by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is the 8D Problem Solving Method? The 8D Problem Solving (Eight Disciplines) approach, also known as Ford 8D, Global 8D, or TOPS 8D, and create by Ford Motor Company, is a problem solving (process improvement) method that seeks to identify, correct and eliminate...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is Time Management?Time Management (TM) involves the conscious control of the amount of time spent on tasks, activities, projects or initiatives, in order to maximize efficiency.As Eisenhower once put it, “Plans are nothing, but planning is...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is the Enneagram of 9 Personalities?The Enneagram of Personalities, first introduced by Gurdjief (1866 – 1949), identifies 9 distinct personality types and characteristic emotional states to which the personalities are connected.What is the Riso-Hudson Enneagram...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is Opportunistic Behavior?One major source of bounded rationality is Opportunistic Behavior by other parties. Opportunism can be defined as: self-interest seeking by an agent (an economic or business party) in a deceptive way (with guile). Or more neutrally as:...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is the Bridging Epistemologies framework? The Bridging Epistemologies, proposed by Cook and Brown, identify 4 types of knowledge: explicit and tacit at the individual and collective levels, and consider how they are bridged by the active process of knowing...
