The Female Business Takeover Opportunity Europe Cannot Afford to Miss
By Fernanda Arreola and Cédric Diridollou
Europe is entering a major wave of business transfers. For women and younger entrepreneurs, taking over an existing company...
The Three Forms of Contact: A Path to Contentment
By Simon L. Dolan
“Happiness may not be the goal of life - Perhaps contentment is”
For much of my professional life, I have been accompanied...
Building Stronger Communities: How Data Centers Can Contribute to Local Growth Through Strategic Partnerships
By Tatu Tuominen, Director of Public Affairs, atNorth
Collaboration between utilities, suppliers, data center operators and local businesses represents the blueprint for wide ranging community benefit.
Challenges to...
Musing About Meta Muse? Agentic AI Enters Digital Commerce
By Jacques Bughin
What European retailers can learn from the SaaS reinvention playbook.
Agentic AI is reshaping digital commerce, shifting retail advantage from websites and traffic...
The Blue Zones Lesson: Living Longer by Living Meaningfully
By Prof. Simon L. Dolan
You don’t have to work in a laboratory to discover the secret of longer life – just follow these simple...
What Anthropic’s Growth Really Means
By Jacques Bughin
If you’re thinking we can understand the rise of frontier AI firms by analogy with earlier technology superstars, you might want to think...
How Vodafone Procure & Connect Pioneers AI at Scale
By Hervé Legenvre
This article examines how Vodafone Procure & Connect (VP&C) has built and deployed AVA, an AI-driven sourcing and procurement platform, across its...
Bullshit Jobs
By Adrian Furnham
Meaningless work can undermine motivation, wellbeing and purpose, leaving workers questioning the value of what they do every day.
Not all jobs provide...
The Leadership Imperative: Moral Trust as the Foundation of Leadership
By Simon L. Dolan and Joy J. Albrecht
Can we trust our leaders to operate according to a moral code and, even if we can,...
The Psychology of Decision Making
By Robert Hogan and Adrian Furnham
Head or heart, logic or passion, cold reason or gut instinct—which is the optimal decision-making strategy of a great...
Why Should the Private Sector Lead the Fight Against Climate Change?
By Peter Lorange, Sigvald Harryson, and Karin Mugnaini
We've found that companies co-creating solutions with unconventional outside partners are cutting carbon and health-related harm faster...
The Robot Economy is Already Here. Physical AI is About to Change Its Economics
By Jacques Bughin and Patrick Hermann
Ten facts every European executive and investor should know — and why the biggest opportunity may be to make...
I’ve Got the Technology, the Product, the Customers and the Investment. Are We There...
By Fernanda Arreola and Tom Hashimoto
Why entrepreneurial success increasingly depends less on building a business than on governing its future.
Every entrepreneur dreams of reaching...
Is Media Scrutiny Making Offices Safer? What the Latest Acas Data Tells Us About...
By Tessa Harris
Section 26(2) of the Equality Act 2010 defines sexual harassment in two parts. First, harassment occurs where someone engages in unwanted conduct...
Better Boards Podcast: The Cold Handshake – Why Boards and Management Do Not Connect...
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Cybersecurity is a top risk for organisations, yet many boards feel...
AI Bubbling or Not? What Does the AI Future Look Like in Today’s AI...
By Jacques Bughin
AI leaders are delivering extraordinary growth, but their stock prices may already assume an even more extraordinary future. So, is AI really...
AI (May Be) No Hype and Concentrating
By Jacques Bughin
Software is the canary in the AI coal mine. After only a few quarters, commercial AI is already associated with a widening...
Are You Addicted to Scrolling? The New Digital Habit that is Stealing Our Recovery
By Dr. Simon L. Dolan
Infinite scrolling may seem harmless, but repeated digital stimulation can erode attention, recovery, and self-control, making digital resilience increasingly important.
Infinite...
Striking the Right Balance Between Environmental Integrity and Business Agility
By Tatu Tuominen, Director of Public Affairs, atNorth
Europe must scale AI‑ready digital infrastructure without sacrificing sustainability, proving growth and green ambition can advance together through...
Listening Well, Leading Better: TEN Techniques That Transform How You Lead
By Avi Liran
Discover ten powerful listening techniques that help leaders connect more deeply, inspire greater trust, and unlock the full potential of their teams.
You...
Beyond Cyber Protection: How European Companies Can Operate Through Cyber Disruption
By Harpreet Sidhu, Giovanni Cozzolino and Yusof Seedat
Cyberattacks can no longer be prevented entirely, making resilience, not protection, the defining leadership challenge. This article...
From Time Management to Value Management: Investing Your Time Where It Matters Most
By Elizabeth Eiss
A small business owner sits down on Monday morning with every intention of focusing on growing the business. Before long, she's answering...
How Art Can Support Effective New Business Development
By Dr. Peter Lorange
There are multiple ways to assess a new business venture – but have you ever thought of evaluating it by reference...
The Good Plastic Company: Generating Circular Design by Choosing Scalable Waste
By Fernanda Arreola, Dr. Gregory C. Unruh, and Sabine Bacouel-Jentjens
Can plastic really be “good”, environmentally speaking? Read about a company founded on the belief...
