If the 20th was the management century and the 21st the century of leadership, as GDPF2020 proposes, what does that mean for management development and education? What are the challenges, and how can they be met? This was the subject of a two-part pre-conference panel workshop under the title Preparing Leaders for Tomorrow: Revisiting Drucker’s lost art of management, led by Ulrich Hommel, Director of Business School Development at EFMD GN and Professor of Corporate and Higher Education Finance at EBS Business School. The challenges to leaders are indeed formidable, not least the emergence of inter-institutional ecosystems involving complex feedback mechanisms which make outcomes for participants difficult to predict and harder to manage. An important […]
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Companies exist to do the best for the system they are part of by Simon Caulkin
Why do companies exist? The question rears its head again with the recent Business Roundtable (BRT) re-statement of corporate purpose,
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Brexit and now Trump are the delayed detonations of the unexploded bombs left behind by the Great Crash of 2008-2009.
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In Don Siegel’s 1956 film shocker Invasion of the Bodysnatchers a California doctor becomes convinced that his patients are being
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