In this session, Dr. Sandeep K. Krishnan, Consulting Leader, Author and a Faculty at Management Schools talks about new age imperatives of talent acquisition and what the visionary CEO expects from the talent management team. Recently Dr. Krishnan was talking to a CEO, and asked him “What is your biggest talent management challenge?” The CEO […]
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How to choose great leaders
Warren Bennis, American scholar and pioneer of leadership studies, once said: “Managers do things right; leaders do the right thing”. Leaders must be able to go beyond the status quo to achieve what is best for the organization. Leaders are active listeners, clear communicators, they are able to connect and engage with employees. Those are […]
The Four Pillars of Board Effectiveness
Corporate events in the last decade have made it clear that boards can fail. Failure has come in various disguises: failure to manage risks, to proactively contribute to firm strategy, to identify the ‘right’ team, and in some cases, to deal with integrity issues and possibly outright fraud. It is also clear that we need […]
What Sets Successful CEOs Apart
This article shares the results of 10-year study, the CEO Genome Project. Its goal is to identify the specific attributes that differentiate high-performing CEOs. Successful chief executives tend to demonstrate four behaviors that prove critical to their performance. When boards focus on those behaviors in their selection and development processes, they significantly increase their chances of hiring […]
CHRO: The first 100 days in a new role
You’re starting the year in a new CHRO role. What’s next? Microsoft Canada’s president Kevin Peesker gave us an idea of what you can aim for. Peesker told HRD that a successful CHRO is someone committed to constantly learn, work with the leadership team to elevate employees to the top of the business strategy, and […]
Leadership skills of the future
The future of work is heavily augmented with technology, and leaders need to develop the right skills to help an organization maintain its competitiveness both in leading the charge in upskilling and setting into motion mentoring and development for their teams. Productivity hasn’t kept pace with technology innovations, and eventually, the workplace will catch up […]
Great leadership starts with self-leadership
A question was asked at TEDxUtopia: What would leadership in Utopia look like? To begin, visualize the most excellent leader you have ever worked with. How did he or she get to become this type of leader? Leadership lecturer and former corporate executive, Lars Sudmann argues, it’s likely that they learned to overcome the “leadership formula […]
The Focused Leader
Leadership is primarily responsible for directing attention. To achieve this, leaders need to learn to concentrate on themselves. When we talk about focus, we often intend to think about one thing while filtering distractions. However, a wealth of recent neuroscience research reveals that humans focus in numerous ways on diverse neural pathways, some working together […]
Leadership Skills for the Post Pandemic World
According to a new report from Horton International, the key leadership skills that will be crucial for a post-pandemic world will be agility, data-driven decision making, and perhaps most importantly, empathy. “Integrating these into your leadership role will be vital and will help get the most out of your team,” said the report. COVID-19 has […]
Meeting the Challenges of the CEO Succession Process
CEOs are the primary corporate pillars – both externally and internally. They have a key role to design and implement future-oriented initiatives and growing business culture. And they are the voice of the company and value architects, who go well beyond financial benefit, in our hyper-complex, fast-paced world. One of the main choices and lengthy […]