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Avoiding Flawed Decisions: A Finance Manager’s Role

Idea posted: June 2013

Institutions: Ashridge Executive Education, Hult International Business School   

Rational and objective thinking is not the only influence on the decision-making process. Recognising this, the authors set out to research why good leaders often make flawed decisions, at times…

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Avoiding Bad Decisions: ‘Red Flags’ and Reflection

Idea posted: May 2013

Institutions: Ashridge Executive Education, Hult International Business School   

Decision-making is at the heart of all leadership. Sometimes leaders make good decisions, but sometimes they make less good decisions. The authors set out to understand why bad decisions are…

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Authentic Leaders Inspire Creativity, Organizational Citizenship and Performance

Idea posted: April 2019

Institutions: Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão Instituto Politécnico de Leiria    Instituto Universitário de Lisboa   

Authentic leadership refers to leaders whose external behaviours and decisions are driven by internal positive values and concern for others. They tend to be self-aware, recognizing their strengths, weaknesses, values…

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Attracting, Developing and Retaining Millennials

Idea posted: February 2013

Institutions: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School   

It is no secret that Millennials (also known as Generation Y) are unlike previous generations; their careers have been affected by different factors to their predecessors, such as the recent…

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As Technology Upends Jobs, Which Skills Pay More?

Idea posted: May 2024

Institutions: London School of Economics    Citi Global Data Insights   

Emerging technologies from AI to quantum computing and genetic engineering have launched a Fourth Industrial Revolution an era, accelerated by COVID-19, that is transforming the workplace. Through in-depth analyses of…

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Aristotle, Ethics and the ‘Art’ of Leadership

Idea posted: September 2013

Institutions: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford    University of Nottingham   

In Aristotle’s great work the Nicomachean Ethics, happiness (eudaimonia) is not a feeling so much as a state — and a state with a distinctly moral dimension. Synonymous with ‘living…

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Are Working Class CEOs Less Worried about Employee Welfare?

Idea posted: September 2022

Institutions: University of Miami    Florida State University    Stony Brook University   

CEOs and corporate leaders come from diverse backgrounds, with a broad range of childhood experiences. While some CEOs were raised in affluent families, with all the privileges and opportunities that…

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Jeff Bezos at Amazon Spheres Grand Opening in Seattle (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Jeff Bezos at Amazon Spheres Grand Opening in Seattle (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Anger Can Help Us Achieve Challenging Goals

Idea posted: March 2024

Institutions: West Texas A&M University   

According to numerous social science theories. emotions arise based on the discrepancies between what we want and what we have. If we have or achieve what we want, then we…

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Photo by Road Trip with Raj on Unsplash
Photo by Road Trip with Raj on Unsplash
Angels, Entrepreneurs and the Dark Side of Trust

Idea posted: November 2013

Institutions: Vlerick Business School    Maastricht University   

The importance of trust to individuals and organizational teams is widely acknowledged by scholars. Recent studies, however, have started to explore its darker side in relationships — especially in innovative…

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