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Crisis situations are characterized by incomplete information, time pressure, unprecedented leadership challenges with unclear options and a threat to the group’s reputation. (Pexels/Thirdman)

How naming shared values is an effective approach to leading through a crisis

If your organization is in crisis, your values are your lifeline. Identifying them collaboratively helps build consensus and guide action.
UK prime minister Keir Starmer’s charisma rating is widely regarded as falling far below that of his potential replacement, Andy Burnham. Yui Mok/PA Images/Alamy

Why are we so obsessed with charismatic leaders?

Of all the characteristics we might prize in a leader – competence, integrity, careful judgment, ethical courage – why do people rate charisma so highly?
Organizations pushing for gender equity often point to parental leave as part of the solution. But these policies can simultaneously advance men’s careers and leave women’s unchanged. (Getty Images/Unsplash+)

When men take parental leave, their careers may benefit — but women’s do not

New research using Canadian workplace data finds that men who take six months or more of parental leave are seen as warmer and more leadership-ready by colleagues.
Purpose-driven leadership is a management approach to strategifying work and people management that operates at four different levels: cognitive, emotional, relational and material. Achmad_Khoeron/Shutterstock

Chief Purpose Officers: A leadership solution or another management fad?

Make way for the Chief Purpose Officer - a corporate compass for keeping firms’ strategy in line with their purpose statements, but can they genuinely change organizations for the better?
By exaggerating their successes and downplaying their failures, megalomaniacs can trap groups in a bubble where collective perception gradually becomes detached from reality. (Unsplash)

How megalomaniac leaders establish their grip on a group — and they how they lose it

Megalomaniacal leaders thrive when a group’s collective uncertainty is coupled with the leader’s narcissism and reinforced by a culture of conformity that suppresses critical thinking.
Men hold more than three-quarters of corporate board seats in Canada, and half of all boards have no women directors. (Getty Images/Unsplash+)

Why corporate leadership in Canada still remains dominated by men

An organizational researcher argues that biases about who leads and who cares are baked into the structures of work itself, which is detrimental to women.
Women and men doing the same jobs are routinely described in strikingly different terms by their professional networks. Researchers say that language gap is part of what keeps women out of leadership. (Unsplash)

Why being called ‘detail‑oriented’ can stall a woman’s career

New research finds that people consistently describe women as detail-focused and men as visionary, a bias with measurable consequences for who gets promoted.

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