Could you answer these 3 questions?

I need your help. I’ve been asked to reflect on 3 questions for an interview this week on the Innovation Ecosystem podcast. Founded by anthropologist...

Into the wild

By Steven MacGregor “Brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the eye is...

The 7 Hacks of Highly Effective Habits by Dr. Steven MacGregor

How many times have you said that you will change for the better? Dr. Steven MacGegor's 7 Hacks of Highly Effective Habits can be...

Ebb and flow

By Steven MacGregor I spent some time with Oracle a few weeks ago, during the kick-off to their new financial year. 150 senior leaders from...

Are You Following the Right Digital Recipe?

By Tracey Countryman, David Abood, Aidan Quilligan, Raghav Narsalay, and Aarohi Sen   To produce a successful dish of digital reinvention, start by combining six ingredient...

Chief Wellbeing Officer: Learning to Live

By Steven MacGregor With the Chief Wellbeing Officer book released this week, we include an excerpt from Chapter 7 on how to achieve lifelong learning....

Why Forgiveness Should Be Part Of Your Compliance Strategy

By David de Cremer Compliance strategies are integral in creating a trustworthy, high performing and innovative work culture. As such, it is imperative for companies...

Inner agility for health and wellbeing

By Steven MacGregor We look at agile ways of working this month, including an excerpt from episode 7 of the Chief Wellbeing Officer podcast with global...

Savvy and Skillful: a new look at office politics

By Adrian Furnham Until recently the concept of office politics was exclusively associated with dirty tricks and Machiavellian manipulation. But recently psychologists using the concept...

Why Mark Zuckerberg’s Leadership Failure was a Predictable Surprise

By David De Cremer In today’s more developed global village, responsible leadership is of paramount importance especially from businesses that make use of digital platforms....

The Challenge of Leading Digital Platforms in Responsible Ways

By David De Cremer, Jess Zhang, and Leander De Schutter Digital platform businesses are increasingly being confronted with a host of unethical consequences due to a lack of...

Leading by example

By Steven MacGregor I’ve been lucky to have had some great conversations this past week without travelling too far from home. Two days spent with...

The Fintech Opportunity for Banks in Europe

By Elena Mazzotti and Francesca Caminiti Propelled by data-driven innovation, fintech companies continue to gain traction – taking some financial firms by surprise. For banks...

Insights into the Transformation of Business in the Cyber-Age

By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo The rapid and disruptive technological developments are leading us into a global all encompassing transformation....

The ROI of Wellbeing

By Steven P. MacGregor I was teaching Masters students at IE’s School of Human Sciences and Technology this week. Teaching wellbeing at work to an...

To Find Value in the Digital Age, Find It for Others First

By Omar Abbosh, Vedrana Savic and Michael Moore To grow their businesses consistently, leaders must envision a much bigger picture of where value resides than...

The Joyous Republic of giffgaff

By Steven P. MacGregor   The Minister for Development arrives at the office by bicycle, and gets straight to work. Meeting the other ministries is first...

Biochemistry 101

By Steven MacGregor   I’ve been lucky enough to teach executives from companies including Oracle, Telefónica, Chevron Philips and Banco Santander the past few weeks in a...

A Conversation with Ann Pickering, Director of Human Resources at O2

By Steven MacGregor We continue our global influencers series this month in conversation with Ann Pickering. This was a recorded interview that you can listen to...

The Rise Of The Imagination Economy

By Mark Purdy, Athena Peppes and Suning An The physical constraints of distance and geography shape how we live, work, produce and consume. But advances...

Organisational Vitality: The Life Line for Your Company

By David De Cremer Where do you see your company many many many years from now? In this article, David De Cremer tells us the...

Chief Wellbeing Officer

By Steven MacGregor  This month we include an excerpt from Steven MacGregor’s new book, Chief Wellbeing Officer: Leading in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, co-authored with Rory...

A Conversation with Roberto Di Bernardini, Global Head of HR at Banco Santander

By Steven MacGregor Returning to our series of interviews with global influencers we talk to Roberto Di Bernardini, who after almost a decade of HR leadership...

5 Smart Ways to Increase Europe’s “AIQ”

By Francis Hintermann, Madhu Vazirani, and Carsten Lexa At first glance, it would be surprising to learn that Europe is lagging behind in the field...

When Democracy and Centralisation Meet in Leadership

By David De Cremer and Tian Tao Business leaders face a plethora of challenges and one of those is finding the leadership approach that would...

