http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Mike+Beitler Business Management Mike Beitler Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=42665&ca=Business+Management All of us should be familiar with what’s happening with learning management systems (LMS). As organizations move away from a training mindset to a learning and performance culture, LMS will play a central role. The organization’s LMS should be more than a training documentation system. In a recent a... Business Management Mike Beitler Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=36246&ca=Business+Management Recently the Aberdeen Group completed a study on performance management. They found that companies with best-in-class employee performance management systems produce 50 to 70 percent more revenue than those that don’t have a good system. That finding gets my attention. We also know, from earlier stu... Business Mike Beitler Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=36249&ca=Business During the past few years, we have heard a lot of whining in the media about outsourcing and offshoring. Let’s look for the opportunities in these irreversible trends (and ignore the whiners!). By fully leveraging offshore talent (a strategic view of global sourcing) we can improve productivity, inc... Medical Business Mike Beitler Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=36250&ca=Medical+Business A rapidly spreading movement in the medical profession is evidence-based decision making. The business community has also begun to take notice. Pfeffer and Sutton’s recent “Harvard Business Review” article argues for evidence-based decision making in business management. Physicians using evidence-ba... Leadership Mike Beitler Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=23180&ca=Leadership Do we really believe outstanding leadership is so simple that we can boil it down to a simple formula? Could any single formula explain the likes of Gandhi, Jack Welch, and Bill Gates? Of course not. Individual human beings are amazingly complex. Interactions between individuals and groups are even... Politics Mike Beitler Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=24182&ca=Politics It is a fact of organizational life: politics influence virtually everything that happens in an organization. Leaders, especially change leaders, must develop political savvy. I am not advocating unethical behavior, but I am recommending that leaders consciously fine tune their political awareness.... Business Management Mike Beitler Sat, 03 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=21877&ca=Business+Management Professor Walter Oechsler of the University of Mannheim (Germany) believes the workplace and workforce in the 21st century will be characterized by "flexibilization." Oechsler sees the "flexibilization" of the workplace and workforce leading to "a core group with unlimited full employment, and an in... Business Management Mike Beitler Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=18739&ca=Business+Management Every leader wants his or her organization to be effective. Every leader realizes organizational effectiveness depends on the effectiveness of individuals. Therefore, it is critical to remember what is necessary to make an individual effective (not only for the subordinates, but the leader him/herse... Business Management Mike Beitler Sat, 05 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=17669&ca=Business+Management As organizational effectiveness (OE) consultants we make our livings by diagnosing our organizational clients' effectiveness deficiencies and then recommending interventions for our clients' greater effectiveness. But, we must also consider our own effectiveness. As OE consultants, we must continuou... Business Management Mike Beitler Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=16697&ca=Business+Management In a recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article the three authors (Neilson, Pasternack, and Van Nuys) described what they called the “Passive-Aggressive Organization.” While we are all familiar with the concept of the passive-aggressive individual, what the authors described in the article does no...