Executive Courses: Executive Education courses in positive leadership
Companies want leaders with a human touch, prompting business schools to roll out courses that nurture social and emotional skills to promote wellbeing and boost diversity, writes Seb Murray in the article for Executive Courses. Some business schools have launched…
Reputation
A summary of recent research and other initiatives from Cambridge Judge Business School. Every element of business concerns, in some way, reputation – ranging from a firm's reliability, to its customer-service profile, to its stock market performance. Many studies by…
Andreas Richter shares insights on leadership in challenging times
As the COVID-19 emergency continues, our faculty keeps finding innovative ways to make a difference and to share their knowledge with those who might need it to become more resilient in an unpredictable world. Dr Andreas Richter, Reader in Organisational…
Learning from workplace failure
Employees can learn from failure if their teams offer psychological safety and provide informational resources, says study co-authored by Dr Andreas Richter of Cambridge Judge Business School. Perhaps all employees, at some point, fail in ways large and small –…
IEDP: From shame to creativity
Research co-authored by Dr Andreas Richter, University Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at Cambridge Judge Business School, concludes that employees can help channel workplace shame into creativity if the situation is handled skillfully and sensitively. “People naturally want to overcome their…
Why sorry isn’t the only word
We've all been there: that moment when we make a mistake so bad we feel embarrassed, humiliated and want the ground to swallow us up. In some situations a simple "sorry" coupled with the immediate opportunity to make amends gets…
Why leadership is not all about YOU
When, in 2012, US businessman Arne Sorenson became the first ever head of the Marriott Hotel chain in its 88-year history to be appointed from outside the Marriott family, he had a surprisingly modest vision of how the company would…
Cambridge Network: Turning workplace shame into creativity
Research co-authored by Dr Andreas Richter, University Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at Cambridge Judge Business School, concludes that employees can help channel workplace shame into creativity if the situation is handled skillfully and sensitively. Read the full article [cambridgenetwork.co.uk]…
Turning workplace shame into creativity
Mistakes are inevitable but organisations can learn from them, says new research co-authored at Cambridge Judge Business School. Shame, according to the famous Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, is a “soul-eating emotion” - and because some mistakes at work are inevitable,…
Cambridge Business Magazine: It’s such a shame
Dr Andreas Richter, University Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at Cambridge Judge Business School, discusses how shame can be transformed into creativity at work. He says that "managers can channel shame into creativity by establishing team environments that promote creativity". Read…