Archive for October, 2011

Lynn Casey Chair and Chief Executive Officer Padilla Speer Beardsley Here’s one that might surprise you. Women in Brazil, Russia, India and China (the BRIC countries) and the UAE make up half the university graduates and half the workforce in...

Maril MacDonald Chief Executive Officer Gagen MacDonald Last week, I had the pleasure of joining a number of our colleagues in Amsterdam as we achieved another milestone against two key Page Society goals. Sandra MacLeod of Echo Research and Sean...

Mark Hass President, Edelman China The death of Steve Jobs echoed through China last week in a uniquely emotional and Chinese way. Unlike the rest of the world, this event was not merely a chance to mourn the passing of a technology icon. Instead,...

James Scofield O’Rourke, IV, Ph.D. Professor and Director – The Eugene D. Fanning Center, University of Notre Dame Steve Jobs was not simply a skilled business executive, but an extraordinary leader and visionary.  While others saw...

Bjorn Edlund Retd EVP Communications, Royal Dutch Shell plc Principal, Edlund Consulting Ltd. Sometimes, reading management journals transports me back to the Salamanca, Spain of the Middle Ages – where some of the best minds of the period...

Lynn Casey Chair and Chief Executive Officer Padilla Spear Beardsley Reading “Learn to Speak the Three Languages of Leadership” (Harvard Business Review) brought back memories of my firm’s former CEO, John Beardsley, whose rabid...