Theory building on the unique cognitions involved in the generation and implementation of social innovation has grown in the past few years and general theoretical models of social innovation have been proposed....

Traditionally, it has been assumed that leaders, like other people, are typically poor at forecasting. In the present effort, we argue that people can sometimes prove effective at forecasting and that effective forecasting is particularly important to performance in leadership roles....

When facing a crisis, leaders' sensemaking can take a considerable amount of time due to the need to develop consensus in how to deal with it so that vision formation and sensegiving can take place. However, research into emerging cognitive consensus when leaders deal with a crisis over time is lacking....

Joan Ryan interviews Manfred Kets de Vries at the 2011 Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference

Joan Ryan interviews John Bennett at the 2011 Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference on Skill Building for Coaches.

Joan Ryan interviews Elisabet Engellau, Konstantin Korotov and Andreas Bernhardt at the 2011 Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference on Group Executive Coaching

The field of executive coaching is growing at an astonishing rate. Corporations are increasingly turning to coaching as an intervention, as it offers leaders and managers both on-the-job learning and built-in follow-up....

This book uniquely integrates a large body of historical, philosophical, psychological, and business models and methods as they relate to executive coaching and leadership development, for individuals, dyads, teams, and executive groups. What is executive wisdom, and how can it be developed through coaching?...