Briefings Archive
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Organizational Rank and Stress
Robert Sapolsky - John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences and of Neurosurgery
Wednesday, 11 November 2009 - 7:30 AM Breakfast, 8:00 – 9:00 AM session
Science proves that stress is not just a state of mind, but something tangible and measurable. Over the last three decades, science has been advancing our understanding of stress - how it impacts our bodies and how our social standing can make us more or less susceptible.
This session will unexpectedly equip leaders to identify stressors and mitigate adverse effects of hierarchy, rank and authority within your organization.
World renowned for his studies on stress and human behavior, and recently featured in National Geographic's documentary "Stress: Portrait of A Killer", Professor Sapolsky delivers an incomparable session on the physiology of stress and human nature revealed by his lifelong research of African baboons and observations of fight or flight responses in zebras.
Liberating Leadership: How to Build a Radical Freedom-of-Initiative Organization
Isaac Getz - Professor, ESCP Europe Business School
Wednesday, 14 October 2009 - 7:30 AM Breakfast, 8:00 – 9:00 AM session
Freedom Form Organizations are so successful and so unusual that to the thousands of people who flock there, these companies look like the realization of a utopia. They rise from disheartening beginnings or decades of bureaucratic stifling to unheard levels of success.
Yet despite phenomenal business results of initiative-freeing organizational environments in such companies as Gore, Ideo, and USAA, attempts to imitate them often fail.
In this session, Professor Isaac Getz unlocks the keys to the radical transformational leadership required to build such "Freedom Incs" - how (and why) the liberating leaders set their employees free to achieve the unprecedented results, and how their lessons can be applied to firms in every industry, of any size, anywhere in the world.
Creating Winning Social Media Strategies
Charlene Li - Founder, Altimeter Group
Wednesday, 9 September 2009 - 7:30 AM Breakfast, 8:00 – 9:00 AM session
Facebook. Twitter. Blogs. These may be buzzwords but to many of your customers, they are a lifeline. We'll look beyond the technologies to understand how they improve and enhance relationships with your customers. But more importantly, you'll leave with a sense of how to create a coherent strategy that is consistent with your strategic goals, as well as how to get started now.
Inspirational Leadership: How Top Leaders Inspire Teams to Greatness
Jack Zenger, CEO, Zenger Folkman
Wednesday, 8 July 2009 - 7:30 AM Breakfast, 8:00 – 9:00 AM session
What is the most important competency for leaders to build? Dr. Jack Zenger outlines sixteen competencies or behaviors that make a difference in how leaders are perceived. These competencies form the basis for his argument that developing great leaders is not about fixing weaknesses, but rather, about building on a few key areas of strength.
Negotiating Across the Chasms: Generation, Gender and Culture
Tom Kosnik, Ooshma Garg, Laina Raveendran Green
Wednesday, 10 June 2009 - 7:30 AM Breakfast, 8:00 – 9:00 AM session
Leaders in any organization who must do business in global markets
face a common challenge: How to persuade others inside their own
organization and across the value chain to lend their support to an
innovation or entrepreneurial project.