United Airlines, Artificial Intelligence, and Donald Trump: Reawakening Values in the Era...
By Avi Liran and Simon L. Dolan
Society has evolved and not all aspects of our lives were able to cope up with the changes...
Parity in Progress: A New Future for Women in Energy
By Katie Mehnert
Women’s rights have been front and centre in recent weeks, given the current political climate. But movement toward change has been brewing...
What Digital Leadership Does
By Stijn Viaene
Leadership has been an indispensable factor in any business development. As businesses undergo digital transformation, Stijn Viaene offers exciting insight on digital...
The Mindful Leader – Staying Resilient, Collaborating and Thriving in Complexity
By Michael Chaskalson and Megan Reitz
Political and economic instability, climate change, globalisation, disruption, an unprecedented pace of change and overwhelming channels of communication –...
People and the Planet – CSR Initiatives Sweeten Ferrero’s Success
By Tammi L. Coles
For global businesses to thrive, “doing sustainability” is no longer an option. Tammi L. Coles spoke with recognised CSR researcher and...
A Conversation with Rory Simpson, Chief Learning Officer at Telefónica
By Steven MacGregor
We start a new series this month, interviewing global influencers in the area of executive health. Short conversations that we hope will deliver...
Beyond the Hateful 8
By Steven P. MacGregor
Steven MacGregor elaborates on how today’s world has turned Robert Owen’s “Triple 8” to the “Hateful 8”. How should business leaders...
Leadership with a Smile Managing Our Emotions as a Tool of Enacting Leadership
By Marian Iszatt-White
Practicing leaders often have to manage their emotions as part of enacting their leadership role: whilst we all do this as part...
The Value of Gender-Based Leadership
By Melissa Greenwell
If a roomful of men can draw on their experiences and insights to help a business succeed, a roomful of men and...
The Importance of Being Expert… Contextually Expert
By Barbara Kellerman
The article argues that leadership is not a person – it is a system. It is a system in which three parts...
Re-invent Yourself as COO
By Nathan Bennett & Stephen A. Miles
We focus on factors that have fundamentally changed demands on COOs: global recession, the evolving paradigm surrounding governance,...
We Need a Greater Focus on the Benefits Women in Top Executive Roles Bring...
By Sucheta Nadkarni
Recruiting women to corporate boards and top executive roles helps businesses find the best people and reach key consumers. There’s a risk...
Think Like They Think to Do What We Do: The Creative Strategy Framework
By Douglas Davis
Though clients request our services for a variety of reasons, they show up with different forms of the exact same request: “Solve...
Power with Purpose: How Women’s Leadership Boosts the Economy and Society
By Lynn Taliento and Anu Madgavkar
While there has been progress toward increased opportunities in the labour force for women, they remain underrepresented at the...
The Most Powerful Man In The World
By Katharina Balazs
The man whose victory seemed unimaginable was suddenly President-elect of the United States of America. President-elect Donald Trump has started to constitute...
The Chief Innovation Officer Should be in Charge of New Territories. Not More. Not...
By Albert Meige
An analysis with Google Trends on “Chief Innovation Officer” shows an increasing interest starting in 2010. The term was actually coined and...
Take the Window Seat (Return)
By Steven P. MacGregor
As we begin a new year and return to work a fairly typical professional activity may include a look ahead to...
What Leaders Can Learn from Both Clinton and Trump
By Katharina Balazs
When connecting with an audience, Hillary Clinton leads with the head while Donald Trump comes from the heart: both hold lessons for...
Take the Window Seat (Outbound)
By Steven P. MacGregor
As we near the year-end, a fairly typical professional reflection may include the number of business trips and particularly flights we...
A Wake-Up-Call for the Boards on Innovation
By Alessandro Di Fiore, Jonas Vetter and Joachim von Heimburg
Today, innovation is not limited to products, but includes business models. Boards can play a...
November – December 2016
Decision Making
Have We Lost the Ability to Listen to Bad News?
Kim E. van Oorschot, Luk N. Van Wassenhove, Kishore Sengupta & Henk Akkermans
Ethics
Values, Values...
Election Postmortem – The Leadership System
By Barbara Kellerman
Impossible to make much sense of what happened – President-elect Donald Trump – so soon after the fact. But when the history...
5 Ways Trump or Clinton Could Make Government Run More Like a Business
By Howard Schweitzer
Applying business concepts to government is not a fantasy. With the right leader, a heavy dose of patience and good ideas, government...
Leo Messi and Larry Ellison have more in common than you think
By Steven P. MacGregor
I was watching through a crack in my fingers. And there it was, inevitable really. Number seven. My football team, Glasgow...
Values, Values on the wall, Just do business and forget them all: Wells Fargo,...
