At the Management Science site ‘12manage’ they ask you to select your Management Interest Group. Some are listed below.
Of course, everyone uses CAGR, EBITDA, and P/E Ratio every day. How many others do you know?
It is important to recognize these as mostly tortured rhetorical flourishes rather than useful techniques.
Remember, management science, methods and formulas have nothing to do with leadership. In fact, it is critical to break-free from the analytic reductionism of 20th Century Management. Rather, focus of 21st Century Leaders is to Create the Future.
If you can conduct an interesting, authentic conversation with employees, partners, and customers, you will be a better manager and leader than a 6σ Black Belt. Forget about lofty baloney like ‘disruptive innovation‘ or ‘big data.’ Rather, learn how to create and delight customers!
Your Colabria Action Research Networks are fluent in all these techniques, of course. It is precisely why we focus on leadership versus management.
Remember, the best firms are customer-led not managed. Dramatic failures of ‘well-managed’ yet under-led firms are legion. Management Science may be the mother of all business oxymora. It’s mostly a distraction.
Anyway, for fun and nostalgia, see how many techniques you remember from b-school. Also, try to imagine how many are focused on creating and keeping customers (the purpose of business). Gee, guess what? Most of them are arcane and obsolete. Beware!
Don’t fret. The first step to becoming a better leader is to unlearn so-called ‘management science.’
Management Interest Groups
- 14 Principles of Management Fayol
- 3C’s model Ohmae
- 3rd Party Logistics (3PL)
- 4 Dimensions of Relational Work Butler
- 4S Web Marketing Mix Constantinides
- 7 Ps Booms Bitner
- 8D Problem Solving
- Absorption Costing
- Acquisition Integration Approaches
- Action Learning Revans
- Activity Based Costing ABC ABM
- ADL Matrix Arthur D. Little
- Affiliate Marketing
- Analogical Strategic Reasoning Gavetti Rivkin
- Analytical CRM
- Appreciative Inquiry Cooperrider
- ARIMA Box and Jenkins
- Ashridge Mission Model Campbell
- Attribution Theory Heider
- Balanced Scorecard Kaplan Norton
- Baldrige Award
- Bases of Social Power French Raven
- Bass Diffusion Model Bass
- BCG Matrix
- Belbin Team Roles
- Benchmarking
- Beyond Budgeting Fraser
- Blue Ocean Strategy Kim
- Bottom of the Pyramid Prahalad
- Brainstorming
- Brand Asset Valuator
- Brand Identity Prism Kapferer
- Brand Personality Aaker
- Break-even Point
- Bricks and Clicks
- Bridging Epistemologies Cook Brown
- Business Intelligence
- Business Process Modeling
- Business Process Reengineering Hammer Champy
- CAGR
- Capability Maturity Model CMM
- Capital Asset Pricing Model CAPM
- Cash Flow from Operations
- Cash Ratio
- Cash Value Added CVA Anelda
- Catalytic Mechanisms Collins
- Catastrophe Theory Thom
- CFROI
- Change Approaches Kotter
- Change Equation Beckhard
- Change Management Iceberg
- Change Phases Kotter
- Changing Organization Cultures Trice Beyer
- Chaos Theory Lorenz
- Charismatic Leadership Weber
- Clarkson Principles
- Coaching
- Co-Creation Prahalad Ramaswamy
- Competing Values Framework Quinn
- Competitive Advantage framework Porter
- Contingency Theory Vroom
- Core Competence Hamel Prahalad
- Core Group Theory Art Kleiner
- Corporate Reputation Quotient Harris-Fombrun
- Cost of Capital
- Cost of Equity
- Cost-benefits analysis
- Crisis Management
- CSFs and KPIs Rockart
- Cultural Dimensions Hofstede
- Cultural Intelligence Early
- Current Ratio
- Customer Relationship Management
- Customer Satisfaction model Kano
- Debt to Equity Ratio
- Delphi Method Helmer
- Delta Model Hax
- Deming Cycle PDSA
- Dialectical Inquiry
- Diamond Model Porter
- DICE Framework BCG
- Dimensions of Change Pettigrew Whipp
- Direct Marketing
- Discounted Cash Flow DCF
- Disruptive Innovation Christensen
- Distinctive Capabilities Kay
- Dividend Payout Ratio
- DuPont Model
- Dynamic Regression
- Earned Value Management EVM
- Earnings Per Share EPS
- EBIT
- EBITDA
- Economic Margin EM
- Economic Value Added EVA
- EFQM
- Eight Attributes of Management Excellence Peters
- Emotional Intelligence Goleman
- Enterprise Architecture Zachman
- EPIC ADVISERS Banhegyi
- ERG Theory Alderfer
- Excess Return ER
- Expectancy Theory Vroom
- Experience Curve
- Exploratory Factor Analysis
- Exponential Smoothing
- Fair Value Accounting
- Five Disciplines Senge
- Five Forces Porter
- Force Field Analysis Lewin
- Forget Borrow Learn Govindarajan Trimble
