Improving the Organization 

Principles for Structuring Small Businesses and Farms – Purdue University Extension – Introduces five principles for guiding the organization structure of a small business and provides three common organizational structure examples.

Surfacing Your Underground Organization – HBS Working Knowledge -- Is your organization plagued with defensive reasoning?

Time to Treat Toxic Emotions at Work – HBS Working Knowledge -- Real emotional pain festers in every work environment and, if left unchallenged, can cripple an organization.

Reviving the Lost Art of Debriefing – HBS Working Knowledge -- If you go to the expense and trouble of sending an employee to an event, you'd better capture that knowledge for your organization. How? The answer: Integrate the art of debriefing into everyday corporate life.

Is Your Organization Built for the Consumer? – HBS Working Knowledge -- Efficient consumer response is a "win-win-win" process for consumers, suppliers, and retailers.

The Strategy-Focused Organization – HBS Working Knowledge -- Balanced Scorecard has become not just a measurement tool but a means of putting strategy at the center of a company's key management processes and systems.

Keys to Making Your Offsites Effective – HBS Working Knowledge -- Companies use offsite meetings to recharge management and set clear goals and tactics. But is your company getting the most out of this time?

Women Leaders and Organizational Change - HBS Working Knowledge. Merely expanding the number of women in leadership roles does not automatically induce organizational change.  Fundamental changes are needed to transform the organization.

Changing the Organization

Telecommuting as a True Workplace Alternative – University of Florida Extension -- Telecommuting, which is described as the practice of establishing, developing, and maintaining successful off-site business practices through telecommunication practices, is currently paving the way to a potentially more efficient communication system in the workplace.

Making the Decision to Decentralize - HBS Working Knowledge. Is you business better off with a central command structure or decentralized?  Your future depends on the right answer.

Managing in the Whitespace – HBS Working Knowledge -- How can companies act entrepreneurial when they are programmed to operate with strict policies, focused strategy, and clear authority?

Get Off the Dime - HBS Working Knowledge. If you want large-scale change in your organization, you must change people's behaviors.

Leading Change and Organizational Renewal – HBS Working Knowledge -- A critical question confronting organizations today is not whether to change in response to their swiftly changing environment, but precisely how to manage that change.

Organizational Learning

The Darker Side of Organizational Learning - HBS Working Knowledge. How closely related are organizational learning and indoctrination?

Why Your Organization Isn’t Learning All it Should? - HBS Working Knowledge. Explore communication disconnects between front-line workers and organizational change. Are you learning from your field troops?

Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action - HBS Working Knowledge. New ideas are important but they're not enough.  A true "learning organization" must enable every member of the organization to act in an informed way upon what's been learned before.

Organizational Learning is No Accident – HBS Working Knowledge -- Creating a corporate culture that fosters learning is hard work. Here are steps to ensure that your company is at the head of the class.

Leadership: Fostering Systemic Creativity – HBS Working Knowledge -- Building a creative organization involves a combination of top-down, bottom-up, and brushfire approaches.

Networking

Networking, The Key to Lifetime Work – Small Business Administrations – Networking is an invaluable tool that anyone in the business world can utilize.

Networking - Entrepreneur.com – Articles on building business networks.

Ask the Networking Expert - Entrepreneur.com – Articles on business networks.

Advisory Board

Effective Advisory Board Could be Valuable Resource - Iowa Small Business Development Centers -- An effective advisory team is a panel of people brought together to help owner-managers recognize potential problems and opportunities.