Through the Ceiling and Over the Cliff? Catch-22 for Women Executives
A new program for women executives combines business acumen with leadership development and career reflection. It’s an approach designed to strengthen the key skills...
Global Female Leaders Networking Breakfast
April is inching closer, bringing the exciting prospect of the Global Female Leaders Summit with it. The European Business Review caught up with some...
Making Capabilities Explicit is The Work of Leadership
By Richard Lynch, Amber Román And Derval Kennedy
In “Clarifying Strategy Is Simple. Aligning Your Organisation Is Not.” (The European Business Review, Sept/Oct 2014) the...
Leveraging Your Collective Genius
Interview with Linda Hill
Harvard Business School Professor and World Business Forum speaker Linda Hill gives The European Business Review her take on leading innovation.
Linda...
How Political Intelligence Sets Successful Leaders Apart
By Gerry Reffo and Valerie Wark
Leadership Alert! There are times when the classic development of leaders no longer fully equips them or their organisations...
Build High-Quality Connections
By Jane E. Dutton
Jane E. Dutton explains why high-quality connections (HQCs) are critical building blocks for bringing out the best in people and...
Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life
By Stewart D. Friedman
This is an excerpt from the introduction of Friedman’s recently published book, in which he teaches readers how to possess leadership...
Wharton: Where Entrepreneurs Learn the Business of Business
Max Baumann’s company Just Chill started with an idea for a beverage that could help people stay cool and calm. “Stress is the number...
Closing the Leadership Gap
By John Sutherland
Traditional leadership development programmes operate with a one-size-fits-all mentality. Below, John Sutherland argues that the key to developing the right kind of...
A Fresh Perspective
By Damian Goldvarg
Increasing numbers of individuals and organisations are discovering the powerful role that coaching can play in developing themselves. Below, Damian Goldvarg illustrates...
Managing Your Manager
By Bill Smullen
Most everyone still working today either has a boss or is a boss. Either way, you should want the boss to be...
Are Leaders Fair? On the Need to Understand Fairness Management in Organisations
By D. De Cremer, G. Houwelingen, C. Ilse, H. Niek, L. Brebels, M. Van Dijke & A. Van Hiel
It is human nature to want...
Developing Leaders with Practical Mastery
By John Sutherland
You may know about leadership but can you lead? One you learn from a book or a course, the other through repeated...
The Well-Focused Leader
By Daniel Goleman
Directing attention where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership. Below, Daniel Goleman considers how leadership hinges on capturing...
Rise and Fall of Leadership
By Guido Stein
Few concepts have received such widespread attention over the last two decades as that of leadership. Below, Guido Stein discusses the complicated...
Leading through Engagement: Creating Foundations for the Africa of Tomorrow, Today
By Sean Culey
Africa is at a tipping point. It is poised for growth, but the question is whether this growth will be based on...
Mindfulness, Mindlessness, and Work
By Michael Pirson
While mindfulness was originally developed as an individual concept, it has been transferred to the organisational level in the context of research...
Who’d be a School Leader? Current and Future Challenges
By Peter Earley
Strong school leadership is viewed as especially important for the regeneration of failing schools. Below, Peter Earley draws upon recent research into...
The Quality of Working Life: Managers’ Wellbeing, Motivation and Productivity
By Les Worrall & Cary Cooper
The recent economic crisis has created waves of turbulence that have rocked and even sunk many UK organisations....
Changes in Work, Changes in Self? Managing our Work and Non-Work Identities in...
By Lakshmi Ramarajan & Erin M. Reid
Diverse workplaces are challenging the boundaries between workers’ personal and professional lives, as workers today navigate employer pressures...
Leading Teams: Tools and Techniques for Successful Team Leadership from the Sports World
By Paolo Guenzi & Dino Ruta
Sport can use some managerial know-how, and managers have a lot to learn from the world of sport. Below,...
Collaborative Creativity: Leading High Performance through Theatre
By Quinn Bauriedel & Jeff Klein
Like the multitude of teams in any organization, theatre works under tight timeframes, combines many individuals with different talents,...
