Ideas
Beware of Hubris Syndrome! A Leadership Personality Disorder
Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: Duke University
Most leaders possess typical leadership qualities such as the ability to inspire and persuade, a grand vision, and a controlled fearlessness when taking risks. There is, however, a darker side…
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Overcoming Our Evolutionary Fears to Speak Up to Authority
Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: Pennsylvania State University Smeal College of Business Cornell University Harvard Business School
Why don’t many employees say something when they see something wrong in the workplace, or when they are unfairly attacked by their boss? Why do they sit silent in meetings…
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Public Sector Leadership: Managing ‘Multirational’ Organizations
Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: University of St. Gallen
Public sector organizations are multirational organizations. They do not fall under a single rationality archetype — for example, they are not uniquely political organizations or economic organizations or legal organizations,…
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Encouraging Employees Who Stay Silent to Give Feedback
Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: New York University Stern School of Business SIM University
Why do employees choose to stay silent instead of reporting a problem, expressing their differing opinion or offering suggestions? Past research has examined this issue from a variety of perspectives,…
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Work with Customers to Understand and Shape their Future Needs
Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: North Carolina State University Poole College of Management University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
The best companies are forward-looking. They are not only concerned with what customers want to buy today, but what they will want to buy in the future. A company’s ability…
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Learning from Expatriate Experience After the Return Home
Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: IESE Business School
Expatriate assignments are great opportunities for employees and managers assigned overseas to not only increase their personal knowledge, but also share knowledge across units. In a study on the knowledge…
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The Hidden Costs of Working While Sick
Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
An employee’s work usually consists of two types of tasks or behaviours: in-role tasks, which are the tasks required by the job or position; and discretionary behaviours, which are undertaken…
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Cyber-Attack Catastrophe: Lessons from a Plausible Risk Scenario
Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: University of Cambridge Judge Business School
The extensive damage caused by computer hackers accessing the confidential information held within a company’s information technology is, unfortunately, well documented. But beyond compromising millions of customers or accessing company…
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From Charisma to Autonomy: How India’s Generations Rate Leadership Qualities
Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)
Three generations of Indians are currently employed in India’s workplaces. The ‘partition generation’ (born 1944-1963, and roughly equivalent to the baby boomers) were born during times of insecurity and instability.…
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