Idea posted: February 2015

Institutions: Kellogg School of Management   

In most hierarchies, power is malleable, which means that it can change. A leader at the top can lose his or her power, and be replaced by subordinates who have,…

Idea posted: February 2015

Institutions: University of Toronto Rotman School of Management   

Employees just joining the workforce will have different experiences in their first jobs, depending on the economic situation of the firm in which they land. This economic situation makes a…

Idea posted: February 2015

Institutions: Carnegie Mellon University    Warwick University Business School    Pennsylvania State University Smeal College of Business   

A number of academic studies have shown that because many of us form impressions about potential leaders from their facial characteristics, certain facial characteristics (for example, a ‘competent’ look) can…

Idea posted: January 2015

Institutions: Vlerick Business School   

As the younger generation of employees move into their first leadership positions, they will naturally be anxious, as any new leader would be, about the responsibilities, pressures, and risks that…

Idea posted: January 2015

Institutions: NeuroLeadership Institute   

The SCARF® model, developed by neuroscientist David Rock, enables ‘change agents’ to exhibit more adaptive behaviours based on how mental experiences occur over time, thus offering to improve people’s capacity…

Idea posted: January 2015

Institutions: The Barrett Values Centre   

Richard Barrett’s Seven Levels of Consciousness model, founded on the principles of values-based leadership, is a guide to achieving exceptional performance in organizations. Barrett’s framework based on his extensive research…

Idea posted: January 2015

Institutions: HEC Paris    McGill University Desautels Faculty of Management    University of Alabama at Birmingham Collat School of Business   

Online communities can be the source of staggering feats of pooled knowledge creation, with volunteers from around the world combining their expertise. Think of Wikipedia, or of Linux, or even…

Idea posted: September 2014

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business    Stanford Law School   

CEOs tend to be strong in decision-making and the financial elements of their jobs, but weak when it comes to managing their people and developing talent, according to a survey…

Idea posted: September 2014

Institutions: York University    Duke University Fuqua School of Business    University of Waterloo    Columbia Business School   

Hierarchies have been taking a bad rap. The mantra for a number of years has been to ‘flatten’ the organizations. Hierarchies were not only seen as inefficient, but worse: as…