Archive for the ‘Global Leadership’ Category

Leadership Gobeldegook!

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

I have been reading an excellent handout about leadership Past, Present, and Future by John Antonakis, Anna T. Cianciolo and Robert J. Sternberg. There is one sentence which really caught my attention " Finally, another example of a hybrid-integrative framework is that of Bass (1985), who integrated ...

Esprit de Corps- How it empowers people

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

I recently received this poem from an US Army friend of mine. It is written by Corporal Aairon M Gilbert US Marine currently serving in Iraq. I just jotted down some of the traits and values I spotted. You may find more. What is interesting ...

It must be true then…

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Richard Levin, President of Yale University, is quoted in the FT of the 30th of October.  Commenting on Yale's "internationalisation" (non-US students have risen 5-fold in 14 years, albeit from just 2% to a record 10%)  and his desire to see it continue he, says that  "A major motivation for this ...

How do you define Leadership?

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

I have read so many definitions of leadership that you can get very confused by exactly what is the crux of this endlessly debated subject. Here are synopses on leadership which have grabbed my attention and emotion. They come from a small red book issued to Officers Cadets ...

Primal Leadership – The Hidden Driver of Great Performance

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

I came across an article in HBR about what most influences your company's bot–tom-line performance. The answer will surprise you—and make perfect sense: It's a leader's own mood."...Executives' emotional intelligence — their self-awareness, empathy, rapport with others — has clear links to their own performance. But new research shows that ...

Falls Edition of The Rotman Magazine

Monday, July 9th, 2007

Check out the article on The Trust Development Process in the falls edition of The Rotman School of Management's magazine (p.36). If not, then you have a 120 pages of varying articles on business and economics.'People vary in their willingness to trust others. The Motivated Attributions Model explains the conditions under which ...