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...
A Conversation with Ann Pickering, Director of Human Resources at O2
By Steven MacGregor
We continue our global influencers series this month in conversation with Ann Pickering. This was a recorded interview that you can listen to...
Strategic Responses To Neo-Populism
By Dan Prud’homme, Max von Zedtwitz, and Fernanda Arreola
The rise of Neo-populism presents risks to multi-national corporations in Western markets. The authors outline practical strategies corporations...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Behind the Closed Doors of Tech Start-up Boards
The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series.
The board is a powerful asset for tech start-ups, with...
Jumping the S-Curve: How to Reach the Top – and Stay There
By Paul Nunes and Timothy Breene
One obvious trait of high-performance companies is that they are all adept at launching new businesses -- a process...
Tyrant Leadership: Putin and the Psychology of Power
By John Taylor and Adrian Furnham
Vladimir Putin appears to be firmly in control of his country, able to bend it to his will and...
Strategic Leadership for Growth in Turbulent Times
By Peter Lorange
In uncertain times, strategic leadership is crucial for navigating growth. Dr Peter Lorange, Honorary President of IMD, explores how executives can harness...
Europe Must Invest in Technology, Talent, and Trust to Realise the Potential of Generative...
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Jack Azagury and Dominic King
Could generative AI breathe new life into the old continent? Europe’s technology deficit with North America is...
Why is OpenAI Moving Towards a Closed Source Strategy?
By Hervé Legenvre and Erkko Autio
This article is part two of the ongoing series—The AI Power Plays—that explores the fiercely competitive AI landscape where...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Mastering Internal Board Evaluation
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Corporate Governance Codes worldwide state that an internal board evaluation...
The Art of Future Design — Part I: Framing, Assessing, and Identifying Relevant Contexts
By Kristine M. Kawamura, Mario Raich, Simon L. Dolan, Dave Ulrich and Claudio Cisullo
Our desire to design a better future for those coming behind...
New Outlook, New Educational Curricula And Proactivity
By Dr Mario Raich, Dr Kristine Marin Kawamura, Dr Simon L. Dolan, Dr Paweł Rowiński and Mr Claudio Cisullo
PART II: Towards A Visionary Prescriptive Transformation...
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...
The 10 Core Habits of Resilient People: Concept and Tools for Resiliency and Wellness...
By Simon L. Dolan, Anat Garti, Miriam Diez Pinol, and Pedro Cesar Martinez Moran
Creating or enhancing resilience has become a buzz phrase in recent...
Creeping Towards Creepy: Companies Must Learn Constraint with Big Data, Before it’s Too Late
By Robert D. Owen and Christopher W. Surdak
Companies have invested billions just to utilise technology to analyse customer needs and wants with maximum accuracy....
Not Lost in Translation: Making the Data Make Sense
Interview with Fleur Hicks, award-winning CEO of management consulting firm onefourzero
Where can managers turn for help in navigating the vast sea of data that...
Leading Huawei: Seven Leadership Lessons of Ren Zhengfei
By David De Cremer and Tian Tao
"Every generation produces its own great character, and each exerts impact for hundreds of years." True to this...
Why Meta is Positioning Itself as the Champion of Open-Source AI
By Hervé Legenvre and Erkko Autio
This article is part one of an ongoing series - The AI Power Plays - that explores the fiercely...
Looking Forward to the Roaring 20s with L’Oréal’s Ronny Kelders
In a continuation of the "Thriving Business" theme on the Chief Wellbeing Officer podcast we talk to Global Head of Learning & Development at...
What Makes You an Effective Leader in Crisis Situations?
By David De Cremer
For many organizational leaders and entrepreneurs, the coronavirus crisis represents a very challenging environment to lead and motivate their teams.
What do...
Penelope Trunk, Co-founder & CEO, Quistic, Author, Blogger
Here's a question I want to see you ask: How can people, who run the economic and social life in their country at large,...
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...
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...
Guiding Agentic AI
By Jacques Bughin and Philipp Remy
Agentic AI is a new class of AI systems that combine goal-driven autonomy and represents the third wave of...
(Un)explainable AI: Should All AI Systems Be?
By Hamilton Mann
In the pursuit of harnessing the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI), businesses and researchers grapple with paradoxes that emerge when aiming to...
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...
