The Practice Of Strategy
By Carlos Rey Peña and Joan E. Ricart
What is strategy? In this article, the authors view strategy as a discipline that harmonizes business model...
Luxury is a necessity in People’s Republic of China: Social Rejection of New Wealth...
By Pierre Xiao Lu
Research Phenomena
China is the second largest market for luxury goods in the world, behind the US and before Japan1. More...
The Innovator’s Method
By Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer
Innovation is about uncertainty and nonstandard processes, so why is it that management literature and advice still deals...
Building Ethical Business Cultures: BRIC by BRIC
By Alexandre Ardichvili, Douglas Jondle, Jack Wiley, Edgard Cornacchione, Jessica Li & Thomas Thakadipuram
As the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICs) continue...
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”...
The Well-Focused Leader
By Daniel Goleman
Directing attention where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership. Below, Daniel Goleman considers how leadership hinges on capturing...
The End of Competitive Advantage
By Rita McGrath
Businesses are competing in increasingly volatile and uncertain global situations. Below, Rita McGrath suggests that stability, not change, is the state that...
Why Focus Matters to Your Leadership: Understanding Huawei’s Business Strategy
By David De Cremer
Contemporary business develops at a rapid pace, with many uncertainties, internationally connected stakeholders, and little latitude to make mistakes. In such...
Clarifying Strategy is Simple. Aligning Your Organisation is Not
By R. Lynch, A. Roman and G. Mac Criosta
A clearly defined and accessible business strategy is crucial to any organisation’s ability to optimally align...
Coaching for the Future
Using the example of the Indian company J.K. Organisation, this article shows how the adoption of a coaching culture has transformed the organization, setting...
Why Guanxi Matters in Business Relationships with China
By Bang Nguyen and David De Cremer
Business relationships between China and Europe have existed for quite some time and with the a renewed focus...
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...
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...
Which Companies Benefit Most from UN Global Compact Membership?
By Jette Steen Knudsen
In this article I examine a key business question: which kinds of companies are most likely to benefit from joining international...
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
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...
Delivering Transformational Change
By David Miller
Change is becoming more frequent, radical and complex. Failure rates of change projects are high because organisations fail to implement the change...
Eight Types of Corporate Crisis and the Role of National Culture
By Kai Hammerich & Richard D. Lewis
A crisis is a defining moment in any organization’s life. Below, Kai Hammerich and Richard D. Lewis consider...
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...
Performance Management Systems in Mexico: The Dual Logics of Evaluating Performance
By Anabella Davila & Marta M. Elvira
Understanding Performance Management systems implementation is critical for multinationals operating in countries with contrasting cultures. For firms...
Dynamism and Discontinuity: Eight Trends in the Business Environment that will Shape Strategy
By Mike Canning & Eamonn Kelly
The need for bold strategies to capitalise on the dynamism of our times has never been greater. Below, Mike...
Strategic Transformation at Tennis Canada
By Roger Martin
Aside from the small percentage of hugely successful game-changing start-ups like Apple, Microsoft and Google it can be hard for a small...
Learn or Die: Every Business Will Be In The Business of Learning
By Edward D. Hess
The velocity of business change will increase over the next decade driven by technology advances making the speed and quality of...
Social Media Strategy: Learning from the Online Cola War
By Fang Liu and Willem Smit
The battle between Coca-Cola and Pepsi1 has been one of the longest and most arduous in the history of...
The Heart of Change Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
By John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
In The Heart of Change, John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen argue that successful large-scale organizational...
The Employee Owned Business Model During Growth and Adversity: How Well Does it Hold...
By Joseph Lampel, Ajay Bhalla & Pushkar P. Jha
Criticism of modern corporate capitalism in the wake of the current economic crisis is reawakening interest...
The Chief Strategy Officer in the European Firm: Professionalising Strategy in Times of Uncertainty
By Markus Menz, Günter Müller-Stewens, Tim Zimmermann & Christian Lattwein
The chief strategy officer (CSO) position has recently been gaining prominence in European firms. However,...
