Why do some people feel the need to adopt different personas while at work? Sometimes with a paradigm shift between their true selves and the character they become as soon as they walk into their work environments! Growing up, I remember being told I had to maintain a professional look while at work. It meant I had to dress formally, often in less than comfortable shoes, and behave is a manner skewed closer to being cold and distant. Showing emotions at work was a no no. Laug

Thanks to the scandals of Enron and Arthur Andersen, classes on Business Ethics were made mandatory in almost all schools offering MBA programs in mid 2000s. Before that, the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) encouraged schools to incorporate ethical behavior in MBA curriculum and provided guidelines on various moral and ethical topics, but gave schools the freedom in how to introduce such studies. Back then, business ethics teaching was often le

We hear and read a lot about the importance of leadership skills in the corporate world. Almost every other business publication has a section on leadership, accompanied by research showing the fruits good leadership yield. The 34th U.S. President, Dwight Eisenhower, eloquently defined leadership as “the art of getting someone to do something you want done because he wants to do it”. If I may be so bold as to add “because he/she wants to do it” in the second part of his defin

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