Closing the Gender Gap
A growing body of research and anecdotal evidence shows a positive correlation between gender-balanced corporate leadership and organisational performance. Despite this, a significant gap...
The Future of Gender Equality, from School to Boardroom
Helena Morrissey Talks with Camille Merrells
Helena Morrissey is the unstoppable CEO of Newton, Chair of the Investment Management Association (IMA) and founder of...
Improving Digital Innovation in Large Enterprise: Strengthening e-Leadership at C-level
By Joe Peppard, Simon Robinson and Tobias Hüsing
If your company doesn’t want to miss out on the new opportunities IT offers for business innovation,...
Through the Ceiling and Over the Cliff? Catch-22 for Women Executives
A new program for women executives combines business acumen with leadership development and career reflection. It’s an approach designed to strengthen the key skills...
Global Female Leaders Networking Breakfast
April is inching closer, bringing the exciting prospect of the Global Female Leaders Summit with it. The European Business Review caught up with some...
Dream Bigger Be Braver
Exclusive Interview with Cheryl Giovannoni by our editor Camille Merrells
Cheryl Giovannoni is the dynamic CEO of Ogilvy & Mather UK, the advertising giant responsible...
Leading Innovation through Executive Education
Interview with Professor Saul Estrin, LSE
In today’s fast-changing global environment, business leaders need new tools to face new challenges like never before. Innovation is...
Making Capabilities Explicit is The Work of Leadership
By Richard Lynch, Amber Román And Derval Kennedy
In “Clarifying Strategy Is Simple. Aligning Your Organisation Is Not.” (The European Business Review, Sept/Oct 2014) the...
Incorporate Innovation into your Business Model
Interview with Jeff Rosenthal
Innovation is a surefire way to achieve growth and success for your company. Below Jeff Rosenthal, CEO of the UC Berkeley...
Can Women Fix Capitalism?
By Joanna Barsh
Gender equality at the top of business has stalled, and trust in business is alarmingly low. Putting more women in charge could...
Leveraging Your Collective Genius
Interview with Linda Hill
Harvard Business School Professor and World Business Forum speaker Linda Hill gives The European Business Review her take on leading innovation.
Linda...
Laying the Foundation
By Damian Goldvarg
While organisations may be becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of a strong coaching culture, translating this into practice is a very...
How Political Intelligence Sets Successful Leaders Apart
By Gerry Reffo and Valerie Wark
Leadership Alert! There are times when the classic development of leaders no longer fully equips them or their organisations...
The Power of Corporate Culture — and How to Harness It
Culture change is hard to do. Just look at Ron Johnson’s attempted transformation of JCPenney in 2012. Or go back a few thousand years...
Build High-Quality Connections
By Jane E. Dutton
Jane E. Dutton explains why high-quality connections (HQCs) are critical building blocks for bringing out the best in people and...
Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life
By Stewart D. Friedman
This is an excerpt from the introduction of Friedman’s recently published book, in which he teaches readers how to possess leadership...
Leadership: The Science Behind Practice Makes Perfect
By M. Reitz and L. Waller
Strong leadership is arguably the most important aspect of running a business, but today's leaders are required to operate...
Wharton: Where Entrepreneurs Learn the Business of Business
Max Baumann’s company Just Chill started with an idea for a beverage that could help people stay cool and calm. “Stress is the number...
Closing the Leadership Gap
By John Sutherland
Traditional leadership development programmes operate with a one-size-fits-all mentality. Below, John Sutherland argues that the key to developing the right kind of...
Succession Redefined: Family Business Succession in the 21st Century
By Richard Shrapnel
In this article – the final in the Succession Series by Baker Tilly International – the author considers how business succession has...
A Fresh Perspective
By Damian Goldvarg
Increasing numbers of individuals and organisations are discovering the powerful role that coaching can play in developing themselves. Below, Damian Goldvarg illustrates...
The Personal Wealth Revolution – Time to Formalise Your Family Office
By Sherilyn Casiano
For the entrepreneur and closely- held family business owner, a family office, set up with the proper foundation, can be a huge...
Managing Your Manager
By Bill Smullen
Most everyone still working today either has a boss or is a boss. Either way, you should want the boss to be...
Are Leaders Fair? On the Need to Understand Fairness Management in Organisations
By D. De Cremer, G. Houwelingen, C. Ilse, H. Niek, L. Brebels, M. Van Dijke & A. Van Hiel
It is human nature to want...
Developing Leaders with Practical Mastery
By John Sutherland
You may know about leadership but can you lead? One you learn from a book or a course, the other through repeated...
The Well-Focused Leader
By Daniel Goleman
Directing attention where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership. Below, Daniel Goleman considers how leadership hinges on capturing...
Success Strategies in the Journey of Succession
By Dr. Richard Shrapnel
Many owners and families have discovered the pitfalls and potholes of business succession. Below, Dr. Richard Shrapnel explores the success strategies...
Rise and Fall of Leadership
By Guido Stein
Few concepts have received such widespread attention over the last two decades as that of leadership. Below, Guido Stein discusses the complicated...
Boards Face Leadership Crisis in Changing Times
By Andrew Kakabadse
Boards can prove easy targets for their critics. Below, Andrew Kakabadse discusses how to make boards work, and argues that directors should...
Women’s Leadership: Leaning in Without Falling Over
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A new program for women executives combines business acumen with leadership development and career reflection. It’s an approach designed to strengthen the key skills...
Leading through Engagement: Creating Foundations for the Africa of Tomorrow, Today
By Sean Culey
Africa is at a tipping point. It is poised for growth, but the question is whether this growth will be based on...
Le Roi est mort, vive Le Roi Life after Succession
By Sherilyn Casiano
In the conversation about succession planning, most of the discussion revolves around the future continuity of the business. Very little is said...
Future Proofing the Capital Value of Your Business
By Richard Shrapnel
Succession is a dynamic journey, and anyone involved in this process should seek to understand it before venturing forward. Below, Richard Shrapnel...
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...
