Thought Leadership | Public & Social Sector

From stability to sense of mission, the public sector career path offers unique benefits that are drawing top talent from the private sector.

What the NGO world today needs is leaders who are not just mission-driven but are holistic thinkers.

Leaders of philanthropic foundations from Europe and the U.S. discuss the challenges and the major themes they see rising out of the global health crisis.

CEOs of NGOs share how the pandemic has changed their views on their organizations and their work in the world.

While the race for the next Democrat presidential candidate plays out live on national television, a different race is going on behind the cameras: attracting the best staff and volunteers to their campaigns.

Across the world, top corporate officers are increasingly assuming a mantle of public leadership by driving purpose-directed company strategies and taking overt stands on important, sometimes divisive social issues.

Most CEOs are grappling with one particular challenge, irrespective of industry or geography: getting the right leadership talent. Governments face this challenge too. The Indian government has responded to this challenge by taking the initiative to invite executives from beyond the ranks of the civil service to apply for certain Joint Secretary posts.

The erosion of people’s trust in the economic elites, and the post-truth reasoning that is currently in vogue, confront leaders with a number of major challenges. Olaf Kramer is Professor of Rhetoric and Knowledge Communication at the University of Tübingen’s Department of General Rhetoric, which was founded by Walter Jens. In this paper, he contrasts the power of strong narratives in helping to create a shared sense of identity with the dangers that populism and oversimplification can pose to businesses.

In Emerging Markets Business, Egon Zehnder’s Sonny Iqbal and Richard Stark offered their perspective on one family business, Paraíso Verde, which was founded in Chile in 1911 and later fell into crisis following the loss of the founders.

Exceptional times require exceptional leadership teams. Now that the presidential election is over, the key to making America greater is a strategic series of presidential appointments.

Once heralded as the seat held by the best storyteller in the company, corporate communications is no longer about amplifying what an organisation wants to say. Social media and vanishing boundaries have exploded the old model. Instead, communications today has a very different focus: to manage the dynamic, two-way conversation between an organisation and its stakeholders.