Thought Leadership
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Growth Mindset And The CEO Disease
The Stanford psychologist and author, Carol Dweck describes the ‘growth mindset’, our shared fear of humiliation and the ‘CEO disease’
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Growing Green Proves a Challenge for Foster Wheeler Amid Downturn
Demand for cleaner methods of producing energy will increase steadily globally
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Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
A Harvard research team recently set out to better understand what managers can do to encourage employees to speak up about problems, and to investigate how managers can encourage employees to offer solutions
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Sucker to Saint and Other Views of Our Moral Behavior
People tend to cast themselves as morally superior when another person's behavior makes them feel naïve or foolish
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Bar-Yam: Balancing Scale with Complexity
The president of the New England Complex Systems Institute talks about the role of individuals in Complex Systems and the importance of balancing scale with complexity
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What the Brightest Scholars Say about Leadership
Leadership is based on complex phenomena
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Energy Technologies: Some Forecasts For the Next Decade
IT is central to everything in green technology: smart grids, smart transport, how we actually run electric vehicles, refuel and how we route vehicles through a city
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First Selling the Idea to Senior Leaders Helps Organizations Realize Change
Getting all the senior leaders on board in advance is the most effective way to be successful in introducing change to an organization, according to research co-authored by Business School Professor Charles O'Reilly
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Learning from Rare Events
Marlys Christianson tells how rare events can actually benefit a workplace by providing it with a ‘brutal audit’ of its strengths and weaknesses
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Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her ideas on managing innovation
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EU-China Relations: Soft Power Versus Brute Force in The Global Market Place
Europeans tend to be overpessimistic about their economic strengths vis-a-vis China, says Jonathan Story. He looks at the cultural and political forces that have so far shaped their relationship.