Women in the Paid Labour Force: Global Work-Family Challenges and Solutions
By Bahira S. Trask As an increasing number of women join the global labour-force, families have undergone...
The Obstacles to Women’s Entrepreneurship in Europe, and How to Deal with Them
By Viviane de Beaufort
An increasing number of women are interested in creating their own business – yet even in the 21st century, there are...
Attributes of Engineers and Engineering for the 21st Century World
By PE Seeram Ramakrishna
The world’s leading businesses are global. Below, PE Seeram Ramakrishna argues that engineering education should be reformed to nurture ‘global engineers’...
Meeting Expectations
By John Sutherland
Most senior teams only have one or two ways of working together and never learn to vary their approach, based on the...
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...
The Heart of Change Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
By John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
In The Heart of Change, John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen argue that successful large-scale organizational...
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...
The Blue Line Imperative: A Radical New Approach to Value-Based Leadership
By Kevin Kaiser & S. David Young
In The Blue Line Imperative: What Managing for Value Really Means, Kevin Kaiser and S. David Young introduce...
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...
Judgment Calls: Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams that Got Them Right
By Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville
In Judgment Calls: 12 Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams that Got Them Right, Thomas Davenport and...
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...
Four Truths About Marketing Lady Gaga
By Mathieu Deflem
‘There can be no fame attained, nor any accompanying revenue acquired, in any career based on artistic or other intrinsically valid accomplishments...
First Look: Developing A New Map For Effective Business Succession in Family Businesses
By Richard Shrapnel
Family Business Succession is never a simple, straightforward endeavour. Besides the financial outcomes of the transition, the human needs and emotional involvement...
Comparative Decision Making: An Emerging Interdiscipline
By Philip Crowley & Thomas Zentall
How can we continue to analyse human decision making in an age when free will is considered to be...
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...
BoardVantage: Success Beyond the Boardroom
Used by over half the Fortune 100 companies, BoardVantage is making the paperless boardroom a reality.
The expansion of its internal functionality to different digital...
The Chief Strategy Officer in the European Firm: Professionalising Strategy in Times of Uncertainty
By Markus Menz, Günter Müller-Stewens, Tim Zimmermann & Christian Lattwein
The chief strategy officer (CSO) position has recently been gaining prominence in European firms. However,...
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...
50+20 Management Education for the World: PART 1: Designing a Radically New Vision of...
By Katrin Muff, Thomas Dyllick, Mark Drewell, John North, Paul Shrivastava & Jonas Haertle
Extracts from chapter 5 of the forthcoming book “Management education for...
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...
Building Ethical Business Cultures: BRIC by BRIC
By Alexandre Ardichvili, Douglas Jondle, Jack Wiley, Edgard Cornacchione, Jessica Li & Thomas Thakadipuram
As the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICs) continue...
A ‘Sigh of Relief’ at Davos: Confidence and Caution Shared Center Stage
By Michael Useem
“Wharton management professor Michael Useem, returning from his 11th trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, reports that confidence in the...
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 & Günter Müller-Stewens
The corporate office consists of the CEO and the corporate functions. It is the main vehicle for...
How Sustainability and Carbon Footprint Reduction is Transforming the DNA of Leadership Key Trends...
By Nikos Avlonas
2012 introduced several significant developments in sustainability, most notably around the issues of climate change, risk management, and supply chain ethics.
June’s Rio+20...
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,...
Leading The Capability Revolution
By Jonathan Trevor
These are revolutionary times, we believe, and our established notions of leadership, many of which are more romantic than functional, must change...
Board of Directors Oversight of Leadership Risk
By Patrick R. Dailey and Charles H. Bishop
The practice of Enterprise Risk Management was born as a consequence of the Enron collapse in...
Board Responsibility under the FCPA
By Thomas R. Fox and Ryan Morgan
The nightmare of every corporate director is to wake up to find out that the company of the...
The Benefits of Trusting More (with reservations)
By J. Keith Murnighan
Trust is critical for leaders. Without trust, leadership is impossible. The problem, however, is that trust always entails risk.
“Every stranger is...
The Hedgehog Effect: Building High Performance Teams
By Manfred Kets de Vries
You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself. — Galileo Galilee
The organizations we...
Transforming Employee Performance One Coaching Conversation at a Time
By Brian Souza
Why is it that so many good people are such bad managers? It’s an interesting question, isn’t it? Often when I give...
Leadership Development and The High Performing Team: The Wharton Leadership Program
By Jeff Klein
One thing that I’ve never needed to convince an incoming Wharton MBA student is that they should become a leader.
By now, our...
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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...
Women Leaders: The Gender Trap
By Ginka Toegel and Jean-Louis Barsoux
In cultivating their leadership style, women have to be conscious of which traits they cultivate and which ones they...
The Will and Skill to be Strategic
By Patrick R. Dailey & Chuck Russell
Strategy guidance is a board’s most crucial responsibility.
With contemporary directors repeatedly being exhorted to step up their contribution...
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 Employee Owned Business Model During Growth and Adversity: How Well Does it Hold...
By Joseph Lampel, Ajay Bhalla & Pushkar P. Jha
Criticism of modern corporate capitalism in the wake of the current economic crisis is reawakening interest...
STUDY IN AUSTRIA IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems
Krems – a small but vibrant university town
Krems is the eastern gateway to the Wachau Valley and only a one hour drive from...
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...
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Brain-Machine Synchrony: A New Era of AI-Supported Human Collaboration and Societal Transformation
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This paper introduces the concept of “brain-machine synchrony,” exploring the potential alignment of human brain waves and physiological responses with AI systems to build trust and enhance collaboration....
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