“Can-Lah” The Art of Saying “Yes!”
By Avi Liran
A refreshing guide from one of the top motivational and entertaining speakers in Asia on how to turn those frustrating "NOs" into...
Navigating the Future of Online Advertising with WEB3
By Frank Cespedes and Ben Plomion
For years, digital ad spend was a steadily growing portion of marketing budgets, reaching over $601 billion globally in...
Adventure Awaits: Michael McCreesh’s Mission to Showcase Taiwan’s Outdoors
In this exclusive interview, we talk with Michael McCreesh, the dynamic Founder and CEO of Taiwan Outdoors. Michael reveals his passion for Taiwan’s diverse...
How Top-Performing Firms Needed to Reorganise Seven Times for Digital
By Peter Weill & Stephanie L. Woerner
Top-performing firms reorganise several times to effectively use digital to capture value. In a series of CEO interviews,...
How to Put Curiosity to Work in Your Organisation
By Louise Muhdi
Companies are starting to understand why it is important to cultivate curiosity among their workforce. Yet, only a few possess a good...
Aligning Organisational Ecosystems to be Fit for Purpose
By Jonathan Trevor and Kazuhiro Asakawa
In the first of a two-part series, we explore how firms are reaping the benefits of leveraging a network...
A New Business Leadership Paradigm to Understand Signals and Timing: When to ENTER a...
By Peter Lorange and Karin Mugnaini
In business, as in a host of other contexts, timing is everything. While sensing the optimum moment for a...
Going Faster Is Not Enough Add Innovation to Outperform
By Peter Weill, Jan Brecht and Stephanie L. Woerner
To stay relevant and achieve resilience, company leaders need to focus not only on speed but...
The Art of Future Design — Part II: Deployment, Wholeness, and Impact on...
By Kristine M. Kawamura, Mario Raich, Simon L. Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo
In this article, we extend the logic that was previously published...
How to Move from Product to Cultural Innovation
By Klaus Heine and Michel Phan
Brand spirit is, or should be, at the heart of a company’s brand culture. But how can a business...
How Productive Is Generative AI Really?
By Jacques Bughin
Generative artificial intelligence is invading the corporate suite and boardroom, surrounding the pros and cons of its use in the enterprise. The...
The Art of Future Design — Part I: Framing, Assessing, and Identifying Relevant Contexts
By Kristine M. Kawamura, Mario Raich, Simon L. Dolan, Dave Ulrich and Claudio Cisullo
Our desire to design a better future for those coming behind...
Artificial Intelligence is Exclusive-by-Design
By Hamilton Mann
As humans, it is our responsibility to shape the trajectory of artificial intelligence and use the knowledge of machine learning to...
5 AI-Based Business Ideas to Impress Investors and Get Funds for Your Startup
By Anastasiia Molodoria
One of the critical components of running a startup is cornering the market with a unique and innovative value proposition. If you...
Sustainable Investment: Marrying Greenness with the Traditional Values
Interview with Mr. Claudio Cisullo, Founder of CC Trust Group AG
Investors are more than ever on the lookout for companies that demonstrate commitment to...
DART: On Target to Meet the Needs of the Travel Industry
Insights from Riversoft CEO, Alex Kuo
In the fiercely competitive world of the post-pandemic travel industry, travel suppliers are looking to provide a leaner, more...
Imagining a Shared Journey into the Future of Work
By Simon L. Dolan, Kristine Marin Kawamura, Mario Raich, and Dave Ulrich
Work enables us to create value for ourselves and others. In our forthcoming...
The Resilience Rings: A New Neuropsychological Framework for Building Resilience
By Javier S. Casademunt and Simon L. Dolan
Mental health problems, especially in the workplace, have become the current global pandemic that COVID-19 left behind....
How New Age Entrepreneurs are Changing the Way We Think About Business
By Jessica Wong
Entrepreneurs have always been at the forefront of innovation. Often starting out with limited resources, they made their mark by building businesses...
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...
SMEs’ Changing Organisational Landscape: Strategising the Workplace of the Future
By Ambika Zutshi, Asha Thomas, Tapan Sarker and John Mendy
The varied challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic have left many SMEs floundering. Here are...
Let’s STRIDE Towards UN SDG-led Innovation
By Mike Cooray, Rikke Duus, Joanne Carmichael, and Marius Sylvestersen
It has never been more urgent for entrepreneurial, public, and private organisations to join forces...
Riversoft Makes the Connection: From Travel Services to Medical Data Via NLP
Since its foundation, Riversoft has been active in many areas of growth, from tourism to technology and the marriage of both. Following our initial...
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”...
Actionable Advice To Scale Your Business in an Uncertain Economic Climate
ECOMMPAY’s business development manager Daniella Sjarki gives an overview of the latest payment preferences and technologies to help your business gain a competitive advantage...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Telecommunications: Getting the Message Across: Interview with Mr. Alessio De Sio, ZTE
As Chief Institutional and Communication Officer in Europe for telecoms company ZTE, a large component of Alessio de Sio's role is to inform the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Medical Cannabis: Benefiting from a Growth Industry
Cannabis has long been known for its benefits for medicinal purposes, although its use in that context is still a legal minefield in many...
Company Brands as Purpose-driven Lived Experience Ecosystems
By Venkat Ramaswamy and Nicholas Ind
With the COVID-19 pandemic curbing global travel in the first quarter of 2020, Airbnb, which had taken twelve years...
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...
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...
Watched Over by Machines: AI and Surveillance at Work
By Andreas Deppeler
The recent transitions towards having company personnel working at home while remaining digitally connected have sometimes been portrayed as furthering the ideal...
Promise and Challenge: AI in the Trade Finance Industry
Interview with Graham Bright, Head of Compliance and Operations, Euro Exim Bank
Technology is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, it’s moving fast –...
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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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