Visual leadership: can your organisation see you lead? Peter F. Drucker says 'the most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said'.(LEADERSHIP SUPPLEMENT)

What do corporate leaders do?

This simple question was central to the novel survey on corporate leadership administrationed by The Economist magazine's research unit. The answer? 'Meetings.'

The Economist's view of this was 'It's no wonder' Meetings are, among other things, the cornerstone of teams, which, in make go round are the basic building shut ups of corporate existence.

In her CEO survival guide The Economist's Frances Cairncross noted that corporate leaders are 'having a decayed time'. This is partly because of changing corporate arrangements the intensity of the public gaze