"Inspiring leaders make us want to achieve more. They persuade us to their cause, win our active support, help us to work better together and make us feel proud to be part of the teams they create. So if we want to be better leaders ourselves, how do we communicate in a way that inspires? What...

Introduction: lives transformed by purpose -- Why purpose is central to performance -- Effective leadership : it's all in the mind -- The purpose movement : a growing global conversation -- Purpose and employee engagement : why giving employees a greater sense of purpose is every leader's job --...

"We say that someone has charisma when they can attract, inspire and influence people through their personal qualities. We think that this is a special power some fortunate individuals have that makes them able to affect and influence others at a deep emotional level, to communicate effectively...

Reputational risk is now considered the single greatest threat to businesses today. Most companies, however, are still not managing this risk appropriately. This paper argues that following the recommendations of the Turnbull Report into boardroom responsibility for risk management and...

This paper summarises the findings arising from a series of extended qualitative interviews with 14 CEOs and chairmen from leading UK corporations and international organisations. The purpose of the interviews was to try to establish the value that CEOs attach to public relations, and to get a...

Most recently proposed bandwidth selectors in kernel density estimation have been developed with intent to reduce the large sampling variability of Least Squares Cross-Validation. Their asymptotic superiority has been shown in many papers. Some of those selectors have even the fastest n-1/ 2...

In this paper we investigate the gains of using nonparametric estimation methods in a family of models related to Generalised Linear Models. We focus especially on discrete choice models. We give an overview on different nonparametric and semiparametric approaches in this setting. In particular...