Posts Tagged ‘leadership’
Transforming our leaders for success in a VUCA world
A journey from self-limiting to self-authoring: Carsten Tripler and Alex Grimshaw describe a radically different leadership development programme for BAYER leaders.
Read MoreDean SK 2.0: Can part II ever be better than part I or does the Godfather movie series remain unchallenged?
Sherif Kamel on his journey from undergraduate to Dean, twice, and the challenges of an interconnected global environment.
Read MoreImprovisation for resilience in times of change: Lessons from jazz
Kyriakos Kyriakopoulos looks at how business leaders can take cues from jazz to enable improvisation in challenging times.
Read MoreA new role for business schools at the forefront of change
The COVID-19 crisis makes it more important than ever to take a more global approach to recovery, says Eric Cornuel.
Read MoreHumanistic Management for an Entrepreneurial Society
What might Peter Drucker, the management great, have made of our reactions to the COVID-19 crisis? By Richard Straub
Read MoreBusiness school advisory boards: increasing engagement, adding value
Sarah Hardcastle investigates the inextricable link between advisory board member engagement and the value they add
Read MoreEffective thought leadership in Business Schools
Vince-Wayne Mitchell, William S. Harvey and Eric Knight ask why, when we read newspapers, business magazines or social media stories, are so few business school academics featured?
Read MoreLeading transformation: Shaping the automotive transformation amidst turbulent times
It was early 2020. The global automotive industry was in the middle of the biggest transformation in its history – exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreMaking leaders
In 2017, a global transformation plan at Capgemini (branded “LEAD” appropriately enough) combined with a need to manage talents differently, to pave the way for an ambitious leadership development programme.
Read MoreFuture-proofing the Audi UK dealership network
Electric mobility, driverless cars, automated factories, and ridesharing—these are just a few of the major disruptions that the automotive industry is facing. Maintaining a market position in the premium car market presents an ongoing challenge.
Read MoreEntrepreneurship for Good
Bound by strong humanist values, Live for Good, a not-for-profit association committed to youth and an expert in positive impact entrepreneurship, and CEDEP, the Executive Education Club share a common vision of business.
Read MoreCreating a transformative leadership culture
Established in 1863, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an independent, neutral organisation operating worldwide, helping people affected by conflict and armed violence and promoting the laws that protect victims of war.
Read MoreCargill catalyst: “Paying it forward” with INSEAD
How do you transform an agricultural and industrial giant with 155,000 employees in 70 countries? Simply take the top 1,700 leaders, give them a new mindset… and get them to pass it on.
Read MoreParadoxical Leadership: Coping with fluidity and complexity of ecosystems
We live in a complex, rapidly changing world that constantly confronts us with new challenges. Governments, companies and social profit organisations are constantly looking for new solutions. Often, they do so from within the structures and with the methodologies that have proven their worth for decades.
Read MoreManaging New Business School Ecosystems: Do’s and don’ts
Business schools should be at the forefront of supporting businesses in finding their way into the future. Therefore, when business realities change, so too do the realities for business schools and swift adaptation is required.
Read MoreDoes the DNA of business schools need to change?
Arnoud De Meyer argues for a new approach to meet new challenges – transforming business schools into ‘Schools for Business.’ The last ten years have been a golden era for business schools. But I am convinced we have reached a watershed.
Read MoreDeveloping the art of resilience
If we required a reminder of our need for resilience, the pandemic provides it. Everybody has to go through difficult times in their life; some more than others. But the way we manage these situations determines how we are going to handle similar situations in the future and what we learn from them. “Hard times…
Read MoreCOVID-19, our remote workplace and the human factor in leadership
The coronavirus has exposed what is working and what is not, as we adapt how we manage our teams and workplaces. What can leaders learn from the crisis? They don’t need a post-Covid transformation plan; they need a ‘listening plan’. Employees want to know their situation is understood. The big bang that COVID-19 brought us…
Read MoreLeadership in the era of self-managed organisations
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided us with a unique opportunity to stand back and look at the world of work in a new light. Many assumptions about the way we structure organisations and how we run them have come into question. The role of leaders is under more scrutiny than ever before. Lessons from home working…
Read MoreThe Importance of Creating Leadership Momentum
How to lead and create a way forward in a fast-moving and ambiguous world. Developing leaders It’s clear that we now live in a world full of confusion, ambiguity and disruption. The pace of change has outstripped our ability to keep up with it. Things don’t seem to work the same way anymore. It’s like…
Read MoreVirtues in Action
How kindness can transform the workplace for sustainability of the organisation Across all cultures, since the beginning of time, there has been a sense of organised humanity. We suggest that kindness has always been a universal quality of this, although its manifestation may take various cultural forms. Kindness in the workplace is our focus and…
Read MoreSustainability = Purpose + Prosperity + Innovation
We would argue that to date, and due to COVID-19, sustainability as ‘the new way of doing business’ has been side-lined and largely ignored. The clock is ticking, and short-term business thinking still prevails. “We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment” noted Margaret Mead (1901-1978), an American anthropologist. Instead of innovating, we…
Read MoreThe Working World of 2030 – A Better Place
The Vision By 2030, over 70% of the workforce will be comprised of generation X and millennials. The economic effects of COVID-19 will feel like a distant memory and work itself will be integrated into a broader holistic lifestyle. The working world will be thriving as human respect and kindness take centre stage. Navigating change…
Read MoreWhat role will HR adopt in the new world of work and business?
COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on the world. Governments and businesses have been challenged as never before. Leaders are struggling to not only manage the immediate, but also the long-term impact for their businesses. The crisis has dramatically exposed many businesses for their lack of any kind of organisational resilience. As customer demand evaporated,…
Read MoreThe sustainable design opportunity offered by the global pandemic
A simple proposition has emerged from the personal experience of most knowledge workers during the last six or seven months. Working from home… works! Not on its own necessarily, and not for everyone, but as a broad idea…it works. With that understanding – that the rows and rows of desks that we find in today’s…
Read MoreTrust does not need sympathy
The American industrialist Jean Paul Getty is said to have once stated that contracts are useless. If you can trust your partner, you don’t need contracts, and if you can’t trust them, contracts are useless. The well-known saying of trust and control should be reversed: Control is good, trust is better. Trust is well researched,…
Read MoreThe Making of the Modern Elder Marketplace
The world is getting greyer. 10,000 people in the US turn 65 years old every day. By 2025, the population aged 65 or above in China may hit 300 million. The number of Americans aged 50 and above who are working has grown significantly over the past decade, and is expected to keep increasing. In…
Read MoreA Human Approach to Leadership
2020 has been a turning point in history. The pandemic has disrupted life across the globe, leading to millions of deaths and crippling large parts of the world’s economies. It has made leaders stop and think about their priorities more powerfully than any other recent event. Just one year ago, in the introduction to a…
Read MoreThe evolving role of the ‘Professions’
What does it mean to have a ‘profession’? Ansgar Richter explores the evolution of the concept, and how business schools can develop future-proof education for professionals ‘To educate future generations of professionals’ is an important aim of many business schools. A significant proportion of their graduates end up in more traditional professions such as accounting…
Read MoreExamining business school leadership
Views from EFMD’s webinar on business school leadership, by Julie Davies, Ewan Ferlie, Heather McLaughlin and Howard Thomas Business school leaders are ‘squeezed’ by a range of internal metrics. These metrics focus on a micro-managed narrow range of key performance indicators (KPIs) to raise revenues, research, and rankings. This style of financial centralised control has,…
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