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A library’s worth of business and academic literature has been devoted to understanding and defining “leadership.” This section sets forth some common definitions of what leadership is and what it is not and also discusses the qualities, traits, behaviours and competencies that better suit the modern timeline.
Strategic Leadership

Strategic Leadership for Growth in Turbulent Times

By Peter Lorange In uncertain times, strategic leadership is crucial for navigating growth. Dr Peter Lorange, Honorary President of IMD, explores how executives can harness...
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“Can-Lah” The Art of Saying “Yes!”

By Avi Liran A refreshing guide from one of the top motivational and entertaining speakers in Asia on how to turn those frustrating "NOs" into...
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Can AI Make Us Better Leaders? 

By Nell Watson In boardrooms worldwide, a quiet revolution is underway. Artificial intelligence, once confined to routine tasks, is now poised to transform leadership. As...
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Why Disruptive Leaders Are Not Superheroes 

By Mark Bateman Disruptive leaders should not be seen as infallible superheroes but rather as human agents of change, driven by purpose and resilience. This...
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Unlocking the Power of AI Leadership: A Dialogue with Professor David De Cremer

David De Cremer gets to the heart of leadership in the era of rapid AI evolution. Discussing his upcoming book on the topic, he...
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Longevity for Sustainability: Adding Value That Lasts

Interview with Geert Van Den Goor, Group Managing Partner at Valcon Geert van den Goor, Group Managing Partner at Valcon, shares his insights from a...
Business Leadership

Never Give up: A Mould-breaking Journey in Business Leadership

Interview with Ana Mazzeo, WOBI's Managing Director in Italy Ana Mazzeo, WOBI's Managing Director in Italy, shares her inspiring journey from bid coordinator to leading...
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Why the Success of a First-time CEO Relies on People Skills, Not Technical Abilities. 

By David Roche  Two out of five CEOs fail in their first eighteen months according to the Harvard Business Review, and it’s not their experience...
The Overconfident Leader

Arrogance, Hubris, and Narcissism: The Overconfident Leader

By Adrian Furnham There is Freudian psychological and psychiatric business literature on narcissism. We are now used to discussing our politicians as well as business...
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Trust-Me: A Concept and Metric to Embed in Leaders, Enhancing their Effectiveness

By Simon L. Dolan, Kyle Brykman and Shay S. Tzafrir Every leader needs to inspire trust in their followers, employees, and stakeholders. Trust is one...
soft skill

Soft Skills: as a Prerequisite for Achievement in the Contemporary World

By Dr. Anna Maria Rostomyan Succeeding in today's world requires a combination of functional, self-management, special knowledge, and technology skills. How relevant is emotional intelligence...

What Did 2023 Teach Us About Leadership? An Answer in the Form of Three...

By Martin Gutmann After his takeover of Twitter in October of 2022, Elon Musk admonished his staff to be “extremely hardcore.” Many heeded the call,...
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The Passive-Aggressive Individual 

By Adrian Furnham You must have met a few or maybe you are working with one right now. Who are passive-aggressive individuals and what makes...
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“Focus on the People” – Carl Day of Apogee on Leadership and Teambuilding

Interview with Carl Day, Chief Sales Officer, Apogee    In an insightful conversation with Carl Day, Chief Sales Officer at Apogee, we explore the transformative journey...
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Mastering the Game: Lessons in Leadership from Rugby to the Boardroom

By Darren Cassidy Mastering the Game: Lessons in Leadership from Rugby to the Boardroom explores the parallels between high-performance rugby and successful business leadership. Drawing...
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Artificial Intelligence: Will You Be a Saboteur or an Impressionist?

By Gregory Unruh and Fernanda Arreola The rapid adoption of AI in today's organisations leaves workers with two choices: waste their energy in a futile...
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Governance 4.0: Moving Beyond Directors’ Networks to the Networked Board

By Dr. Dean Blomson Like many other things in the modern world (such as our road transport systems, for example), company boards operate according to...
beauty premium

A Beauty Premium and a Plainness Penalty: Attractiveness at Work

By Adrian Furnham Are physically attractive people seriously advantaged at work? Are they more likely to be selected, promoted, and given higher salaries? Does being physically...
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Expanding Leadership Capabilities to Fuel the Evolution of Business

Director of MBA programmes at the University of Bath, Dr Donald Lancaster, explores the role of post-experience education in developing people strategies for sustainable...
Colours of Wisdom

The Many Colours of Wisdom: Creating Reflective Leaders

By Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries In these most turbulent of times when enlightened leadership is needed more than ever, relying simply on knowledge,...
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Leadership Plus: A Steady Hand and a Maverick for Good Times and Trying Times

By Michael Useem and Stephen K. Klasko, M.D.1 The search committee for a new chief executive of the Jefferson health system in 2013 had narrowed the...
edge computing

Why It Doesn’t Always Make Sense to Keep Away From the Edge

Interview with Rob Coupland, Chief Executive Officer of Pulsant When you need to process your company’s data rapidly and cost-effectively, proximity to the edge can...
Teaching Leadership

Can You Teach Leadership?

By Adrian Furnham Can leadership be taught or is it an innate talent? This age-old question has been the topic of many debates in the...
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Next-Gen Education: Teaching Humans How to Thrive in a World of Intelligent Machines

By Sean Culey In July 2022, I had the pleasure of presenting a keynote on “the future of work” to over 200 head teachers at...
Leadership

Investing in Leadership Talent: Using an MBA to Break the Career Ceiling

On starting as a Supply Planner at PepsiCo in September 2020, Thiago Narisawa made a bold and ambitious statement. He wanted to do an...
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Five Ways CEOs Can Boost The Bottom Line By Improving How Their Companies Negotiate

By Milan Prilepok “Improve our negotiation skills” may not appear near the top of every CEO’s to-do list. But that’s a mistake. A huge chunk...