[Podcast] Will the machines make us more human? with enaible co-founder Mischa Zielke
After looking at the darker side of technology addiction and human weakness in episode 20, we focus this month on a more positive view...
Symbian or Uber? Thriving or Collapsing in Digital Business Ecosystems
By Jacques Bughin
"In an avalanche, no snowflake ever felt accountable,"
- Voltairei
What makes successful digital business ecosystems? Beyond a common evolutionary vision, we discuss the...
“I Can’t Help You:” The Dangers of Employees Disablement in the Social/Media Era
By Christopher Surdak
The quality of customer service has been steadily declining in recent years, but now that increasing digitisation has shifted more power to...
Berkeley Executive Education: Creating A “New Thinking For The New Economy”
Interview with Laura Tyson, Interim Dean, Haas School of Business
Located in the heart of the world’s innovation center, UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business...
The Rise of Dual-Sided Artificial Intelligence (DSAI)
By Hamilton Mann
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, a « Dual-Sided Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) » is taking centre stage, highlighting both unprecedented advancements and...
Heather Baker, CEO, TopLine Comms, Editor and Blogger
I’m also always learning and trying to improve – I think I’m a much better leader now than I was two years ago. I’m...
[Podcast] Christmas reflections
A 'back to the roots' episode recorded in the childhood home in Motherwell, Scotland as Dr. MacGregor reflects on the seven episodes of the...
Looking beyond ChatGPT: Why AI Reinforcement Learning is Set for Prime Time
By Jacques Bughin
Companies must master AI—and all techniques, whether it is (un)supervised learning or reinforcement learning as is set to revolutionise predictive powers and...
[Podcast] Episode 35: Building Authentic Communities with Standing on Giants Co-Founder Robbie Hearn
We finish the year with our final reflections on community with Standing on Giants co-Founder Robbie Hearn. Discussing cases from Airbnb to giffgaff we...
A New Generation of Entrepreneurs: Moving with Purpose
By Fernanda Arreola and Gregory Unruh
Have you ever noticed how successful entrepreneurs seem to be driven by a kind of inspiration? But where do...
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...
Chief Wellbeing Officer
By Steven MacGregor
This month we include an excerpt from Steven MacGregor’s new book, Chief Wellbeing Officer: Leading in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, co-authored with Rory...
Addiction Has No Boundaries: We Must Start Talking About It
By Fernanda Arreola, Nora Guessoum, and Elizabeth Walker
Addiction often hides in plain sight, crossing social, professional, and cultural boundaries with ease. In this article,...
Choosing Your Path: DBA vs. PhD – Empowering Your Future in Management Education
By Prof. Jean Luc Cerdin, Prof. Simon L. Dolan and Prof. Michel Kalika
PhD or DBA? As the world of work evolves, this analysis explores...
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...
Navigating the New Frontier: Embracing Talent 5.0 While Paving the Way for Talent 6.0
By Iolanda Triviño, Simon L. Dolan, and Pedro Cesar Martinez
In the changing world of employment, it's more important than ever to understand the shifts...
Episode 25: On the quest to mainstream empathy with EY Seren CEO Michael Von...
In the second part of our look at wellbeing in professional services we talk to EY Seren CEO Michael Von der Geest on his...
Disruptive Digital Technologies Can Help Europe Recapture Competitiveness
By Mauro Macchi
European countries have long lagged behind other developed economies in productivity and innovation, even prior
[Podcast] Episode 31: Re-Designing Travel with McKinsey’s Melissa Dalrymple
In the second of three episodes based on Travel for Q3 we talk to McKinsey Partner Melissa Dalrymple about her recent article, "Make it...
Raising The Ethical Bar: Ethical Audits and Positive Culture Transformation
By Simon Dolan, Steven Hawkins, Chad Albrecht and Bonnie Richley
While most organizations have a code of conduct (or a code of ethics), many...
Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones: The Psychology of Microaggressions
By Adrian Furnham
Most would agree that saying something deliberately calculated to hurt another individual is, at best, small-minded. Nevertheless, even the saintliest of us...
Who Owns Wellbeing? Reflections from Heineken
By Steven P. MacGregor
“A company has someone to look after money, strategy, and marketing etc. But soon there will be another title. A Chief Wellbeing...
How Banks Grow Now
By Piercarlo Gera, Alessandro Secchi and Luca Gagliardi
Spending on customer loyalty keeps going up, but returns are diminishing. This article will tackle how banks...
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...