Ideas
Develop Next Generation Leaders: Start Early and Focus on Adaptability
Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)
The next generation of leaders will emerge from the young people entering the workforce today. The best organizations and their leaders have begun thinking about the strengths and weaknesses of…
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Constructive Networking: The Strategies of Players and Purists
Idea posted: February 2015
Social capital research has established the performance advantages of networking. However, we know surprisingly little about the strategies individuals employ when networking and, in particular, the underlying agency mechanisms involved.…
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Potential Leaders: Height Helps But So Does Being Smart
Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Stockholm School of Economics
Tall men have a greater chance of becoming leaders. As unfair as this may seem, and despite the obvious exceptions from Napoleon to CEO superstar Jack Welch, decades of research…
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A Lower Voice Can Take You Higher Up the Leadership Ladder
Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business Rady School of Management
Research in academic laboratory settings — that is, within controlled experiments with voluntary participants — has shown that individuals with deeper voices are perceived as having more leadership capabilities. Different…
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Why Leaders Sabotage Their Own Teams
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,…
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Firms Are Not Adapting to the Millennial Workforce
Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business
In addition to economic and diversity issues, the Duke University/CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook Survey for the fourth quarter of 2014 focused on the issue of millennials in the workplace.…
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How Early Work Experience Shapes Later Leadership Outlook
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…
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Facial Cues: Can We Judge Who Looks Like a Leader?
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…
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Does Employee Satisfaction Improve Company Value? It Depends…
Idea posted: January 2015
Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania London Business School Warwick University Business School
When the most important asset of a company is human capital, attracting and retaining high-quality, motivated employees is the key to sustainable competitive advantage. High employee satisfaction makes the company…
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