Networking in the Middle East
By Jane Williams, Editor, Knowledge Arabia

Competition for jobs in the Middle East is heating up and job candidates are finding that making contact on the ground is the only way to stay ahead of the pack.

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Making the Change

Forget planning and networking...it's a sure-fire way to remain stuck!

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The Wise Leader

Smart leaders steer their organisations to victory, but wise leaders are needed to keep them on top in a dynamic world.

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  • Are You A Star Performer?

    Star performers may be CEOs or politicians or even clerics; they may live in a forest or a city or a jungle. But they all share certain traits.

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  • Creating a Star Team

    A perfect working team is more than a set of great CVs; it also encompasses competent jerks and loveable fools.

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  • Leadership today: An inward journey

    Executive training may not make a leader out of a follower, but it certainly can make a promising leader better... provided he's willing to put in the effort and take a good long look into his soul.

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  • Are rankings worthwhile?

    The ranking of companies and business leaders has become something of a cottage industry in recent years. But what do they tell us about anything? Quite a bit, it turns out. You just have to learn to read between the numbers.

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  • Banking on Russia’s future

    ‘Russian management’ may seem like a conflict in terms to some cynics in the business world, but a new programme for the region’s largest bank created by INSEAD and the Moscow-based New Economic School is changing all that.

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  • What makes a good leader?

    What qualities are necessary in a global environment of economic uncertainty and political change, in which - thanks to technology – change happens at warp speed? Participants at INSEAD’s Leadership Summit Middle East in Abu Dhabi in January speak...

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  • Do gamblers make good leaders?

    A professor of corporate strategy at Tsinghua University explores the link between risk-taking in the casino and in the board room.

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