The key to transformational leadership is based upon satisfying basic needs and meeting higher desires though inspiring followers to provide newer solutions and create a better workplace. Transformational leaders actually employ charismatic behaviors and motivate subordinates to provide better outcomes, more profitability, and satisfying careers. These leaders focus on the...

Executives are faced with challenging economic conditions today. Transformational leadership is the new competitive advantage and the organizations that embrace it will survive while those that do not will find their organizations facing possible acquisition. Thus, executives must understand that transformational leadership can effectively lead organizational change to successfully implement...

Executives are spending more time today concerned about operational risk than ever before. Operational risk is an operational approach to represent knowledge management but in this case, it seeks to manage organizational knowledge in order to identify, satisfy and retain talent. Similar to customer relationship management, knowledge management is a...

Leadership has been highlighted as the behavior indicative of friendship, mutual trust, respect, and warmth. The key to leadership is based upon satisfying basic needs and verbalizing feelings of admiration, respect and trust toward themselves to meet higher desires through inspiring followers to provide newer solutions and create a better...

There are many academic studies that focus on the organizational and managerial factors that drive sales, profitability and financial performance. Diversity in the workplace is one such area that plays a critical role and is a strategic prerequisite for business success in today’s hypercompetitive global environment. In particular, a diversity strategy...

Success in today’s knowledge-based economy can be more effective when executives can manifest themselves as change agents who reshape, and in some cases, manipulate corporate culture to better apply knowledge and create competitive advantage. Building on the three aspects of corporate culture (collaboration, trust and learning), companies can attempt to...

Servant leaders are those who turn the organizational chart upside down, putting the customers at the top. For instance, scholars argue that the great leader is seen as a servant first, and that simple fact is the key to his or her greatness. The advantages of the servant leadership model...

 Technology, as one would imagine, is often associated with information dispersed within companies. Information technology develops and disseminates knowledge throughout the organization which, in turn, is an important factor of sustainable competitive advantage. This article portrays a more detailed picture of the effects of emerging technologies (i.e. communication and decision-aid...

In a post-pandemic world, the business environment is constantly changing. Knowledge is a crucial part of hypercompetitive environments. Organizations can design, copy, or update products and services easier with more adaptability then ever today. Organizations compete globally but must think locally if they expect to exceed. And new markets place...

Authentic leadership has increasingly become one of the most dominant paradigms today and will be used by many companies around the globe in the next five years. Let us look at authentic leaders and determine their competencies aimed at answering the question of how executives can become better at what...