How Alan Jope Runs Unilever From His Study – The Economist
A CEO argues that this is the time for management and not leadership….. On 13 March Alan Jope, boss of Unilever, a consumer-goods conglomerate that makes everything from Dove soap to Knorr soup, ordered the firm’s 60,000 office workers in all countries bar China to work from home. The 56-year-old Scot took a train to […]
The President Is Trapped – Peter Wehner
Trump is utterly unsuited to deal with this crisis, either intellectually or temperamentally. For his entire adult life, and for his entire presidency, Donald Trump has created his own alternate reality, complete with his own alternate set of facts. He has shown himself to be erratic, impulsive, narcissistic, vindictive, cruel, mendacious, and devoid of empathy. None […]
How to Understand Leadership – Professor Marvin Zonis
How might we understand this concept of ‘leadership’? Have an infinite number of approaches already been suggested? Or does it only seem that way? For me, the most useful approach has been to think of the functions which leaders are, generally, meant to fulfill, if not by themselves, then by others they designate. The functions […]
The Leader’s ‘Power of Personal’ – Liz Whitaker
When did you last speak to your Kevin? Leaders take note! All day, every day, there are people representing you and your business on the frontline. You might be surprised at the difference they can make….. Diamonds in the data! Sense from chaos! This is the rationale behind ‘The Power of Personal’. So, in the […]