Investing in Leadership Talent: Using an MBA to Break the Career Ceiling
On starting as a Supply Planner at PepsiCo in September 2020, Thiago Narisawa made a bold and ambitious statement. He wanted to do an...
Five Ways CEOs Can Boost The Bottom Line By Improving How Their Companies Negotiate
By Milan Prilepok
“Improve our negotiation skills” may not appear near the top of every CEO’s to-do list. But that’s a mistake. A huge chunk...
Empathy: A Cornerstone in the Success of Your Company
By Dr. Anna Maria Rostomyan
IQ is a long-standing measure of a person's intelligence and, perhaps, their suitability for a given role. But it is...
Authenticity at Work: Be Honest, is it a Good Thing?
By Adrian Furnham
It is often said that honesty is the best policy. But if we apply that maxim invariably and unquestioningly, does that automatically...
Top Executive Education featuring Antwerp Management School: Opening Minds to Impact the World
Interview with Antwerp Management School's Prof. Dr. Goran Milenković, Academic Director of the EMBA and Prof. Dr. Steffi Weil, Associate Dean for International Outreach...
Online or on Campus? Germany’s Top Business School ESMT Berlin Offers the Best of...
Modern business is global. The trend, increasingly turbocharged by the pandemic, of the world of business getting smaller due to the increases in digital...
Discover a New Leadership Playbook
Ahead of the Great Leadership Reset conference on 24 November 2022, Karen Smart, head of consultancy with the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC) looks...
New Outlook, New Educational Curricula And Proactivity
By Dr Mario Raich, Dr Kristine Marin Kawamura, Dr Simon L. Dolan, Dr Paweł Rowiński and Mr Claudio Cisullo
PART II: Towards A Visionary Prescriptive Transformation...
Efficient Decision-Making with EQ Skills in Business
By Anna Maria Rostomyan
In our everyday life, we are constantly faced with different situations that require drastic critical thinking and decision-making skills, especially in...
Microlearning – The Key to Balancing Manager Development with Day-to-Day Responsibilities
By Cecilia Gorman
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses are up against greater challenges than ever before. Employees left jobs en-masse, known as...
Duplicitous Leadership: Why Inconsistency is Harmful
By Nishat Babu
When talking about leadership, we tend to focus on positive forms such as transformational, servant, and ethical, and their encouraging effects on...
Leadership Insights: Your Organization Is More Than The Sum of Its Parts
By Richard S. Hawkes
It’s common for leaders and change-management experts to talk about organizations as if they were machines or computers. Machines have parts,...
Why Marketing Leadership Needs to be Agile and Customer-focused
By Mairead Brady
Why do we use Zoom and not Slack or Skype? Post photos with Instagram and not Kodak? And why do we watch Netflix...
Championing Triple Ownership Programs (TOPs) in Executive Education: How Participant and Sponsor Ownership Leads...
By Christoph Burger, Bianca Schmitz and Bethan Williams
What do you associate with the word “campus”?
For most of us, besides the happy student memories, there...
New Leadership for a Sustainable Future
By Matt Gitsham
At the close of COP26, an article in the Financial Times reported that although global executives welcomed the deal reached at the close...
How to Be a Great Manager
Your management style can significantly impact the work environment that you create for your employees.
Great management skills can lead to a more positive company...
Uncovering the Path to our Dreams: CoachHub’s Coaching Program Points the Way
Interview with CoachHub Senior Behavioural Scientist Windy Tshepiso Maledu
In a virtual work environment, the challenge is to enable everyone to feel seen and heard. Here,...
What Motivates People To Become A Leader?
By Tina Kiefer, Warwick Business School (WBS)
“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”...
Quantum Leadership for Recovery
By Vlatka Hlupic
Even before the advent of the global pandemic necessitated a rethink of leadership models, the world of work managed by the old...
How Can Leaders Stay in the Know?
By Dr. Maja Korica, Warwick Business School (WBS)
As a senior leader, do you know what’s really going on in your organisation? Are you on...
Soft Skills: Key To Leadership In A Changed World
Interview with Gina Lodge, CEO of The Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC)
Nobody knows for certain what the post-COVID business world will look like...
Zhang Yiming: The Self-made Billionaire and Entrepreneur Behind TikTok Boom
At only 36 years of age, the founder behind one of the most viral social media platforms now has a net worth of $16.2...
Skills Every Leader Should Possess and Why They’re Important for Business Success
Soft skills are important for all professionals. However, leaders are required to possess a unique set of skills. From being growth-minded to possessing confidence...
Human-Algorithm Collaboration in Managerial Decision Making
By Tessa Haesevoets, David De Cremer, Kim Dierckx and Alain Van Hiel
Most would accept that there is a role for both humans and AI...
Organisational difficulties in producing thought leadership
By William S. Harvey, Vincent Mitchell, Alessandra Almeida Jones and Eric Knight
Over the past several decades, thought leadership has moved from being individual gurus...
