Leadership in Tough Times

I was a participant in the London Business School’s Global Leadership Summit earlier this week. Five hundred executives, many of them LBS graduates, attended the event. There were heated debates about executive compensation, the role of government in the private sector, the balance between needs of shareholders and stakeholders, and the responsibilities of the CEO as communicator/statesman. Here are some of the more provocative contributions from the CEO panelists: 1) Government and Busin