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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...
12 Brilliant Tips For Companies To Enhance Conversion Rate Optimisation
The world has moved online and one of the most valuable commodities any business can have nowadays is an effective website. The importance of...
Free Flow of Data: What the Corporate World Can Learn from Science
By Andreas Deppeler
It is often said that the digital economy runs on data. Digital technologies have transformed the economy and society – and data...
The Use of Split-Tunnel VPNs for Scalability Jeopardizes Enterprise Security
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations transitioned some or all of their employees over to remote work. As part of this transition, companies needed...
How Much Do Cheap Furnishings Truly Cost Businesses?
Growing as a business is exciting but it also comes with its own share of challenges and costs, particularly when it comes to finding...
Business After COVID 19: What Will Change
Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world, businesses have been turned upside down in almost all aspects. Most have been forced to send a...
The Use of Assistive Technology to Aid Learning
As opposed to previous years, pupils with learning disabilities can reap immense benefits from technology advancements. Assistive technology has come through for those with...
7 Reasons Why a Logo is Important to Your Business
When building a successful business, one of the key factors that you need to take into account is your logo. Creating a logo may...
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...
Mind How You Grow: A Partnership to Improve Your Processes
Interview with Mr Giuseppe Zagami, the president of Mind The Value
Fast-growing Italy-based company Mind The Value has made a name for itself with its...
Tips To Manage Your Business Application
IT software is a game-changer that drives business growth across the world. It opens up opportunities and new revenue streams, transforms end-user experience, and...
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...
MedTech Startups Landscape in 2020
Modern medicine follows the so-called 4P principles (predictability, preventiveness, personalization, participatory). In short, these principles provide early diagnosis, disease recognition tools, an individual approach,...
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...
Disruption Strikes, You’re in Charge, Now What: When Companies Tackle Great Challenges
By Luis Ballesteros, Michael Useem, and Tyler Wry
Summary
Natural disasters have been growing in their social impact in recent years, but humanitarian assistance has...
Alejandro Betancourt Continues to Transform Hawkers an International Fashion Company
Hawkers was founded with a clear philosophy: Offer designer, high-quality and high fashion sunglasses that are priced affordably and by doing so, they created...
How to Make the Right Choice for Data Storage Solutions
With the growth of your business, your requirements and needs also grow. With every email that you send out and with every new client...
COVID-19 Scams: What You Need to Know
It’s unfortunate that this subject needs to be discussed, but it’s just as important we do so for your benefit. As COVID-19 sweeps the...
Home Automation for Productivity and Well-Being
Home automation has integrated into our lives not so long ago. However, we can already appreciate the many advantages that it has brought. It...
How Leaders Can Overcome their Biases to Succeed in the Post-Crisis World
By Nikolaus Obwegeser, Noemie Tentillier, and Tomoko Yokoi
Research has shown that our ability to deal with a crisis is heavily dependent on our perception...
How to Make Your Ecommerce Business An Attractive Buy
Selling a business is the ultimate goal of many entrepreneurs. It’s a huge milestone that can provide a substantial cash infusion and a great...
Addressing the Growing Threat of the DDoS Attack
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are designed to degrade or destroy the availability of a certain service, such as an organization’s web presence. These...
5 Tips For Growing Your Online Reputation
In 2017, a study showed that 97% of people look for online reviews before they decide to make a business decision — to purchase...
Outdated and Unfit: Traditional Knowledge-sharing Systems Exposed by the Pandemic
By Graham Mills, Co-founder and Managing Director of Techspert
“In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.”
Einstein’s famous quote should really ring true...
Top 5 Amazing Business Card Ideas to Boost Your Marketing Strategy
Though there are many ways to connect with new clients and network with people online, the traditional business card still holds value. In fact,...
“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...
Trends That Will Shape up Ecommerce in the Next Few Years
New trends shape the way entrepreneurs think about running their ecommerce business. And with how fast the technology is advancing, one should be on...
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...
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...
Do You Realise How Scary You Are?