What South Africa can teach leaders about resilience
By John Luiz
The COVID-19 pandemic has overturned the idea of ‘business as usual,’ exposing many vulnerabilities within social, business, and economic systems.
A recent global...
What Children can teach us about Leadership: Seeing both the Trees and The Forest
By David De Cremer and Hannah De Cremer
Leadership and management are two different things. Managing a work force today implies taking up the role...
The Wise Leader
By Michael Chaskalson, Philippa Hardman and Chris Nichols
We humans love a strong leader and we’ve seen plenty of them recently. The strong men of...
The Legacy of Serge Belamant and NET1 Technologies
NET1 Technologies is one of the foremost providers of secure and affordable financial transaction channels among un-banked and under-banked populations. The company’s technology runs...
Early Lessons Learned From Managing In Hybrid Reality
By Kalle Heikkinen, William Kerr, and Panu Routila
Past months have thrown business leaders and their top management teams into a virtual treadmill. Nobody knows...
Leadership in the Virtual Office: Use BetterHelp to Bring Your Business Leadership Skills Online
You know that your team looks up to you and relies on your leadership skills to keep projects moving and to keep the synergy...
Toward a Compassionate Global Society
By M.S. Rao, Ph.D.
Abstract
The purpose of this research paper is to draw a blueprint to build a compassionate global society. It explains compassion and...
6 Key Skills Every CTO Must Have
What does it take to become an awesome CTO?
If that’s one of your dreams or perhaps you are already a tech leader looking...
Bo Parfet: Why Don Wenner Is A Leader Above the Rest
Don Wenner began his career in real estate in 2006 and quickly established himself as a leader in the industry. Prior to founding DLP...
The Jack Ma Story: Why Thinking Big is More Important than Technical Knowledge
By Rainer Zitelmann
"We don’t want to be number one in China. We want to be number one in the world," said Jack Ma shortly...
Scott Dylan and Personality Traits That Make or Break Workplace Leaders
Fresh Thinking Group’s Scott Dylan explores the character traits of great managers and the character traits of managers who don’t inspire their teams.
It takes...
Charlene Li: Driving Digital Transformation with Resilient Leaders
The growth in the global digital transformation has never been greater. Even before the COVID-19 crisis erupted, many organisations were struggling to keep pace...
Interview to Dr. Bruno Roque Cignacco, the author of the book “The Art of...
Dr. Bruno Cignacco, an international business consultant, international speaker and business coach, shared with us his insights into how the COVID-19 might influence organisational...
Seven Essential Qualities In A Great Academic Dean
A great academic dean is like a skillful captain of a ship. They have the competence of sailing through storms, and under their leadership,...
How To Become An Industry Figurehead
Businesses are quickly waking up to the value of a public figurehead. When a person or a company becomes renowned and respected for their...
Cross-border and Cross-cultural: the KEDGE Global Executive MBA Programme has a Worldwide Reach
Interview with Professor Hervé Remaud, Director KEDGE Global Executive MBA KEDGE Business School
Time will tell whether history will record the Zeitgeist of our times...
Get Ready for Disruption: WBS Prepares Executives for a Volatile Future
Interview with Tim Wray Director of Executive Education Warwick Business School
We live in turbulent times, and business leaders need to draw on a range...
All Leaders Need to Become Explorers
By Jacob Morgan
Leaders of the future need to be comfortable charting their own paths and venturing into the unknown. In past decades, leaders had...
Leaders of The Future Will Face These 2 Types of Challenges
By Jacob Morgan
In many ways, leaders a few decades ago lived in a simpler time with simpler tasks. Their employees tended to stay with...
The Top 10 Young Leaders Of Europe Poised To Transform The World
By Paula Hass and Valentina Loiz
The future of Europe depends on the ideas, ambition and determination of young people. The young achievers on this...
Agility and Resilience: The Essential Qualities of Leadership in the Digital Age
By Katharina Lange
Transforming an organisation is never an easy task, especially when competitive pressure becomes merciless. There always seems to be a faster, better, bolder,...
How Leadership Training Can Help You to Counter Everyday Challenges
Leaders and managers are the fulcrum around which a team rotates. Within a corporate setup, leaders are entrusted with various responsibilities. Collaborating with subordinates...
The Coach Route to Transformation: Helping Individuals and Organisations to Arrive at their Full...
Interview with Ms Gina Lodge CEO of The Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC)
Businesses across all industries have discovered that executive coaching is one of...
Leading with Care and Authenticity: Going Back to Basics with Toyama&Co.
Interview with Claudio Toyama, CEO of Toyama&Co.
In today’s time of unprecedented change, leaders who can create positive influence that reaches every level of an...
What are the Essential Business Skills and How to Improve Them?
Starting your career in a business organisation or opening your own business requires much more than hard work, patience, and expertise in your field....