The recent Deloitte report discussed in these pages highlights how leadership quality directly affects company share price. Our second major theme in this issue is how leading western business schools and specialist providers are engaging in innovative ways the world’s emerging economies – with case studies on Haas/Berkeley in Mongolia, Emerging World & Microsoft in Kenya and Peru, and Wharton & Coca-Cola Foundation in Africa.
Richard Pascale’s article on Positive Deviance is crucial read for anyone invested in leadership best practice.
Key Articles
Roddy Millar
A conversation with Santiago Iniguez, Dean of IE Business School, Madrid
John O’Connor
Exploring trends that stimulate and improve outcomes
Anne Wainscott-Sargent
Seeing the World Through a Different Lens
VIEWPOINT
The Modern Agora
The Success Virus: Using Memes in Business
Positive Deviance: A New Kind of Leadership
Leadership Development
The Financial Value of Great Leadership
Evaluation: The Road Less Travelled
Leveraging Diversity: Integrative Thinking in Cross-Functional Teams
A Psycho-Spiritual Approach to Leadership Development
Program Design: New Approaches for Challenging Times
Corporate Practice
Philips Octagon Program: A Strategic Investment in Leadership
Microsoft and Emerging World: Developing Talent for Changing Times
From Africa to America: Coca-Cola, Wharton and Inclusive Leadership Learning
Mining New Talent in Mongolia: An Examplar for Emerging Economies
BOOK REVIEWS
The Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs – Cynthia Montgomery
The Wide Lens: A New Strategy for Innovation – Ron Adner
Reverse Innovation: Create Far from Home Win Everyehere – Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble
Serial Innovators: Firms that Change the World – Claudio Feser
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