[Video] Steven MacGregor with Chief Wellbeing Officer: Who owns wellbeing?
The July episode of Chief Wellbeing Officer asks who owns wellbeing with Heineken. Different functions within the organisation may have a different angle on...
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...
Make Hiring a Delightful Employee Experience
How to upgrade your employer brand to attract and retain the best talent
By Avi Liran
As the war for talent intensifies, creating a Delightful Employee...
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...
Rethinking Future Higher Education
By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Paweł Rowinski, Claudio Cisullo, Courtney Abraham and Jan Klimek
“Education is a sustainable way for cultural change and transformation.”
The world around...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Why Story is Mission Critical for Boards
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A crucial yet often overlooked aspect of board effectiveness: stories....
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...
Family Businesses and the War for Talent
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Welcome to The Better Boards podcast series, the podcast for Chairs,...
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...
Where’s Your Sense of Justice?
By Adrian Furnham
Is the world a just place – or just a place? Then again, should we just pessimistically expect the unjust and so...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Future-Proofing Your Board
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There has been massive instability at a global level in...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Gender Equality in the Workplace Starts at the Top
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Despite living in an era of rapid technological advancements, ground...
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...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: On Increasing the Quality of the Dialogue in the...
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It sounds all so easy – you create a board...
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...
Enhancing Operating Models’ Artificial Intelligence Quotient (AIQ)
By Hamilton Mann
As organisations tap into the power of Generative Artificial Intelligence to improve business outcomes, it is imperative to examine how it affects...
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] 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...
The Imperative of the Vigilant Corporation
By Jacques Bughin
After COVID-19, now comes the appalling Ukrainian-Russian war, and the threat of stagflation. But if turbulent times rule –doesn't it pay to...
Using the Triaxial Model of Values to Build Resilience in a COVID-19 VUCA World
By Anat Garti and Simon L. Dolan
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic began at the end of 2019 in China and quickly spread globally. Millions of...
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...
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...
How European Companies Can Become Growth Leaders
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Sybille Berjoan and Regina Maruca
Accenture’s recent survey of 700 C-suite executives of large businesses in Europe reveals confidence that new global...
Lucky By Design 5 Clever Attitudes to Tilt Odds in Your Favour
By Avi Liran
While you wait for your ship to come in, have you given any thought to building a lighthouse, or even dredging the...
Making Sense of DeepSeek
By Jacques Bughin
DeepSeek, a large language model built by China, has become both a sensation as well as a source of concern for the...
Europe’s Innovation Opportunity: How America’s Brain Drain Could Fuel the Next Porto Digital
By Juliana Queiroga
As U.S. research faces disruption, Europe must move beyond funding to capture global talent. By adopting Brazil’s Porto Digital model, Europe can...
Authenticity at Work: Be Honest, is it a Good Thing?
By Adrian Furnham
It is often said that honesty is the best policy. But if we apply that maxim invariably and unquestioningly, does that automatically...
[Podcast] Digital wellbeing with Data Scientist of the Year Nuria Oliver
On our return from the summer break we talk to Dr. Nuria Oliver of the Vodafone Institute. Honoured as Data Scientist of the Year...
Organisational Vitality: The Life Line for Your Company
By David De Cremer
Where do you see your company many many many years from now? In this article, David De Cremer tells us the...
Unlocking the Power of AI Leadership: A Dialogue with Professor David De Cremer
David De Cremer gets to the heart of leadership in the era of rapid AI evolution. Discussing his upcoming book on the topic, he...
The Complex Equation of AI in the Work World
By Hamilton Mann
At the imminent dawn of our artificially intelligent societies, a profound question arises: To what extent will artificial intelligence reshape our professional...
Decarbonizing the Construction Industry: A Case Study of the Eiffage Platform and Circularity Strategies
By Hervé Legenvre and Bertrand Touzet
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This article explores the role of platforms and circularity strategies in mitigating climate change generated by the construction industry....
Trust-Me: A Concept and Metric to Embed in Leaders, Enhancing their Effectiveness
By Simon L. Dolan, Kyle Brykman and Shay S. Tzafrir
Every leader needs to inspire trust in their followers, employees, and stakeholders. Trust is one...
Unveiling the Shadows: Understanding and Transforming Hidden Societal Risks
By Dr. Pedro Cesar Martinez Moran and Dr. Simon L. Dolan
In today’s ever-evolving world, it’s crucial to look beyond the surface and recognize the...
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...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: A Balancing Act – Where Should EMEIA Boards Focus...
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Managing an ever-growing agenda, boards today face a plethora of...
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...
Reimagining Employment: Navigating the Promises and Perils of Artificial Intelligence
By Dr. Simon L. Dolan, Dr. Mario Raich, and Pedro César Martínez Morán
The best thing ever to happen to humanity – or the worst?...
Old and New Takes on Selection Interviews
By Adrian Furnham
Nearly all selection processes involve the famous trio: application form, references and interview. Both the selectors and the candidates seem to like...
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...
“Net better Off?” Why companies should scale new, tech-based flexible work practices
By Jacques Bughin, Sybille Berjoan and Yuhui Xiong
By 2022, Shopify, a well-known global next-generation e-commerce platform had secured a perennial flexible work arrangement scheme...
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...
Open Minds Build Innovative Societies
By David De Cremer And Alain Van Hiel
Being marked as an innovative country is crucial in how able and savvy one’s nation is considered...
Imagining a Shared Journey into the Future of Work
By Simon L. Dolan, Kristine Marin Kawamura, Mario Raich, and Dave Ulrich
Work enables us to create value for ourselves and others. In our forthcoming...
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...
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...
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...
Why Forecasting is Fixated with Accuracy: The Risk of Ignoring Feedback
By Dr. Claudio Antonini and Dr. Kamil Mizgier
When it comes to building models for the purpose of forecasting, system designers are naturally concerned that...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: What Do Analysts Think of Boards? – An...
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In an era marked by rapid change, technological disruption, geopolitical...
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...
