Rajeev Peshawaria, CEO, The Iclif Leadership and Governance Centre What do Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Lee Kuan Yew have in common? If you’re thinking they each created a better future through their remarkable leadership in business and society, you would be correct. If you’re also thinking their leadership style was more autocratic than […]
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Mostafa Sayyadi, Author, Transformational Leadership: How To Prosper as a Leader In Today’s Hypercompetitive Environment There are many academic studies that focus on the organizational and managerial factors that drive organizational performance. Leaders within large companies can play a crucial role in achieving a high level of effectiveness and world class efficiency. A good leader can in fact
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Paul J. Zak, PhD, Professor, Claremont Graduate University Fear or love? At the most basic level, these are a leader’s choices when seeking to motivate followers. Most managers, perhaps due to some hangover from the eighteenth century, lead by fear because, well, it works. Fear may not be explicit, though some managers still scream and
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Jeffrey McIntosh, CEO, Teabook CEOs can be compared to tea leaves; you never know their strength until they’re dunked in hot water. Not only that, CEO’s leadership skills must drive revenues, company growth, employee development and impact their communities and industry eco-systems. Which is why I’d like to give you a front row seat while I
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Ash Patel, CEO, Commercial Bank of California Commercial Bank of California has achieved a record-breaking growth of 400 percent in just three years. The foundation for this growth comes from an atypical leadership style and our commitment to building an institution to which all stakeholders—employees, customers, executive management, investors and the community—are proud to be
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One day, he was sitting on top of the world with a $1-million salary and $5.5 million in stock options. The next day, his board asked him to resign in shame and embarrassment after being caught in a lie about a degree he said he had earned in the early 1980s from Stonehill College in
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Gary E. McCullough In theory, many people think ethical issues are simple, cut and dried questions to answer or situations to be resolved. However, the reality is that most ethical dilemmas, particularly those faced in the workplace, are much more subtle. In real life, no one tells you that you’re about to find yourself in
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