Economic Development: It’s About Placemaking
By Richard Ball
As we progress towards a knowledge-based economy, strategies for economic development must increasingly take into account the importance of place. Here, Richard...
Developing Multicultural Competence
By Luciara Nardon, Richard M. Steers & Carlos J. Sanchez-Runde
In our globally expanding economy, it is no longer enough for successful managers to have...
When Relationships at Work, Work (And Don’t Work!)
By Rachel L. Morrison, Helena D. Cooper-Thomas & Susan Geertshuis
Like them or loathe them we cannot escape the people we work with. In Relationships...
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...
Strategic Planning & Execution in an Uncertain World
Setting business strategy used to be as simple as defining what the organization wanted to achieve and then laying out the steps to get...
Top IoT Companies Grow Faster But Require All-In Commitment
By Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner
The Internet of Things is one of the many inevitable changes happening in our digital world. In this article,...
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...
Reinvention: Critical to Business Success, but not Always Obvious
By Lloyd E. Shefsky
Strategic reinvention is a powerful engine for value creation, but business leaders sometimes miss opportunities to harness it. Lloyd Shefsky uses...
Leadership and the Structure of Trust
By Paul R. Lawrence and Robert Porter Lynch
Trust enables everything to move faster more effortlessly,and with less conflict.
In the business world, executives soon...
Why has Microsoft paid US$26 billion for business networking platform LinkedIn?
By Mark Skilton
The Microsoft move to acquire LinkedIn is a better move than past buyouts, the infamous failure of the Microsoft purchase of Nokia...
Understanding and Mastering Complexit
By Wolfgang Amann, Christoph Nedopil & Ulrich Steger
Complexity is re-emerging as a topic in top management. A combination of factors, such as the severe...
Global Brand Power Experiential Positioning of A Brand
By Barbara E. Kahn
Building a strong global brand is all about creating that unique position in the market. Here Barbara E. Kahn illustrates the...
Soothe Your Senses: A Multisensory Approach to Customer Experience Management and Value Creation in...
By Klaus-Peter Wiedmann, Franziska Labenz, Janina Haase and Nadine Hennigs
A growing trend in luxury tourism is the consumer’s desire for highest levels of customer...
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...
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,...
Transforming Procurement to Achieve Competitive Advantage in the Coming Decade
By P. Spiller, N. Reinecke, D. Ungerman & H. Teixeira
In this article, the authors argue that procurement must be transformed to meet the challenges...
Why Localisation is Key to Global Marketing
By Christina Comben
Any marketing campaign is geared to capturing the minds and hearts of its target market. In a globalised marketing platform, Christina Comben...
Change as Strategy
By Walter McFarland
This article suggests that some traditional approaches to organisational change are obsolete – and recommends a new approach focused on creating new...
Leading The Capability Revolution
By Jonathan Trevor
These are revolutionary times, we believe, and our established notions of leadership, many of which are more romantic than functional, must change...
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...
What Managers Need to Know about Platforms
By Annabelle Gawer
A new and powerful way to compete has taken shape in our business landscape: Platform competition
Whether we are talking about Google,...
New Business Creation Among BRICS Seven Times Faster Than G7 Since The Financial Crisis
By Jean Stephens, CEO of RSM International
RSM International is the seventh largest global network of independent audit, tax and advisory firms. Below, a comparative...
Technology Innovation the New Currency of the Digital Age
By David Stokes
The advent of the internet changed modern day lives irreversibly but the new game-changer is already here: mobile digital technology is changing...
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“Reverse Backstabbing”- The Art of Praising People Behind Their Backs
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Gossip can be hurtful and malicious, leaving behind a bad smell. And while we may not always avoid it, we can choose the type of gossip to engage in. Enter, reverse backstabbing,...
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