Companies that are going to thrive must have a soul. Those that are only concerned with “maximizing shareholder wealth” or “maximizing profit” will find themselves going the way Enron went. CEOs will have to lead the revolution and should be the ones exhorting executives to make...

We are no longer an industrial economy characterized by assembly lines; we are now in a knowledge economy where creativity is what matters and the old ways of running a firm simply do not work. Using the value of the stock as a way of measuring CEO performance makes no sense and can actually...

The authors show how the concept of servant leadership can be enhanced by combining it with spiritual leadership. In fact, a true servant leader should also be a spiritual leader. The authors demonstrate that one of the earliest servant leaders, Moses, was also a spiritual leader. Abraham...

This article explores the similarities and differences between coaching and other methods for developing professional and personal skills, like: consulting, mentoring and therapy. Issues covered include the definition of coaching, asserted by genus proximum et differentia specifica. Article...

The world today is experiencing a leadership crisis. One thing is evident: The leadership style that worked in the industrial economy will not work today where integrity and creativity are crucial if an organization is to thrive. We live in an information/knowledge economy defined by...

As an executive life coach, I have seen that coming to terms with mortality is often a major challenge for leaders to accept. This applies to leaders from all walks of life. Questions such as what would others think about them after they are gone? Would people remember them long after they pass...

Organizations that succeed in the Information Age/Age of Internet and Globalization will have to be innovative and adapt quickly to changing market conditions. Approaches that worked in the past no longer work when competition can come from anywhere in the world and any industry. This paper...

The current article is based on data from two phases of the Global Leadership and Organizational Behaviour (Globe) cross-cultural study. The research questions that this paper attempts to explore look at how cultural dimensions predict values held by top managers and how managerial values in...

Corporate Governance derives its strength from financial distress and corporate misdemeanors, while reserving ethical principles and the code of conduct which lay the foundation of responsibility for the administration of a corporation. Various institutions and countervailing systems have been...

This study investigates board characteristics, including board leadership structure, which explain the human capital disclosure (HCD) provided by companies. It uses a self-constructed disclosure index to quantify the level of human capital information using content analysis. Generalized method...