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The Bias Against Women Leaders in Competitive Cultures
Idea posted: December 2024
Institutions: West Texas A&M University Monash University
While the extent of the gender gap in leadership roles is well documented, researchers continue to seek out the reasons for the tenacity of this gap despite a consensus for…
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Why Companies Sometimes Need Not-So-Nice CEOs
Idea posted: September 2024
Institutions: Columbia Business School
Do nice guys finish last? In exploring why CEOs might be fired and who might be selected to replace them, two Columbia Business School researchers studied the impact of CEO…
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CEO Personality: The Cornerstone of Corporate Culture
Idea posted: September 2024
Institutions: Stanford University Graduate School of Business; MIT Sloan School of Management
The impact of corporate culture on a firm's success has been widely studied. A consensus exists among scholars and practitioners that CEOs, through their decisions and behaviors, play a vital…
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Visionary Leadership is Most Needed in Times of Uncertainty
Idea posted: June 2024
Institutions: University of Potsdam
The greatest of leaders are visionaries. They have a vision for the future of their organizations and effectively communicate that vision to their followers which inspires the followers’ commitment to…
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Engage Employees through Psychologically Rich Jobs
Idea posted: May 2024
Institutions: University of Virginia University of Florida
Since the time of Aristotle, philosophers have been debating the characteristics of a “good life,” that is, the characteristics of a life that would be most desirable to people. Over…
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Cultural Attitudes About Work May Not Be What You Expect
Idea posted: February 2024
Institutions: Kings College
Conducted in waves every five years since 1981, the World Values Survey (WVS) is a global research study exploring values and attitudes in 120 countries (covering nearly 95% of the…
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Why Followers Make Great Leaders
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…
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Why Extraverts Don’t Necessarily Make Good Leaders
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,…
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Prosocial Managers May Put Employee Interests Above the Company’s
Idea posted: October 2023
Institutions: Columbia Business School
While the impact on employee behaviour of prosocial preferences the desire to care about others and avoid harming them is well-documented, little research has been conducted on the impact of…
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