LEADERSHIP

Leadership feature explores essential skills, strategies, and insights for effective management and decision-making. It features expert perspectives on leadership development, organizational success, and the challenges of navigating today’s fast-evolving business landscape.

interim management

Interim Management: Executive Expertise on Demand

By Prof. Guido Stein and María Belén del Campo Senior managers who can offer “been there, done that” off the shelf are in increasing demand...
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Reputation Equity: The Missing Piece in the DEI Conversation

By Charlotte Otter As systemic responses to the lack of diversity in the leadership ranks of the world’s top companies are removed, the time has...
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Elevating Leadership: Accelerating Growth Through Expert Coaching and AI Practice 

By Ed Parsloe Using an innovative, blended approach to upskilling managers in coaching conversations will lead to more impactful discussions, boost engagement and deliver measurable...
Kit Scott Brown

When The Opportunities Are Out Of Plain Sight

Interview with InterExec Founder, Mr. Kit Scott-Brown Executives looking to progress their career face the problem that many of the best opportunities are not presented in...

How To Design an Ambidextrous Organisation

By Jonathan Trevor and Peter Williamson How can leaders today design and manage their organisation to make it deliver both efficiency and flexibility?  The authors...
Leaderless team concept

The Hidden Hierarchy Inside Leaderless Teams

By Lotta K. Harju Leaderless teams may remove formal hierarchies, but informal status structures can still shape who speaks, who influences decisions, and whose concerns...
Kleber Bacili

The Way to Integration is Open: Interview with Kleber Bacili, CEO and Founder of...

Open banking offers businesses in the finance industry an opportunity to integrate their systems, using API management platforms from specialist third-party providers. One such...
ChatGPT

ChatGPT Means Accessible AI – But What Can You Use it for?

Interview with Job van der Voort, CEO and Co-Founder of Remote ChatGPT is here. It's new and its potential uses are largely uncharted territory. So...
SDG-led Innovation

Let’s STRIDE Towards UN SDG-led Innovation

By Mike Cooray, Rikke Duus, Joanne Carmichael, and Marius Sylvestersen It has never been more urgent for entrepreneurial, public, and private organisations to join forces...

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...
Andrea Falleni of Capgemini

AI Agents at the Helm: Capgemini’s Vision for Smarter, Greener Businesses

Interview with Andrea Falleni of Capgemini From steering a 20-person startup to leading Capgemini’s vast Southern European region, Andrea Falleni knows what it takes to...
marketing strategy ideas

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...
Male ally the workplace

The Missing Half: A Mindset-Based Approach to Male Allyship in the Workplace

By Professor Debbie Bayntun-Lees New research from Hult International Business School offers a fresh perspective on male engagement in gender equity. The Gender Equity Mindset...
Success Beyond Expectations

Charting Success Beyond Expectations: Interview with Claire Ross-Brown

In an exclusive interview, Claire Ross-Brown opens up about her remarkable journey through the worlds of finance and fashion. Without the safety net of...
brain and heart outlet

Today’s CEOs Need a New Approach to Prepare the Hearts and Minds of Employees...

By Mostafa Sayyadi and Michael Provitera This article proposes a range of ideas for successful organisational change in a world that has completely changed. The...
Valeriia Medvetska: Redefining Strategic Finance through Data, Vision, and Female Leadership

Valeriia Medvetska: Redefining Strategic Finance through Data, Vision, and Female Leadership

By Pamela Martinez, Writer of The European Business Review In today’s complex financial landscape—where artificial intelligence, volatile markets, and shrinking margins redefine strategy by the...
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Covering Blind Spots. Does the Board have the Right Information for Effective Decision Making?

By Pedro B. Agua Does your board have the right information for decision making? Better decision making has been a growing demand at any organizational...
David-De-Cremer

Artificial Intelligence: Just Who Is In Charge Around Here?

An Exclusive Interview with Professor David De Cremer, Founder and Director, Centre on AI Technology for Humankind, NUS The employment of artificial intelligence is proceeding...

Two Women, One Mission: Joey Horn and Nalini Malani – On Empowerment, Humanity, and...

