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Leadership and Culture: Part 1 – The Case for Culture
By Sean Culey
Issues of corporate culture have long been of great concern to executives and management theorists alike for a simple reason; culture matters...
Innovating Beyond the Familiar
By Patrick Barwise & Seán Meehan
Don’t be overawed by Apple – your company too can innovate beyond the familiar. This isn’t about “blue-sky thinking”,...
May – June 2012
Leadership
Leadership and Culture: Part 1 – The Case for Culture
Sean Culey
The Rise of the Functional Manager Changes Afoot in the C-Suite
Maria Guadalupe,...
Needed: Executives (and Citizens) with a Global Mindset
By Nakiye A. Boyacigiller
We are facing challenges of a global nature that require global citizenship, global responsibility, and global solutions. These cannot be achieved...
Understanding and Mastering Complexit
By Wolfgang Amann, Christoph Nedopil & Ulrich Steger
Complexity is re-emerging as a topic in top management. A combination of factors, such as the severe...
Delivering Transformational Change
By David Miller
Change is becoming more frequent, radical and complex. Failure rates of change projects are high because organisations fail to implement the change...
The Search for Innovation Leadership
By Jeff Gaspersz
What do we need to do to build the leaders that are equipped for the new innovation challenges?
In all the years I...
The Future Quotient: Managing Seriously Long-Term Risks and Opportunities
By John Elkington
To succeed in the new world order, leaders need to switch from thinking about incremental change to transformational, systemic change.
An old order...
KYOCERA – a uniquely resource-efficient approach to product design
By Tracey Rawling Church
KYOCERA is a name that may not be familiar, but the company has quietly been designing and manufacturing resource efficient products...
Good Profits and Growth How Net Promoter Helps Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World
By Fred Reichheld, Rob Markey and Andreas Dullweber
Companies are now finding that the only path to sustainable growth lies through “good profits” and long-term...
Challenging the “Tailor” How to Effectively Customize Executive Education for the Companies’ Benefit
By Andreas Löhmer
When it comes to executive education, companies very often accept second best solutions. Looking at the impact achieved, these investments do not...
Lessons from the Front: A Practitioner’s Guide to Waging War on Complexity
By Stephen A.Wilson & Andrei Perumal
Complexity is now top of the agenda for many Chief Executives. In today’s world—that is, after the financial collapse—companies’...
Segmenting for Success – From Value Chain Theory to Everyday Execution
By Sean Culey
Theory has little value unless it can be successfully translated into everyday execution.
“Real artists ship.”
Scrawled on an easel in January 1983 by...
Leaders Who Hit The Numbers
By John Sutherland
Leadership is seen in the heat of the moment in the world of work, not in theory during an off-site course. Leadership...
Agility and Cloud Computing
By Michael Hugos
Success will go to those companies that combine business agility and cloud computing to continuously explore new opportunities. Attempts to pick winning...
So, you think you have a strategy? Five poor excuses for a strategy
By Freek Vermeulen
No matter how colourful your PowerPoint presentation, it does not mean you have a strategy. So what is strategy and what are...
Clyde Waterfront – A River of Opportunity
The scale, pace and diversity of the River Clyde’s regeneration has re-vitalised the area, creating numerous opportunities for businesses and the public to invest,...
Changing The CEO Politics and Decisions at the Top
By Guido Stein & Manuel Gallego
Introduction
Companies statistically dismiss twice as many CEOs in bad economic times as in good. Certainly, many senior executives have...
A Total Solution for Outsize and Heavyweight Air Cargo
Russia airlines dominate this highly specialist market, providing a solution for 75% of all such air movements and have done so since the first...
Full Electronic Data Integration: How a review of Business-to-Business transactions processes can help save...
By Steve Hill
In his 2010 study into business-to-business payment processes, Alessandro Perego said that electronic invoicing was a “competitiveness lever.”
His study, which was carried...
Beyond Effectiveness: Attractiveness and Unity as Criteria For Decision-Making in Organizations
By Josep M. Rosanas
Management, has to do with people and getting people together as the first priority. Unfortunately, mechanistic models that assume a behavior...
Binary Options: An Innovative and Intelligent Way of Trading
By Banc De Binary
Founded in the wake of the 2008 decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list binary options on the...
What Leaders Do… Requisite Competency for 21st Century Challenges
By Patrick R. Dailey
From the earliest recorded leadership teachings of Confucius to contemporary theorists and practitioners, leadership has consistently been viewed as the decisive...
Creating a Sustainable Society through Integrated Reporting Delivered via Cloud Computing
By Kyle Armbrester and Robert G. Eccles
A sustainable strategy is best reinforced through integrated reporting, a new management practice based on an integrated presentation...
Needs-Based Coaching: Employee Motivation in a New Light
By Craig Perrin
Behind every unmotivated employee is a leadership problem to be solved. Yet many leaders see motivation as a game of rewards and...
Has the quality of our politicians declined or is the world becoming impossible to...
By Michael Cox
We live not just in ‘interesting times‘, but in quite extraordinary times where few in the West now appear to have much...
The Leader’s Checklist
By Michael Useem
The Leader’s Checklist comprises fifteen mission-critical, time-tested leadership principles that vary surprisingly little among companies or countries. Taken together, they constitute a...
Overcoming the Triple Hurdle of Diversity Management
By Winfried Ruigrok
Diversity management is a key instrument to position your company as a preferred employer. Fail to recite this mantra and you risk...
Future Proofing the Boardroom
By Lucy P. Marcus
The board room is going through an extraordinary time of transition. More is being demanded of boards than ever before, and...
Leading with Ethics and Compliance
By Mark Meaney
As millions take to the streets in a global protest of corporate malfeasance, Dean Rich Lyons of the Haas School of Business...
Reinventing Management
By Julian Birkinshaw
What is the future of management? Can management be reinvented to make it more effective as an agent of economic progress and...
Quality for ALL: The Power Of LEO
By Subir Chowdhury
The “New” Face of Quality
At a time when we have, more than ever, an abundance of impressive management tools to help us...
Inner Work Life: The Engine of Performance
By Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer
Workers around the world are becoming increasingly disengaged from their jobs. AON Hewitt found a global drop of four...
Operationalising Excellence: Making it Happen – Part II
By Sean Culey
It is easy to look good in a boom.
It is a lesson that the executives at Chaos Corp have learnt the hard...
Does China Want to Buy Up Europe? Europe’s Crisis and China’s Reluctant Rise
By Roland Benedikter and Jae-Seung Lee
In the occasion of Germany’s Angela Merkel’s visit to China on 3rd February 2012, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao stated...