- Four Trajectories of Industry Change McGahan
- Fourteen Points of Management Deming
- Framing Tversky
- Free Cash Flow
- Game Theory Nash
- Gantt Chart
- Gestalt theory
- Gross Profit Percentage
- Groupthink Janis
- Growth Phases Greiner
- Hawthorne Effect Mayo
- Hierarchy of Needs Maslow
- Horizontal Integration
- Hoshin Kanri – Policy Deployment
- Human Capital Index HCI
- IAS
- Impact/Value framework Hammer
- Inclusive Value Measurement IVM
- Innovation Adoption Curve Rogers
- Intangible Assets Monitor Sveiby
- Intellectual Capital Rating
- Internal Rate of Return
- Intrinsic Stakeholder Commitment
- IPMA Competence Baseline (ICB)
- Johari Window Luft Ingham
- Just-in-time JIT
- Kaizen philosophy
- Kepner-Tregoe Matrix
- Kraljic Model
- Leadership Continuum Tannebaum
- Leadership Pipeline Drotter
- Leadership Styles Goleman
- Level 5 Leadership Collins
- Leveraged Buy-out
- Levers of Control Simons
- Liquidation value
- MAGIC
- Management Buy-out
- Management by Objectives Drucker
- Managerial Grid Blake Mouton
- Managing for Value McTaggart
- Market Value Added MVA
- Marketing Mix 4P’s 5P’s McCarthy
- McKinsey 7-S Framework
- McKinsey Matrix
- Mentoring
- Metaplan Schnelle
- Mind Mapping
- Moral Purpose Mourkogiannis
- MSP OCG
- Multi-Channel Marketing
- Net Present Value NPV
- NOPAT
- Office of Strategy Management Kaplan Norton
- OODA Loop Boyd
- Operating Profit Percentage
- Operational CRM
- Operations Research
- OPM3 PMI
- Organization Chart
- Organizational Configurations Mintzberg
- Organizational Learning Argyris Schon
- Organizational Memory Walsh Ungson
- Outsourcing
- P/E ratio
- PAEI management roles
- Parenting Advantage Goold Campbell
- Parenting Styles Goold Campbell
- Path-Goal Theory House
- Payback Period
- PEG Ratio
- People CMM CM-SEI
- Performance Management
- Performance Prism
- PEST Analysis
- Plausibility Theory
- PMBOK PMI
- PMMM Reiss
- POSDCORB Gulick
- Positioning Trout
- Positive Deviance Pascale Sternin
- Prince2 CCTA
- Principles of Reinvention Osborne
- Product Life Cycle Levitt
- Product/Market Grid Ansoff
- Profit Pools Gadiesh, Gilbert
- PRVit
- Pyramid Principle Minto
- Quality Function Deployment Akao
- Quick Ratio
- RACI (RASCI)
- Real Options Luehrman
- Regression Analysis
- Relationship Marketing Levitt
- Relative Value of Growth Mass
- Resource-Based View Barney
- Result Oriented Management
- Results-Based Leadership Ulrich
- Return on Capital Employed ROCE
- Return on Equity ROE
- Return on Invested Capital ROIC
- Return on Investment ROI
- Return on Net Assets RONA
- Risk Management RAROC
- Root Cause Analysis
- Rule of Three Sheth
- Scenario Planning
- SECI model Nonaka Takeuchi
- Servant-Leadership Greenleaf
- SERVQUAL Zeithaml
- Seven Habits Covey
- Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse Jennings
- Seven Surprises Porter
- Shareholder Value Perspective
- Situational Leadership Hersey Blanchard
- Six Sigma GE
- Six Thinking Hats de Bono
- Skandia Navigator Leif Edvinsson
- Soft Systems Methodology Checkland
- Spiral Dynamics Graves
- Spiral of Silence Noelle-Neumann
- Stage-Gate Cooper
- Stages of Team Development Tuckman
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Stakeholder Mapping
- Stakeholder Value Perspective
- Strategic Alignment Venkatraman
- Strategic Intent Hamel Prahalad
- Strategic Risk Management Slywotzky
- Strategic Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Thrusts Wiseman
- Strategic Types Miles Snow
- Strategy Dynamics Warren
- Strategy Map Kaplan Norton
- STRATPORT Larreche
- SWOT Analysis
- Systems Thinking / Dynamics Forrester
- TDC Matrix Internet
- Team Management Profile Margerison McCann
- Ten Schools of Thought Mintzberg
- Theory of Constraints Goldratt
- Theory of Mechanistic and Organic Systems Burns
- Theory of Needs McClelland
- Theory of Planned Behavior Ajzen
- Theory X Theory Y McGregor
- Three Dimensional Business Definition Abell
- Three Levels of Culture Schein
- Total Business Return TBR BCG
- Total Cost of Ownership
- Total Shareholder Return TSR
- Training Within Industry
- Turnaround Management
- Twelve Principles of the Network Economy Kelly
- Two Factor Theory Herzberg
- US GAAP
- Value Based Management
- Value Chain Porter
- Value Creation Index
- Value Disciplines Treacy Wiersema
- Value Engineering Miles
- Value Mapping Jack
- Value Net Brandenburger
- Value Profit Chain Heskett
- Value Stream Mapping
- ValueReporting Framework PWC
- Variable Costing
- Vendor Managed Inventory
- Vertical Integration
- WACC
- Whole Brain Herrmann
- Z-Score Altman