LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS
The world needs leadership with the right perspective and purpose - one that goes beyond profits
Characteristics of High-Performing Team Meetings
The success of a team's performance is determined by how well it prepares, conducts and follows through after its meetings.
Collaborative Leadership – A White Paper
Leaders today need an expanded repertoire of skills and new mindset. They must be able to think strategically in a global context, articulate an inspiring vision across cultures, and make...
The Power of a Positive NO
I have come to appreciate that perhaps the main obstacle to getting to Yes is learning how to say No properly. All too often, we cannot bring ourselves to say No when we want to and know we should.
Reinventing Management
The “failure of management” in investment banking, that led to credit crisis of 2007–2008 is far more than the story of a few CEOs losing control of their organizations;
What’s love got to do with it?
Love is more than an emotion. It is also a state of conscious awareness and intention that shapes many behaviours critically important to any organisation.
The Solutions in our Midst
We’re just at the beginning of the beginning. In the world as a whole, things are getting much better, and things are getting much worse. Welcome to the era of transformation.
Out of Classroom Experiences
Leaders, managers and HR staff can all help individuals author their own leadership stories while fulfilling their roles and responsibilities.
Emerging Worldviews
We have entered an era of global connectivity in which networks predominate and our interdependence determines the direction and consequences of our actions.
Managing with the Brain in Mind
Leaders and managers must work to create a perception of certainty to build confident and dedicated teams.
Women and Negotiation: Why Men Should Come to the Table
Women generally do better than men in win-win types of negotiation, and worse in win-lose negotiations.
Making Sense of Strategy in an Uncertain World
Strategic planners must provide enough information, analysis and detail for a plan to be successful, but not so much that the strategic window passes.
Building Cultures of Sustainability
As sustainability becomes an important objective for many, leaders in organisations are considering how they can change their own behaviour and influence that of their colleagues.
A Hidden Lever of Leadership
Strategic planners must provide enough information, analysis and detail for a plan to be successful, but not so much that the strategic window passes.
Managing and Leading in the Midst of Uncertainty
Strategic planners must provide enough information, analysis and detail for a plan to be successful, but not so much that the strategic window passes.
Too Good to Fail: Purpose-driven Business
Since 1868, the Tata Group has made a habit of putting communities first, and has thereby grown to a market capitalisation of $141 billion. Something’s clearly working here.
Feminine Principle and Theory U: Character Based Leadership
Theory U describes how change happens – and to be a change leader requires the right balance of self-discipline and freedom.
Corporation as CEO: Character Based Leadership
Precision Biologic CEO has crafted a corporate culture where employees are treated like customers - principles that defy common business sense, but the company’s performance speaks for itself.
The Power of Brands to Create Better Futures : Purpose Driven Business
Unilever, one of the world’s largest consumer goods manufacturers, has taken up the challenge of becoming a promoter of sustainability.
Conversational Leadership: Aligning People with Strategy
In the new economy, conversations are the most important form of work... so much so that the conversation is the organization.
The value of Intuitive Intelligence in leadership
Recent discoveries in neuroscience give new importance and credibility to the role of intuition in leadership.
Leadership for the Fourth Industrial Revolution – Telegraph Interview
Leaders who are succeeding in this ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ have embraced a new mind-set, viewing the organisation as a living organism or eco-system, rather than as a mechanical machine.
The value of silence, with Erika Kleestorfer
Our behaviour is often informed by society’s treatment and demands of us. If a child is constantly sent the message that they need to perform to get some sort of recognition, they might very well do so and well into their adult lives.
Enabling breakthroughs, with Shuntian Yao
In order to become more aware of the organisational energy, leaders must create an environment in which employees will be more comfortable engaging in honest and open communication.
Leadership Plasticity and Neruogenesis, with Cyril Legrand
This ability has to be instilled and nurtured in the core of the organisation, its people. To enable people to adapt, leadership has to change how they think by activating brain plasticity, or reactivating silent brain networks.
Women in Business, with Danuta Gray pt 2/2
It has also been proven by the positive way in which female business women can affect business relationships and organisational conversations. The problem is that women are not always afforded access to the necessary resources to stand out and make themselves heard.
Women in Business, with Danuta Gray pt 1/2
It has also been proven by the positive way in which female business women can affect business relationships and organisational conversations. The problem is that women are not always afforded access to the necessary resources to stand out and make themselves heard.
Courage and Fear Decoded, Leadership Talks with Carl Lindeborg
Anybody can perform a task that they’re unafraid of. But pursuing something while being fearful, worried, nervous, etc… that’s what true courage is all about. Courage is fundamentally acting from the heart. After all, the root word for courage is cor, which in latin means heart.
Vertical Learning to support Change, Pablo Tovar
It has been proven by an increasing number of leaders, and supported by research from well-known institutions, that how we know is at least as important - if not more so - than what we know.
Trends in Leadership Development, with Ricardo Sookdeo
During our annual global conference we had the pleasure to get some insights from Ricardo Sookdeo - ( Head of Talent, A.P. Møller - Mærsk) on “Trends in Leadership Development” and “What differentiates Oxford Leadership from other consultancies”