Beyond the Hateful 8
By Steven P. MacGregor
Steven MacGregor elaborates on how today’s world has turned Robert Owen’s “Triple 8” to the “Hateful 8”. How should business leaders...
Advantages, Limits And Strategies For Online And Offline Collaboration
By Fernanda Arreola and Pierre Daems
During the period of confinement, organizations around the world were forced to develop new tactics and strategies for orchestrating...
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...
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...
Biochemistry 101
By Steven MacGregor
I’ve been lucky enough to teach executives from companies including Oracle, Telefónica, Chevron Philips and Banco Santander the past few weeks in a...
Everybody Loves … Nvidia
By Dr. Jacques Bughin
Semiconductors are positioned at the forefront of innovation and digital transformation. With companies like Nvidia leading the charge and the semiconductor...
Small Employers 2025: Scaling Impact on Customers, Community & Capital
By Elizabeth Eiss
Small businesses, the backbone of the global economy, face unique challenges in scaling their impact while juggling limited resources. In 2025, the...
Pay Secrecy
By Adrian Furnham
Even with today’s rapidly progressing society, there still exists a certain stigma towards the topic of salary or compensation. Employees have taken...
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...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Insights into the German Corporate Governance Debate – Learnings,...
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Every country has its fair share of corporate failures. Afterwards,...
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...
The Challenge of Leading Digital Platforms in Responsible Ways
By David De Cremer, Jess Zhang, and Leander De Schutter
Digital platform businesses are increasingly being confronted with a host of unethical consequences due to a lack of...
Why the Ethical Use of AI Matters for Your Career
By Jack McGuire, David De Cremer, Leander De Schutter, and Yorck Hesselbarth
In the contemporary digital era, innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI) are profoundly transforming...
Crisis? What Crisis? Why European Companies Should Double Down on AI Now
By Jacques Bughin, Francis Hintermann, and Philippe Roussière
While in practice, it takes time for a tech revolution to unfold, multiple signs show the AI...
Valuation of AI Unicorns: Is it a Ponzi Scheme or rather, a Genuine Growth...
By Jacques Bughin
AI unicorn valuations have sparked debate over whether they reflect unsustainable speculation or credible growth opportunities. Jacques Bughin examines this phenomenon using...
The Use of Dopamine to Enhance Resilience in a Post COVID-19 Era: Lessons From...
By Simon L. Dolan and Kyle M. Brykman
Introduction
Resilience is an emerging concept in business and psychology. Its origins are in the school of thought...
Pivot or Perish: Modern Enterprise Networks Will Drive the Digital Future in Europe
By Jefferson Wang, Michele Marrone, and Swati Vyas
As Europe sets out to deliver on its second digital agenda, companies will need to equip themselves...
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...
Business as Usual?
By Mark Esposito, Terence Tse, and Lisa Xiong
“We are running out of water.”(Famiglietti (NASA), 2015)1
The constantly evolving world we live in continues to pose...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Will AI Make the Better Business Judgement?
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In this episode of the Better Boards Podcast, Professor Katja...
(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 Five Paradoxes of Brexit
By David De Cremer
Brexit – despite all the promises made – is not necessarily about creating a better economic future for the country but...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Beyond Minutes – Reimagining the Board Secretary in the...
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The role of the Board Secretary is at a crossroads. Traditionally,...
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...
Deming, Darwin and Mrs. Doubtfire: How the Seven Deadly Disruptors are Changing Manufacturing
By Christopher Surdak
In this age of disruptive change, technological innovations can either ease all your worries or bring you the greatest discomforts you’ve ever...
Countdown to Cybersecurity in the Quantum Era: Will Businesses be Ready in Time?
By Tom Patterson and Laura Converso
Leaps in quantum technology and hybrid approaches are shortening the time to Q-Day, when adversaries can use quantum computing...
Edge Computing in Europe: A Key Driver of Business Innovation
By Ram Ramalingam, Teresa Tung, Nitu Kaushal & Shalabh Kumar Singh
Edge is an essential component of the cloud computing model and has the potential...
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....
“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...
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,...
Working From Home: 3 Things You Should Know So You Don’t End Up Living...
By Steven P. MacGregor
Working from home has put our health, wellbeing and workplace performance to the test for over a year now. My work...
Take the Window Seat (Outbound)
By Steven P. MacGregor
As we near the year-end, a fairly typical professional reflection may include the number of business trips and particularly flights we...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Rethinking Talent in the Boardroom
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Organisations are facing major challenges. Many boardrooms have not yet...
Chief Wellbeing Officer: Learning to Live
By Steven MacGregor
With the Chief Wellbeing Officer book released this week, we include an excerpt from Chapter 7 on how to achieve lifelong learning....
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...
Business and Governments and Civil Society and a Healthy Planet
By Sylvain Guyoton and Hervé Legenvre
The following discussion took place In April 2020. We aimed at confronting our points of views on the contradictory...
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....
Don’t Despair: Growth from Consumer Behaviour Change in Developed-Market Economies
By Paul F. Nunes, Sam Yardley & Mark Spelman
Mired in a period of low growth, developed economies are becoming increasingly tough places to do...
A Voyage Into Premature Aging: The Role of Chronic Stress and its Principal Correlates
By Prof. Simon L. Dolan and Prof. Mario Raich
Introduction
The idea of stress and aging was born many years ago while one of the co-authors of...
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...
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....
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...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: On Making it in the Boardroom
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The boardroom is a desirable place, and after a successful...
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...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: How to Get Creativity and Innovation into the Boardroom
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Many Directors have positive intentions to leverage the experiences gained...
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...
“Reverse Backstabbing”- The Art of Praising People Behind Their Backs
By Avi Liran
Gossip can be hurtful and malicious, leaving behind a bad smell. And while we may not always avoid it, we can choose...
Innovation, the Art of Abolishing Distance: Building the ATTRACT DeepTech Ecosystem
By Hervé Legenvre
DeepTech technologies have significant effects on the economy and are an avenue to solve many problems humanity faces. However, the vitality of...
Heartfulness
By Steven P. MacGregor
The human heart is the engine room for everything you do. Every beat of that engine, which may beat up to...
It’s Too Late to Become a Technological Leader. Just Become a Shoveller!
By Fernanda Arreola and Robert Pickering
Taking as an example the cloud industry, we help break down the different types of services and innovations that...
