After an accident, there is often a second of calm when you realize that you are seriously hurt. Memory captures the scene in fine detail, as if you’re hovering outside your skin, before pain and confusion pull you right back in.… Read more
Category Archive: Organizational Behavior
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2013/02/getting-stuck-can-help-you-grow/
Obama’s Inauguration and Why We Still Need Rituals
I have a picture somewhere of my son and I playing in the living room the day of Barack Obama’s first inauguration as 44th President of the United States. My son was five months old, the ceremony on the TV behind us.… Read more
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Finding the Job of Your Life
Let’s face it. We all think about it. At times we think of little else — even if only rarely and in certain settings do we feel free to admit it. The conversation often begins furtively, the question murmured as if slightly shameful or out of place.… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/12/finding-the-job-of-your-life/
Are Business Schools Clueless or Evil?
The last decade has been a one of soul-searching for business schools worldwide. Since the collapse of Enron, through the financial crisis, to the insider trading and LIBOR scandals, the question just keeps recurring: How did those institutions of higher learning, whose claim is to develop business leaders, influence the conduct of leaders who let so many people down?… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/11/are-business-schools-clueless-or-evil/
Study: Women Get Fewer Game-Changing Leadership Roles
Many studies have shown that the representation of women in the senior ranks has been virtually unchanged for years, despite considerable organizational investment in talent management systems. Because leadership development begins early in careers, could inequality in development opportunities explain the gender gap that also emerges so early?… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/11/study-women-get-fewer-game-changing-leadership-roles/
Lessons from Obama’s Campaign Victory
Government and business organizations are different in important ways (for instance, one of them is not a democracy), but a political campaign has some useful lessons for leaders of any organization. While the balance of power in democratic governments can lead to deadlock and painfully slow consensus building (in their steady state), the “simplicity” of elections (competing bodies, a deadline, a vote, a decision) is, in a strange way, closer to the reality of business organizations (at least those in flux and who face choices which cannot be made through pure hierarchical fiat).… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/11/lessons-from-obamas-campaign-victory/
Moving Around Without Losing Your Roots
Big questions always strike unexpectedly, when our guard is down. I was watching my toddlers splash in the pool last summer when a fellow dad plunged me into revisiting the meaning of home in a globalized world.
He didn’t mean to.… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/10/moving-around-without-losing-your-roots/
The Art of Career Development
Do you want a great career? Build it like an artist. Gianpiero Petriglieri, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, explains how.
This video originally appeared on HBR.org… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/09/the-art-of-career-development/
