Strategy & Leadership: Volume 27 Issue 1

Workforce commitment: Strategies for the new work order

David L. Stum

Many employers seem to be having a recurring nightmare: a valued employee suddenly decides to leave and go to work for a competitor In today's tight job market, it takes months…

Employee loyalty: A key link to value growth

Rob Duboff, Carla Heaton

This article has a very straightforward message: engendering loyalty among valuable employees is imperative.

Virtual teams: The new way to work

Jessica Lipnack, Jeffrey Stamps

Twenty‐first century problems require 21st century organizations. The bureaucratic‐hierarchical pattern that characterizes almost all organizations today was developed in the…

Transformational leadership

Russell L. Ackoff

The large and growing literature dealing with leadership has not led to an obvious increase in either the quantity or quality of leaders, particularly transformational leaders. My…

The ironies of motivation

Bob Nelson

“Motivation” is one of those words that is commonly used to describe the fuzzy notion of “why we do what we do.” There are numerous ironies about motivation that make the topic…

The challenges of strategy: Seven lessons

Michael F. Kipp

Each year, thousands of companies go through a ritualized process they hope will prompt new vision, renewed energy, and sufficient focus to enable them to prevail into the next…