Purpose – The purpose of this article is to elucidate the limitations of contemporary approaches to developing leaders and to present alternative approaches. Design/methodology/approach – This paper offers a review and critique of the assumptions on which current leadership programs are...

Noel Tichy, who ran GE’s Leadership Development Center, is currently director of the Global Leadership Program at the University of Michigan’s Business School. His teaching model posits that CEO’s must be intimately involved in teaching their teams’ leaders. The basic premise is that...

This noted authority on board practices believes that the root cause of board oversight failure lies in the inadequate attention given to the way each board is designed to handle its responsibilities. He outlines a reform agenda. A more active role means that directors will be challenged to...

Purpose – Classifying and evaluating the central ideas of strategic management (the basic tools for managers) is an ambitious project. Judging them by their impact, utility, and longevity, this study selected ten big ideas. Design/methodology/approach – The author, who has 40 years of...

Purpose – The author argues that the causes of this current epidemic of bad leadership include the leaders' personality disorders, akrasia (weakness of will), flawed values, and avoidance of reality. The complicity of followers also contributes. Design/methodology/approach – The author...

Purpose – Findings by leadership researcher Robert J. Thomas suggest that organizations reconsider what they know about how successful leaders actually learn. In an interview Thomas aims to explain what he means by crucible experiences and how leaders learn from them....

Purpose – There are five ideas at the center of the endlessly debated and recycled findings and insights on leaders and leadership that produce a stream of leadership books. The paper aims to help practitioners separate the hype from the proven. Design/methodology/approach – The paper...

Purpose – In this paper aims to interview Walter Kiechel III about his book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World , and the lessons it offers for today's managers. Design/methodology/approach – In this interview, Strategy & Leadership asked Walter...