Better Boards Podcast: The Leadership Blind Spot in the Boardroom
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New research suggests the biggest leadership risk right now may not...
Surveillance at Work: Big Brother is Monitoring You
By Adrian Furnham
Although you may feel that monitoring your employees is a valid precaution, not only may they strongly disagree, but that disagreement can...
Pragmatism over Politics: How Europe’s Data Centre Providers Should React to Geopolitical Pressures
By Tatu Tuominen, Director of Public Affairs, atNorth
Europe’s data‑centre sector faces rising geopolitical pressure, demanding pragmatic, locally grounded decisions to safeguard sovereignty and accelerate...
Can Machines Demonstrate Integrity? Crash-Testing Artificial Integrity, Not Intelligence.
By Hamilton Mann
Large language models are already being consulted in decisions that touch patient safety, regulatory compliance, and public trust, yet their behavior under...
Turn AI Into a Force for Responsibility: How European Companies Strengthen their Ethics, People,...
By Laetitia Cailleteau, Philippe Roussiere, and Josh Elkind
AI could become Europe’s next instrument of responsible enterprise, making companies fairer and more responsive to change.
Across...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: From the Family Table to the Board Table –...
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While we often think in terms of large, listed corporations, family...
Most Companies Aren’t Built to Care About Impact
By Fernanda Arreola and Gregory Unruh
Corporate sustainability efforts often fall short because the real challenge lies not in intentions, but in the way businesses...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Selecting the Chair – Governance Lessons from the US...
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In our podcast, we want to inspire and contribute to the...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Beyond the Obvious – How to Get Chair Succession...
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Chair succession is a pivotal moment for boards. It presents an...
The EU Tech Sovereignty Package is a Good Start. But Does it go Far...
Europe's tech sovereignty ambitions are promising, but stronger action on infrastructure, energy, and delivery timelines is needed to secure digital independence.
Last week (June 3, 2026),...
From Black Box to Glass Box
How Portugal’s largest retailer and a Brazil-born innovation hub are reinventing how stores think.
The Bet
Two years ago, MC Sonae made a bet. Portugal’s dominant...
The Rearchitected Firm: Moving Beyond Hierarchies in an Age of Agentic AI
By Jacques Bughin
As AI begins to coordinate work, not just automate it, firms may evolve from static hierarchies into computationally adaptive organizations.
Artificial intelligence is...
The Power of Three: Insights from A Kabbalistic Tradition for Business and Life Success
By Simon L. Dolan
Drawing from Kabbalah, this article explores how balance, integration, and the “Power of Three” can shape sustainable leadership and lasting success.
In...
When AI Wants to Teach You How to Become an Entrepreneur
By Fernanda Arreola and Jean Giraux
As generative AI makes entrepreneurial knowledge widely accessible, competitive advantage increasingly depends on human judgment, contextual thinking, and strategic...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: From Awareness to Architecture – How Boards Can Build...
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Once boards prioritise managing geopolitical risk, how can they successfully move...
The Need for Love as a Meta-Value for Euficiency in Times of Chaos
By Salvador García-Sánchez, Simon L. Dolan, and Lluís Carbonell
From Emotional Regulation to the Ethical Design of Bonding for Organizational Development.
In organizational contexts, love is...
When a Crisis Challenges Your Work-From-Home Policy
By Avi Liran
While WFH was almost entirely introduced as a reaction to a crisis, for many companies, it might just be a silver lining.
One well-known UK insurance...
Clothes at Work: Dress for Success
By Adrian Furnham
Your clothes may be making a statement – but are they really saying what you think they are saying?
The way we dress...
The Psychology of Connection and Connectedness
By John Cooper and Adrian Furnham
The need to belong to, and be accepted by, groups is – for better or for worse – a...
How Europe Could Turn Ambient Listening into Competitive Advantage
By Dr. Konstantin Vdovenko and Dr. Katarzyna Byszek-Stevens
Europe has a strategic opportunity to ease demands on its healthcare system and simultaneously unlock the potential...
AI Fatigue: The Hidden Challenge in the Race for AI Adoption
By David De Cremer, Kwong Chan, and Jin Kim
Perhaps it's unsurprising that even initial enthusiasts for AI, when exposed to the relentless narrative and...
Do People Trust AI to Provide Relevant Information? Insights from the Mass Transportation Industry
By Fernanda Arreola and Jean-Christophe Lassalle
In order to gain acceptance among the general public, AI systems need not only to deliver correct information, but...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Board Review Results – Five Insights From An Analysis Of...
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The UK is famous for its rigorous governance code and almost...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Boardrooms and Battlegrounds – Closing the Geopolitical Risk Gap
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Many boards treat geopolitics as background noise, leaving their companies exposed...
Developing Saudi Arabia’s Construction Ecosystem: Moving from vision to reality at The National Housing...
By Hervé Legenvre
Saudi Arabia’s ambition to deliver 600,000 homes by 2030 requires an unprecedented procurement and supply chain effort. The National Housing Company leads...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: The Route to the Top – How to Become...
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The Company Secretary profession is increasingly competitive. It takes a unique...
