Flattering your boss: Good for you…but bad for him
Leadership

Flattering your boss: Good for you…but bad for him

by Jérôme Barthélemy

Jérôme Barthélémy, Professor of Management and Strategy at ESSEC Business School, takes a wry view at how to get in your boss’s good books from research carried out by Ithai Stern and James Westphal.

TOP RESEARCH Master and Puppets: How Narcissistic CEOs Build their Professional Worlds
Leadership

Master and Puppets: How Narcissistic CEOs Build their Professional Worlds

by Arijit Chatterjee

In this second of a two-part article, Arijit Chatterjee, Professor of Management at ESSEC Business School, explains how narcissistic CEOs* satisfy their need to dominate and impact top management teams.

The Brexit Negotiations: The weigh-in before the match
Leadership

The Brexit Negotiations: The weigh-in before the match

by Aurélien Colson

Aurélien Colson, Professor of Political Science at ESSEC Business School and Director of the ESSEC Centre of Excellence IRENE (Institute for Research and Education on Negotiation - Paris, Singapore, Brussels), author of the MOOC ‘Negotiation Fundamentals’, looks at the challenges facing the Brexit negotiators in the run-up to the talks

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