When Difficult Leaders Change the World: Making Neurodivergent Leadership Sustainable
By Fernanda Arreola and Gregory Unruh
Brilliant yet difficult leaders have long driven some of the world’s most transformative innovations. Fernanda Arreola and Gregory Unruh...
The Flawed Assumption Behind AI Agents’ Decision-Making
By Hamilton Mann
As rational as we humans like to think we are, at the moment of making a decision, a whole range of overlapping...
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...
Changing the Face of Finance and Professional Services
By Lucy Franklin
Stereotyping is not inherently bad, but it is undoubtedly restricting. Most especially in the industry of finance and professional service where such...
Managing By Traction (MbT) Reinventing Management in the Cyber-Age
By Mario Raich, Tomasz Krzemiński, Claudio Cisullo, Simon L. Dolan and Bonnie A. Richley
Abstract
“We are at a critical turning point in human history! We...
Why Strong Technology Leadership Matters to Europe’s Future Competitiveness
The Right Leadership Can Help Bridge Europe's Lag in Technology Adoption, R&D, and Patents
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Svenja Falk, and Surya Mukherjee
Increasing leaders’ technology quotient...
“The COVID-19 Crisis” as an Opportunity for Introspection: A Multi-level Reflection on Values, Needs,...
By Simon L. Dolan, Mario Raich, Anat Garti and Avishai Landau
The current period of misery and even despair surround us. It is perhaps an...
Leading the Gen AI Revolution: Building Workers’ Trust to Reinvent Work in Europe
By Tim Good, Andrew Young and Mamta Kapur
Europe is currently undergoing a generative AI-driven transformation in the world of work. While leaders are confident...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Governance Experts as Non-Executive Directors – A Perfect Fit?
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Governance experts and Company Secretaries are a prime but often overlooked...
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...
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...
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...
Scaling You: How Small Business Owners Can Grow Without Burning Out
By Elizabeth Eiss
If you’re a small business owner or solopreneur, your greatest asset - and your greatest bottleneck - is often the same thing: you.
You...
Half of UK Women Have Taken a Greater Interest in their Finances as a...
MORE than half of women in the UK have taken a greater interest in their finances post-Covid according to new research, but they’re still...
Scaling You: Onshore, Offshore, and AI – Finding the Right Fit for Your Business
By Elizabeth Eiss
This article continues my Scaling You series where I share strategies to help solopreneurs and small business owners grow without burning out. One of...
Empowering People with AI: Revolutionizing the Management of Human Resources for a Brighter Future
By Dr. Simon L. Dolan, Dr. Pedro Cesar Martínez Moran and Dr. Dave Ulrich
Among the disciplines currently under invasion by AI, human resources is...
Sabine Eckhardt, Chief Commercial Officer, ProSiebenSat.1 Media Group
All that procrastination and weighing up doesn’t get you very far in a male-dominated business world. 'Just get on with it' is sometimes the...
Synergy or Conflict? Lessons for managers on how to successfully adopt AI to augment...
By Jakob Stollberger and David De Cremer
Artificial intelligence undeniably offers the potential to improve decision-making, at least in certain contexts. In this article, AI experts Jakob Stollberger...
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...
MBSIV: A Framework for Creating a Sustainable Innovation Culture
By Kristine Marin Kawamura and Simon L. Dolan
Innovation has been consistently found to be the most important characteristic associated with organisational and market success....
The Missing Puzzle Piece? How Action Learning Can Help Solve the Dual Challenge of...
By Alex Makarevich, Christian Acosta-Flamma and Simon L. Dolan
To win in the “war for talent”, companies can no longer rely on conventional recruitment methods...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: The Board’s Playbook for Modern Technology Oversight
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Theory is one thing, but how can boards make cyber governance...
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...
Why The Circular Economy Matters
By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito, and Khaled Soufani
A Circular Economy represents not just a paradigm shift that waste is reconstructed to resources through reuse...
How the Industrial Internet of Things Can Add to the Wealth of Nations
By Mark Purdy and Ladan Davarzani
To capture the benefits of Internet-connected machines, national leaders must nurture the conditions that are needed to translate technological...
Day-One Rights vs Six-Month Threshold: Where the Employment Rights Bill May Land
By Alex Hodson
During the most recent general election, the Labour Party pledged to abolish the two-year qualifying period required for employees to bring an...
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...
How Nexans’ E3 Framework Sets a New Standard for Strategic Procurement
By Hervé Legenvre
This article examines how Nexans E3 strategic framework applied to procurement act as a source of meaning and purpose for buyers, suppliers and wider...
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...
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...
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...
Be a Fool! It’s What Crisis Leadership Really Needs
By David De Cremer
It’s hard to see a crisis coming. Crisis situations usually arrive at moments we do not expect it and as a...
Reimagining the Future: Unleashing the Deep Transformation and its Impact on Business, Society, and...
By Mario Raich, Simon L. Dolan, and Claudio Cisullo
In a world where everything seems to change with increasing frequency, we risk becoming more blasé...
Architecting a New Agentic SAAS Pricing Strategy: Why and How
By Jacques Bughin and Philipp Remy
As autonomous software performs more operational work, enterprise pricing is shifting from user access toward measurable execution and outcomes.
Enterprise...
Business Teams: Bad, Sad, and Mad… and How to Fix Them
By Georgie Fienberg and Adrian Furnham
If you want the best from your car, it helps to have some idea of how it all works....
Towards A Visionary Prescriptive Transformation of Education: Part I: New Paradigms, New Reality, and...
By Mario Raich, Kristine M. Kawamura, Simon L. Dolan, Paweł M. Rowiński
and Claudio Cisullo
This paper is Part I of two articles to be published...
Leo Messi and Larry Ellison have more in common than you think
By Steven P. MacGregor
I was watching through a crack in my fingers. And there it was, inevitable really. Number seven. My football team, Glasgow...
NVIDIA: Harnessing Open Innovation to Promote User Lock-in
By Hervé Legenvre and Erkko Autio
This article is part four of an ongoing series - The AI Power Plays - that explores the fiercely competitive AI landscape,...
When Democracy and Centralisation Meet in Leadership
By David De Cremer and Tian Tao
Business leaders face a plethora of challenges and one of those is finding the leadership approach that would...
Could You Answer These 3 Questions?
I need your help.
I’ve been asked to reflect on 3 questions for an interview this week on the Innovation Ecosystem podcast. Founded by anthropologist...
Will China lead the twin transformation post-covid?
By Jacques Bughin and Sybille Berjoan
The Covid-19 pandemic has led many corporations to retrench in the short term—but the saying goes that no matter...
Turning A Weakness Into A Strength: Why Leaders Should Never Leave The Battlefield
By David De Cremer
It is no secret that within the business world companies have a starting date, but also that one day they will...
Services have Become Invisible to Customers in B2B and B2C
By Fernanda Arreola and Alfonso Castañeda
For customers in B2B and B2C environments, the true providers of the services they consume have become invisible. In this...
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,...
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...
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...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: On Building Inclusive and Equitable Cultures in the Boardroom...
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There are many types of differences and diversity, and not...
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...
Virtual Working: When It Comes to Sensitive Conversations, the Medium Affects the Message
By Dr Melissa Dunlop and Professor Adrian Furnham
The remote-working era brought us many challenges in communicating effectively with our fellow humans via a computer...
