Employers must rethink leadership strategies, says Harvard Business Publishing

Business executives prioritise defining fresh strategies, but most lack the right talent in their business to achieve them with inadequate plans to address the issue, says Harvard Business School.

Leadership styles

If you were asked to rapidly name three top business leaders you might come up with Steve Jobs, Philip Green and Martin Sorrell. There is no question that each is, and in the case of the late Steve...

HR directors must make their organisations more leadership centered, says leading HR thinker

The next big challenge for HR directors is to transform their organisations from being management centered to leadership centered, according to leading HR thinker, John Adair (pictured).

The dark side of intensity in leaders

Intensity in leaders is a sought-after trait. Intense leaders are highly energetic, have tremendous drive to get things done and an unrelenting focus on achieving goals that galvanises others into...

Leaders need to be connectors

Critical to organisational success, leaders need to embrace every opportunity to demonstrate leadership.

Success in any young company is linked to a talented team

The technology sector is one of the few to experience growth during the downturn, but recruitment remains a major issue. It is people that drive a company forward.

More professional management is needed to drive growth and wellbeing, says CMI CEO Ann Francke

Employees being promoted to manager without proper training is damaging UK business, according to Ann Francke, the CEO of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).

Tata firm rolls out six-step global leadership plan

Tata Communications is launching a 'leadership signature programme' to review performance of its top 750 leaders.

UK has some of the world's most effective leaders of today, but less potential for tomorrow, SHL global study reports

Hong Kong, Germany and the UK have more effective leaders today than any other country in the study whilst Denmark, Brazil and Norway have the lowest supply, according to SHL’s Global Leadership...

The invisible elephant: radical, ethical, authentic leadership

Now, surely more than ever, leaders of organisations cannot know everything and just tell people what to do. In the modern world, we know less than 5% of the information we need to run the show – a...

Without our people demonstrating Olympic values, businesses will die

In the Olympian spirit, there are five themes in this August issue that intertwine to demonstrate the symbiotic relationship of people in the workplace, just as the Olympic rings interlace to...

UK employers fail to plump for succession planning, with barely half building talent pipelines, reports ILM

Employers are failing to build the skills of the future, despite calls from Government to address the effectiveness of management development in business, according to research from the Institute of...