3 June, 2021
Do CEOs matter?
As a young man of 20 in his first job at a state-owned enterprise in China, Guoli Chen found sen...
5 May, 2021
The post-Covid recovery demands ‘context-conscious’ leadership
Context is an often overlooked but crucial issue affecting leadership decision-making at all levels. And in a post-Covid world where the leadership focus is organisational reconstruction rather than r...
2 November, 2020
If you get on with your boss you’re more likely to lie for them
We generally believe that it is a good thing to have strong relationships with the people we work for and those we manage. Organisations and leaders do many...
29 September, 2020
Businesses ‘can play important role in stemming executive misconduct’
Nothing makes headlines quite like a corporate scandal, with events at
25 September, 2020
How good governance can stop toxic ‘bro behaviour’ at companies
In 2019, the board of directors of McDonald’s Corp took the unusual but bold and moral decision to dismiss its CEO Steve Easterbrook after he...
2 September, 2020
Narcissistic leaders are perceived negatively by their employees
Ever since the ascent of Donald Trump to the US presidency narcissism has been one of the most talked about personality traits among leaders in business. This often focuses on their potential for unde...
31 July, 2020
Real deal: the advantages of being (seen as) authentic at work
Authenticity is when one’s self-expression is in alignment with one’s internal sense of self. During our formative years, we learn to create different, compartmentalised versions of ourselves t...
13 July, 2020
#MeToo continues: why sexual harassment is a growing litigation risk
We all know that the federal securities laws prohibit insider trading, "pumping and dumping", Ponzi schemes and market manipulation. But public shareholders and their lawyers have been working hard to...
23 June, 2020
Investors use securities law to sue over sexual misconduct
The #MeToo movement, trigged by revelations in 2017 about film director Harvey Weinstein, has quietly opened a second front in the campaign to end sexual harassment in the workplace. While much att...
18 June, 2018
