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...
Artificial Intelligence: Will You Be a Saboteur or an Impressionist?
By Gregory Unruh and Fernanda Arreola
The rapid adoption of AI in today's organisations leaves workers with two choices: waste their energy in a futile...
Susan Gunelius, President & CEO, KeySplash Creative Inc.
I’ve found that the best way to deal with gender bias is with a strong offense, meaning you need to be smart and not...
Reclaiming the Battlefield of Consumer Influence
By Paul F. Nunes and Joshua B. Bellin
Companies are increasingly finding their marketing messages contradicted – or worse, turned against them – by a...
The Impostor Syndrome: Fraudulence, Fear of Success, and Perfectionism
By Adrian Furnham
Many of us, at one time or another, may have thought, “One day, they’re going to see through me.” If you’re one...
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,...
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...
How Productive Is Generative AI Really?
By Jacques Bughin
Generative artificial intelligence is invading the corporate suite and boardroom, surrounding the pros and cons of its use in the enterprise. The...
[VIDEO] Steven MacGregor with Chief Wellbeing Officer
The second part of the SAP case looking at the new humanizing business initiative within EMEA Commercial Sales. How do we move towards a...
The Future of Work and the Megachallenges for HR in 2025 and Beyond
By Simon L. Dolan and Pedro Cesar Martinez
Introduction
In an era characterized by rapid technological advancxements, demographic shifts, and evolving workplace dynamics, the role of...
How 5G-FRMCS Can Accelerate EU’s Rail Transformation
By Séverine Mastikian, Maros Mraz and Vikas Dubey
As Europe pursues climate change targets and digital sovereignty, its rail network risks falling behind. Legacy systems,...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: The Power of Trust – How Can Boards Build...
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Trust is the most potent force underlying the success of...
Beyond Bitcoins: The Future of Real Assets Tokenisation
By Jacques Bughin
The recent past has been turbulent for digital assets, including many Web 3.0 bankruptcies, a variety of scams and attacks, and new...
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...
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...
[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...
India’s Lessons for Creating a Digital Business
By Raghav Narsalay and Avnish Sabharwal
As India rapidly moves into the digital era, leading Indian businesses are changing their business models to capture the...
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...
Nine Logics of AI Deployments and the Artificial Integrity Imperative
By Hamilton Mann
In attempting to visualize the issues implicit in the adoption of AI in business, we commonly picture a two-dimensional relationship, such as...
Are You Following the Right Digital Recipe?
By Tracey Countryman, David Abood, Aidan Quilligan, Raghav Narsalay, and Aarohi Sen
To produce a successful dish of digital reinvention, start by combining six ingredient...
Why are some firms becoming more successful during the COVID-19 pandemic?
By Peter Lorange
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a worldwide recession of immense proportions. Many companies are closing down, either for good or temporarily. ...
Does Generative AI Generate Jobs?
By Jacques Bughin
The evolution of AI and its quick adoption by organisations has predisposed many workers to the fear of losing their jobs to...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: AI – Rethinking business
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AI and generative AI are capturing the headlines. We know...
Fitting the (dark-side, problematic) person to the (ideal) job
By Adrian Furnham
We might not care to admit it, but most of us have a dark side. Although it's tempting to view that as...
Unsexy? Think About it Again! Delivering on Startup Potential Through Operations
By Fernanda Arreola and Dr. Michel Philippart
Operational excellence is critical to entrepreneurial success, but it is too often ignored by aspiring entrepreneurs. In this article,...
What Children can teach us about Leadership: Seeing both the Trees and The Forest
By David De Cremer and Hannah De Cremer
Leadership and management are two different things. Managing a work force today implies taking up the role...
Ethel Cofie, CEO, EDEL Technologies
Life is full of challenges, and one of the early lessons that I learnt, is the fact that life does not give you what...
[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...
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...
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...
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...
The Resilience Rings: A New Neuropsychological Framework for Building Resilience
By Javier S. Casademunt and Simon L. Dolan
Mental health problems, especially in the workplace, have become the current global pandemic that COVID-19 left behind....
Episode 24: How can wellbeing survive in professional services? with Deloitte’s Arti Kashyap-Aynsley
Kicking off our new thematic focus in the Chief Wellbeing Officer podcast we talk to Arti Kashyap-Aynsley, Wellbeing Leader at Deloitte Consulting UK, about...
You Did Not Fail! You Are Just Rebounding!
By Olimpia Modorcea and Fernanda Arreola
Entrepreneurs make economies turn and prosper. They create a large proportion of new jobs, take economies out of recessions,...
Preparing for the Next Wave of Innovation? Think Beyond Technology
By Gianfranco Casati, Vedrana Savic and Koteswara Ivaturi
More than ever, industry giants are applying what we call “non-incremental” innovation, to shake up their established...
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...
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 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...
The Concept of Enduring Happiness as a Panacea to Work/Life Goals
By Simon L. Dolan (Alias Dr. Simon)
As the human need for constant happiness increases, it becomes commodified – as a goal to be achieved...
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...
The Digital Transformation Opportunities Ahead
By Mike Sutcliff
The proliferation of digital technologies allows scope for innovation in the way organisations deliver customer experience. Here Mike Sutcliff explores the first...
Using Technology To Turn The Dial On Inclusion: The Mental Health Opportunity
By Barbara Harvey
The stigma long associated with mental health challenges is fading. Companies should turn that to their advantage. Technology can help.
Companies increasingly understand...
Helpful Tips for Becoming a More Successful Female Entrepreneur
From prejudice and discrimination to common misconceptions, women in business are presented with a unique set of challenges compared to their male counterparts. And...
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
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...
The Psychology of Start-Ups
By Adrian Furnham
Every generation likes to believe that they are different from those that came before them – “new and improved” as advertisers like...
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...
What Governments Need to Understand About Ethical AI
By Josh Entsminger, Dr. Mark Esposito, Dr. Terence Tse, and Danny Goh
The increasing application of artificial intelligence across the value chain reflects that such a technological development provides...
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...
[Podcast] Episode 30: When the Disruptor is Disrupted with Uber’s Matt Wilson
We're back! Kicking off the Q3 theme of Travel we talk to Matthew Wilson, Associate General Counsel EMEA and APAC at Uber about the...