by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is a Community of PracticeA community of practice is a work-group structure that functions as an alternative structure to a formal committee. Generally, involvement with a community of practice is voluntary in nature. The members share a common interest or...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is the Theory of Constraints? The Theory of Constraints, proposed by Goldratt, claims that a change to most of the variables in an organization will have only a small impact on the global performance – on the bottom line. Theory of Constraints provides a...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What are Life-Long Learners? Life-Long learners are those who seek or pursue information and understanding throughout their lives. That is, acquisition of knowledge is a driving force. What are the Attributes of Life-Long Learners? Andersen (2019) identified four...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is Covert Leadership?Covert Leadership, proposed by Henry Mintzberg, is an explanation of how modern leaders may lead an organization without being at the center of attention or fully recognized as undertaking leadership. In doing so, the cover leader...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is a Cross-Functional Team?A Cross-Functional Team (CFT), Multidisciplinary Team or an Interdisciplinary Team, also known as is a group of people whose members hold different backgrounds, expertise, and functions working toward shared objectives.Note that team...
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...
