Sounding the Alarm: Early Warning Systems to Build Nature-Positive and Climate Resilient Businesses
By Sanjay Podder, Shalabh Kumar Singh, H. James Wilson, and Giju Mathew
Last summer’s heatwave in the UK and other European countries put a significant...
Thought Leadership, Frameworks, Tools and Immersion: Interview with Dr Prem Shamdasani of NUS Business...
A tough future in which the only constant is change awaits those who aspire to leadership in the world of business. To prepare these...
Conversational AI is Asking for Ethical Oversight: How Can Humans Best Answer the Call?
By Laetitia Cailleteau and Patrick Connolly
As conversational artificial intelligence (AI) advances, it is able to sustain ever more human-like relationships with end users. This...
How Middle Managers Can Make Your Company’s Innovating Engine Hum
By Ben M. Bensaou
To adapt in a competitive, changing world, every business needs to operate an innovating engine, which requires contributions by employees at...
Laugh and the World Complains to HR: Humour at Work
By Adrian Furnham
But it was just “workplace banter”! Another pale, stale, frail male attempts to defend himself against a range of accusations of “inappropriateness”...
The Metaverse and Web 3.0: Embedding Ourselves into the Internet
By Ray Schroeder
We are embarking on an online environment transformation that is every bit as revolutionary as the inception of the Web browser in...
What The War In Ukraine Means For Business
By Paul Bracken
The war in Ukraine has far reaching implications for business. Companies will face more complicated political and social issues than the stark,...
Innovation – now and for generations to come
By Ulrich A.K. Betz
Merck is well known as a vibrant science and technology company. But the company's drive to improve the well-being of humanity...
Managing People’s Talent with Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence leadership goes beyond technology
By Prof. Guido Stein, IESE Business School and Alberto Barrachina, Research Assistant
For companies, the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the...
A Compass for Chief Executive Officers and Chief Learning Officers
By Mihnea Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas
Based on a 5 year study of the executive development industry, comprising interviews with over 200 executives, CLO’s, CEO’s,...
The Imperative of the Vigilant Corporation
By Jacques Bughin
After COVID-19, now comes the appalling Ukrainian-Russian war, and the threat of stagflation. But if turbulent times rule –doesn't it pay to...
Future, Delayed: The #1 Reason Digital Transformation Could Stall During a Recession (And How...
By Andre Schindler, General manager of EMEA for NinjaOne
The past two-and-a-half years have ushered in an accelerated era of digital transformation, but now economic...
Lifelong Learning with ESSEC Business School
The demand for new approaches to learning has been on a steady rise after the tumultuous past few years. The global landscape has changed...
VidaXL: Pioneer and eCommerce Business Giant
It all started with two selling items on eBay. Sixteen years later, the business has transformed into the global retailing giant, vidaXL. The eCommerce...
Designing For Impact: A Results-driven Perspective For Executive Education
By Christoph Burger, Edward W. Boon and Nora Grasselli
A typical story
Jane is a manager at a large telecom company. Three months ago, she was...
5 Things Startup Founders Need To Know When Launching a Tech Startup
By Oleksii Tsymbal
Since the rise of Silicon Valley, the startup boom has taken over the world, giving us Airbnb, Uber, Instagram, Twitter, Revolut and...
Preserving the Human Element in Robots with Blue Ocean Robotics
Interview with Claus Risager, Blue Ocean Robotics Chief Strategy Officer
In the films, robots are often shown as a threat, frequently getting out of control...
Not Lost in Translation: Making the Data Make Sense
Interview with Fleur Hicks, award-winning CEO of management consulting firm onefourzero
Where can managers turn for help in navigating the vast sea of data that...
AI Inside? Five Tipping Points for a New AI-based Business World
By Duco Sickinghe and Jacques Bughin
The “softwarisation” of our economies has continued unabated since Marc Andreessen’s note in its article in 2011 “Why software...
When The Opportunities Are Out Of Plain Sight
Interview with InterExec Founder, Mr. Kit Scott-Brown
Executives looking to progress their career face the problem that many of the best opportunities are not presented in...
Don’t Fear the Black Swan, Take it as an Opportunity to Soar
By Kevin Peters, President and CEO, NetNumber
When a black swan event, an unexpected occurrence that has a substantial impact on society and business, happens, businesses...
The Cycle of ESG and Compliance
By Gerry Zack, CEO of Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics® (SCCE) & Health Care Compliance Association® (HCCA)
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues have...
Building the Strategic Architecture of the Post Pandemic Corporate Landscape
By Dr. Mark Esposito, Dr. Alessandro Lanteri and Dr. Terence Tse
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a major disruptor for tried and tested approaches...
Humanity First! The AiTH Manifesto: Building the Road to a Human-Centred Digital Society
By David De Cremer, Devesh Narayanan, Andreas Deppeler, Mahak Nagpal, Jack McGuire and Jess Zhang, Centre on AI Technology for Humankind at NUS Business...
All Change – but which Platform? Confronting Shift in the Telecom Sector
Interview with Kevin Peters, President and CEO at NetNumber
All technology-based companies operate in an arena of constant change. However, perhaps no sector is subject...
