A Framework To Evaluate Consulting Efforts
Evidence-based evaluation provides a rigorous, valid, and reliable approach for assessing the effectiveness of a consulting engagement.
Leadership
Arrow Electronics: Surviving and Thriving After Tragedy
John C. Waddell shepherded Arrow Electronics through a major crisis after the tragic loss of the company’s top executives…lessons in leadership, strategy, and HR.
A Values Approach to Advancing Women in Leadership
Women make up half the workforce in nearly every country, still, labor shortages call for increased participation of women workers at all levels of the organization.
High Performance Work Systems
While foolish for companies to spend money unwisely in managing human capital, growing research confirms that “high performance work systems” are worth the investment.
Infusing Traditional Business Systems with Spiritual Wisdom
Spiritual wisdom like mindfulness coexists in unconventional ways with traditional business models resulting in positive outcomes for the organization.
Developing Peer Coaching
A peer-coaching relationship can be less expensive than professional executive coaching, more intimate and honest, and provide a more diverse perspective.
6 Insights for Transformative Leaders
Jeffrey Pfeffer who noted that most organizations are victims of ineffective leaders who fail to research or apply correct management principles.
Forging Ethics-Based Business Partners
The ability to be trustworthy and credible is critical for business practitioners and educators to strengthen the competitiveness of businesses and improve its image.
Integrating a Spiritual Life into the Work Life
This article addresses the growing disconnect between an individual’s personal spiritual beliefs and professional code of conduct with particular application to the academy.
Editor’s Note
These articles informative as well as a challenge to take a deeper look at your business life, your work life, and as it applies, to your academic life.
Self-Control at Work
It is estimated that we allocate approximately 25 percent of our waking hours, about four hours a day, managing our impulses.
LESSONS LEARNED: Creating Values That Work
Defining values and associated behaviors provide both a focus and the glue that binds leadership behavior and managerial culture.
Dean’s Executive Leadership Series
Maria Poveromo is the senior director of social media, analyst relations and public relations at Adobe.
Leading from Character Strength
Leaders need to examine their effectiveness at managing virtuous behavior to add value to organizations. Virtuousness is not only important from a humanistic point of view in workplace settings, but helps drive important organizational outcomes.
Bridging the Complexity Gap:
Globalization, information technology, economic and political instability, and climate change create a level of interdependence requiring a new kind of leadership.