Counterwork Behaviours
By Adrian Furnham
Counterwork behaviours – CWBs – include fraud, misconduct, and work avoidance cost organisations billions every year. In this article, Professor Furnham discusses...
How Europe Can Rebuild Skills and Generate Growth
By Tim Cooper, Athena Peppes, Mark Purdy and Matthew Robinson
Europe is facing a jobs and unemployment crisis that is unprecedented in recent times
• Since...
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...
Local Technology Expert & Acclaimed Author Receives Wharton Club’s “2015 Benjamin Franklin Innovator’s Award”
Redlands,CALIFORNIA – May 6, 2015 –Redlands-native Christopher Surdak, J.D. was awarded the “Benjamin Franklin Innovator’s Award” from the Wharton Club of D.C. at the...
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...
Stephanie Holland, Founder and Author, Sheconomy
Support and encourage other women. Because there have been so few spaces for women at the table, this has pitted women against each other...
Savvy and Skillful: A New Look at Office Politics
By Adrian Furnham
Until recently the concept of office politics was exclusively associated with dirty tricks and Machiavellian manipulation. But recently psychologists using the concept...
Design For Wellbeing
By Steven MacGregor
Health and wellbeing in the professional domain continue to garner increased attention. In this article, the author wraps up the year through...
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...
Reimagining Enterprise IT for an Uncertain Future
By Jeanne G. Harris, Allan E. Alter, Stéphane J.G. Girod and Iris A. Junglas
The role of the information technology department is under scrutiny in...
Annelise Alig Anderhalden, Director, Aargau Services Economic Promotion
I am convinced that passion is the key to success.
Annelise Alig Anderhalden is a trained engineer and Director of Aargau Services Economic Promotion. She...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The ROI of Wellbeing
By Steven P. MacGregor
I was teaching Masters students at IE’s School of Human Sciences and Technology this week. Teaching wellbeing at work to an...
Keneilwe Mampuru, Founder & Head Designer, Kente by Keneilwe
I would like people to think of my brand as not just a fashion label, but as a brand that stands firm against the...
Kathryn Finney, Founder & Managitng Director, digitalundivided (DID)
My philosophy for success and leadership is that leaders don’t necessarily have to have all the right answers every time, but they should trust...
Penelope Trunk, Co-founder & CEO, Quistic, Author, Blogger
Here's a question I want to see you ask: How can people, who run the economic and social life in their country at large,...
Colette Ballou, Founder, Ballou PR
If you have a strong reputation, you have a better chance of charging a premium for your products, even in price-sensitive times; you have...
Inner Agility for Health and Wellbeing
By Steven MacGregor
We look at agile ways of working this month, including an excerpt from episode 7 of the Chief Wellbeing Officer podcast with global...
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...
Into the wild
By Steven MacGregor
“Brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the eye is...
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...
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...
Sherilyn Williams Casiano, Founder & CEO, S.I. Williams Wealth Management, LLC
When I was about 13, my mother was working for an accounting firm and when I told her that’s what I wanted to do,...
Leading by example
By Steven MacGregor
I’ve been lucky to have had some great conversations this past week without travelling too far from home. Two days spent with...
The 7 Hacks of Highly Effective Habits by Dr. Steven MacGregor
How many times have you said that you will change for the better? Dr. Steven MacGegor's 7 Hacks of Highly Effective Habits can be...
Judith Owigar, Founder, Akirachix
I think the most important thing is to expose women to technology early enough for them to experiment so that when the time comes...
The Joyous Republic of giffgaff
By Steven P. MacGregor
The Minister for Development arrives at the office by bicycle, and gets straight to work. Meeting the other ministries is first...
Sharmla Chetty, Regional Managing Director, Duke CE South Africa
It has been critical for me to embrace tough assignments. It is easier to take the path of least resistance... It’s far better to...
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...
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....
Ebb and Flow
By Steven MacGregor
I spent some time with Oracle a few weeks ago, during the kick-off to their new financial year. 150 senior leaders from...
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...
Nancy Nix, Executive Director, AWESOME
Successful women leaders in senior leadership roles can be an important part of a support network that can help emerging leaders be successful.
Nancy Nix...
Heather Baker, CEO, TopLine Comms, Editor and Blogger
I’m also always learning and trying to improve – I think I’m a much better leader now than I was two years ago. I’m...
When is the Best Time of the Day to Exercise?
By Steven MacGregor
I’ve fielded several questions from executives in the past few weeks, from Caixabank to Russian Railways, on a recurring and simple topic....
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...
How Banks Grow Now
By Piercarlo Gera, Alessandro Secchi and Luca Gagliardi
Spending on customer loyalty keeps going up, but returns are diminishing. This article will tackle how banks...
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 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...
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...
Who Owns Wellbeing? Reflections from Heineken
By Steven P. MacGregor
“A company has someone to look after money, strategy, and marketing etc. But soon there will be another title. A Chief Wellbeing...
“Operation Boomerang” Let Gracefulness Activate Good Karma to Bring Them Back to you
By Avi Liran
Dale Carnegie said “Life is a boomerang. What you give, you get.” How can employers use this theory to turn The Great Resignation into...
Why Mastering AI is Harder than You Think and Four Essential Behaviors to Get...
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Philippe Roussiere, and Praveen Tanguturi
Powered by recent investments, European companies are on pace to collectively lead the world in artificial intelligence...
[Podcast] Who owns wellbeing with Heineken’s Head of Workspace Services Fernando Lallana
This month we talk to Fernando Lallana, Head of Workspace Services at Heineken Spain. Discussing different wellbeing related initiatives at the company we consider...
[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...
Designing a Corporate ESG Programme that Attracts, Nurtures, and Retains Women
By Chaitra Vedullapalli
Inclusion is the new kid on the block that every company interested in advancement is courting. And one of the best methods...
Designing Culture for 202,000 Employees at Santander
By Steven P. MacGregor
Dan Strode couldn’t believe Monday had rolled around again so fast. Sleep had been at a premium during a busy ‘working’ weekend...
