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Pandemic Demonstrates the Necessity of Intuitive Decision-Making Skills

Pandemic Demonstrates the Necessity of Intuitive Decision-Making Skills

The pandemic has clearly proven that the rational decision-making model, business schools’ ideal and its theoretical definition of how decisions should be made, is not valid under conditions of VUCA.

By Jeff Cohu, EdD, MBA
Decision Sciences, Entrepreneurship / Innovation, Leadership, Management, Strategy
Moral Identity and the Leader’s Response

Moral Identity and the Leader’s Response

The focus of this article is on the importance of leaders understanding their own moral identities and using that knowledge to increase followers’ commitment to their organizations.

By Cam Caldwell, PhD
Ethics, Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior
Conspiracies in the Workplace

Conspiracies in the Workplace

With a few notable exceptions, CTs in the past were relatively harmless. With a nation-wide pandemic and deeply-divided population, the CTs can, in fact, be deadly.

By Teri C. Tompkins, PhD and Bruce G. Barkis
Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior
The Experience Paradox

The Experience Paradox

A person is much more likely to deliver superb results if their motivation comes from within than they would if they picked a career based on external markers, such as money or status

By Leia Ruseva and Richard Okyere Mensah
Entrepreneurship / Innovation, Human Resources, Interviews, Leadership, Management
Are Narcissistic CEOs a Blessing or a Curse?

Are Narcissistic CEOs a Blessing or a Curse?

When do narcissistic tendencies help to deliver strong success, and when do these characteristics endanger companies? This study explores this question and examines what companies can do to maximize the benefits and mitigate the risks associated with a narcissistic CEO.

By Jillian Alderman, PhD, Joetta Forsyth, PhD, Charla Griffy-Brown, PhD and Richard Walton, PhD
Leadership, Management
Strategic Principles in a Troubled World

Strategic Principles in a Troubled World

The global COVID-19 pandemic has created the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression. Despite the challenges of today’s unprecedented times, there are, nonetheless, strategic principles that merit thoughtful consideration in solving today’s unprecedented problems.

By Cam Caldwell, PhD
Leadership, Management, Strategy
Change Can Be Crazy

Change Can Be Crazy

Readers are promised four proven techniques to create enduring value when implementing change. When applied, leaders can make a difference in more productive change efforts.

By Amy L. Johnson, Executive in Residence, Pepperdine University
Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategy
Leadership is a Wicked Problem

Leadership is a Wicked Problem

In this article, the author clarifies the differences between those problems that can be solved—Tame Problems—and those that cannot—Wicked ones—and spells out the both the implications of these, and what can be done to deal with them.

By Joseph C. Bentley, PhD
Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior
Bullying Before Sexual Harassment

Bullying Before Sexual Harassment

While sexual harassment makes larger headlines, workplace bullying can be just as detrimental to employees and the company for which they work.

By Lilit Grigoryan, JD and Gia Honnen Weisdorn, JD, LLM, MBA
Business Law, Ethics, Human Resources, Leadership, Organizational Behavior
Love: The Heart of Leadership

Love: The Heart of Leadership

Both transformational and transformative leadership address the moral obligation of leaders to be totally committed to followers’ best interests—a commitment which is the very essence of genuine love.

By Verl Anderson, PhD, Cam Caldwell, PhD and Blair Barfuss, MHR
Ethics, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior
How Entrepreneurs Create High-Hope Environments

How Entrepreneurs Create High-Hope Environments

Entrepreneurs are valuable assets to society. The competitive climate in which they operate is inherently challenging, and they must continually seek new and unique methods to help them successfully compete.

By Charlotte Law, MSOD and Miriam Y. Lacey, PhD
Entrepreneurship / Innovation, Human Resources, Leadership, Management
Effort, Knowledge, and Communication

Effort, Knowledge, and Communication

Level of effort is not a good indicator of results, and it is nearly impossible, in any case, to estimate level of effort.

By Michael D. Kinsman, PhD, CPA
Leadership, Management
W.A.I.T. - A Guide for Leaders

W.A.I.T. – A Guide for Leaders

Being a “Best for the World Leader,” it is implied that the world, and the people in it, are better off because of our offer or delivery.

By Max Ellzey, EdD
Leadership, Management, Uncategorized
Leveraging Organizational Identity for Competitive Advantage

Leveraging Organizational Identity for Competitive Advantage

To create lasting strategic advantages, leaders need to consider how organizational identity, a more intangible and less mobile feature of the firm, may be used to create a sustainable competitive advantage.

By Sam Rockwell, MSOD, PhD
Leadership, Management, Marketing, Organizational Behavior, Strategy
Leadership in a Smart Machine Age

Leadership in a Smart Machine Age

Critics point to significant limitations including the magnification of our cognitive biases in the algorithms that run our smart machines.

By Terri D. Egan, PhD and Julie A. Chesley, PhD
Human Resources, Information Management/Technology (IT), Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior
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