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Why should we care about the arts in management education? Why are the arts part of reforms in developing future professionals? What is the fundamental value of the arts for developing tomorrow’s manager-leaders?

“Management by tolerance”. The suggestion of the title is that there is (still) a lot of intolerance in management. The question that comes up immediately: intolerance to what?

IEDC-Bled School of Management was established 27 years ago as an International Executive Development Centre with focus on people in leading positions, who want to develop themselves in this respect.

For many leaders in both the public and private sectors, the issue of governance is unclear. Indeed, many leaders in the field consider governance as something for academic discussion rather than something that is relevant to day-to-day operations. Governance provides a legitimate approach to managing the distribution and use of power in any organisation.

In the book “The fine Art of success” the authors explain the success of Madonna from her continuous renewal and the success of Titian and Tintoretto, the great competitors in the Venetian time in the 16th century, they ascribe to strategic innovation.

This study attempts on the family owned Russian companies which were identified as Hidden Champions according to Simon’s methodology.

Pierre Casse and Arnold Walravens take a fresh and candid look at corporate governance

In recent years, three big trends – declining resources, radical transparency, and increasing expectations – have redefined the way we do business. With these new pressures on our hands, what is business to do? Only a few companies choose to embed sustainability into their very DNA, incorporating environmental, health, and social value into their core business with no trade-offs in price or quality. Yet, those that do are creating even more value for their customers and investors than they otherwise would.

Article provides the background to arts and leadership development at the IEDC-Bled School of Management.

Article tries to outline a new leadership requirement characterized by the ability of the Public and Private sectors leaders to have a good grasp of what’s happening in the world today, why it is happening and, more important, how it can serve our purpose as human beings.

Success can be a curse rather than a blessing for leaders if they become complacent about their performance, say Pierre Casse and Eoin Banahan…

It is safe to say that dogma, or any form of unquestioned belief, is bad for human progress. Collectively, as human family, we have been through enough of witch-hunting, world-is-flat executions, and parallel-lines-never-cross illusions to realize that it is good to question our assumptions, even if only to find them to be correct. That is why it surprises me that one particular assumption has been put at the corner of our entire business life without much questioning. Yes, I am talking about value

In a sun-lit classroom of IEDC-Bled School of Management, a group of senior managers is hard at work. At a first glance, the intense discussions and strong arguments might appear as a typical problem-solving exercise: take a problem, understand the factors of failure, and propose a decision. But what if you listen closely, you might find yourself amidst a very different conversation.

This paper addresses six related themes: (i) a short history of U.S. financial crises during the last 80 years; (ii) severity of the current global recession and corporate sector responses; (iii) government approaches to resolving the current global financial and economic crisis; (iv) the current financial markets outlook; (v) the long-term outlook for the U.S. economy, and (vi) the changing order of geo-political and economic dominance

It is, perhaps, the oldest of human traits – the skill we have been developing for thousands of years. Or, possibly, the most modern business obsession – the panacea for all of our troubles. Whichever way you look at it, innovation is all around us: whether it is a short-term need for inventing our way out of the global economic crisis, or a long-term necessity for daily re-discovery of business models and solutions, innovation is fast becoming front and central to the life of a modern manager. It is not surprising that the recent survey by the European Foundation for Management Development shows that among key business challenges leaders are facing today innovation has a leading place – second only to revenue growth, and far ahead of economic factors and management of costs, the standard issues of difficult times. What is surprising, however, is how rarely successful innovation actually happens - despite the high priority on executives’ agenda, inventing new business opportunities inside and outside of an organization is no easy matter.