If someone asked you to describe the personality of a close friend, what kind of things would you say? A few things that might spring to mind are descriptive terms such as […]
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The Great Man Theory of Leadership
Have you ever heard the phrase, “Great leaders are born, not made”? This quote sums up the basic tenant of the great man theory of leadership, which suggests that the capacity for […]
8 Leadership Theories
What exactly makes a great leader? Do certain personality traits make people better-suited to leadership roles, or do characteristics of the situation make it more likely that certain people will take charge? […]
The Rise of Chindia Seminar King’s College Cambridge
Title: “The Rise of Chindia Seminar” Date: 25 April 2008 Location: King’s College Cambridge Seminar organized by CUALA (Cambridge University Asian Law and Business Association) and The Future Leadership Institute Picture: Sandy […]
Ideas from the University of Chicago creating a winning investment management strategy
Title: “How Dimensional applied ideas learned at the University of Chicago to create a winning investment management strategy.” Date: Thursday March 12th, 2008, 17.30 Location: Château Sainte-Anne, Brussels Speaker: Eugene F. Fama […]
HR Executive Round Table at Vlerick Management School
Title: HR Executive Round Table Date: Friday, November 9, 2007 The Future Leadership Institute Seminar Location: Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Campus Leuven Speakers: Gert Van Mol, The Wall Street Journal Europe, […]
Britain’s Peter Higgs and Francois Englert of Belgium to win the Nobel Prize for physics
Britain’s Peter Higgs and Francois Englert of Belgium won the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle that explains how elementary matter attained the […]
Inauguration of “Foundation de Duve”
Title: Inauguration of “Foundation de Duve” Date: 25 October 2007 Location: AXA, 25 Bld du Souverain à 1170 Bruxelles Topic Professor Christian de Duve, Nobel Price in Medecine 1974 will celebrate his […]
“Employees First, Customers Second” FLI Seminar With HCL CEO Vineet Nayar
Title: “Employees First, Customers Second” Seminar Location: Grosvenor House, London Speakers: Vineet Nayar, CEO HCL & Martin Reed, member of The UK Cabinet Office Efficiency and Reform Board Introduction: Patience Wheatcroft, The […]
Michael Wolff: What Lies Ahead For Newspapers?
Should we feel bad about ourselves? Virtually every public company that holds substantial print assets — including the one that owns this paper — is pushing them, and us, out the […]
Rieder: Can Papers Make It On Their Own?
Kicked to the curb. One by one, big media companies are splitting themselves in two, holding on to their sexier, more lucrative properties — broadcast, film, digital — and casting off their […]
Kurdistan: On A Straight Line To Independence. (Column)
R.I.P. Iraq. The country is no more. Iraq has ceased to exist. That is my conclusion after a short, but intensive visit to Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. It is not […]
YourOwnLab to start with Youth Lab research
#002 / Education & Poverty Lab for Global Partnership – June 25/26/2014 The Global Partnership for Education is a multilateral partnership devoted to getting children into school for a quality education. All GPE […]
Everything You Need To Know About The Future Of Newspapers…
Everything You Need To Know About The Future Of Newspapers Is In These Two Charts We don’t like to dwell too much on the decline of print media, because quite frankly it’s […]
