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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...

GLOOM vs. BLOOM OF THE FUTURE OF WORK: Can We Chart A Positive Roadmap?

By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo As the digital era is continuously in its process to ripen, discussions of destructive unforeseen...

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...

Habit Hacking (Part II)

By Steven MacGregor How many times have you said that you will change for the better? In this Part Two of the article, the author...

Adapting Your Digital Business to a Fragmented World

By Omar Abbosh, Paul Nunes and Armen Ovanessoff We are aware that this era calls for your business to be able to continuously adapt to...

United Airlines, Artificial Intelligence, and Donald Trump: Reawakening Values in the Era...

By Avi Liran and Simon L. Dolan Society has evolved and not all aspects of our lives were able to cope up with the changes...

Habit Hacking (Part I)

By Steven MacGregor In the first of two parts looking at habits in the workplace the author uncover the preliminary results of research into habit...

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...

A Conversation with Rory Simpson, Chief Learning Officer at Telefónica

By Steven MacGregor We start a new series this month, interviewing global influencers in the area of executive health. Short conversations that we hope will deliver...

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...

Space, But Not as We Know It: Notes on the Future Workplace

By Steven P. MacGregor Apple Park opens in a few weeks time. The new headquarters of one of the world’s most innovative companies, referred to...

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...

Re-Design Your Feed

Taking a Deeper Look at Environment for Behaviour Change: Part I By Steven P. MacGregor In the year 1929, and nearing the end of his second,...

This Too Shall Pass Change is Not Only Necessary, It’s Inevitable

By Christopher Surdak  If one word was used to describe the year we have just lived through my choice would be “change”. For most businesses,...

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...

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...

FED Up With Big Data Hype? How Central Banks Struggle with Digital Disruption

By Christopher Surdak Since releasing his latest book, “Jerk: Twelve Steps to Rule the World,” Christopher Surdak has spoken with thousands of business and governmental...

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...

Values, Values on the wall, Just do business and forget them all: Wells Fargo,...

By Avi Liran and Simon L. Dolan There is a growing discrepancy between the values stated on the wall and values in action. In the...
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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...

We Are All Executives Now

By Steven P. MacGregor Last week I was teaching on a new “Executive Program” for Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica at their Corporate University north of...

Happy New Year: MacGregor on Executive Health

By Steven P. MacGregor For most of Europe, especially those engaged in academic pursuits, September marks the beginning of a new year. After the traditional...
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) In China: Huawei as a Case Study

By David De Cremer Adopting CSR as a company philosophy in China seems to be more challenging than could be expected. In this article, David...

Dubai: A City of Jerks

By Christopher Surdak Chris Surdak shares the lessons he has learnt from Dubai's strategies to “Jerk” or disrupt the way that information is created, stored...

Captain Dunsail to the Rescue! As Technology Advances We May Finally Be Forced to...

By Christopher Surdak Christopher Surdak argues that in order for businesses to earn the highest returns on information technology, they must focus their investments on...

Leveraging Collaborations to Create Shared Value

By Hervé Legenvre, Francois Bacalou & Hugues Schmitz In this article the authors discuss how the competitiveness of an organisation and the health of the...

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...

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...

Introduction to the Female Leadership In Our Time

“I believe that true passion has no gender and focusing on your goals and dreams helps you to overcome gender and cultural boundaries.” Simonetta...

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...

Magdalena Mook, Executive Director & CEO, International Coach Federation

We all take risks in life and that’s why working with professional coaches is important; it should not be a matter of good fortune. Magdalena...

Rama Mani, Founder, Theatre of Transformation Co-Founder, Rising Women Rising World

Through my transformative art, I’m aspiring to shift the old paradigm that governed politics, economics and society so far and destroyed human life: ‘the...

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...

Simonetta Di Pippo, Director, UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)

I believe that true passion has no gender and focusing on your goals and dreams helps you to overcome gender and cultural boundaries. Simonetta Di...

Veronika Linardi, Co-founder & CEO, Qerja

The role I have carved out for myself is predominantly based on the experiences that molded me into the woman I am today, my...

Caroline Fattal Fakhoury, Executive Coaching, Managing Partner, Praesta

Without influence, competence is powerless...  if we refrain from engaging in politics we are effectively withdrawing ourselves as serious candidates for high corporate office. Named...

Ozlem Denizmen, Founding Chair, Financial Literacy and Inclusion Association

I have always shaped myself according to my values and set goals to realise those values. Instead of focusing on social prejudices, I set...

Leslie Pratch, Founder & CEO, Pratch & Co

I am an independent thinker and a creative risk taker . . . It was a big risk to develop and validate my own...

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...

Tiffany Chung, Contemporary Artist

I wake up every day grateful for being able to do what I do and looking forward to materialize my research and ideas. Living...

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...

Nabilah Alsagoff, Founder and COO, PT Nusa Satu Inti Artha (DOKU)

Women have strong minds and we believe that our skills to empower the work force can make a difference in the industry that we...

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,...

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...

Grace Woo, Founder, Pixels.IO

Since I could remember, my grandma has always explained to me that I have control over nothing except what is in my own head...

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...

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...

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,...

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...