The European Business Review

By Gregory C Chow
The most important aspect of the Chinese economy today is its rapid changes. The changes are propelled by the Chinese entrepreneurs. This essay is an attempt to understand who the entrepreneurs are, the environment in which they work, whether the dynamic changes will continue and what policies can be proposed to improve the [...]

By Willie Pietersen
This article will lay out a practical leadership process for creating an adaptive enterprise by mobilizing a dynamic cycle of four steps: learn, focus, align, and execute. These steps build on one another and are repeated to create a dynamic cycle of renewal that I call Strategic Learning…

The leadership [...]

By Michael Useem
Indian and Western business leaders preside over demanding worlds. Both bring a vision of where they want to take their enterprise, both are called on to make timely decisions, and both use much the same management skill set. Yet at the same time, Indian and Western executives have evolved distinct leadership styles that, in India’s [...]

By John Mullins
The evidence indicates that the vast majority of business plans raise no money. Of those ventures that are financed, many if not most will fail. What’s wrong with this picture?
Planning is important. But results are what count. And who delivers the results? Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs like you [...]

This is a white paper from the Forum for People Performance Management and Measurement conducted at the Medill School at Northwestern University.
In this paper, readers will learn that post-recession economics are paving the way for new approaches to employee engagement and business productivity. The emergence of social media, an increasing need for transparency, and labor [...]

By Roger Sant
Our world is changing and we need to change with it or risk getting left behind. Roger Sant, Vice President at Maritz Research argues that the way we go about measuring and managing customer experiences we need to transform – and suggests ways to do so.
The case for change
Customer experience management is about [...]

By Natalie Slawinski and Tima Bansal
No industry is as visible and active in the climate change debate as the energy industry. Almost every day, managers are addressing the short-term and long-term implications of their policies for dealing with this issue. The authors of this article interviewed over 50 managers in 8 firms in the oil [...]

By John W. Mullins and Randy Komisar
Today’s Startup Process: Seriously Flawed
If the founders of Google, Starbucks, or PayPal had stuck to their original business plans, we’d likely never have heard of them. Instead, they made radical changes to their initial models, became household names, and delivered huge returns for their founders and investors. How did [...]

By Stephen Long, PhD
Fear ignites the survival instinct in even the most ambitious people. Corporate values such as teamwork and mutual support fly out the window when people are preoccupied with survival and subsequently lose their focus on growth-oriented initiatives. It’s no wonder a book about the 48 laws of survival barely sold when originally [...]

Growth is a critical and a recently elusive objective for companies and their leaders. This brief provides a data-based view on what growth means for the CEO.*
For CEOs “growth” translates to revenue growth, and it is the CEO’s top ranked objective. But achieving it is difficult: less than a third of CEOs are satisfied [...]