Design For Wellbeing

By Steven MacGregor Health and wellbeing in the professional domain continue to garner increased attention. In this article, the author wraps up the year through...

GLOOM vs. BLOOM OF THE FUTURE OF WORK: Can We Chart A Positive Roadmap?

By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo As the digital era is continuously in its process to ripen, discussions of destructive unforeseen...

Is Compassionate Leadership a Driver of Huawei’s Business Success?

By David De Cremer and Tian Tao In this article, the authors trace giant telecom Huawei’s success to its founder’s commitment to compassionate leadership. In...

Habit Hacking (Part II)

By Steven MacGregor How many times have you said that you will change for the better? In this Part Two of the article, the author...

Adapting Your Digital Business to a Fragmented World

By Omar Abbosh, Paul Nunes and Armen Ovanessoff We are aware that this era calls for your business to be able to continuously adapt to...

United Airlines, Artificial Intelligence, and Donald Trump: Reawakening Values in the Era...

By Avi Liran and Simon L. Dolan Society has evolved and not all aspects of our lives were able to cope up with the changes...

Habit Hacking (Part I)

By Steven MacGregor In the first of two parts looking at habits in the workplace the author uncover the preliminary results of research into habit...

Business as Usual?

By Mark Esposito, Terence Tse, and Lisa Xiong “We are running out of water.”(Famiglietti (NASA), 2015)1 The constantly evolving world we live in continues to pose...

A Conversation with Rory Simpson, Chief Learning Officer at Telefónica

By Steven MacGregor We start a new series this month, interviewing global influencers in the area of executive health. Short conversations that we hope will deliver...

Beyond the Hateful 8

By Steven P. MacGregor  Steven MacGregor elaborates on how today’s world has turned Robert Owen’s “Triple 8” to the “Hateful 8”. How should business leaders...

Space, But Not as We Know It: Notes on the Future Workplace

By Steven P. MacGregor Apple Park opens in a few weeks time. The new headquarters of one of the world’s most innovative companies, referred to...

Mapping and Strategising Across Business Ecosystems

By Hervé Legenvre and Isabelle Herbet Business ecosystems are the new unit of analysis for strategic thinking; they offer fertile grounds for innovation. This article...

Re-Design Your Feed

Taking a Deeper Look at Environment for Behaviour Change: Part I By Steven P. MacGregor In the year 1929, and nearing the end of his second,...

This Too Shall Pass Change is Not Only Necessary, It’s Inevitable

By Christopher Surdak  If one word was used to describe the year we have just lived through my choice would be “change”. For most businesses,...

Take the Window Seat (Return)

By Steven P. MacGregor   As we begin a new year and return to work a fairly typical professional activity may include a look ahead to...

Take the Window Seat (Outbound)

By Steven P. MacGregor As we near the year-end, a fairly typical professional reflection may include the number of business trips and particularly flights we...

FED Up With Big Data Hype? How Central Banks Struggle with Digital Disruption

By Christopher Surdak Since releasing his latest book, “Jerk: Twelve Steps to Rule the World,” Christopher Surdak has spoken with thousands of business and governmental...

Leo Messi and Larry Ellison have more in common than you think

By Steven P. MacGregor I was watching through a crack in my fingers. And there it was, inevitable really. Number seven. My football team, Glasgow...

Values, Values on the wall, Just do business and forget them all: Wells Fargo,...

By Avi Liran and Simon L. Dolan There is a growing discrepancy between the values stated on the wall and values in action. In the...
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Creating Effective Organisational Systems through Experimenting with Human Nature

By David De Cremer and Tian Tao If organisations are serious in building cultures that can translate the desire to create joint value into a...

We Are All Executives Now

By Steven P. MacGregor Last week I was teaching on a new “Executive Program” for Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica at their Corporate University north of...

Happy New Year: MacGregor on Executive Health

By Steven P. MacGregor For most of Europe, especially those engaged in academic pursuits, September marks the beginning of a new year. After the traditional...
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) In China: Huawei as a Case Study

By David De Cremer Adopting CSR as a company philosophy in China seems to be more challenging than could be expected. In this article, David...

Dubai: A City of Jerks

By Christopher Surdak Chris Surdak shares the lessons he has learnt from Dubai's strategies to “Jerk” or disrupt the way that information is created, stored...

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As we move into 2025, leaders are navigating a rapidly changing economic and cultural landscape, where understanding technological innovation, shifting business models, and global trade dynamics will be crucial to long-term success. So will...