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Clearing up some common misconceptions about one of today’s trendiest topics.

A new Korn Ferry report offers neuroscience-based insights for developing your agile learning skills.

Learn how the mindset and approach of the most effective CEOs have changed as they lead companies through disruption.

It’s not just skill and experience that matter when it comes to choosing a CEO. The best choice also has the right drivers.

New research shows how self-awareness determines whether high IQ improves or hinders leadership.

How having a sense of purpose, regardless of what it is, impacts your health and well-being.

A new breed of best-in-class corporate affairs officer is evolving, with a sweeping scope of responsibilities and a crucial role as trusted advisor to the CEO.

Alumni find such value in Korn Ferry’s leadership institutes that half sponsor colleagues to participate.

Tech disruptions and outdated corporate structures are sapping people’s drive to work at a distressing, if not record, level. Motivation, Innovation, Workplace stress, Leadership, Purpose, Performance, Organizational change

A new Korn Ferry report says that finding the best employees may involve remodeling how companies approach talent and human resources.

Leadership styles and organizational climate scores do not appear impacted by the upheaval throughout 2020.

A new Korn Ferry study shows how to improve chances of making the right decision, which can pay quick and huge dividends.

As the world forges ahead amid the pandemic, Korn Ferry’s annual pulse survey reveals what’s pressing for each member of the C-suite.

In search of the next fintech innovation, executives say they need an unusual number of risk-takers with past failures.

Korn Ferry’s new report highlights the markers of high leadership potential.

Bosses report an average 35% jump in on-the-job performance by those who complete a customized Korn Ferry leadership development program.

A new Korn Ferry report investigates whether the coronavirus outbreak had an impact on multi-rater assessments. The short answer: no.

Social distancing drives a greater need for virtual work, including in the area of assessments. In a new report, the Korn Ferry Institute highlights the robustness of executing leadership simulations virtually.

Korn Ferry’s partnership with the Drucker Institute shows how leadership qualities drive long-term organizational effectiveness.

Korn Ferry research shows what leaders do to get the best results during challenging times

A new Korn Ferry report explores the critical need for learning agile leadership in an increasingly complex, uncertain world.

A study of 2,000 C-level executives finds that understanding people is a valuable skill, but accommodating them is not.

A new Korn Ferry report takes a look at the future of neuroscience innovation in assessment.

How have things shifted, and what does an optimized future look like?

Descubre cómo el COVID-19 ha afectado las compensaciones y beneficios y qué planean hacer las organizaciones.

A consumer goods company significantly moved the needle on executive diversity through a targeted program for women of color. Women in leadership.

Leaders with a clear purpose often ascend to more challenging roles and boast an average tenure of 18 years.

A new Korn Ferry report showcases the leadership qualities most critical to success during challenging times.

A new Korn Ferry reports looks at the critical indicators and levers that can help—or hinder—countries managing through crisis

A new Korn Ferry report shows leadership assessments do more than preview a candidate’s success in a new role, they can also predict job performance—one year later.

A new Korn Ferry report finds that both managers and employees rate valuing differences as less important than other leadership competencies.

Leaders who closely fit with traits and drivers in Korn Ferry four-dimensional executive assessment are up to 13 times more likely to be highly engaged in their jobs.

Introducing the Korn Ferry ACI Model

Companies high in discretionary energy earn more for their stockholders, according to a new Korn Ferry study.

A new Korn Ferry report investigates the impact of Brexit on leadership in the UK.

Getting employees to want to go above and beyond what is expected of them can have a big impact on an organization's returns.

How have things shifted, and what does an optimized future look like?

Korn Ferry’s annual Executive Pulse Survey studied executives from across the globe, including Chief Supply Chain Officers (CSCOs).

Korn Ferry surveyed 111 Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs). We looked at the talent shortages they are facing, why their tenure tends to be short, and how the pandemic is increasing the focus on customers more than ever.

Korn Ferry surveyed 220 Technology Officers from around the globe. We explored their relationship with the CEO, how IT is viewed within their organization, and their desire for more collaboration.

Korn Ferry surveyed 230 Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs). We explored how they’re at the heart of today’s challenging work environment and how the pandemic is impacting their function.

