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Creativity is not an easy topic to research and few serious scientists conduct work in the area. First, creativity is difficult to...
Fast-Expanding Markets: Where New Growth Can Be Found!
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This article is dedicated to provide a working definition of these markets, which we call “Fast-Expanding Markets”...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Fads and Fashions in Management
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In this article, the author shows that many fads and fashions in management are short lived and based upon flimsy evidence, yet...
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The proliferation of digital technologies allows scope for innovation in the way organisations deliver customer experience. Here Mike Sutcliff explores the first...
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...
Why The Circular Economy Matters
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A Circular Economy represents not just a paradigm shift that waste is reconstructed to resources through reuse...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
Brilliant Senior Team Work
By John Sutherland
A large number of businesses have a gap between the espoused strategy and what actually happens day by day. So much so...
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...
Structure Follows Strategy – But May not Look Like You Imagined
By John Sutherland
In the world of structural design, one size does not fit all. It pays massive dividends to get the structure fit for...
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...
Introduction to the Female Leadership In Our Time
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Simonetta...
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Veronika Linardi, Co-founder & CEO, Qerja
The role I have carved out for myself is predominantly based on the experiences that molded me into the woman I am today, my...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Why Focus-Based Leadership is Important to Huawei’s Business Strategy
By David De Cremer and Jess Zhang
Contemporary business develops at a rapid pace, with many uncertainties, internationally connected stakeholders, and little latitude to make...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Caroline Fattal Fakhoury, Executive Coaching, Managing Partner, Praesta
Without influence, competence is powerless... if we refrain from engaging in politics we are effectively withdrawing ourselves as serious candidates for high corporate office.
Named...
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...
Rama Mani, Founder, Theatre of Transformation Co-Founder, Rising Women Rising World
Through my transformative art, I’m aspiring to shift the old paradigm that governed politics, economics and society so far and destroyed human life: ‘the...
What Companies Must Do Now That Better Is Also Cheaper
By Paul F. Nunes and Larry Downes
Industry-disrupting products used to enter the market as inferior but more affordable versions of existing offerings, giving incumbents...
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...
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,...
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...
Magdalena Mook, Executive Director & CEO, International Coach Federation
We all take risks in life and that’s why working with professional coaches is important; it should not be a matter of good fortune.
Magdalena...
India’s Lessons for Creating a Digital Business
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As India rapidly moves into the digital era, leading Indian businesses are changing their business models to capture the...
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...
Nike Okundaye, Artist & Founder, Nike Centre for Art and Culture
Yes! Income is key to decent living and decent living provides the necessary tools for a woman to occupy her rightful and respectable position...
Habit Hacking (Part I)
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In the first of two parts looking at habits in the workplace the author uncover the preliminary results of research into habit...
Best of All Worlds: Hybrid Models of Public-Service Delivery
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Governments around the world are facing increasing pressures on all fronts. From Europe to Japan to the United States,...
Simonetta Di Pippo, Director, UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
I believe that true passion has no gender and focusing on your goals and dreams helps you to overcome gender and cultural boundaries.
Simonetta Di...
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...
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