Across the globe, women around the world continue to experience hardships, inequalities, and contention. Fighting to champion the rights and privileges of all,...
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Loyalty and Layoffs 

By Grishma Jashapara  So, you drank the Kool-Aid, proudly donned the gear, filled your work and home space with the branded paraphernalia - and then...

Your Highest Performers May Be Quietly Unraveling: Understanding the Hidden Crisis Behind High Achievement

By Angélica Pérez-Litwin, PhD, MBA Your high performers may look successful from the outside while privately experiencing Career Distress Response — a hidden crisis leaders...

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...
sleep

Why Sleep is So Important for Leaders

Experts have long recommended a nightly eight hours of sleep, but many people fail to achieve that amount. After all, work demands, family needs,...

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...
Core Values, Business Ethics Motivational Inspirational Quotes

Ethics in Leadership: The Best Executive Education Programs of 2024

By Pamela Martinez Ethical leadership must be a core value in today’s business world. Introduction The significance of emotional intelligence among leaders has escalated in importance for organisational...
Boost Productivity

Five Leadership Lessons that will Help you Boost Productivity

By Deborah Sherry Today, businesses are presented with a plethora of opportunities arising from digital transformation. However, not all business leaders know how they can...
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Leading Neurodivergence at Work

By Leanne Maskell Neurodivergent women face unique challenges in the workplace, often masking their differences to fit in. This article explores how allyship, support, and...

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...

Technology is Molding the Future of Education

Technology has always been a broad term. However, it does not take much to establish what the term captures. As a matter of fact,...

Sense-making and Sense-giving: The Case of Dual Transformation

By Yazeed Alhezzani It is well known that everything in life changes and the only constant thing is change per se. So, in order for...
Email Marketing

ZeroBounce COO Brian Minick on Getting Better at Email Marketing

Few can doubt the power of email after a year like 2020. It went from being an essential communication tool to the primary channel...

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...

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’...
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Identity Threats often Lead to Burn Out and Quitting – But Managers Can Help

By Mailys George Identity threats in the workplace – feeling devalued, misunderstood or that our sense of self is challenged – can lead to emotional...
Great Manager

How to Be a Great Manager

Your management style can significantly impact the work environment that you create for your employees. Great management skills can lead to a more positive company...

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...
operations and supply chain management

Compliance is Riskier Than Ever

By Gerry Zack, CEO, Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics Over the years, there has been a steady growth of compliance-related risks that bring untimely...
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Leaders of The Future Will Face These 2 Types of Challenges

By Jacob Morgan In many ways, leaders a few decades ago lived in a simpler time with simpler tasks. Their employees tended to stay with...
global business strategy

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...

Leadership Dispatches: Business Lessons From A President Taking Charge

By Michael Useem, Howard Kunreuther, and Erwann Michel-Kerjan This article discusses the leadership of President Sebastián Piñera following the Chilean earthquake of 2010. The authors...

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...

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...
ZeroBounce CEO Liviu Tanase

ZeroBounce CEO Liviu Tanase on Leadership, AI, and the Future of Email

Interview with Liviu Tanase of Zerobounce As founder and CEO of ZeroBounce, Liviu Tanase has built one of the most trusted names in email deliverability....

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...

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...
leadership skills of the technology age

One Is Not Enough; All Is Not Possible

By Hakan Kapucu Mostly-needed leadership skills of the technology age There are leadership styles: Technoversal, Self-disruptive, Transpersonal, Altrocentric, and Leadership 4.0. Let’s extend this list a...

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...
Responsible AI

Responsible AI as the Next Step in Regulating the Technology 

By Shane Tierney Responsible AI matters because the technology arose prior to any regulation; and now rules are arriving faster than most governance programmes can...
reputation

4 Trends in Reputation that CEOs Need to Understand

By Sharon Fishburne Businesses of all sizes are having to think more seriously about their reputations. A reputational crisis not only damages consumer confidence in a...
Person finding his purpose

Why Finding Your Purpose is More Important than Ever

By Tim Jack Adams If people don’t feel like they have a purpose, they tend to drift. I believe that our primary purpose needs to...

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