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...
Annelise Alig Anderhalden, Director, Aargau Services Economic Promotion
I am convinced that passion is the key to success.
Annelise Alig Anderhalden is a trained engineer and Director of Aargau Services Economic Promotion. She...
Tiffany Chung, Contemporary Artist
I wake up every day grateful for being able to do what I do and looking forward to materialize my research and ideas. Living...
Kathryn Finney, Founder & Managitng Director, digitalundivided (DID)
My philosophy for success and leadership is that leaders don’t necessarily have to have all the right answers every time, but they should trust...
Nabilah Alsagoff, Founder and COO, PT Nusa Satu Inti Artha (DOKU)
Women have strong minds and we believe that our skills to empower the work force can make a difference in the industry that we...
Penelope Trunk, Co-founder & CEO, Quistic, Author, Blogger
Here's a question I want to see you ask: How can people, who run the economic and social life in their country at large,...
Ethel Cofie, CEO, EDEL Technologies
Life is full of challenges, and one of the early lessons that I learnt, is the fact that life does not give you what...
Grace Woo, Founder, Pixels.IO
Since I could remember, my grandma has always explained to me that I have control over nothing except what is in my own head...
Stephanie Holland, Founder and Author, Sheconomy
Support and encourage other women. Because there have been so few spaces for women at the table, this has pitted women against each other...
Sharmla Chetty, Regional Managing Director, Duke CE South Africa
It has been critical for me to embrace tough assignments. It is easier to take the path of least resistance... It’s far better to...
Sherilyn Williams Casiano, Founder & CEO, S.I. Williams Wealth Management, LLC
When I was about 13, my mother was working for an accounting firm and when I told her that’s what I wanted to do,...
Nancy Nix, Executive Director, AWESOME
Successful women leaders in senior leadership roles can be an important part of a support network that can help emerging leaders be successful.
Nancy Nix...
Sabine Eckhardt, Chief Commercial Officer, ProSiebenSat.1 Media Group
All that procrastination and weighing up doesn’t get you very far in a male-dominated business world. 'Just get on with it' is sometimes the...
Sylvia Yin, Co-Founder and COO, SHOPPR
My rule of thumb while raising finance is to always know who you are raising money from. Don’t stop at researching about venture capitalists,...
Judith Owigar, Founder, Akirachix
I think the most important thing is to expose women to technology early enough for them to experiment so that when the time comes...
Susan Gunelius, President & CEO, KeySplash Creative Inc.
I’ve found that the best way to deal with gender bias is with a strong offense, meaning you need to be smart and not...
Colette Ballou, Founder, Ballou PR
If you have a strong reputation, you have a better chance of charging a premium for your products, even in price-sensitive times; you have...
Heather Baker, CEO, TopLine Comms, Editor and Blogger
I’m also always learning and trying to improve – I think I’m a much better leader now than I was two years ago. I’m...
Keneilwe Mampuru, Founder & Head Designer, Kente by Keneilwe
I would like people to think of my brand as not just a fashion label, but as a brand that stands firm against the...
3 Key Leadership Habits Every Leader Must Have
By Brad Lomenick
Leadership is more than hard work; it is habitual work. And the path to becoming a better leader begins with building better...