Just 12 months into my first job in London, I was flattered by an approach of a head hunter acting for a rival US bank. At the interview, I was tormented mercilessly by the general manager who wanted ...

Assertions of responsibility can mean a number of different things. We might be making a judgement of someone’s character, implying that she can be trusted to act responsibly. We might refer to a ...

You can read the previous post in my series here. Part of leadership is holding others to account when the occasion arises. It’s not the most pleasant part, by any means; not many people particularly ...

I write a lot about roles and role clarity. Role clarity is so important, yet often overlooked. For example, before you can have what I call an effective performance collaboration, managers first need ...

In his widely read 1970 article about the role of business in society, economist Milton Friedman justified the old adage that “the business of business is business” so confidently that more than 50 ...

This month’s topic is another readers’ choice: responsibility and accountability. Specifically, we’ll cover: clarifying the real distinction between responsibility and accountability; and, ...

Corporate responsibility is evolving across three dimensions: horizontal accountability, vertical responsibility and longitudinally across time. The corporate responsibility (CR) movement continues to ...

Students from 4th through 8th grade who "disrupt school activities or otherwise willfully defy the valid authority of supervisors, teachers, administrators, or school officials," will likely be ...

EJ Obiena, the world’s second best pole vaulter and Asian Games gold medalist, is truly changing Philippine pole vault history and has become in many ways a genuine inspiration for our youth, not only ...