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Senior Team Development for the Unwilling
By John Sutherland
Traditional team work over-emphasises the whole team approach far more than is needed for most practical purposes. In this article, John Sutherland...
Careering Off Track: The New World of Work
By Adrian Furnham
Today, the idea of a ‘job for life’ is, for many people, neither possible nor desirable. The concept of the career has,...
Solving Marketing’s Inventory Crisis
By Paul F. Nunes and Joshua Bellin
Just-in-time manufacturing was adopted shortly after World War II to save companies from drowning in excess inventory as...
Are You – And Your Company – Prepared For The Future Of Work In...
Assessing Your Level Of Preparedness In 10 Key Domains1
By Simon L. Dolan, Alex Makarevich and Kristine Marin Kawamura
This article describes 10 key dimensions that...
The 4 P’s: Saving 25% of Meeting Time
By John Sutherland
Ineffective meetings are the bugbear of many organisations. In this article, John Sutherland, Director of Strategic resource introduces and discusses the 4...
India’s Lessons for Creating a Digital Business
By Raghav Narsalay and Avnish Sabharwal
As India rapidly moves into the digital era, leading Indian businesses are changing their business models to capture the...
Fads and Fashions in Management
By Adrian Furnham
In this article, the author shows that many fads and fashions in management are short lived and based upon flimsy evidence, yet...
Selling Illusory Joy: Emotions, Big Data and the Coming Retail Renaissance
By Christopher Surdak and Ed King
Today the world is awash in massive amounts of context-rich data. Whether it’s GPS position information, social media posts,...
Creativity at Work
By Adrian Furnham
Creativity is not an easy topic to research and few serious scientists conduct work in the area. First, creativity is difficult to...
How the Industrial Internet of Things Can Add to the Wealth of Nations
By Mark Purdy and Ladan Davarzani
To capture the benefits of Internet-connected machines, national leaders must nurture the conditions that are needed to translate technological...
European Social Immobility and Inequality are Intimately Related
By Terence Tse and Mark Esposito
In the aftermath of the financial crisis, Europe has seen an increase in inequality and immobility across social spectrum...
Local Technology Expert & Acclaimed Author Receives Wharton Club’s “2015 Benjamin Franklin Innovator’s Award”
Redlands,CALIFORNIA – May 6, 2015 –Redlands-native Christopher Surdak, J.D. was awarded the “Benjamin Franklin Innovator’s Award” from the Wharton Club of D.C. at the...
Analysis Paralysis: How “Big Data” May Finally Spell the End of Make-Believe Numbers
By Chris Surdak
In this article, Chris Surdak speaks from experience and argues that financial models are not used to present scientific or mathematical fact...
The Psychology of Disenchantment
By Adrian Furnham
Justice has always been a major issue among people. Especially in an organisational context, where many employees with different values, interests, and...
Germany, the Giant with the Feet of Clay
By Terence Tse and Mark Esposito
Many people argue that Germany’s model could be the key to strengthening other economies in the EU, however, a...
How to fix the broken European system? All we need is EDIE!
By Olaf Groth, Mark Esposito and Terence Tse
An “Entrepreneur-Driven Innovation Ecosystem (EDIE)” can help shift Europe’s early stage entrepreneurial activities toward a model...
The Digital Revolution is an Evolution for the Outsourcing Industry
By Mike Salvino
Digital technology has transformed virtually every industry, affecting the way companies serve customers, manufacture products,
Creating Collaborative Advantage
By John Sutherland
Successful collaboration between businesses can have myriad advantages. In this article, John Sutherland talks us through four key aspects for successful collaboration...
“I Can’t Help You:” The Dangers of Employees Disablement in the Social/Media Era
By Christopher Surdak
The quality of customer service has been steadily declining in recent years, but now that increasing digitisation has shifted more power to...
The Digital Transformation Opportunities Ahead
By Mike Sutcliff
The proliferation of digital technologies allows scope for innovation in the way organisations deliver customer experience. Here Mike Sutcliff explores the first...
What Could Be a Hidden Key for a Successful Merger and Acquisition Project?
By Mark Goyens and David De Cremer
The way we engage, communicate and deal with people involved in each phase of a merger and...
Swarm Economics: How 3D Manufacturing Will Change the Shape of the Global Economy
By Olaf Groth, Mark Esposito and Terence Tse
The collaborative economy and commons are challenging the way
Disruptive Digital Technologies Can Help Europe Recapture Competitiveness
By Mauro Macchi
European countries have long lagged behind other developed economies in productivity and innovation, even prior
Embedded Values and Induced Spirituality in Management Education
The Case of Two Successful Business Schools in Barcelona
By S. L. Dolan, Y. Altman, B. Capell and M. Raich
Closing the Leadership Gap
By John Sutherland
Traditional leadership development programmes operate with a one-size-fits-all mentality. Below, John Sutherland argues that the key to developing the right kind of...
