With organisations keener than ever to find people with the skills to lead in challenging times, it will come as no surprise that the world’s top business schools devote significant resources to teaching this subject.
But how do they impart the skills needed to motivate and inspire, particularly during an economic downturn?
Just how much blame the business community should shoulder for the financial crisis is open to debate. Rather than dwell on what has happened in the past (and the rather embarrassing number of percentage of major players in the crisis who boasted an MBA from a top school), many voices ...
Thirty years ago top business schools had a simple philosophy about how to teach students the essence of good business leadership. All you had to do was examine how the people who ran successful companies went about dealing with problems and opportunities and then follow their example. After a while, however, ...
Amidst the wreckage of automakers, insurers and banks, ambitious professionals now need to develop a wider set of skills than ever if they are successfully to climb the corporate ladder. Hard work and technical ability might once have been enough to ensure promotion to the board room or the partnership ...
For the last four weeks there’s been no shortage of bar-room and armchair pundits with an opinion whether it’s players or managers who are really responsible for World Cup goals (or the lack of them). But where do the professionals who are paid to study and teach the art of ...
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