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Useful Links shared by Solectron

Following are a series of links to business and leadership information - and a few service providers - that I compiled to offer through Solectron's Leadership Portal Community. By no means a comprehensive list, but still a very useful one. However, if you have favorites you think I should add, please send me a link and brief explanation of why STEP members would find it valuable.

(This page is shared with Karie Willyerd's permission. Thanks, Karie!)

- Stan

Business Information

CEOexpress - Hundreds of incredibly useful links for news, business research, and office productivity.

 

Hoovers - Search for information by company, industry, or even an executive's name.

 

 

RefDesk - Great for looking up facts. Hundreds of useful links.

 

 

 

Leadership Information and Services

BetterManagement - A unique mix of online educational resources and live business conferences. BetterManagement provides business management articles, webcasts, online learning, and business books. Most of these resources are free. Quality is excellent. Business conferences focused on leadership and decision making include BetterManagement LIVE WorldWide, and regionally focused events in Latin America and Europe.

Business management topics include:

  • activity based management,
  • business intelligence,
  • customer relationship management,
  • financial management,
  • IT management,
  • leadership and management,
  • risk management,
  • scorecard and performance management and.
  • supply chain management.

Forbes.com's Infoimaging section contains valuable resources on topics important to Solectron. Scroll down in the Reference section to search by industry. There you'll find topics such as Supply Chain Management, Contract Manufacturing Services, and Financial Management.

 

Center for Creative Leadership - An internationally recognized resource for understanding and expanding the leadership capabilities of individuals and organizations from across the public, private, nonprofit, government and education sectors. The Center for Creative Leadership is a nonprofit, educational institution with international reach. For more than three decades its mission has been to advance the understanding, practice and development of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide. Center staff members conduct research, produce publications, and provide programs and assessment products to leaders and organizations in all sectors of society. The Center annually serves leaders from more than 2,000 organizations - both public and private, including two-thirds of the Fortune 500. Each year, more than 20,000 individuals participate in a Center program and 100,000 professionals complete a Center assessment. In 2003, BusinessWeek's biennial special report on executive education ranked the Center 1st worldwide in leadership education for the third consecutive time. In a 2005 Financial Times survey, the Center earned an overall Top 10 ranking worldwide among providers of executive education.

Vital Smarts - VitalSmartsTM solutions address critical behaviors - and drive profound and measurable improvement in individual, team, and organizational performance. Their products and services span key areas such as:

  • Performance coaching
  • Personal effectiveness
  • Teamwork
  • Leadership
  • Organizational change
  • Culture
Their best-known products include:
  • Crucial Conversations: deliver core management skills to help individuals, teams, and organizations get the results they want.
  • Crucial Confrontations: provide a step-by-step process for creating accountability, improving performance, and ensuring execution.
  • Vitality Training Series: participants increase their impact as leaders and achieve greater personal, team, service, performance, and leadership vitality.

Center for Collaborative Organizations (University of North Texas) - Diverse Links on topics such as Teaming, Virtual Teams, Human Resources, Facilitation, Conflict Management, Total Quality, Compensation, Appraisal, Organizational Development, Leadership and Management, Training and Individual Development, etc. A great starting point from which you can quickly link to key sites on these critical topics.

 

 

 

The Clarion Group - The Clarion Group helps business leaders find integrated solutions to support organizational transformation and address complex challenges in the areas of Business Strategy, Management Infrastructure, and Organizational Behavior. By way of introduction to how they think and work, please review their Insights from the Clarion Institute.

 

CLG - CLG focuses on implementing strategies for Driving Top-Line Growth, Maximizing Return on Capital Investments, Making Six Sigma/Lean Manufacturing Work, Merger and Acquisition Integration, Developing Leadership Bench Strength, Employee Engagement, Decision Speed and Effectiveness, Leveraging Technology, Attracting and Retaining Top Talent, and Quality and Productivity Improvement.

 

The Leader to Leader Institute (formerly the Drucker Foundation) - The Leader to Leader Institute serves as a broker of intellectual capital, bringing together the finest thought leaders, consultants, and authors in the world with the leaders of social sector voluntary organizations. By providing intellectual resources to leaders in the business, government, and social sectors, and by fostering partnerships across these sectors, the Leader to Leader Institute works to strengthen social sector leaders of the United States and of nations around the globe.

