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...
Delivering Transformational Change
By David Miller
Change is becoming more frequent, radical and complex. Failure rates of change projects are high because organisations fail to implement the change...
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...
So, you think you have a strategy? Five poor excuses for a strategy
By Freek Vermeulen
No matter how colourful your PowerPoint presentation, it does not mean you have a strategy. So what is strategy and what are...
Changing The CEO Politics and Decisions at the Top
By Guido Stein & Manuel Gallego
Introduction
Companies statistically dismiss twice as many CEOs in bad economic times as in good. Certainly, many senior executives have...
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...
Needs-Based Coaching: Employee Motivation in a New Light
By Craig Perrin
Behind every unmotivated employee is a leadership problem to be solved. Yet many leaders see motivation as a game of rewards and...
Has the quality of our politicians declined or is the world becoming impossible to...
By Michael Cox
We live not just in ‘interesting times‘, but in quite extraordinary times where few in the West now appear to have much...
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...
Overcoming the Triple Hurdle of Diversity Management
By Winfried Ruigrok
Diversity management is a key instrument to position your company as a preferred employer. Fail to recite this mantra and you risk...
Future Proofing the Boardroom
By Lucy P. Marcus
The board room is going through an extraordinary time of transition. More is being demanded of boards than ever before, and...
Leading with Ethics and Compliance
By Mark Meaney
As millions take to the streets in a global protest of corporate malfeasance, Dean Rich Lyons of the Haas School of Business...
Reinventing Management
By Julian Birkinshaw
What is the future of management? Can management be reinvented to make it more effective as an agent of economic progress and...
Operationalising Excellence: Making it Happen – Part II
By Sean Culey
It is easy to look good in a boom.
It is a lesson that the executives at Chaos Corp have learnt the hard...
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...
Complexity Kills Profits – CEOs need to simplify their businesses
By Simon Collinson and Melvin Jay
The competitive environment is becoming more complex and unpredictable, and senior managers have no control over the underlying trends,...
The Anatomy of Board of Director Culture
By Patrick R. Dailey
Culture matters more than before. Unless the right board culture is in place, nothing very special is likely to happen.
Talented directors...
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...
Operationalising Excellence: Making it Happen – Part I
By Sean Culey
In the last edition of The European Business Review, my article called ‘The 7 Keys to Unlocking Organisational Greatness’ was published, in...
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 Rise and Consequences of Corporate Sustainability Reporting
By Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
In the last two decades a growing number of companies across sectors and geographies are communicating to their stakeholders...
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...
Woman in Consulting: Q+A with Claire Arnold
Claire Arnold is a founding partner of Maxxim Consulting. In this interview, she told us about her management philosophy, visions as well as her...
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
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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...
What Managers Need to Know about Platforms
By Annabelle Gawer
A new and powerful way to compete has taken shape in our business landscape: Platform competition
Whether we are talking about Google,...
Bury My Heart at Conference Room B
By Stan Slap
Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed...
Creating Abundant Organizations
Interview with Dave and Wendy Ulrich
In “The Why of Work: How Great Leaders Build Abundant Organizations” (McGraw-Hill 2010), Dave and Wendy Ulrich set out...
The Changing of the Guard: Rules for Successful Succession Planning in Business
By Al Weatherhead
I remember going to work six years ago at Weatherchem, my plastic caps and closures company. Before going to my office...
Leadership and the Structure of Trust
By Paul R. Lawrence and Robert Porter Lynch
Trust enables everything to move faster more effortlessly,and with less conflict.
In the business world, executives soon...
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