Idea posted: June 2017

Institutions: University of Cologne    INSEAD    Kellogg School of Management    Columbia Business School   

Psychological tools are proving to be very effective in helping people in the workplace gain the right frame of mind in challenging situations. Imagine that you are about to enter…

Idea posted: March 2017

Institutions: University of Illinois at Chicago    Vanderbilt University    Cornell University   

Job satisfaction is often linked to the quality of the working relationship between an employee and his or her supervisor. A poor relationship can lead to an increase in turnover…

Idea posted: September 2016

Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)   

Traditional leadership development focuses on adding more information, skills and competencies to a leader’s toolkit. Thus the leader might learn new ways to develop staff, for example, or new methodologies…

Idea posted: November 2015

Institutions: London Business School    Harvard Business School    University of Michigan Ross School of Business    University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School   

Best-self activation is the deliberate effort to think the best of yourself. You can do this in one of two ways: 1) reflecting on situations in your history that show…

Idea posted: October 2014

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business    The Institute of Executive Development (IED)    The Conference Board   

Succession planning is a vital issue for corporations. As CEOs leave, the smoother transitions occur when a successor or a short list of successors has been groomed and is prepared…

Idea posted: September 2014

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business    Stanford Law School   

Based on a survey of nearly 200 North American CEOs, board directors and senior executives, Stanford’s 2013 Executive Coaching Survey revealed that nearly 2/3 of  the CEOs were ‘going it…

Idea posted: July 2014

Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania   

Why do so many people make New Year’s resolutions? Because the New Year is the most obvious and universal of temporal landmarks — the dates or periods in time that…

Idea posted: May 2014

Institutions: INSEAD   

Everybody dreams. Phantasmagoric ‘night journeys’ are part of life. It’s estimated that by the age of 60 most of us will have dreamed 197,100 dreams over 87,000 hours. The reasons…

Idea posted: April 2014

Institutions: INSEAD   

Fear of death is a core part of the human condition. It’s been associated with everything from the enduring appeal of religion and spiritual beliefs to the desire to reproduce…