Discretionary Energy is crucial for organizations to achieve superior performance. But how to fire it up? New Korn Ferry research offers a model.

Korn Ferry surveyed 276 Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) from around the globe. They shared views on their relationship to their CEO, the importance of collaborating with their C-suite peers and understanding the evolving role of the CFO in the time of coronavirus.

Putting CEO candidates through a rigorous assessment can have significant benefits for organizations.

Boards using Korn Ferry assessments pick CEOs who impact companies 15 months longer than average.

Ensuring the right mix of a CEO’s competencies can result in longer tenures and play a key role in how organizations are led.

Korn Ferry surveyed 773 Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) from around the globe. We explored the evolving demands of the CEO role, transparency and authenticity in the way they lead, and how they are navigating through the thick fog of the global health crisis.

Functional leaders are just as likely as general managers to exhibit the kind of broad, ‘enterprise perspective’ needed of CEOs.

General managers hold the edge as potential CEOs over execs with functional experience on attributes tied to superior execution.

Organizations may want to tap female entrepreneur talent because they show strengths most sought after in 21st century leaders. Women in leadership.

Korn Ferry’s annual Executive Pulse Survey studied C-Suite executives from across the globe, including a select group of Chief Corporate Affairs Officers (CCAOs).

The desire to diversify organizations has never been higher. How it can be done effectively and sustainably.

The Land Down Under may need to devote more resources to get more women into the leadership pipeline; a Korn Ferry report.

New Korn Ferry research finds that managers with the highest learning agility scores were promoted twice as often over 10 years.

New research reveals that putting candidates through leadership simulations adds tremendous accuracy and insight to Korn Ferry assessments.

A high level of self-awareness is long acknowledged as contributing to career success and effective leadership.

What keeps companies competitive in an era of economic volatility?

Learning agility is the willingness and ability to learn from experience and then apply those lessons to succeed in new situations.

With the pronoun named the word of 2019, Korn Ferry’s Evelyn Orr discusses gender’s changing role in the workplace and life.

More women than men are tagged “& family” on wealth lists, says Korn Ferry’s Evelyn Orr.

So-called "glass cliff" jobs carry big risks, but Korn Ferry’s Evelyn Orr sees important opportunities for women and minorities who take them.

Japan and the United States both lack an affordable daycare system that keeps women in the workforce. Korn Ferry’s Evelyn Orr asks: Is that hurting these countries’ economic growth?

Firms should focus more on a job candidate’s learning agility than the school the candidate attended, writes Korn Ferry’s Evelyn Orr.

Eight in ten corporate leaders are getting failing marks from their own colleagues, an extensive new Korn Ferry study finds. Is a new breed of ‘self-disruptive’ CEOs the answer?

More men are expressing a reluctance to mentor women in the workplace, a trend that Korn Ferry’s Evelyn Orr says could become a large setback for gender diversity.

A new Korn Ferry report finds worker stress levels rising 20% worldwide. How reducing it can unleash innovations.

Korn Ferry’s Evelyn Orr says many companies fail to see that women are major B2B buyers.

As Father's Day approaches, Korn Ferry’s Evelyn Orr offers a rare glimpse into the role fathers played in boosting today’s female CEOs.

Let’s stop thinking successful women leaders were given an extra boost, says Korn Ferry’s Evelyn Orr. Studies show they just worked a lot harder.

Too many jobs are classified in people’s minds (and by companies) as fitting one gender. Korn Ferry’s Evelyn Orr looks at how to break the 'women’s and men’s' work pattern.

Nine in 10 women CEOs played sports at one time; writes Korn Ferry's Evelyn Orr.

Korn Ferry’s Evelyn Orr says new parent epiphanies can drive success in high-power jobs.

As more women become breadwinners, dual-income couples must decide who manages the household. Korn Ferry's Evelyn Orr asks: Is money all that matters?

Korn Ferry’s Evelyn Orr offers a dual career strategy for the power couple.

How critical is your relationship to your career? The first of a new column series from Korn Ferry’s Evelyn Orr.

Korn Ferry research found that four primary patterns of leadership account for 70 percent of managers and executives.