Strategy is once again taking centre stage, and with it the leader’s role in defining strategy. An analysis of CEOs’ decision-making styles reveals two essential models that make up two strategic pathways to success.

Companies are facing unprecedented organizational and strategic changes. With no widely accepted management model, the author assesses just how useful two decision-making models are for CEOs when tackling these changes.

Liberalization turned the Spanish banking sector into one of the most successful in Europe. Greater transparency and overcoming the politics behind the concept of national champions would consolidate its upward growth.

What is behind the extraordinary growth in the Spanish banking sector over the past 25 years? According to a study by IESE, the vision of CEOs in the sector has been key. Their winning strategy: short-term profitability.

Kimio Kase is one of the masterminds behind the PIF/PA classification. In this interview, he highlights its usefulness for gaining further insight into not only CEOs’ motivations and strategies, but also phenomena like globalization.