Empathy: A Cornerstone in the Success of Your Company

By Dr. Anna Maria Rostomyan IQ is a long-standing measure of a person's intelligence and, perhaps, their suitability for a given role. But it is...
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Authenticity at Work: Be Honest, is it a Good Thing?

By Adrian Furnham It is often said that honesty is the best policy. But if we apply that maxim invariably and unquestioningly, does that automatically...
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Top Executive Education featuring Antwerp Management School: Opening Minds to Impact the World

Interview with Antwerp Management School's Prof. Dr. Goran Milenković, Academic Director of the EMBA and Prof. Dr. Steffi Weil, Associate Dean for International Outreach...
Business School ESMT Berlin

Online or on Campus? Germany’s Top Business School ESMT Berlin Offers the Best of...

Modern business is global. The trend, increasingly turbocharged by the pandemic, of the world of business getting smaller due to the increases in digital...
Discovering a Leadership Playbook

Discover a New Leadership Playbook

Ahead of the Great Leadership Reset conference on 24 November 2022, Karen Smart, head of consultancy with the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC) looks...
Transformation of Education

New Outlook, New Educational Curricula And Proactivity

By Dr Mario Raich, Dr Kristine Marin Kawamura, Dr Simon L. Dolan, Dr Paweł Rowiński and Mr Claudio Cisullo  PART II: Towards A Visionary Prescriptive Transformation...
Empathy - Emotional Intelligence

Efficient Decision-Making with EQ Skills in Business

By Anna Maria Rostomyan In our everyday life, we are constantly faced with different situations that require drastic critical thinking and decision-making skills, especially in...

Microlearning – The Key to Balancing Manager Development with Day-to-Day Responsibilities

By Cecilia Gorman In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses are up against greater challenges than ever before. Employees left jobs en-masse, known as...
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Duplicitous Leadership: Why Inconsistency is Harmful

By Nishat Babu When talking about leadership, we tend to focus on positive forms such as transformational, servant, and ethical, and their encouraging effects on...
Leadership Insights

Leadership Insights: Your Organization Is More Than The Sum of Its Parts

By Richard S. Hawkes It’s common for leaders and change-management experts to talk about organizations as if they were machines or computers. Machines have parts,...
Why Marketing Leadership Needs to be Agile and Customer-focused

Why Marketing Leadership Needs to be Agile and Customer-focused

By Mairead Brady Why do we use Zoom and not Slack or Skype? Post photos with Instagram and not Kodak? And why do we watch Netflix...
Championing Triple Ownership Programs

Championing Triple Ownership Programs (TOPs) in Executive Education: How Participant and Sponsor Ownership Leads...

By Christoph Burger, Bianca Schmitz and Bethan Williams What do you associate with the word “campus”?  For most of us, besides the happy student memories, there...
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New Leadership for a Sustainable Future

By Matt Gitsham At the close of COP26, an article in the Financial Times reported that although global executives welcomed the deal reached at the close...
Great Manager

How to Be a Great Manager

Your management style can significantly impact the work environment that you create for your employees. Great management skills can lead to a more positive company...
CoachHub

Uncovering the Path to our Dreams: CoachHub’s Coaching Program Points the Way

Interview with CoachHub Senior Behavioural Scientist Windy Tshepiso Maledu In a virtual work environment, the challenge is to enable everyone to feel seen and heard. Here,...
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What Motivates People To Become A Leader?

By Tina Kiefer, Warwick Business School (WBS) “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”...

Quantum Leadership for Recovery

By Vlatka Hlupic Even before the advent of the global pandemic necessitated a rethink of leadership models, the world of work managed by the old...
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How Can Leaders Stay in the Know?

By Dr. Maja Korica, Warwick Business School (WBS) As a senior leader, do you know what’s really going on in your organisation? Are you on...
Gina Lodge

Soft Skills: Key To Leadership In A Changed World

Interview with Gina Lodge, CEO of The Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC) Nobody knows for certain what the post-COVID business world will look like...
Zhang Yiming

Zhang Yiming: The Self-made Billionaire and Entrepreneur Behind TikTok Boom

At only 36 years of age, the founder behind one of the most viral social media platforms now has a net worth of $16.2...
Leaders

Skills Every Leader Should Possess and Why They’re Important for Business Success

Soft skills are important for all professionals. However, leaders are required to possess a unique set of skills. From being growth-minded to possessing confidence...
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Human-Algorithm Collaboration in Managerial Decision Making

By Tessa Haesevoets, David De Cremer, Kim Dierckx and Alain Van Hiel Most would accept that there is a role for both humans and AI...

Organisational difficulties in producing thought leadership

By William S. Harvey, Vincent Mitchell, Alessandra Almeida Jones and Eric Knight Over the past several decades, thought leadership has moved from being individual gurus...

What South Africa can teach leaders about resilience

By John Luiz The COVID-19 pandemic has overturned the idea of ‘business as usual,’ exposing many vulnerabilities within social, business, and economic systems. A recent global...

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Environmental Heroes and Villains – What Separates Truly Sustainable Organisations from those that Play Around the Edges? 

By Giovani Palafox-Alcantar COP29 underscored the gap between climate commitments and tangible actions, reflecting both progress and significant challenges. What is the critical role of business in bridging this gap and why are some companies...
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Top Picks for 2025: Key Articles for Leaders and Readers

As we move into 2025, leaders are navigating a rapidly changing economic and cultural landscape, where understanding technological innovation, shifting business models, and global trade dynamics will be crucial to long-term success. So will...
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