Cloud-native Banking: Empowering Delivery of Great Financial Experiences
Interview with Mr. Eugene Danilkis, CEO of SaaS cloud banking platform Mambu
Digitalisation and the cloud have transformed the way in which financial services are offered....
Refining the Search for Executive Talent in Europe
Interview with Daversa Partners’ Wendy Colvano - Director & Head of Europe
With investors looking towards Europe as a hotspot for business acceleration, the need...
Three Steps to Make Sure a Strategy is Implemented
By Pietro Micheli, Warwick Business School (WBS)
Studies have found that companies use many different methods to devise a strategy and even more ways in...
Data Protection: Lightening the Load of Compliance
Interview with the DPO Centre CEO and Founder Rob Masson
Does compliance with the data protection regulations have to represent a huge and costly burden...
Uncovering the Path to our Dreams: CoachHub’s Coaching Program Points the Way
Interview with CoachHub Senior Behavioural Scientist Windy Tshepiso Maledu
In a virtual work environment, the challenge is to enable everyone to feel seen and heard. Here,...
Leading in an Age of Disruption
By Hannes Gurzki and Joachim Junghanss
Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, few people would have expected the acceleration of digital technology and the new ways...
Board Membership: Navigating the New Uncertainties
Remember when there was an invisible line separating business from political and social movements? Corporate leaders largely kept quiet about their beliefs and values, trying...
What Do You Need to Know About dropshippingXL?
Dropshipping is a very popular and profitable business model for entrepreneurs. You can open a dropshipping store without having to worry about inventory or...
How B2B Marketers Can Stay Customer-Centric
By Mairead Brady, Warwick Business School (WBS)
WBS Core Insights: Future of Work
To adjust to the new post-pandemic normal it is vital that businesses move...
AIM for a Thriving Planet
By Chris Nichols, Philippa Hardman, Michael Chaskalson and Helen Sieroda
The first article in this series introduced Team Mindfulness using the AIM model and explored...
How have business priorities changed pre- and post-Covid?
By Francois Lacas, Deputy COO at Yooz
The global pandemic has dramatically refocused business priorities for businesses across the UK.
In a life before Covid, businesses...
Will China lead the twin transformation post-covid?
By Jacques Bughin and Sybille Berjoan
The Covid-19 pandemic has led many corporations to retrench in the short term—but the saying goes that no matter...
How To Lead With Compassion On The Return To The Office
By David Liddle
Managers are about to face one of the biggest challenges of their careers as organisations start to gear up for a gradual...
How European Companies Can Become Growth Leaders
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Sybille Berjoan and Regina Maruca
Accenture’s recent survey of 700 C-suite executives of large businesses in Europe reveals confidence that new global...
Human Uniqueness At The Dawn Of Intelligent Machines
By Mario Raich, Simon L. Dolan, Dr. Dave Ulrich and Claudio Cisullo
Every generation wants to improve on the previous generation; however, this generation risks...
What Motivates People To Become A Leader?
By Tina Kiefer, Warwick Business School (WBS)
“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”...
Are You Prepared to Take the Risk?
Interview with Iain Wright, CFIRM, Outgoing Chair, Institute of Risk Management (IRM)
Risk is a fact of life for businesses of all kinds – large...
Soft Skills: Key To Leadership In A Changed World
Interview with Gina Lodge, CEO of The Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC)
Nobody knows for certain what the post-COVID business world will look like...
Future-proofing payment systems: the silver lining is in the cloud
Exclusive interview with Form3 Chief Customer Officer Jessica Letterman
Maintaining legacy payment systems is costly for banks, especially with continual changes in the regulatory framework....
Getting the AI edge: An exclusive interview with MobiDev CEO Oleg Lola
How can businesses leverage artificial intelligence effectively? Oleg Lola, CEO of MobiDev, outlines his company’s approach to harnessing the power of AI in the...
An Effective Intersection of Automation and Productivity: Interview with TimeXtender CEO, Heine Krog Iversen
In a post-COVID world, it is hard to say which work models are still conventional and part of the status quo. Such lines have...
Individualized Learning in Executive Education Accommodating the Modern Learner
By Mandy Hübener, Bianca Schmitz and Bethan Williams
ESMT Berlin is the highest-ranked business school in Germany and Top 10 in Europe. Founded by...
Artificial Intelligence: Just Who Is In Charge Around Here?
An Exclusive Interview with Professor David De Cremer, Founder and Director, Centre on AI Technology for Humankind, NUS
The employment of artificial intelligence is proceeding...
Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises through the Synergy of AI and Blockchain
By Yan Pang
The ability to make effective use of AI technology has hitherto remained in the province of large enterprises, with their access to...
Human-Algorithm Collaboration in Managerial Decision Making
By Tessa Haesevoets, David De Cremer, Kim Dierckx and Alain Van Hiel
Most would accept that there is a role for both humans and AI...
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“Reverse Backstabbing”- The Art of Praising People Behind Their Backs
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Gossip can be hurtful and malicious, leaving behind a bad smell. And while we may not always avoid it, we can choose the type of gossip to engage in. Enter, reverse backstabbing,...
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