I believe the fabric of the UAE is made up of three things: Ambition, Gumption, and Innovation. From a small sleepy desert settlement to one of the world's most popular cities, Dubai is one of the best living examples of what we can do today to prepare for tomorrow – and how best it can be done.

Leaders for the future must also be concerned with global issues such as climate change, environmental sustainability, economic progress and stability, social progress, and quality of life in their societies and around the world.

Our task is to create organisations that are sufficiently flexible and versatile to take our imperfect plans and make them work in execution. That requires a learning organisation, not a rigid, hierarchical or bureaucratic organisation.

Insights for Elevated Governance Boards sit at the apex of governance systems, and fundamentally operate as a self-governing human system rich in perception, language, culture, and beliefs. Increasingly, world problems as well...

An Interview with Karon Shaiva: Chief Impact Officer and Managing Director, Idobro Impact Solutions and Managing Trustee, RISE Infinity Foundation In honor of Women’s History Month, I interviewed one of the leaders I admire...

“All life is interrelated. We are all caught in an unescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affect us all indirectly.”   Martin Luther King This past...

Uncertain times are the test case of being faithful to the values and mission of a company or institution. The current uncertain and volatile times are like stormy weather on the sea. The Captain of a ship is challenged to...

With the privileges of limited liability for companies come certain obligations for their directors. These duties need to be addressed in addition to the responsibilities executive directors may have as managers leading business...

In many jurisdictions around the world, “independent” directors, free from unjust ties from the organizations on whose boards they are serving on, have become a well established pillar of corporate governance systems and frameworks.

When Tom Peters and Thomas Waterman Jr. wrote In Search of Excellence, first published in 1982, they set out to provide a blueprint for how companies can “stay on top of the heap”.