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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...

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...

Parity in Progress: A New Future for Women in Energy

By Katie Mehnert Women’s rights have been front and centre in recent weeks, given the current political climate. But movement toward change has been brewing...

The Burning Platform of Retail Banking

By Magne Angelshaug and Tina Saebi Without argue, digitalisation has changed many aspects of our everyday lives. With these changes come different challenges and one of...

People and the Planet – CSR Initiatives Sweeten Ferrero’s Success

By Tammi L. Coles For global businesses to thrive, “doing sustainability” is no longer an option. Tammi L. Coles spoke with recognised CSR researcher and...

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...

Is Your Innovation Strategy Ready to Meet the 21st Century?

By Tamara Bekefi and Marc J. Epstein We are living in the midst of great change. The impacts of climate change, social issues, and technology...

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,...

Beyond Markets: Entrepreneurship in the Civil Society

By Pablo Munoz Entrepreneurship, as a societal phenomenon, is not embedded in those abstractions we call markets, but rather in what we do daily, oftentimes...

We Need a Greater Focus on the Benefits Women in Top Executive Roles Bring...

By Sucheta Nadkarni Recruiting women to corporate boards and top executive roles helps businesses find the best people and reach key consumers. There’s a risk...

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...

Organisational Identity as the Touchstone for Strategic Decision Making

By John C. Camillus A firm’s Identity – its core values, enduring aspirations and distinctive competencies – is intended to guide management’s decision making. This...

Have We Lost the Ability to Listen to Bad News?

By Kim E. van Oorschot, Luk N. Van Wassenhove, Kishore Sengupta & Henk Akkermans Research shows that project managers continuously prioritised good vibes (positive, but...

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...

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...

M&A Why has Microsoft Paid US$26 Billion for Business Networking Platform LinkedIn? Mark Skilton Management What Senior Executives Should Know About Sales Frank Cespedes Creating a One-Company Culture: Internal Strategy...

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...

July – August 2016

Technology Captain Dunsail to the Rescue! As Technology Advances We May Finally Be Forced to Deal with Our Biggest Business Challenge: Us Christopher Surdak Digital Business The Digital...

Mastering Innovation in Family Firms: How to Resolve the Ability vs. Willingness Paradox

By Alfredo De Massis and Federico Frattini Family firms represent a highly ubiquitous form of business organisation globally and are the backbone of many industrialised...

Leveraging Collaborations to Create Shared Value

By Hervé Legenvre, Francois Bacalou & Hugues Schmitz In this article the authors discuss how the competitiveness of an organisation and the health of the...

Design Your Life: Leveraging Design Thinking For Better Executive Health

By Steven P. MacGregor Why does management development focus almost solely on the neck up, when the demands placed on managers and executives touch every...

Franziska Gsell, CMO, IWC Schaffhausen

We women should not take such gender biases too seriously and put limitations on our career choices and ourselves. Franziska Gsell majored in Business Administation...

Ozlem Denizmen, Founding Chair, Financial Literacy and Inclusion Association

I have always shaped myself according to my values and set goals to realise those values. Instead of focusing on social prejudices, I set...

Design, When Everybody Designs

Social innovation and design for a new economy By Ezio Manzini In a fast and profoundly changing world everybody designs. The result of this diffuse designing...

Collaborative Innovation as Ultimate Driver of Growth

By Mark Esposito and Terence Tse Entrepreneurship is the key to economic growth, and right now, Europe’s economy difficulties need solutions. This article discusses the...

Alphabet International: How today’s companies can achieve sustainable Business Mobility

Sustainability is the modern day buzzword. Sounds great in theory, but what about the practice? Sustainability relating to fleet management goes beyond merely decreasing...

Why The Circular Economy Matters

By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito, and Khaled Soufani A Circular Economy represents not just a paradigm shift that waste is reconstructed to resources through reuse...

Whither Talent?

By Adrian Furnham To what end can talent be defined, sought out and developed? In this article Andrew Furnham discusses the different ideas of what...

November-December 2015

Leadership Leadership Innovation: Huawei’s rotating CEO system David De Cremer and Tian Tao Transitioning to General Management Kevin Kaier, Michael Pich and IJ Schecter Brilliant Senior Team Work John Sutherland Transformation Impact of...

Standardisation and Cooperation are the Future

Interview with Jonas Berggren CEO, SSG AB According to Jeffrey Sachs, author of “The Age of Sustainable Development,” achieving sustainable development on our crowded, unequal,...

The Age of Sustainable Development: Sustainable Development as an Analytical and Normative Concept

By Jeffrey D. Sachs Achieving sustainable development on our crowded, unequal, and degraded planet is the most important challenge facing our generation. In this excerpt...

September-October 2015

Sustainability The Age of Sustainable Development Jeffrey D. Sachs Standardisation and Cooperation are the Future Interview with Jonas Berggren, CEO, SSG AB Leadership Leading Huawei: Seven Leadership Lessons of Ren...

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 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...

The Rise of the Mobility Maker

Forward-thinking fleet managers can spark sustainable change by re-evaluating their roles and pursuing a new approach to Business Mobility. Just a few years ago‭, ‬the...

Challenging Stereotypes: The Women’s Executive Leadership Programme at Berkeley Executive Education

Interview with Laura Kray Professor of Leadership, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business UC Berkeley’s Women’s Executive Leadership Programme is unique: it was designed by women...

Women as Global Leaders: Challenges & Strategies for Getting to the Top

By Susan R. Madsen and Faith Wambura Ngunjiri In this article, Susan R. Madsen and Faith Wambura Ngunjiri discuss the challenges facing women in global leadership...

Sustainable Business Model Innovation to Create Value in a World of Finite Resources

By Christophe Sempels and Jonas Hoffmann We have jumped into an era of scarce resources. The related impacts will crescendo in the coming decades but...

Making Capabilities Explicit is The Work of Leadership

By Richard Lynch, Amber Román And Derval Kennedy In “Clarifying Strategy Is Simple. Aligning Your Organisation Is Not.” (The European Business Review, Sept/Oct 2014) the...

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

The Road to Sustainable Business Mobility

Interview with Carsten Kwirandt In this day and age, sustainability must be on the agenda of every organisation – particularly when it comes to their...

International Facility Management

By Kathy O. Roper Kathy O. Roper discusses the growing field of Facility Management and charts how it has evolved over the last 25 years...

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Brain-Machine Synchrony: A New Era of AI-Supported Human Collaboration and Societal Transformation

By Hamilton Mann, Cornelia Walther, and Michael Platt This paper introduces the concept of “brain-machine synchrony,” exploring the potential alignment of human brain waves and physiological responses with AI systems to build trust and enhance collaboration....

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