Your cultural background can be a big determiner of your leadership style Have you ever had difficulty working with people from different cultures? If so, this article from the Harvard Business Review might explain why. By analysing reports on 1,500 senior executives, Gurnek Bains, from leadership consultancy YSC, was able to reveal their strengths and weaknesses. His team [...]
I have been maintaining – and occasionally updating — a list of “Books That Every Leader Should Read” on my Work Matters blog since 2011. These are books that have taught me much about people, teams, and organizations — while at the same time — provide useful guidance (if sometimes indirectly) about what it takes to lead well [...]
In a new World Economic Forum paper, business leaders from around the world urge a societal debate and proactive standard setting around fintech, or financial technology. But what is fintech exactly? And why does the finance sector demand more clarity about rules and regulations governing its evolution? Here are five things that will help you get [...]
On 6 August 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The United States would drop a second bomb on another Japanese city, Nagasaki, three days later. At that time, those were the only two functioning nuclear weapons in the world. Today, on the 70th anniversary of the bombing, there are 15,700 warheads in various [...]