Idea posted: September 2014

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business    Stanford Law School   

Based on a survey of nearly 200 North American CEOs, board directors and senior executives, Stanford’s 2013 Executive Coaching Survey revealed that nearly 2/3 of  the CEOs were ‘going it…

Idea posted: September 2014

Institutions: Cranfield University School of Management   

Professionals in an organization — technical experts in a service organization, for example — will acquire best practices, solutions, resources, ideas and other knowledge as they develop responses to the…

Idea posted: September 2014

Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania    McGill University   

The best students from the best universities and graduate schools will be attracted to the most desirable companies to work for in their industries. At first glance, it would seem…

Idea posted: August 2014

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business   

The factors that bring people together into a collaborative venture are varied. One is proximity and shared goals: people within a department, for example, have more opportunities to work together…

Idea posted: August 2014

Institutions: Ivey Business School at Western University   

When in May 2013, software giant SAP announced that it would hire hundreds of people who were diagnosed with autism, the assumption among casual observers might have been that SAP…

Idea posted: July 2014

Institutions: INSEAD   

When envy pervades a company — when employees and managers for one reason or another focus more on competing against each other instead of the company’s marketplace competitors — the…

Idea posted: July 2014

Institutions: McMaster University DeGroote School of Business    University of Toronto Rotman School of Management    University of Toronto Scarborough   

While employees are supposed to share their knowledge with other employees for the benefit of the company, employees will often find a reason to keep that knowledge to themselves. Perhaps…

Idea posted: July 2014

Institutions: New York University School of Engineering   

Why are some people more open to change and others instinctively resistant to anything that significantly alters the status quo? The key is often in an individual’s basic attitude toward…

Idea posted: July 2014

Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania   

Why do so many people make New Year’s resolutions? Because the New Year is the most obvious and universal of temporal landmarks — the dates or periods in time that…