The current leadership model for business and finance was created at a time when leaders were convinced they knew best, abetted by an elite group of economists who were convinced that they knew the way the world worked - or should work.
Until recently, I hadn't really known any great leaders. As a writer, the highest-ranking people I deal with are editors, and they're pretty much just writers who have gotten lazy. The only thing an editor has ever led me into is a bar.
Andrew Ng is an associate professor of computer science at Stanford, and he has a rather charming way of explaining how the new interactive online education company that he cofounded, Coursera, hopes to revolutionize higher education.
This paper explores how the ideas of a great political thinker and philosopher Antonio Gramsci, are relevant to education and science and to critical science education. One of the main points in Gr...
Change is never easy; it is in our human nature to resist change - whatever the cause. However, despite this fact, many organizations have managed to overcome the barriers to change and have adopted new models for not only leadership styles, but many other organizational processes as well (Nahavandi, 2003).
These days, for leaders, it seems almost the reverse. We have so many technology utilities and devices at our fingertips, that we have more freedom than ever before, what we don’t seem to have is time.
What happened to the newspaper and magazine business is about to happen to higher education: a rescrambling around the Web and online learning. (Read NY Times: The Campus Tsunami - in a blended online world.
The charismatic leader is maybe the most thrilling as his leadership skills are usually attributed to robust personality, feats of excellent strength and heroism or divine guidance.
Speakers: Linda Burch, Chief Education & Strategy Officer, Common Sense Media Ben Chun, Educator, Galileo Academy of Science & Technology Anthony Salcito, Vi... (Attended great event last night: Technology in Education: How Will it Change the Game?
The Campbell Soup CEO spoke with Laura Landro at The Wall Street Journal's Women in the Economy conference about the importance of setting career goals and leveraging relationships and opportunities to achieve them.
John F.Kennedy once said “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” Leadership is an attribute that is hard to define, but easy to spot...
I was struck by a comment Ian Livingston, Chief Executive of BT, made in a recent press interview. He was quoted as saying, “I say to my team their job is to tell me how they can improve, my job is to tell them how well they have done – and not the other way round.”
The difference between mediocrity and success is often found in the ability to focus. Focus affords its practitioner uncommon levels of intensity and discipline, which often lead to extraordinary accomplishment.
Analytics is a necessarily broad term, with many departments supplying and analyzing that information, writes Chris Petersen. That's why it's essential that C-suite leaders provide focus and vision.
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