Editor: Panu Poutvaara Executive Officers (CEOs) predicted their companies' financial performance prior to the Inferences of leadership ability and personality from faces have been associated with leaders' efficacy across multiple domains. One influential factor that has only been scarcely explored, however, is the context in which leadership occurs. The present studies examined the effect of t...

Executive Overview Emotional intelligence (EI) is a divisive topic for many individuals interested in the subject of leadership. Whereas practitioner-oriented publications have claimed that EI is the sine qua non of leadership, academics continue to discuss EI’s relevance for understanding leadership emergence, behavior, and effectiveness. Here we critically review recent empirical evidence to ...

The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between leadership styles of managers in relation to market orientation. Personal characteristics of top managers—age, education, area of specialization, and executive experience—are control variables. This exploratory study focuses on small and medium scale manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. Market orientation is defined as ...

BACKGROUND Eileen Elias has decades of experience in leadership positions within government and nongovernmental organizations. As the first female Commissioner for Mental Health in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the US in the early 1990s, Elias gained experience on navigating gender-based challenges to attain recognized performance outcomes. OBJECTIVE From lessons learned from women le...

The increasing complexity concerning leadership and management of small and medium size municipalities in Switzerland, poses high demands on executive authorities. Cockpits for municipalities collect data for the decision-making processes in order to launch and establish a strategy and to enhance information based municipal leadership.

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Executive Summary Critical to the success of a high performance board is the ability of its directors to share leadership and to work as a dynamic team. Yet historically boardrooms have proven to be one of the most difficult places to build an effective team. Numerous factors work against boards operating as teams such as the small amount of time directors have together, limited access to criti...

Although studies targeting CIO’s leadership characteristics are numerous, studies examining CIOs’ leadership styles are scarce. Today’s CIOs are often members of the firm’s C-level executive team with a wide range of leadership capabilities and characteristics that are not much different from those of the CEOs. What, then, are the characteristics and leadership styles for those CIOs? This liter...

Self-concept, self-esteem and self-confidence play a variety of roles in the arena of career and academic development. In the corporate environment, self-confidence is a key to overcoming internal and external barriers during the careers of executive women. The early career stages of executive women consist of a period of uncertainty and discovering, while they learn their new corporate environ...