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[Podcast] Episode 33: Mobilising change with The Wellbeing Project’s COO Elissa Goldenberg

Kicking off our Q4 focus on community we talk to Elissa Goldenberg, COO at The Wellbeing Project and Founder of EG Coaching & Consulting....

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...

The New Strategic Reality as a Consequence of the Covid-19 Pandemic

By Dr. Peter Lorange The new reality of COVID-19 has been with us since the end of the first quarter of 2020.  This has led...

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:...

New Thinking at Migrolino Stemming from the COVID-19 Challenge

By Peter Lorange and Markus A. Laenzlinger The present crisis imposed on us by the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have a lasting impact on...

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 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. ...

Effective Due Diligence – Often Harder Than You Think!

By Peter Lorange To undertake due diligence (“DD”) when considering investing in a new project is paramount. However, in reality, to do this well can...

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...

What Investment Criteria Are Appropriate Today, in Light of the Coronavirus Threat?

By Dr. Peter Lorange Introduction In this article, I discuss how the relative importance of various investment criteria seems to have shifted as a consequence of...

[Podcast] Episode 32: Leading Through Crisis with Hilton’s Stephen Cassidy

In the third and final episode of our Travel theme for Q3 we talk to Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Hilton UK...

[Podcast] Episode 31: Re-Designing Travel with McKinsey’s Melissa Dalrymple

In the second of three episodes based on Travel for Q3 we talk to McKinsey Partner Melissa Dalrymple about her recent article, "Make it...

[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...

Select out: Why selection often goes wrong and what to do about it

By Adrian Furnham The process of selecting people, in business as in social relationships, tends to focus on the “good” characteristics we are looking for....

5 Keys to Resolving Cross-Functional Rivalries in your Digital Transformation

By Bhaskar Ghosh, Nigel Stacey, Raghav Narsalay, Aarohi Sen, and Paul Barbagallo The challenge is as old as business itself: How do you get people...

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...

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...

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 Coronavirus Threat – The issue of reopening our economies or continuing the lockdown,...

By Dr. Peter Lorange Over the last few months, almost all countries in the world have been faced with the challenge of how to handle...

How Businesses Are Getting Back on Track in China

By Svenja Falk, Frank Riemensperger and Serena Qiu Two months ahead of most other businesses in dealing with COVID-19, companies in China offer key insights...

Episode 29: Home/Office insights from the Netherlands with Steve Longhorn and Elyse Nijsse

In this special joint episode which closes the Q2 theme of Wellbeing in the Built Environment we talk to experts in Facilities Management and...

Episode 28: Designing the new workplace with Akka Architects CEO Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes

We continue our look at wellbeing in the built environment with Akka Architects CEO Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes. Coinciding with the launch of The Recovery...

Sex and Money: Do men and women use money differently

By Adrian Furnham Do men and women, think about, use and invest money differently? If so why? Dare one go there? One has to be...

Key Changes In Management: Implications From The Corona Crisis, Particularly On Family Businesses And...

By Dr. Peter Lorange   Introduction In this paper I shall discuss what I see as some major implications for management practices when it comes to several...

Sustainability is A Mindset, A Never Ending Journey

Interview with Franziska Gsell, Chief Marketing Officer of IWC Schaffhausen, chairwoman of the company’s Sustainability Committee Franziska Gsell has been the Chief Marketing Officer of...

Episode 27: What office will we go back to? with IWBI Senior Vice President...

Kicking off our Q2 theme of "Wellbeing in the Built Environment" we talk to senior vice president of research at the International Well Building...

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...

Covid-19, Stress, Self-Esteem, Values, and Psychological Well-being: How to Assess Risks of Becoming Depressed,...

By Dr. Simon L. Dolan and Dr. Salvador Garcia Sanchez A few years back, we published several books dealing with Stress, Self -Esteem, Health and...

Episode 26: Leadership development in times of crisis with Korn Ferry’s Katherine Semler

In the last of 3 episodes on the theme of wellbeing in professional services we talk to Katherine Semler, Head of Leadership Development Iberia...

Episode 25: On the quest to mainstream empathy with EY Seren CEO Michael Von...

In the second part of our look at wellbeing in professional services we talk to EY Seren CEO Michael Von der Geest on his...

“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...

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...

How the Next Wave of Innovators will Change the Fabric of the World

By Jean-Marc Ollagnier and Vedrana Savic The next wave of innovation will see products and services combining technology from across the digital, physical and biological...

The Cyber-Organisation and the New World of Work: Advocating a twin governance...

By Mario Raich, Simon L. Dolan, Dave Ulrich and Claudio Cisullo This paper explores the concept of the cyber-organisation and, in particular, the so-called cyber-enterprise...

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...

An Open Letter to Researchers Studying the Coronavirus (COVID-19)

I am not a medical doctor, nor specialist in epidemiology, but I consider myself very experienced and conversant with methodologies of scientific research. While...

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...
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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...
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The Rise of the Hospitality Manager

Happy, comfortable and productive employees and the new generation of office managers making it happen By Fernanda Arreola and Gregory Unruh New demands are emerging in...
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[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...
leadership development coaching

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...
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[Video] On the relationship between learning and wellbeing

Inspired by attendance at the World Innovation Summit on Education (WISE 2019) we discuss the link between learning and wellbeing. Check out the 30...
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Learning and wellbeing: A visit to the World Innovation Summit on Education (WISE)

“Before the invention of cooking, we spent most of our lives chewing.” I laughed out loud, with quite a few others, in the vast...
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“Managing by Values” (MBV): Innovative tools for successful micro behavioural conduct

By Anat Garti and Simon L. Dolan “Values values on the wall, just do the business and forget them all” wrote Liran and Dolan (2016)1...

The Procurement Call for Agile, What does it mean?

By Andressa Reis and Hervé Legenvre Today, Procurement teams need to embrace the agile ways of working in order to work in synch with their...
marketing strategy ideas

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...
leadership development coaching

Women In Leadership 2020, 4th & 5th March 2020, Riyadh, KSA,

BE BRAVE, ADAPTIVE AND EXPERIMENTAL In the evolving culture GCC has witness an advancing women’s economic contribution and opportunities. Empowering women legally and politically allows...
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Will the machines really make us more human?

By Steven P. MacGregor Learning another language isn’t an easy thing to do (and I’m very aware how lucky I am being a native English speaker)....
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[Video] Will the machines make us more human? Steven MacGregor with Chief Wellbeing Officer

The October episode of Chief Wellbeing Officer looks at Artificial Intelligence, and how the machines may help create a more flourishing working world. Check...