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What are the leadership styles of those around you? And if you are a leader yourself, what is your own predominant leadership style?

In a world that has become not just hyper-connected, but over-connected, is emotional intelligence enough to help us manage relationships? Erika Dhawan introduces a new concept - connectional intelligence.

Imagine you are a CEO. You take your top team away for a strategy session at a suitably well-furnished hotel somewhere in the countryside. Over two days of discussions, you emerge with a great new strategy for the organisation.

"On 24 June I woke to the seismic shock of the UK vote to exit the European Union..." Deborah Rowland reflects on the possible effects of the UK leaving the European Union.

"Relationships are to the social era what efficiency was to the industrial era", says Nilofer Merchant, winner of the Thinkers50 Future Thinker Award and TED speaker.

Talking to entrepreneurial leaders you never know what to expect. Sometimes their business idea appears badly developed. Other times it is so highly developed that they can appear caught in an entrepreneurial straightjacket of great intentions.

There are now over 1.5 million apps in both the Apple and the Android stores, and the number is constantly growing. So which are the best free apps for leaders?

For Nelson Mandela it was Robben Island. For former U.S. presidential candidate John McCain it was Vietnam. There is a point in the lives of leaders, a moment when the leader makes the grade, when they leap from management to leadership, from team member to leader.

Strategy doesn't get stuck at the 'workers' or the 'frozen middle' level; it gets stuck because senior executives don't see themselves as an aligned force for good, says Liz Mellon, author of Inside the Mind of the Leader and The Strategy of Execution.