The Grove Consultants International - The Grove Consultants International is a process-consulting firm committed to advancing the art and practice of collaboration. The Grove has pioneered enormously productive visual facilitation approaches that consistently stimulate participation, focus big-picture thinking, enhance group memory, and win commitment. Their work is highly respected. (STEP Members, note that STEP Alumna Marilyn Martin also offers Graphic Facilitation Services.)

 

Recommended Reading

The Clarion Call - Newsletter covering executive issues in thoughtful ways. Topics have included Operating Models, Organizational Design, Smart Growth, Scenario Planning, Behavioral Alignment and Success Profiles. Back issues are available online.

 

Leader to Leader - The Leader to Leader Institute's quarterly journal, offers cutting-edge thinking on leadership, management, and strategy written by today's top thought leaders from the private, public, and social sectors.

 

 

Fast Company - Launched in November 1995 by Alan Webber and Bill Taylor, two former Harvard Business Review editors, Fast Company magazine was founded on a single premise: A global revolution was changing business, and business was changing the world. Discarding the old rules of business, Fast Company set out to chronicle how changing companies create and compete, highlight new business practices, and showcase the teams and individuals who are inventing the future and reinventing business.

 

Harvard Business Review - Highly respected journal. Online subscriptions and reprints of key articles dealing with all aspects of business performance. Also offers links to Harvard Business School Press books, case studies, conferences, newsletters, and eLearning.

 

INSEAD Knowledge - INSEAD is widely recognised among the world's top-tier business schools as one of the most innovative and influential.

 

 

This site offers access to their online journal. Content is accessible by geographic region, industry sector, and "themes." Themes include:

  • Business, Society, & Environment
  • Change & Innovation
  • Economics, Trade, & Policy
  • Entrepreneurship & Family Business
  • Finance & BankingKnowledge Management
  • Marketing
  • Operations Management
  • People & Leadership
  • Strategy

MIT Sloan Management Review - The MIT Sloan Management Review is a business journal that bridges the gap between management research and practice, evaluating and reporting on new research to help readers identify and understand significant trends in management. SMR is published by the MIT Sloan School of Management, which consistently ranks as one of the world's top business schools. Since its founding in 1959, MIT Sloan Management Review has been a venue for business-management innovators from MIT and elsewhere ? authors such as Peter Senge, Lester Thurow, James Brian Quinn, Gary Hamel, Thomas Davenport, Christopher Bartlett, Sumantra Ghoshal, John Quelch, Henry Mintzberg, Max Bazerman, and Ed Lawler. The journal covers all management disciplines, although its particular emphasis is on corporate strategy, leadership, and management of technology and innovation.

Red Herring - Red Herring, Inc., founded in 1993, is a media company whose mission is to cover innovation, technology, financing and entrepreneurial activity. Its staff of award-winning journalists tell readers what's first, what matters and most importantly, why.

 

 

Tuck School of Business - Tuck Forum - The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth is one of the top management schools in the world. Tuck offers only one degree program?the full-time MBA. Such focus allows Tuck to offer outstanding support to its students and faculty. In addition to its MBA program, Tuck offers a select array of executive education and other nondegree programs, like the Tuck Business Bridge ProgramŽ. Tuck Forum, a report on new research at the school, is published twice a year.

Wharton Leadership Digest - The Wharton Leadership Digest is a monthly publication of the Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. The mission of the Center is to stimulate basic research and practical application in the area of leadership and change, foster an understanding of how to develop organizational leadership, and support the leadership development agendas of the Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania.

Knowledge@Wharton - Knowledge@Wharton is a bi-weekly online resource that offers the latest business insights, information and research from a variety of sources. These include analysis of current business trends, interviews with industry leaders and Wharton faculty, articles based on the most recent business research, book reviews, conference and seminar reports, links to other web sites and so on. The web site presents information in layers so that users can pursue their interests to whatever depth they wish. An in-depth searchable database of related articles and research abstracts allows access to information through simple mouse clicks.

Stanford Business School Knowledgebase - "An Information Source for Thoughtful Leaders" provided by the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, this site offers a variety of articles and other resources for leaders.

 

Content covers domains such as:

  • Accounting
  • Compensation
  • E Commerce
  • Economics
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Finance
  • Health Care
  • Human Resources
  • Labor
  • Leadership
  • Manufacturing
  • Marketing
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Organizational Ecology
  • Politics/Public Policy
  • Social Innovation
  • Strategic Management
  • Supply Chain

 


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