Leadership

Why Most Leadership Skills Are Learned

Former Aetna CEO Ron Williams draws on his years of management experience to offer leadership advice in his new book.

Expecting the Unexpected: How Companies Can Prepare Now for Calamities

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Wharton’s Howard Kunreuther and Michael Useem explain why some firms find creative ways to cope with disasters while others do not.

‘Dream the Impossible’: Life Lessons from Keshub Mahindra

Keshub Mahindra was at the helm of one of India’s top business groups for five decades. Now aged 95, he shares what life has taught him.

Why ‘Radical Self-inquiry’ Can Create a Thriving Workplace

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Leaders should stop focusing on output and achievement alone, and work on building the maturity required to lift up others, not just themselves, notes the author of a new book.

Why 2019 Feels Like 1929 — and What We Can Do to Change Course

Armed with a sense of realistic optimism, we can navigate – and help to reverse – some worrisome global trends, writes Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett in this opinion piece.

Why Cultivating the Right Leaders Helps Startups Succeed

Resilience, passion, flexibility, focus, trust and people skills are as important as a winning idea in a successful startup, say experts from tGELF and the MiSK Foundation.

From Nurse to CEO: One Entrepreneur’s Journey

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Shelley Boyce recounts how she turned a failing grade for a marketing plan into MedRisk, a multimillion-dollar company that provides managed physical medicine for the workers’ compensation industry.

Fight to Win: How a Judo Champion Built Resilience

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Ranking judo champion Peter Paltchik exemplifies what it means to overcome adversity and push beyond limits – a lesson that is inspiring to business leaders as well as athletes.

Can You Hear Him Now? Leadership Lessons from Verizon’s Ivan Seidenberg

At the Wharton Leadership Conference, former Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg discussed what he has learned from working in telecom for a half century, negotiating with Steve Jobs, and what sparked[…]

From Mustang to Minivan: How Lee Iacocca Changed the Auto Industry

The former head of Chrysler and Ford, who died last week at 94, will be remembered as a leader who fought through adversity and revolutionized the concept of the “celebrity[…]

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