[ From the Editor ]

From “Yes, We Can” to “No, You Can’t”

In what still is for many the definitive book on leadership, James MacGregor Burns wrote that the classic role of the great leader is “to comprehend not only the existing needs of followers but to mobilize within them newer motivations and aspirations…” In the book, simply titled Leadership, the great American historian went on to describe this type of leadership as transforming leadership.

When it seems that the economic gods have hit the pause button – aka ordained that the economy shall now be sluggish — senior executives can either hunker down, look over their shoulder or look around — for a strategy that will enable their firm to pull itself up and out of the rut of stagnation, onto a trajectory of modest, single-digit growth.

No event in the history of India has been, arguably, as liberating as the dismantling of what was known as the License Raj in 1991. A decidedly opaque and archaic system of controls and permits – one that was established in 1947 and that effectively stifled enterprise and innovation – was replaced by a torrent of economic reforms that unleashed a furious surge of entrepreneurial activity and promoted a newfound respect for transparency and good governance.

From emerging to emerged in a few seconds. The Huangpu River runs through Shanghai, separating east from west, old Shanghai from the new.

The lead article in this issue of the Ivey Business Journal is about Open Innovation, a concept in which an organization invites partners – suppliers, customer and, in certain cases, competitors – to collaborate on a particular innovation. Open Innovation...

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I am, because of my notoriously sedentary occupation, almost always stationary. I am not, most of the time, percolating with so many ideas that I can say that I am busy being born. But I am, however – perhaps like you – engaged in my own private, personal innovation.

When the American psychologists John Mayer and Peter Salovey originated and described the term “emotional intelligence” in an important research paper in 1990, it marked the introduction of a new dimension into the study of leadership. In telling us how...

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If only risk and re-design intersected I could then write about the theme of this issue of Ivey Business Journal, Managing Risk, and the roll-out of the newly designed Ivey Business Journal you are looking at as one event. I...

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Some years ago, the Blackglama mink company developed a magazine ad campaign that featured the likes of Lauren Bacall, Katherine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand wearing nothing – it appeared – but a gorgeous Persian lamb coat against their bare skin....

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In the last years of her life, my mother lived in a geriatric hospital. One of the regular visitors, whose mother’s room was just down the hall, would smile at my mother each time she saw her and say, “When...

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