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Briefings Magazine
Mar 2013
Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry, the iconic British luxury brand, is conscious of roots — her own and those of the company she has headed...
Briefings Magazine
Feb 2013
All of the haggling over taxes, budget deficits and spending reminds me of the small collection of old magazines I have. Magazines are about the only...
Briefings Magazine
Feb 2013
We live in a VUCA world (an Army War College acronym that stands for Volatile, Unpredictable, Complex and Ambiguous) and leaders are under more...
Briefings Magazine
Feb 2013
When A.G. Lafley took over as chief executive of Procter & Gamble in 2000, and later became chairman, the company produced a dizzying array of...
Briefings Magazine
Feb 2013
On Oct. 4, 1992, a badly damaged Boeing 747 cargo plane crashed into a pair of apartment complexes in Amsterdam. Fifty-one people died in the huge...
Briefings Magazine
Feb 2013
The Higher You Go, the Less Stress You Feel
When the renowned Stanford neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky began to measure the impact of stress in...
Briefings Magazine
Feb 2013
The hidden weakness that derails leaders
In a recent interview with The New York Times, James P. Hackett, the president and CEO of Steelcase,...
Briefings Magazine
Feb 2013
The nature of economic growth has changed. From the mid-1990s to 2007, developing economies — especially those in Asia — experienced a...
Briefings Magazine
Feb 2013
Is H.R. evolving as it needs to, or is it time for a new model?
For at least 15 years, it has been considered axiomatic that the management of...
Briefings Magazine
Feb 2013
Consider a new CEO, tasked with turning around an industry laggard, who took to the podium at his first town hall meeting, with a command-and-control...