Better Be a Baller: The Coming Talent Gap May be the Opposite of What...
By Christopher Surdak
The concept of Big Data has rapidly emerged as web and telecoms-based networking has expanded on a global scale. Christopher Surdak explores...
Are Leaders Fair? On the Need to Understand Fairness Management in Organisations
By D. De Cremer, G. Houwelingen, C. Ilse, H. Niek, L. Brebels, M. Van Dijke & A. Van Hiel
It is human nature to want...
Developing Leaders with Practical Mastery
By John Sutherland
You may know about leadership but can you lead? One you learn from a book or a course, the other through repeated...
From Great to Gone
By Peter Lorange and Jimmi Rembiszewski
New consumers demand a new breed of innovations in the products and services they are using. Below, Peter Lorange...
Demographic Changes in the Workplace
By Andrés Hatum
The global ageing population and the new generation of young professionals entering the market are changing the shape of the workplace. Companies...
Meeting Expectations
By John Sutherland
Most senior teams only have one or two ways of working together and never learn to vary their approach, based on the...
Leading towards Change of Ethics and Caring: Resisting Temptation and Reaping the Benefits
By Riane Eisler, Simon L. Dolan & Mario Raich
Businesses stand at a crossroads, and our current systems are not sustainable given the present economic...
Best of All Worlds: Hybrid Models of Public-Service Delivery
By Tim Cooper & Matthew Robinson
Governments around the world are facing increasing pressures on all fronts. From Europe to Japan to the United States,...
What is Resilience?
By Adrian Furnham
Can resilience be taught? If so, how? And are some organisations more resilient than others? This article considers how the notion of...
Competitive Advantage Rewired
By Adrian T H Kuah, Mark Esposito & Terence Tse
Is competitive advantage still an applicable concept so many years after its introduction? Our research...
Talenting: Framework and Metaphors for a New Processual Approach to Talent Management
By Simon L. Dolan & Paulo Hayashi Jr.
Although the necessity for attracting, retaining, and motivating talent is an old challenge for all competitive organisations,...
Don’t Despair: Growth from Consumer Behaviour Change in Developed-Market Economies
By Paul F. Nunes, Sam Yardley & Mark Spelman
Mired in a period of low growth, developed economies are becoming increasingly tough places to do...
Fast-Expanding Markets: Where New Growth Can Be Found!
By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito & Khaled Soufani
This article is dedicated to provide a working definition of these markets, which we call “Fast-Expanding Markets”...
Reimagining Enterprise IT for an Uncertain Future
By Jeanne G. Harris, Allan E. Alter, Stéphane J.G. Girod and Iris A. Junglas
The role of the information technology department is under scrutiny in...
Reclaiming the Battlefield of Consumer Influence
By Paul F. Nunes and Joshua B. Bellin
Companies are increasingly finding their marketing messages contradicted – or worse, turned against them – by a...
Making China Your Top Priority
By Gong Li, Henry Egan and Andrew Sleigh
Companies have never had such an array of options when it comes to investment opportunities in the...
How Europe Can Rebuild Skills and Generate Growth
By Tim Cooper, Athena Peppes, Mark Purdy and Matthew Robinson
Europe is facing a jobs and unemployment crisis that is unprecedented in recent times
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Walking the New Corridors of Power: Positioning your Business for the Era of Emerging-Market...
By Mark Purdy, Athena Peppes, Armen Ovanessoff & Kuangyi Wei
Over the past decade, the corridors of trade and investment have increasingly been occupied by...
Leaders Who Hit The Numbers
By John Sutherland
Leadership is seen in the heat of the moment in the world of work, not in theory during an off-site course. Leadership...
Making Inclusive Growth a Reality: Lessons from India
By Raghav Narsalay and Anish Gupta
Reaching out to the poor in emerging markets has long been a laudable social goal. But in India today,...
Capturing the Growth Opportunity in Emerging Markets
By Henry Egan and Armen Ovanessoff
Over the next five years, emerging markets will account for much of the globe’s economic growth. To compete on...
Jumping the S-Curve: How to Reach the Top – and Stay There
By Paul Nunes and Timothy Breene
One obvious trait of high-performance companies is that they are all adept at launching new businesses -- a process...
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Environmental Heroes and Villains – What Separates Truly Sustainable Organisations from those that Play Around the Edges?
By Giovani Palafox-Alcantar
COP29 underscored the gap between climate commitments and tangible actions, reflecting both progress and significant challenges. What is the critical role of business in bridging this gap and why are some companies...
Top Picks for 2025: Key Articles for Leaders and Readers
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...
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