Robert S. Kaplan

Successful leaders know that leadership is less often about having all the answers and more often about asking the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organisation's effectiveness. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, leadership expert Robert Kaplan presents...

What makes a leader? Can you really learn to lead? You might think that leaders need to be born with the right skills or personality attributes. Perhaps you believe you don't have the right experience or that you need to hold an important job to be a leader. Maybe you believe you need permission to lead. As Harvard Business School...

In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organisations struggle in this area—not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures, companies realise just a fraction of the financial performance promised in their strategic plans. It doesn't have to be that way, maintain Robert...

Serving on a board is like having a second full-time job. Earning a seat on a board is a rite of passage for senior leaders. It offers an opportunity to share your skills and extend your reach beyond your own organisation as you help select, appoint, and review the performance of an organisation's senior leadership team, determine compensation and incentive...

Is your business playing it safe - or taking the right risks? Risk is a regular part of business, but knowing which risks to take and when to step back is often unclear. Whether you're assessing a new opportunity for innovation or thinking about your long-term strategy in an unsteady economy, you need to know the best way to proceed...