By Megan Reitz and John Higgins
Most managers know they need to create an environment where people can speak up in order to hear innovative...
Overlooked Strategies for Surviving the US-China Trade War (and possibly others)
By Dan Prud’homme and Mark Cohen
The trade war between the US and China has escalated to a point far beyond the expectations of many....
Beyond Collaborative Intelligence we can see a Meta-Mind Society Surfacing and we can Dream...
Facts, Fads and predictions about the joint venture of Human Mind and AI algorithms
By Mario Raich, Simon L. Dolan, Claudio Cisullo and Bonnie A....
Making Failure Work
By Ricardo Viana Vargas, Edivandro Carlos Conforto, and Tahirou Assane Oumarou
For all organisations and managers failure is a recurring reality. But despite failure being...
Why Leaders Should Encourage Employees to Rebel
By Francesca Gino
Organisations see lacklustre results when workers feel bored and constrained. By encouraging employees to rebel against convention and bring their best selves...
A Revolution at the Organisation’s Core: Millennials
By Guido Stein and Miguel Martín
How do organisations strategise to create a sound and functional workforce? In this article, the authors present how...
Sometimes Being Yourself is the Best Globalisation Strategy: Lessons from a K-Pop Group, BTS
By Won-Yong Oh and Mooweon Rhee
Multinational corporations face the paradox of globalisation and localisation in expanding foreign markets. As the BTS’s success shows, the...
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...
Software AG: Touching the Lives of Millions for Half a Century!
There is a software company that does things differently; not clamouring to be the latest headline, but quietly running the world with precision for 50 years...
Lessons from Ellen MacArthur and the Circular Economy on How Leaders can Build...
By Peter Hopkinson and William S. Harvey
The growth of interest in the circular economy has been meteoric with new initiatives emerging weekly. A...
Driving Success Through Agile Banking: An Exclusive Interview with Sergey Khotimskiy
Started out as a local bank catering to a niche market, Sovcombank became one of the largest in terms of assets and most profitable...
Craftsmanship Meets Technology: A Conversation with Christoph Grainger-Herr, CEO of IWC Schaffhausen
In the new IWC Manufacturing Center, IWC Schaffhausen combines traditional craftsmanship with sophisticated technology to produce high-quality timepieces like the iconic Pilot’s Watches or...
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...
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...
Smile, Smile and Be A Leader? Differences in male and female leaders’ use of...
By Vanessa Marcié and Sucheta Nadkarni
While humour can serve as a key to improve work culture and leadership effectiveness, there is a good chance that you are...
Second-hand Luxury: Should Personal Luxury Brands Sell Pre-owned Products?
By Jean-Noël Kapferer
As luxury brands seek to protect their symbolic capital and prestige, entering resale markets is a strategy to be carefully considered before...
How Women Leaders Build The Career They Thrive In
By Christie Hunter Arscott and Lauren Noël
Early career women understand that building a career and life they thrive in is no small feat. Instead,...
Leading as a Coach: Advancing Career, Transforming Life
An Exclusive Interview with Magdalena Nowicka Mook, Executive Director and CEO, ICF
A professional coaching program has proven to be a powerful catalyst for helping...
Enhancing value through customer centric supply chain
An exclusive interview with Allan Dow, President, Logility
In today’s fast-changing marketplace, Allan Dow, President of Logility, knows all too well that a customer centric...
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The Lawbreaker: How Deliberate Rule-Breaking Drives Innovation
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Transformational ideas require a leap of faith. They require you to break free of your “adultness” to allow your mind to run free and unconstrained. This article presents one of the most...
The Drama Queen Leader: Theatricality and Inappropriate Behaviour
By Adrian Furnham
Friendly, dramatic, and attention-seeking, they are difficult to miss. You may find them entertaining in social settings, but what happens when you have to work with them? In this article, Adrian Furnham...
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Artificial Integrity
By Hamilton Mann
Much has been said about how to instill integrity into AI-generated content. So far, the focus has been on policing training data or filtering output, but wouldn't it be better if the...
