great unanswered question lurking behind many of the past year's stories about women ditching their corporate jobs and heading home. Until now, there had been no ...READ»

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Tech & Innovation Spending Show Corporations Are Recovering

Despite cutting back on spending, big corporations actually expanded their R&D budgets by 5.7% in 2008, reports The New York Times. It's only half as much as the increase in 2007, but it hints that research spending is one of the ...READ»

CEO: Career Ending Opportunity

"The giant sucking sound heard in the business world during 2004 was the extraction of chief executives from seats of power," states a recent study by Booz Allen Hamilton consultants. According to the study, of the world's 2,500 ...READ»

The Bush Health-Care Solution

No, not Dubya's. The president's first cousin Jonathan is an entrepreneur whose company, athenahealth, is trying to free doctors from the nightmare of insurance paperwork so they can get back to practicing medicine.READ»

Ivan Glickman
CHANGE   |  Comment

Organizational Storytellers Take on the Economy - Focus is Innovation, Hyper-production

Organizational storytellers are gathering again in Washington, DC this spring just in time for the cherry blossoms. This, their 9th year, promises a tour de force on the power of narrative to generate solutions for our troubled ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Booz & Company's Global Innovation 1000

Each year, Booz & Company analyzes R&D spending and determines the top 1000 spenders who are named their “Global Innovation 1000.” This year’s analysis takes a different look at the R&D spending and reveals ...READ»

Extreme Jobs (and the people who love them)

Eighty-hour weeks. Relentless travel. Unpredictable schedules. High risk, high stress. Your worst nightmare, maybe -- but a dream for a group of elite workers.READ»

Scient's Near-Death Experience

The leaders of Scient Corp. built a thriving, fast-growing consulting firm that owed its very life to the Internet economy. Then the dotcoms imploded -- and many of Scient's customers folded. Here's how the firm is preparing for the next economy.READ»