Handy Notes for the Busy Leaders

About the Book

This book is based on Professor Pierre Casse’s ten years of teaching, consulting, and writing case studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO. Many of the key issues explored have been the subject of much discussion and debate during training programs and special events such as the SKOLKOVO Master Classes on Leadership. They have also been published electronically under the title SKOLKOVO BE in Trend. The BE in Trend series was published as a monthly teaser and attracted quite a few followers who found Professor Casse’s direct approach to exposing the very real challenges, which leaders in the field face day to day, stimulating. Many of the issues raised are ones that leaders are reluctant to talk openly about. This is not a book full of advice and guidelines but is rather an exploration of some of the most provocative issues in a way that is intended to encourage leaders to reflect and determine how these issues might apply to them, their teams, and organisations. It is indeed a very leader-friendly composition aimed directly at the busy leader.

About the Author

Dr. Pierre Casse is a full Professor at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO and holds the leadership chair at IEDC-Bled School of Management (Slovenia). He was (until June 2017) a visiting Professor at the IAE University Aix-en-Provence (France), as well as at the Kellogg School of Management (Chicago - USA). He held the “Suez Chair of Leadership” at the Solvay Business School (ULB-Brussels) from 2004 to 2006. He was an IMD Professor from 1986 to 1994. He is the “Dean Emeritus” of the Berlin School of Creative Leadership (Steinbeis University-Germany). His areas of expertise include Organizational Behavior, the Global Market and the Cultural Diff erences, International Negotiations and Strategic Leadership. Professor Casse has published (alone or in cooperation) more than 10 books in the areas of multicultural management, leadership, intercultural negotiations, and philosophy and business among them, Th e Making of Culture (2003), Th e One-hour Negotiator (2005), Philosophy for Creative Leadership (2007), Th e Philosophical Leaders (2009), Challenging Leadership (2012), Testing Leadership (2014), Learning Leadership (2015), Leadership Without Concessions (2016) and Negotiation for all (2017) He serves as a consultant to many multinational companies and he is the CEO of “Business Innovation Network” (BIN-Switzerland) and President of a Private Foundation (Belgium).