This article analyzes a problem that can be described as the retirement syndrome. In exploring the difficulties many leaders face in letting go at the end of a full career, it reviews a number of the barriers to exit: financial, social, and psychological. It looks at the physical and...

This presentation to business graduates at INSEAD addresses the question of what makes for happiness. An attempt is made to deconstruct this elusive concept. It is suggested that essential aspects of happiness are someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. In this essay, each...

This article addresses the question of contributing factors that make for vanguard companies. Effective leadership is considered a determining factor in creating high performance organizations. In making this happen, leaders take on two roles: a charismatic and an architectural one. Envisioning,...

In this article, individual reaction patterns to downsizing operations are explored in the victims, the survivors (those staying with a company after layoffs) and the 'executioners' (those responsible for the implementation of downsizing) involved in the process. Data are obtained from...