Award Winning Harvard Business Review article “The Leader as Coach” …
… now also published in the German „Harvard Business Manager“ Authored by Meyler Campbell cofounder and associate scholar at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, Anne Scoular, and Herminia Ibarra, Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School, the article was awarded with the Warren Bennis prize, recognizing the best leadership article each year […]
Leading in crisis: with character, despite fear
“Fear is useful, cowardice is not.” Mahatma Gandhi “Knowing what is right and not doing it is the greatest cowardice.” Confucius Hundreds of thousands have died. The global economy is facing an unprecedented slump. Countries are going into debt at an unkown extent. And we still don’t know what to expect in and after the […]
Negotiations and powerful soft skills
“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.” John F. Kennedy You can’t overestimate soft skills in negotiations The stories of people who have negotiated in extreme circumstances, like hostage negotiations or international peace treaties, are big sellers. These people do have an incredible wealth of knowledge […]
Creating the Environment for the Creativity to evolve is a Leadership responsibility
What leaders can and should do to encourage creativity as competitive advantage by Jan Kiel Creativity as a success factor in competition Ed McCabe, who shaped the advertising industry in the 60s and 70s of the last century, believed creativity was one of the last legal ways to gain an unfair advantage over competitors. The […]