Asian Leadership

Dave Ulrich is a Professor of Business at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and a partner at The RBL Group (www.rbl.net), a consulting firm that helps organizations and leaders deliver value. Ulrich studies how organizations build capabilities of speed, learning, collaboration, accountability, talent and leadership through leveraging human resources. He has helped generate award-winning databases that assess alignment between strategies, human resource practices and HR competencies. Ulrich has published more than 200 articles and book chapters and co-authored over 20 books covering topics in leadership and human resources, including HR Transformation (2009); The Leadership Code (2008); HR Competencies (2008); Leadership Brand (2007); and HR Value Proposition (2006). He has also served on the editorial board of four journals, the Board of Directors for Herman Miller, and the Board of Trustees at Southern Virginia University, and is a Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources. Ulrich has been ranked the most influential person in HR by HR Magazine and the #1 Management Educator & Guru by BusinessWeek, and also listed in Forbes as one of the "world's top five" business coaches.



New Page 1 Robert Sutton is Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He is co-founder of Stanford's Center for Work, Technology and Organization, the Stanford Technology Ventures Program and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. He is also an IDEO Fellow and Professor of Organizational Behavior (by courtesy) at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. His books include Weird Ideas That Work; The Knowing-Doing Gap; Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense; and The New York Times bestseller, The No Asshole Rule. His latest book -- Good Boss, Bad Boss -- was released in September 2010. Sutton's honours include selection by Business 2.0 as a leading "management guru" in 2002, the award for the best article in the Academy of Management Review in 2005, being named as one of ten "B-School All-Stars" by BusinessWeek in 2007, and the Industry Service Award from the Stanford Engineering School in 2010.