Jan 15, 2025 | Michigan Model, Leading Organizations, Lindy Greer
In today’s dynamic business environment, leaders face unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Dr. Lindy Greer, faculty director of the Sanger Leadership Center and Michigan Ross professor, offers timely insights in a recent article, Advice for Business Leaders in...
Dec 14, 2023 | Leading Organizations, Managing Teams
Authored by Michelle Austin and Erica Haughton Organizations love a good buzzword. Nowhere does this become more evident than in a review of corporate values statements. In a 2021 study of 525 company values statements, the most commonly cited values included...
Apr 18, 2023 | Sanger Programs, Leading Organizations, Leadership Dialogues, Featured Post
Maize and blue Nikes, storytelling, empathy, and sustainability: four topics that came into conversation on April 10, 2023, during a chat with the chief financial officer of General Mills, Kofi Bruce, MBA ’98. Bruce joined the Sanger Leadership Center at...
Apr 6, 2023 | Purpose, Self-Leadership, Leading Organizations, Sanger News
Becoming a leader is a journey that requires significant effort, determination, and self-belief. However, many tend to believe that leaders are born, not made. They think that leadership is an innate talent that some people possess and others don’t. In a recent...
Apr 6, 2023 | Leading Organizations, Sanger News, Lindy Greer
In the modern workplace, the concept of “hierarchical flexing” has emerged as a way to manage teams and projects more effectively. This technique involves adjusting the level of control and oversight given to team members based on their experience and the...
Mar 28, 2023 | Lindy Greer, Sanger News, Leading Organizations
“Many companies emphasize the importance of increasing diversity and inclusion in decision-making teams and promoting processes that encourage employees to express their differences in opinion. It is naive, however, to expect that once diversity is present and...
Feb 16, 2023 | Lindy Greer, Leading Organizations
Leadership styles are not one size fits all. Leaders must be able to pivot, adjusting to the situation at hand. Hippos, or the highest paid person in organizations, should know when to be out of the water and leading from the front, or below the water, empowering...
Nov 16, 2022 | Leadership Dialogues, Sanger Programs, Leading Organizations
On November 10, Robin Washington, BBA ’84, board member of Alphabet, Inc., Honeywell International, Inc., and Salesforce.com, and former chief financial officer of Gilead, joined Professor Yesim Orhun at Michigan Ross as part of Sanger’s Leadership Dialogues speaker...
Jul 15, 2022 | Leadership Dialogues, Sanger Programs, Leading Organizations
Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever and co-author of Net Positive, was the featured speaker at the most recent session of Sanger’s Leadership Dialogues series. After participating in a private conversation with a small group of students from the Ross School of...
Jul 14, 2022 | Leading Organizations
The U-M Board of Regents has voted unanimously to appoint Dr. Santa J. Ono as the 15th President of the University of Michigan. Dr. Ono most recently served as President and Vice-Chancellor at the University of British Columbia and will begin his new role in Ann Arbor...
May 16, 2022 | Leadership Dialogues, Sanger Programs, Leading Organizations
Through our powerful ideas, purpose-driven leaders, and positive impact, we empower business leaders to make a positive difference in the world. Bold ideas take center stage in the Sanger Leadership Center’s new speaker series, the Leadership Dialogues. During each...
Apr 19, 2022 | Leading Organizations, Women in Leadership
While women continue to be underrepresented in top leadership positions around the world, some organizations are taking action to address this inequity. General Motors (GM) has long understood that unique perspectives are key to success in the marketplace. Women...