The Daily Practice of Leadership Communication During Times of Change
By Terry Pearce
In this article Terry Pearce, the author of LEADING OUT LOUD A Guide For Engaging Others In Creating The Future, places authenticity...
50+20 Management Education for the World: PART 2: Understanding the Core of the Vision
By Katrin Muff, Thomas Dyllick, Mark Drewell, John North, Paul Shrivastava & Jonas Haertle
This article continues from Part I (in the last issue of...
What is Resilience?
By Adrian Furnham
Can resilience be taught? If so, how? And are some organisations more resilient than others? This article considers how the notion of...
The 3 C’s of Growth Leadership: Culture, Capabilities, and Configuration
By George S. Day
George S. Day’s new book Innovation Prowess: Leadership Strategies for Accelerating Growth is an essential guide to building a framework for...
Developing Multicultural Competence
By Luciara Nardon, Richard M. Steers & Carlos J. Sanchez-Runde
In our globally expanding economy, it is no longer enough for successful managers to have...
Identity In and Around Organisations
By Majken Schultz & Steve Maguire
At the heart of any successful organisation lies a powerful conception of identity: the coherent way in which it...
Why Our Decisions Get Derailed and How to Get Back on Track
By Francesca Gino
The Ducati motorcycle racing team, Ducati Corse, decided to compete in a motorcycle racing circuit, the MotoGP, for the first time in...
CEOs, Mind Your Own Business! Why and How Corporate CEOs Should Pay More Attention...
By Andrew Campbell, Sven Kunisch & GĂĽnter MĂĽller-Stewens
The corporate office consists of the CEO and the corporate functions. It is the main vehicle for...
Why Should Managers Be Socially Responsible?
By Antonio Argandoña
Why should managers put Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) into practice? The so-called legal, ethical, social and business cases provide several reasons. In...
Ethics + Business: Ingredients for Great Leadership
By Claudia Peus and Armin Pircher Verdorfer
Imagine you have been asked to support a company with their employee survey. You have done your research,...
Developing Values in Business Education
By Nigel Duncan
This article considers how we might best prepare students for ethical business practice. It considers recent developments in evolutionary research and neuroscience...
Leadership and Culture: Part 2 – Engaging the Enterprise: Creating a Growth Mindset Tribe
Mindset Tribe
By Sean Culey
Part 1 of this article (published in The European Business Review, May/June 2012) set out the case for Culture; it’s impact...
The Rise of the Functional Manager Changes Afoot in the C-Suite
By Maria Guadalupe, Julie Wulf & Hongyi Li
Research shows that the recent transformation in the C-suite, that is, the skyrocketing number of executive team...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Worry: I know there is a crisis waiting for me
By Thomas DeLong
Jana Jones was a successful, experienced manager who had run a multi-million dollar business. She projected the image of being able to...
Adapt to Survive – a picture of leadership in 2030
By Georg Vielmetter
The business world is changing. Over the next twenty years, various global pressures will have a major impact on European organisations and...
Redesigning Leadership: Design, Technology, Business + Life
By John Maeda and Becky Bermont
There is a simple saying in Japanese that epitomizes the nature of striving for excellence, “Ue ni wa ue...
Think Again: How good leaders can avoid bad decisions
By Andrew Campbell and Jo Whitehead
Leaders can make good decisions or less good decisions. Several years ago, we set out to understand the causes...
What Do Bosses Do Today? Rethinking this still-essential role for a new world
By Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback
Being a great boss has always been hard. The challenge for organizations today is that it’s getting both...
The 7 Keys to Unlocking Organisational Greatness
By Sean Culey
Sean Culey, member of the European Leadership Team of the Supply Chain Council and CEO of business improvement consultancy SEVEN Collaborative Solutions,...
Brain Science and the Tasks of the Manager
By Robert Chapman Wood, Gerald A. Cory Jr., and Osvald M. Bjelland
Ego and empathy—the two great drivers of business—come from distinct sets of elements...
Why Leaders Fail
By Patrick R. Dailey
“All too frequently, an exceptional executive encounters a corporate trap door, falls, and then derails. This article presents 21st century challenges—corporate...