Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Columbia Business School    Mercer LLC   

Gaining and retaining influence will forever be a vital component of leadership and this Idea shows that listening has a positive association with influence, over and above verbal expression. "We…

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.…

Idea posted: November 2013

Institutions: Tuck School of Business    University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business    Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business    University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business   

There are two basic types of loyalty programs: frequency rewards, through which customers earn points or credits to be redeemed (a free hotel room after so many stays); and customer…

Idea posted: December 2013

Institutions: Ashridge Executive Education, Hult International Business School    University of St. Gallen   

Most organizations are split into different business divisions that all report to a corporate office. This office houses the CEOs and other corporate functions, such as HR, finance and IT.…

Idea posted: May 2013

Institutions: Tuck School of Business   

Building on the latest research on leadership, as well as scores of interviews with CEOs and other leaders, Professor of Strategy and Leadership Sydney Finkelstein of Dartmouth’s Tuck School of…

Idea posted: July 2013

Institutions: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University   

"The answer is moral leadership, or, more specifically, respectful  leadership." One of the goals of leaders is to motivate employees to perform well, work in the collective interest and define themselves…

Idea posted: March 2016

Institutions: Mälardalen University    KTH Royal Institute of Technology   

For three Scandinavian researchers, the traditional approach to leadership almost renders the term a misnomer: the study of ‘leadership’ is actually the study of ‘leaders’ — the study of the…

Idea posted: June 2014

Institutions: SKEMA Business School    INSEAD   

Buying companies in other countries poses significant challenges, requiring close co-ordination and careful integration and creating what’s been referred to in management literature as the ‘liability of foreignness’. But the…

Idea posted: June 2023

Institutions: Xavier University    Williams College of Business; University of Ghana Business School   

Leadership involves a dynamic relationship between leader and follower to which both parties contribute. The study of “followership,” focuses on the vital role that followers play in the leader-follower relationship…