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:...
TableTop and Covid19 – It’s No Longer An Easy Game!
By Uwe Eickert and Boris Liedtke
The raging pandemic has swiftly shaken up many business models around the globe thereby creating a number of instant...
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...
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...
Where Does Resilience Come From? It’s Your Progress in Digital Transformation, Especially in Times...
By Howard Yu and Shan Jialu
The coronavirus crisis has shown us that ‘future-ready’ companies bounce back first
Warren Buffet wrote in his 2001 letter to shareholders...
Agile Anarchy is the Name of the Future
By Guido Stein and Alberto Barrachina
To build agile organizations you must understand human relationships
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This technical note explores some...
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....
Corporate Foresight In An Ever-Turbulent Era
By Alex Fergnani, Andy Hines, Alessandro Lanteri and Mark Esposito
Nobody knows what the future holds in store. How, then, should businesses prepare for the...
Under Cyberattack: Learning For Leaders Through Play
By Nora Grasselli and Bethan Williams
How are team dynamics affected by our evermore global and virtualized business context? An innovative game created at ESMT...
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...
Building the Future on a Century of Heritage: A family business on the move–for...
Interview with Max Viessmann, CEO of Viessmann Group
If knowledge is power, then shared knowledge must surely be the way for a company to maximise...
Robots Are Cleaning Up – And Much More Besides!
Interview with Claus Risager, CEO at Blue Ocean Robotics
The potential of robots to assist and even replace humans in a variety of work areas...
Response to COVID-19 Global Pandemic Highlights the Role of National Cultures
By Bhaskar Pant
The novel coronavirus has affected countries around the globe. It is non-discriminatory in terms of who it hits. It is oblivious to...
Wharton LIVE: Best-in-Class Online Learning
When Wharton’s campus closed in March, more than 40 students from Shanghai were in California en route to Philadelphia for a finance program. The...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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