By Avi Liran and Simon L. Dolan
There is a growing discrepancy between the values stated on the wall and values in action. In the...
Creating Effective Organisational Systems through Experimenting with Human Nature
By David De Cremer and Tian Tao
If organisations are serious in building cultures that can translate the desire to create joint value into a...
We Are All Executives Now
By Steven P. MacGregor
Last week I was teaching on a new “Executive Program” for Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica at their Corporate University north of...
What Senior Executives Should Know About Sales
By Frank Cespedes
Business is more complex, data more abundant, and more specialists are needed to stay up-to-date with functional best practices. As a senior...
The 4 D’s of Successful Business Transformation
By John Sutherland
You cannot build successful transformation in a hurry. The best transformation projects are slow-cooked, not microwaved. In this article, John Sutherland introduces...
Leading Enterprise Wide Transformation and the Change Leader’s Job
By Douglas Ready
Implementing Enterprise-Wide Transformation has proven to be troubling – well-regarded consultancies’ research can back this up. In this article, Doug Ready discusses...
Happy New Year: MacGregor on Executive Health
By Steven P. MacGregor
For most of Europe, especially those engaged in academic pursuits, September marks the beginning of a new year. After the traditional...
Evolving Leadership in the Digital Age
By Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
To become more effective and reflective leaders, executives need to learn to improve their behavioural reactions to difficult...
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...
The Dirty Dozen: How Unethical Behaviour Creeps Into Your Organisation
By Urs Müller and Ulf Schäfer
This article presents some of the most influential drivers of unethical behaviour in business and suggests counter-strategies. Reviewing the...
Mastering Innovation in Family Firms: How to Resolve the Ability vs. Willingness Paradox
By Alfredo De Massis and Federico Frattini
Family firms represent a highly ubiquitous form of business organisation globally and are the backbone of many industrialised...
Design Your Life: Leveraging Design Thinking For Better Executive Health
By Steven P. MacGregor
Why does management development focus almost solely on the neck up, when the demands placed on managers and executives touch every...
Managing People in Mergers and Acquisitions Part 2: Integration and Survival
By Guido Stein and Marta Cuadrado
In Part One, we addressed the key reasons why companies decide to pursue merger, the reasons why many...
The Odds of Successful Entrepreneurship: How to Overcome the Holy Grail Syndrome
By Tijs Besieux
In this article, Tijs Besieux discusses the four steps to overcoming the Holy Grail Syndrome, which could hinder an entrepreneur’s road...
Why Focus-Based Leadership is Important to Huawei’s Business Strategy
By David De Cremer and Jess Zhang
Contemporary business develops at a rapid pace, with many uncertainties, internationally connected stakeholders, and little latitude to make...
Entrepreneurial Risks and the Joys that Come with Them
By Myra Strober
Sometimes it is only with hindsight that one understands the benefits that come from taking an entrepreneurial risk. In 1974, Myra Strober...
Introduction to the Female Leadership In Our Time
“I believe that true passion has no gender and focusing on your goals and dreams helps you to overcome gender and cultural boundaries.”
Simonetta...
Franziska Gsell, CMO, IWC Schaffhausen
We women should not take such gender biases too seriously and put limitations on our career choices and ourselves.
Franziska Gsell majored in Business Administation...
Magdalena Mook, Executive Director & CEO, International Coach Federation
We all take risks in life and that’s why working with professional coaches is important; it should not be a matter of good fortune.
Magdalena...
Rama Mani, Founder, Theatre of Transformation Co-Founder, Rising Women Rising World
Through my transformative art, I’m aspiring to shift the old paradigm that governed politics, economics and society so far and destroyed human life: ‘the...
Nike Okundaye, Artist & Founder, Nike Centre for Art and Culture
Yes! Income is key to decent living and decent living provides the necessary tools for a woman to occupy her rightful and respectable position...
Simonetta Di Pippo, Director, UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
I believe that true passion has no gender and focusing on your goals and dreams helps you to overcome gender and cultural boundaries.
Simonetta Di...
Veronika Linardi, Co-founder & CEO, Qerja
The role I have carved out for myself is predominantly based on the experiences that molded me into the woman I am today, my...
Caroline Fattal Fakhoury, Executive Coaching, Managing Partner, Praesta
Without influence, competence is powerless... if we refrain from engaging in politics we are effectively withdrawing ourselves as serious candidates for high corporate office.
Named...
Ozlem Denizmen, Founding Chair, Financial Literacy and Inclusion Association
I have always shaped myself according to my values and set goals to realise those values. Instead of focusing on social prejudices, I set...
Leslie Pratch, Founder & CEO, Pratch & Co
I am an independent thinker and a creative risk taker . . . It was a big risk to develop and validate my own...
