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Understand Your Network and Let Knowledge Flow
Tortoriello, MarcoArticle ART-2274-EInnovation and Change, Knowledge and CommunicationCompanies communicate and operate across vast social and geographical spaces. The way that valuable knowledge is shared and transferred across these spaces is essential for creating and sustaining a healthy culture of innovation. To facilitate this, managers must look beyond formal organizational structures to the informal networks of ties and relationships that employees form across functions and divisions. Through his research, IESE Prof. Marco...Starting at €8.20
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Think You Have Power? Check Your Perceptions
Brion, SebastienArticle ART-2453-EDecision Analysis, Leadership and People ManagementThough talk of power makes some people uncomfortable, there's no doubt that it is vitally important in organizational contexts to influence others, perform your job and attain goals. Drawing upon extensive research from the field of organizational behavior and psychology, the author identifies six steps to gain power -- meaning control over some valued resource upon which others depend -- and then use that power for good, or for "pro-social ends....Starting at €8.20
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Visualizing Your Social Network
Ferraro, Fabrizio; Tortoriello, MarcoTechnical Note SMN-687-EStrategyThe technical note provides different options for visualizing one's social network. Drawing a picture of your social network, and of the broader social network in your company, might help you go beyond a simplistic view of what your contacts are (Who do you know?) and think about how the people in your company are connected to each other (your indirect contacts).Starting at €8.20
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Power and Influence in the Virtual Business World
Altaras, Jordan; Brion, SebastienTechnical Note DPON-350-ELeadership and People ManagementThis technical note provides novel ideas and best practices for developing power in the virtual business world. Building upon the framework of the Power and Influence course, we provide insights for fostering virtual power by way of three lenses: personal, positional and relational. We will highlight learnings provided by both IESE alumni and current research on these three sources of power.Starting at €8.20
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Positional Power: Diagnosing and Developing Positional Power
Brion, Sebastien; Salcedo, KatrinaTechnical Note DPON-357-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyPower, broadly defined as the ability to get things done, rests on three fundamental pillars: personal, relational, and positional power. Building all three sources of power is critical to achieving your objectives. This technical note focuses on positional power, which we define as the control over resources. Resources, in turn, are anything that you control within the organization that satisfy peoples' needs, including formal elements such as t...Starting at €8.20
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Cómo funciona la mente del directivo
de Santiago, Rafael; Iyengar, Sheena; Brion, SebastienDossier DOS-19Decision Analysis, Leadership and People Management, MarketingCada día nos vemos obligados a tomar múltiples decisiones. Conocer los mecanismos de nuestra mente nos ayudará a dar en el blanco.Starting at €15.00
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A Sacred Spirits Dilemma (B)
Delonca, Elodie; Brion, SebastienCase DPO-400-ELeadership and People ManagementEmployed by an African subsidiary of a French mining company, Anne was appointed project manager of a new mining project in Central Africa. While potentially representing a 5% increase of the country¿s GDP and presenting promising benefits, it turned out that some of the production areas were worshipping places where local communities conducted sacred ceremonies to honor their sacred spirits. This topic ended up being the largest project bottlene...Starting at €5.74
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Alice Edwards: Losing Control (B)
Porter, Charlie; Brion, SebastienCase DPO-728-ELeadership and People ManagementThe case describes the events surrounding a experience of sexual harassment by a bank employee. After experiencing harassment in the workplace, the protagonist must decide whether to file a formal complaint or leave the bank.Starting at €5.74
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Dr. Patricia Pozo-Rosich: Breaking Ground in Neurology
Brion, SebastienCase DPO-765-ELeadership and People ManagementPatricia Pozo-Rosich is a successful neurologist who aims to advance the treatment of migraines. She is not only a clinician, but also a researcher who has an entrepreneurial mindset in obtaining the resources necessary to advance her research. The case reviews the strategies that Pozo-Rosich has employed to achieve her aims, focusing on the need to build effective alliances, the use of "creative persistance" to overcome obstacles, and the need f...Starting at €8.20
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El poder de las relaciones informales para innovar
Tortoriello, MarcoArticle ART-2274Innovation and Change, Knowledge and CommunicationMás allá de las estructuras formales de la organización, los empleados establecen vínculos que los directivos no deberían pasar por alto. El intercambio de conocimiento que se produce entre ellos a través de los espacios geográficos y sociales de las empresas es esencial para la innovación. Partiendo de su investigación, el profesor del IESE Marco Tortoriello propone varias estrategias para potenciar estas redes informales. El primer paso es iden...Starting at €8.20