Idea posted: December 2013
Institutions: University of Texas McCombs School of Business Brigham Young University Marriott School of Management Columbia Business School New York University Stern School of Business Stanford Graduate School of Business University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business
When it comes to setting and achieving goals, power makes a difference. Those with more power are quicker to establish goals, and to take action to achieve those goals, than…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #279Idea posted: October 2013
Institutions: Accenture Institute for High Performance China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)
Imagine a cellist, taking on different roles depending on whether he/she is playing with a quartet, a chamber orchestra, or a full orchestra. Today’s leaders are not dissimilar; they come…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #229Idea posted: September 2013
Institutions: Harvard Business School Rady School of Management Stanford Graduate School of Business
In a classic Harvard Business Review article published in 1981, Harry Levinson said “managing others… creates unending stress… Today’s managers face increasing time pressures with little respite.” Levinson’s view is…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #211Idea posted: July 2013
Institutions: EMC Cranfield University School of Management
By digitizing many business processes, organizations have begun to automate operations and how they interact with customers and suppliers. As a consequence, more and more aspects of our working lives…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #175Idea posted: July 2013
Institutions: IESE Business School
There is a hotel in Japan — Houshi Ryokan — that has been run by the same family for approximately 1,300 years. Forty generations have managed to maintain control of…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #174Idea posted: July 2013
Institutions: Maastricht School of Management
The greying of the post-war baby boom generation and increasing life expectancy are threatening the financial sustainability of pensions systems in many industrialized countries. European governments are responding by raising…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #166Idea posted: June 2013
Institutions: Melbourne Business School-Mt Eliza Executive Education
In 2010, the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) changed its reporting requirements, calling for listed companies to detail their progress against voluntary gender diversity targets. This move on the part of…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #162Idea posted: June 2013
Institutions: ESADE
Responsible leadership is a concept that can help link corporate social responsibility (CSR) and performance to actions on the part of policy makers and leaders. In a world where public…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #145Idea posted: June 2013
Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business
Through their research, the authors set out to examine the effects that leaders at different levels in an organization have on each other. To do so, they investigated the relation…
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