Why Mark Zuckerberg’s Leadership Failure was a Predictable Surprise
By David De Cremer
In today’s more developed global village, responsible leadership is of paramount importance especially from businesses that make use of digital platforms....
Speaking Truth to Power
By Megan Reitz and John Higgins
The need for transparency has never been more important, both in politics and in business. However, new research from...
Creating an Agile Board of Directors
By Patrick Dailey and Joel Koblentz
As the impulse of industry players to stay ahead of the competition skyrockets, how will you drive superior performance...
Limitless Vision Infinite Possibilities: The Story of Allied Wallet CEO Andy Khawaja and his...
“Keep on climbing, the sky is the limit and believe me you will never reach the top because it’s endless.” In this interview, CEO...
Releasing the Potential of All
By Mark Anderson
How will you cultivate great leadership to drive superior performance? In this article, the author elaborates on the importance of unleashing the...
What’s Your Superpower?
By Lauren Noël and Christie Hunter Arscott
Imagine you enter an interview for a job and an executive asks you: “What’s your superpower?” How would...
Gender Diversity in the Boardroom: Finding an Optimal Level?
By Won-Yong Oh, Loren Falkenberg, and Jim Dewald
There has been an increase in the number of women serving on boards. Today, everyone talks about...
Organisational Vitality: The Life Line for Your Company
By David De Cremer
Where do you see your company many many many years from now? In this article, David De Cremer tells us the...
Claiming Your Value: A Key Skill for Women in Transition
By Sally Helgesen
“What’s your worth?” might be one of the more difficult questions that women, particularly in the corporate world, need to face. In...
Chief Wellbeing Officer
By Steven MacGregor
This month we include an excerpt from Steven MacGregor’s new book, Chief Wellbeing Officer: Leading in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, co-authored with Rory...
Naturally Selected? Clues about Leadership from the Animal World
By Mark van Vugt
When thinking of a “successful executive”, we often use the description of an “alpha”, most of the time a male one,...
How to Get Your Functions to Supercharge Your Strategy
By Jo Whitehead, Anita Hunt and Debbie Rogerson
Great strategies often go to waste because they cannot be properly executed. In this article, the authors...
When Democracy and Centralisation Meet in Leadership
By David De Cremer and Tian Tao
Business leaders face a plethora of challenges and one of those is finding the leadership approach that would...
Is Compassionate Leadership a Driver of Huawei’s Business Success?
By David De Cremer and Tian Tao
In this article, the authors trace giant telecom Huawei’s success to its founder’s commitment to compassionate leadership. In...
Habit Hacking (Part II)
By Steven MacGregor
How many times have you said that you will change for the better? In this Part Two of the article, the author...
Dominance and Prestige: Selecting the Leadership Approach that Fits
By Charleen R. Case and Jon K. Maner
Maximising your organisation’s effectiveness requires leaders who tailor their leadership approach based on the organisational culture, their...
The Happiness Conundrum
By Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Based on a case example of a deeply unhappy person, this article examines the elusive topic of happiness,...
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...
