“With the flattened hierarchies of today’s distributed corporate environment, the model of the heroic leader who single-handedly produces results through sheer force of will has become obsolete. Leadership at the top is now a team sport. CEOs rely on senior-level teams to accomplish important goals, manage change, and help spread the company’s priorities and values […]
This is the final installment in a series we’ve been featuring about key leadership traits based on a report published earlier this year by McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm. “Over 90 percent of CEOs are already planning to increase investment in leadership development,” the report reads, “because they see it as the […]
Last time, we discussed a report put out by McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm, regarding the most popular leadership traits exhibited in 189,000 individuals from 81 organisations across the world. The purpose of this report was to assess the type of leadership behaviour organisations should aim to cultivate through the numerous leadership development […]
What distinguishes a great leader? This year, over 90% of CEO’s will plan to invest more in leadership development toward the end goal of developing effective leaders and thereby bettering their organisations. According to a new report from McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm, while good leadership is certainly crucial to organisational health, […]
Want your company to attract the best and brightest team members? In a recent study, Software Advice, an online reviewer of HR technology, combed through employee-written reviews of companies (as hosted on the website Glassdoor, which helps job seekers determine the best companies to work for) and found that out of the over 147,000 companies […]