Leadership

London Business School faculty argue that 2026 leadership will be won through presence, curiosity, and follow-through—especially as AI, wellbeing pressures, and contested sustainability debates reshape what teams expect from those in charge. The London Business School article What you need to do differently as a leader in 2026 (22 December 2025) brings together guidance from Amy Bradley, Kathleen O’Connor, Selin Kesebir, Randall S Peterson, Ioannis Ioannou, Nicos Savva, and Dan Cable on leading through uncertainty without defaulting to tired slogans. A recurring pressure point is disconnection: Bradley cites data from 389 work teams suggesting that in one in four teams, […]

As volatility reshapes global decision-making, new evidence from the World Economic Forum shows why gender-balanced leadership is becoming a core governance requirement—not a diversity aspiration. In January 2026, discussions linked to the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting focused on a growing governance concern: women’s representation in senior leadership is stalling at a time when organisations face unprecedented uncertainty. Drawing on insights from the World Economic Forum, LinkedIn Economic Graph Research Institute, and global leadership studies, the article positions leadership balance as a resilience issue rather than a social objective. The context is challenging. Business and policy leaders are operating amid […]

As AI tools spread faster than organisations can absorb them, a December 2025 McKinsey article argues the bottleneck is leadership: organisations need more “domain owners” who can translate business priorities into tech delivery and adoption. In Building the AI muscle of your business leaders (published online in December 2025), McKinsey authors Dana Maor, Eric Lamarre, and Kate Smaje make a simple point: scaling AI is less about access to tools and more about having enough leaders who can connect business problems to what technology can realistically deliver. Their focus is on “domain owners”—senior leaders who run a business line or […]