MITIGATING THE RISK: PRACTICAL STEPS FOR EXPANDING YOUR BUSINESS ABROAD
Over the past decade, rapid competitive growth has dramatically transformed the global business environment. This transformation continues today. The barriers to international trade and investment are...
View ArticleCOMPLEXITY AND CROSS-ENTERPRISE LEADERSHIP
Our goal was simple: Make Canadians proud. And in the end, the Vancouver Olympics accomplished just that – with our athletes “owning the podium” more times than in any other previous Winter Games, a...
View ArticlePRINCIPLES TO ADVANCE A NEW LEADERSHIP ETHOS
Carol Stephenson is Dean, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario. In the aftermath of the dot com bust and the bursting of the telecom bubble in the late 1990s, I gave dozens of...
View ArticleLEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.” ~Chinese Proverb Much has been said and written about the recent global financial and economic crisis. We heard about the...
View ArticleThe Role of Leadership in Managing Risk
“… You can’t control people through policies, procedures and policing. You can only do it through a strong risk management culture and absolute integrity in all leaders.” Leadership on Trial, A...
View ArticleLEADERS OF GOOD CHARACTER
“Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50 percent of your time leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics,...
View ArticleThe true meaning of Innovation
Bring up the topic of innovation and often the conversation will soon revolve around a cool, new gadget or an exciting start-up company with a revolutionary idea. If the talk is about the challenge of...
View ArticleMy path to leadership
After decades as a CEO and years as the Dean of the Richard Ivey School of Business, business students and other aspiring leaders often ask me what inspired me to become a leader. Was there a moment...
View ArticleHow Leadership Has Changed
With globalization, technological innovation and the growing number of linkages among people, activities and events, today’s pace of change is relentless. The people of the world mix and mingle as...
View ArticleA Step Back. A Step Forward: Finding a New Perspective in a Season of Change
Change is like looking at one of those paintings made up of individual images; if you look at it close up, all you can see is a jumble of faces, but when you step back and look at the entire painting...
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