Softscaling: A New Growth Strategy for Volatile Environments
By Ritu Agarwal and Peter Weill
In an increasingly volatile world what were tried and true business maxims yesterday probably won’t work today. Just think...
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...
Simpler Organisation Designs Improve Company Performance and Employee Motivation
By Simon Collinson, Melvin Jay & Mary Pizzey
Walmart earns $400 billion each year by serving over 100 million customers every week in 4,500 retail...
Transforming the Global Supply Chain
By Carlos Cordon and Winter Nie
The rise of the emerging economies, fluctuating prices in commodities, the lingering effects of the global financial crisis and...
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...
The Will and Skill to be Strategic
By Patrick R. Dailey & Chuck Russell
Strategy guidance is a board’s most crucial responsibility.
With contemporary directors repeatedly being exhorted to step up their contribution...
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
• Since...
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...
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...
Bigger is no Longer Better: Complexity and the New Frontier
By Andrei Perumal, Kelly Jones & Ann Bryan
The world has changed – and complexity has emerged as one of the defining issues of our...
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...
Needed: Executives (and Citizens) with a Global Mindset
By Nakiye A. Boyacigiller
We are facing challenges of a global nature that require global citizenship, global responsibility, and global solutions. These cannot be achieved...
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...
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...
The Future Quotient: Managing Seriously Long-Term Risks and Opportunities
By John Elkington
To succeed in the new world order, leaders need to switch from thinking about incremental change to transformational, systemic change.
An old order...
So, you think you have a strategy? Five poor excuses for a strategy
By Freek Vermeulen
No matter how colourful your PowerPoint presentation, it does not mean you have a strategy. So what is strategy and what are...
Has the quality of our politicians declined or is the world becoming impossible to...
By Michael Cox
We live not just in ‘interesting times‘, but in quite extraordinary times where few in the West now appear to have much...
Reinventing Management
By Julian Birkinshaw
What is the future of management? Can management be reinvented to make it more effective as an agent of economic progress and...
Does China Want to Buy Up Europe? Europe’s Crisis and China’s Reluctant Rise
By Roland Benedikter and Jae-Seung Lee
In the occasion of Germany’s Angela Merkel’s visit to China on 3rd February 2012, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao stated...
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...
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,...
Complexity Kills Profits – CEOs need to simplify their businesses
By Simon Collinson and Melvin Jay
The competitive environment is becoming more complex and unpredictable, and senior managers have no control over the underlying trends,...
Making Best Practices Stick
By Adrian Done, Chris Voss and Niels Gorm Rytter
Several key factors influence the short-term success and long-term sustainability of best practice interventions. Management of...
Redesigning Leadership: Design, Technology, Business + Life
By John Maeda and Becky Bermont
There is a simple saying in Japanese that epitomizes the nature of striving for excellence, “Ue ni wa ue...
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...
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,...
Write Off or Right On?
By Andreas Tesch
What businesses consider to be an uncollectable debt may not always be as clear cut as is the case when a customer...
Commercial Property: Spotting the Opportunity
By Michael Keogh
Property markets globally have recovered from the valuation declines recorded at the height of the financial crisis, but in large part, this...
Prospects for the World Economy 2011
By David Bartlett, Economic Advisor, RSM International
Solidation prevails in the United Kingdom and other member states.
• The divergent growth paths of developed and emerging...
Social Technologies in the Enterprise – Rising to the Challenge
By Evgeny Kaganer, Sandra Sieber and Neil Hair
“What we are looking at is how to build a collaborative platform hooked into business automation software....
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...
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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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