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...
Creating Effective Organisational Systems through Experimenting with Human Nature
By David De Cremer and Tian Tao
If organisations are serious in building cultures that can translate the desire to create joint value into a...
Is Compassionate Leadership a Driver of Huawei’s Business Success?
By David De Cremer and Tian Tao
In this article, the authors trace giant telecom Huawei’s success to its founder’s commitment to compassionate leadership. In...
What Could Be a Hidden Key for a Successful Merger and Acquisition Project?
By Mark Goyens and David De Cremer
The way we engage, communicate and deal with people involved in each phase of a merger and...
Are Leaders Fair? On the Need to Understand Fairness Management in Organisations
By D. De Cremer, G. Houwelingen, C. Ilse, H. Niek, L. Brebels, M. Van Dijke & A. Van Hiel
It is human nature to want...
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...
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...
Why Mark Zuckerberg’s Leadership Failure was a Predictable Surprise
By David De Cremer
In today’s more developed global village, responsible leadership is of paramount importance especially from businesses that make use of digital platforms....
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...
The Fairness Challenge of the Internet of Things
By Bang Ngyuen and David De Cremer
The Internet-of-Things essentially enables mass data collection and analysis, to the benefit not just of businesses, but individuals...
Why Forgiveness Should Be Part Of Your Compliance Strategy
By David de Cremer
Compliance strategies are integral in creating a trustworthy, high performing and innovative work culture. As such, it is imperative for companies...
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...
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...
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...
Humanising Robots Increases Consumer Satisfaction and Forgiveness of their Failures
By Kai Chi (Sam) Yam and David De Cremer
Want your customers to have a positive, forgiving attitude towards your robot employees? Then make your...
Human-Algorithm Collaboration in Managerial Decision Making
By Tessa Haesevoets, David De Cremer, Kim Dierckx and Alain Van Hiel
Most would accept that there is a role for both humans and AI...
In Times of Uncertainty Investing in Innovation Helps: When Knowledge Makes Confident!
By David De Cremer
If there’s one feeling that has been omnipresent for all of us, it must be the sense of uncertainty. The last...
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...
Digital Upskilling, Gender Equality, and Leadership in Tech-Driven Organizations
By David De Cremer
Renowned leadership expert John C. Maxwell (2007) is often quoted saying “Everything rises and falls on leadership.” This quote underscores the...
Becoming the Leader You Are: The 6S-Model of Leadership Development
By Vivek Sharma and David De Cremer
Real leadership? It starts when you stop following everyone else’s playbook. The 6S-Model reveals why authentic leaders are forged...
On Avoiding AI’s Hidden Human Cost
By David De Cremer and Laurence Van Elegem
As business strives to integrate AI optimally into its processes, it risks paying insufficient attention to 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...
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...
Humanity First! The AiTH Manifesto: Building the Road to a Human-Centred Digital Society
By David De Cremer, Devesh Narayanan, Andreas Deppeler, Mahak Nagpal, Jack McGuire and Jess Zhang, Centre on AI Technology for Humankind at NUS Business...
Artificial Intelligence: Just Who Is In Charge Around Here?
An Exclusive Interview with Professor David De Cremer, Founder and Director, Centre on AI Technology for Humankind, NUS
The employment of artificial intelligence is proceeding...
The Funny Thing About Robot Leadership
By Jamie L. Gloor, Lauren C. Howe, David De Cremer and Kai Chi (Sam) Yam
Are today’s employees getting “soft”? All signs suggest that employees should:...
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...
Crisis Leadership in Action: A Balancing Act between the Past and the Future
By David De Cremer
The year 2020 will remain in our collective memory as a “crisis” year. It is the year where COVID-19 hit the...
Being Prepared for Surprises to Happen: Huawei as a Black Swan?
By David De Cremer
In life, it’s always possible that things change in the blink of an eye. One day everything is as it has...
A Focus on the Relationship between AI and Humans
An Introduction to the Special Report on AI and Humans by AiTH, NUS Business School
By David De Cremer
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) promises...
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...
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...