Tag: IESE

• October 8, 2019

  The Most Important Question before you Prepare a Speech

  Got a speech to give? What should I say? That is a terrible place to start. What’s the most important question you can ask yourself before preparing a speech? It was fun to make this short “elevator pitch” video with the production team at @iesebschool only 7 floors to make my point!
• September 16, 2016

  What does the Board do?

  This post describes Corporate Boards – What do they do? How do I join one? and What are my responsibilities as a Director? A board of directors is a body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization, which can include a non-profit organization or a government agency…
• June 9, 2016

  What I teach…

  I have the privilege of teaching at a number of top business schools around the world.  Last week I gave classes at Harvard and at MIT.  This is a video from IEEM Business School in Montevideo, Uruguay where I spend a week each October teaching on their MBA and Executive Leadership programs. The video is a…
• September 22, 2014

  7 Life Lessons from a Broken Foot

  This is a guest post by Tobias Rodrigues who will be collaborating with me next week in the IESE Executive MBA intensive week in Barcelona.  Tobias broke his foot this summer – and learnt some surprising lessons about himself, his family and what it means to be dependent on others.   Over to Tobias… 39…
• February 19, 2014

  IESE Speaking Gurus Interview Series

  This is a series of 10 interviews with the expert coaches during the IESE EMBA Intensive week 2013.  (If you are viewing via rss, video on the blog here).  The Expert Contributors are: Tony Anagor ([twitter-follow screen_name=’lifestyledmc’]) Florian Mueck ([twitter-follow screen_name=’the7minutestar’]) Conor Neill (Me!) ([twitter-follow screen_name=’cuchullainn’]) Tobias Rodrigues ([twitter-follow screen_name=’conflictmentor’]) John Zimmer ([twitter-follow screen_name=’zimmerjohn’]) The Speaking Guru Interviews How…
• January 8, 2014

  What does Leadership mean to you?

  Nitin Nohria, Dean of Harvard Business School will be speaking at IESE Business School in Barcelona next Monday 13th. “It is my desire to inspire people of all ages and social demographics to think about leadership on a broad level, contemplate what it means to them and what individual impact they can have when it…
• June 14, 2013

  IESE Business School: The Truly Global School

  

  I have recently finished teaching modules on the Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) and on the Develop Your Communication Skills (DYC) Short Focussed Program here at IESE in Barcelona. The global diversity of participants really struck me. IESE has become a truly global experience – both in the MBA program, and in the variety of Executive…
• March 29, 2013

  Announcing: IESE Communications Skills Webinar

  

  Join me for a Free Webinar on Develop Your Communication Skills In this webinar, IESE Lecturer Conor Neill will share his research on persuasive communication. April 12, 2013, 13-14h CET Password: skills Speak Powerfully Discover how to speak powerfully and communicate effectively in a variety of contexts, capture the attention of your audience and make your body language…
• January 2, 2013

  The 3 Hardest Words in Management

  What are the 3 words that managers find hardest to say? They are possibly the 3 words that parents find hardest to say to children.  They are 3 words that teachers very rarely say to their students. They are not “You’re the Best”. They are not “I love you”.  What might they be? The 3 hardest…
• November 7, 2012

  Entrepreneurship 2.0: The rise of the Growth Hacker

  We are coming up to Global Entrepreneurship Week #GEW next week, November 12-18. Organizations all over the world will be putting on events sharing the entrepreneur experience as widely as possible. Events in Spain are listed at the bottom of this post. Entrepreneurship 2.0: The rise of the Growth Hacker. In 1995 the web consisted…