Idea posted: January 2026

Institutions: Development Dimensions International (DDI)   

The contemporary business environment presents CEOs with complex, interconnected challenges, where attracting and retaining top talent and navigating slowing economic growth are the top executive concerns. According to a survey…

Idea posted: December 2025

Institutions: Development Dimensions International (DDI)   

The Global Leadership Forecast 2025, representing DDI’s eleventh forecast in 24 years, synthesizes responses from 2,185 human resource professionals and 10,796 leaders across 2,014 organizations worldwide. This extensive research, spanning…

Idea posted: August 2025

Institutions: IÉSEG School of Management    KU Leuven    University of Zurich   

The traditional approach to workforce differentiation is talent management, which involves disproportionately investing in a small, exclusive group of high-value employees, often referred to as “talents”. However, there’s been increasing…

Idea posted: January 2025

Institutions: University of Texas at Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management    University College Cork, Cork University Business School    University of Queensland School of Business   

Middle managers play a key role in implementing the talent management programs of an organization, as they are instrumental in identifying high-potential individuals and supporting the development of their knowledge…

Idea posted: January 2024

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One of the dominant assumptions in leadership theory is that some people are meant to lead and others are meant to follow. This assumption is based on the belief that…

Idea posted: January 2024

Institutions: State University of New York At Buffalo School of Management    Louisiana State University School of Leadership and Human Resource Development    Drexel University Management Department   

One resilient conclusion from leadership commentators and observers is the connection between extraversion and leadership—that is, extraverted individuals are more likely to become leaders than introverted individuals. Leadership research, however,…

Idea posted: April 2019

Institutions: INSEAD    Graduate School of Culture Technology Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology    ESMT European School of Management and Technology   

Competition is often a catalyst to productive work. Just as competition among companies spur them to design superior products and offer superior services in an effort to gain competitive advantage,…

Idea posted: March 2018

Institutions: University of Lausanne    The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania    University of California Davis Graduate School of Management   

In general, previous research shows a linear relationship between intelligence and perceived leadership effectiveness, with the line heading steadily northeast (the more intelligent, the higher your actual and perceived leadership capabilities).…

Idea posted: August 2015

Institutions: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School   

The annual leadership survey conducted by the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School was focused in 2015 on the development of globally competent leaders. Global competence is required for…