Corporate Leadership
and Startup Entrepreneurship
-- Colin Coulson-Thomas
For many people, the term ‘corporate leadership’ may conjure up images of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and senior management teams, boards of directors and corporate governance arrangements. It might also suggest the existence of a corporate organization. Yet a new enterprise may begin as an idea that eventually finds expression in the form of a startup venture involving one or more founding entrepreneurs, operating on their own at home with the goodwill and support of family and friends and who are looking for customers and sources of income. In time, more leaders may move between established and startup businesses where the priority is to articulate a vision or cause and operate more sustainably in order to reach and engage others, especially younger people. Those who fail to adapt and embrace the requirements for effective ‘new leadership’ will fall by the wayside.
© 2016 Colin Coulson-Thomas. All Rights Reserved.
Leadership Challenges
in the Shipping Industry
-- Deb Narayan Goswami and Stephanie Jones
Management of empty containers is an integral task of the global shipping industry. So, the cost involved in transporting empty containers is included in a company’s expenditure total, and thus it burdens the overall profit margin. The challenge is to achieve cost-effectiveness in empty container transportation and therefore the industry leaders need to identify the best possible solution under the prevalent circumstances. So far, this industry leadership could not frame the long-term solutions, mostly due to the fragmentation of the industry, lack of coordination and avoidance of long-term thinking.
© 2016 Deb Narayan Goswami and Stephanie Jones. All Rights Reserved.
How to Gain Opportunities to Make
a Significant Difference
-- Dan Coughlin
© 2016 Dan Coughlin. All Rights Reserved.
Hindsight as Insight: Looking Back to Plan Forward
-- Barry Zweibel
Successfully recognizing why something happened the way it did, and understanding how it can better inform our thoughts, feelings, plans, and behaviors, moving forward, is what learning from experience is all about. The most common and often most powerful form of hindsight comes from what we learn from the mistakes we make. When we make a mistake—and recognize it as such—we now have irrefutable evidence of how NOT to do something the next time. The second type of hindsight learning comes from what we learn from the opportunities we miss. Happily, not all hindsight learning comes from mistakes made or opportunities missed. A third type comes from what we learn from the opportunities we make good of. Whether you are charged with building an entirely new business entity or expanding an existing one into new areas, the power of using hindsight as a planning tool is there for the taking.
© 2016 Barry Zweibel. All Rights Reserved.
The Top 10 Reasons Why I Do Not Need Leadership Development!
-- Terence Traut
Why is it that leaders who need development the most are the ones who balk the most? More importantly, what can we do as learning and development professionals to confront these excuses? In this somewhat irreverent examination of the excuses from leaders, we provide practical advice for those responsible for developing those leaders—advice that can help mitigate or eliminate the excuses and replace excuse with commitment.
© 2015 Entelechy, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Interview
An Interview with Nitin Sanker
-- The interview was conducted by Aditya S Mishra,
Consulting Editor, Effective Executive.
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