Leadership + Management

What’s best: dictatorial top-down leadership or empowering from the bottom-up? That is the wrong question, says Julian Birkinshaw, professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship,...

Leadership has to be adaptive. Effective leadership involves being the right person, at the right time and place, doing the right thing. This means leadership can take myriad forms...

Difficult as it may be, saying no can be the key to effective leadership, argues Elizabeth Doty, a former lab fellow of Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and...

Management books seldom provide useful guidance about the skills needed to get things done. Jeffrey Pfeffer, Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford University...

Introverts, extroverts, but what if there is a third personality type – the ambivert – to give people an edge in business? Introverts are energised by being on their own,...

Mastering leadership thinking can be challenging, but it is absolutely essential, writes Strategy & Business. Leadership development often focuses on certain skills and behaviours...

In ‘Ask the CEO’ the Wall Street Journal asks chief executives to solve career problems. Darren Huston, 49, chief executive of Priceline Group with nearly 15,000 employees, shares...

31 per cent of executives in line to be their company’s CEO are reluctant to take the job, according to a survey by executive recruitment company Korn Ferry. ‘Today’s CEO role...

Showing leadership skills is one of the traits business schools are looking for when deciding on applicants. Many MBA graduates end up in management positions or even start their...

“If you aspire to be in the C-suite, you should spend part of your career in Asia,” says Kalpana Denzel, Executive Search and Assessment Consultant with Russell Reynolds Associates...