John Weeks has been active as a writer, organizer, executive, consultant, and speaker in the movement for integra-tive health and medicine for more than 30 years. His leadership-focused Integrator Blog News and Reports (www.theintegratorblog.com) and now his Global Integrator Blog are go-to sources on breaking developments in policy, business, academics, and interprofessional activity.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to identify the professional development topics that senior nurse leaders believe are important to their advancement and success. BACKGROUND Senior/experienced nurse leaders at the executive level are able to influence the work environment of nurses and institutional and health policy. Their development needs are likely to reflect this and other conte...

PURPOSE The primary aim of this paper is to conduct a thorough and systematic review of the empirical and practitioner research on executive, leadership and business coaching to assess the current empirical evidence for the effectiveness of coaching and the mechanisms underlying it. BACKGROUND Organisations are increasingly using business coaching as an intervention to improve the productivit...

The complexity of health care requires excellent leadership to address the challenges of access, quality, and cost of care. Because competencies to lead differ from clinical or research skills, there is a compelling need to develop leaders and create a talent pipeline, perhaps especially in physician-led organizations like Cleveland Clinic. In this context, we previously reported on a cohort-ba...

The gender-wage gap in leadership positions is even wider than in lower positions. Managerial wages are partly performance based and one possible reason for the pay gap could be that women are not successful managers. Indeed, research into the “romance of leadership” suggests that managers’ abilities are judged on the basis of their companies’ performance (Meindl, Ehrlich & Durkerich, 1985). Bu...

Recent studies have demonstrated that judgments of business leaders’ faces predict their organizations’ financial performance. To date, these predictions have been derived exclusively from the impressions of naı̈ve perceivers. Here, we tested how perceivers’ knowledge and experience in business might relate to their judgments of CEOs’ leadership ability from nonverbal facial cues. In Study 1, bu...

An important role for the Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses (ACEN) is the support and the development of new and emerging nurse leaders in our health system. Nurses have many opportunities to lead in their clinical roles, and we see tremendous examples of this formal and informal leadership every day. However, the move to formal leadership positions is one that can be challenging for nurses ...

Journalists and authors of trade books increasingly assert a female advantage in leadership, whereby women are more likely than men to lead in a style that is effective under contemporary conditions. Contrasting our analysis of these claims with Vecchio’s [Leadersh. Q. 13 (2002) 643] analysis, we show that women have some advantages in typical leadership style but suffer some disadvantages from...

Electronic Government (e-Government) has the potential to contribute to the good government agenda through citizen engagement, effective service delivery and improved efficiency in government. However, realizing this potential is dependent on strong Technology Leadership (e-Leadership) realized through executive IT leaders and Government Chief Information Officers (GCIOs). The paper presents th...