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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Executive leadership and organizational performance: Suggestions for a new theory and methodology. Mastering leadership: An integrated framework for breakthrough performance and extraordinary business results. & Lord, R. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Collins, J. Good to great: Why some companies make the leap--and others don't.

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Would a Hard Brexit Cripple the EU’s Digital Economy?

Harvard Business

growth in the first quarter of 2017, accompanied by a fall in the value of the pound and rising inflation. The chart below shows the rate of change in the Digital Evolution Index over 2008-15 and how the UK performs in comparison to Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and the Nordic countries.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Then it wasn’t.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. We always urge you to read the methodology carefully.