Dealing with disagreement is a critical skill that leaders need. Learn to handle disagreements like successful entrepreneurs and you will do

Entrepreneurs work to create a better world . . . tomorrow. This requires them to present “their” future and then persuade the team to take

I recently came across more than a couple of companies that have appointed Chief Innovation Officers, (CINO) a role which I find to be an anomaly. Why? Well, to me, it’s an admission that these companies don’t understand the importance of innovation and so carve-out this responsibility and assign a caretaker. That way they can announce, problem solved. If only it was so easy! Lack of innovation results from the leadership failing to create a culture of learning, experimenting

It looks like Marissa Mayer will be another high-profile CEO casualty. Mayer was appointed CEO of Yahoo in July 2012, after a 13-year career at Google. Yahoo’s problems were well known and several CEOs had come and gone with nothing to show for their tenure. After co-founder Jerry Yang stepped down in 2009, Carol Bartz, Chairman Roy Bostock, Tim Morse, Scott Thomson and Ross Levinsohn have all had a shot at turning around the company without success! Mayer was the 20th employ

The “Power Distance Index” (PDI) was a concept introduced by Prof Geert Hofstede to explain the cultural differences in society that explain the level of deference to authority. Wiki’s definition is “the extent to which the less powerful members of organizations and institutions (like the family) accept and expect that power is distributed unequally.” Malaysia has the highest index (100) in the world, possibly as a result of the colonial times and the legacy of the Malay feud