The 3 C’s of Growth Leadership: Culture, Capabilities, and Configuration
By George S. Day
George S. Day’s new book Innovation Prowess: Leadership Strategies for Accelerating Growth is an essential guide to building a framework for...
Turn Time Into Money: Faster Growth Through Digital Reuse
By Stephanie L. Woerner, Peter Weill, & Mark P. McDonald
Today’s technologically savvy firms have created an internal digital reuse culture that significantly reduces time-to-market...
Developing Multicultural Competence
By Luciara Nardon, Richard M. Steers & Carlos J. Sanchez-Runde
In our globally expanding economy, it is no longer enough for successful managers to have...
50+20 Management Education for the World: PART 1: Designing a Radically New Vision of...
By Katrin Muff, Thomas Dyllick, Mark Drewell, John North, Paul Shrivastava & Jonas Haertle
Extracts from chapter 5 of the forthcoming book “Management education for...
Turning Talent Data into Talent Intelligence
By Nik Kinley & Shlomo Ben-Hur
Talent management is built upon talent intelligence—the understanding that businesses have of the skills, expertise and qualities of their...
Design vs. Discovery: Which Way to Innovation?
By William Duggan
“Design thinking” is slowly but surely taking over the field of innovation. The result is terrific design. But that’s not the same...
Fast-Expanding Markets: Where New Growth Can Be Found!
By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito & Khaled Soufani
This article is dedicated to provide a working definition of these markets, which we call “Fast-Expanding Markets”...
Why Our Decisions Get Derailed and How to Get Back on Track
By Francesca Gino
The Ducati motorcycle racing team, Ducati Corse, decided to compete in a motorcycle racing circuit, the MotoGP, for the first time in...
Unlocking Innovation Through Business Experimentation
By Stefan Thomke
There is a downside to businesses that focus heavily on standardization, optimization, and driving out variability: Such organizations leave themselves vulnerable to...
How Sustainability and Carbon Footprint Reduction is Transforming the DNA of Leadership Key Trends...
By Nikos Avlonas
2012 introduced several significant developments in sustainability, most notably around the issues of climate change, risk management, and supply chain ethics.
June’s Rio+20...
Who Innovates Out of the Crisis?
By Daniele Archibugi, Andrea Filippetti and Marion Frenz
The recent economic crisis has severely reduced the short-term willingness of firms to invest in innovation. But...
Innovate the Way You Innovate
By Stephen Shapiro
In today’s fast-paced business environment, the ability to innovate is not enough. You need to innovate efficiently, quickly, and with less risk....
Will Innovation Save the Planet? How the principles of successful innovation could slow global...
By Morten Olsen
“Combating climate change requires urgent and ambitious action,” proclaimed the RIO+20 summit held in June 2012. Yet, strong commitments failed to materialize...
Disagreement to Convergence: Wisdom in Diversity
By Adam Kingl
Teams typically desire harmony above all. The most common fear is that of conflict. The assumption is that conflict and effectiveness are...
‘Big Data’ vs. Quality Information: The Peculiarities of Information Markets
By Miklos Sarvary
Big data versus quality information
‘Big Data’ is the new buzzword of today’s business world. Management consultants, corporate strategists and IT executives...
Softscaling: A New Growth Strategy for Volatile Environments
By Ritu Agarwal and Peter Weill
In an increasingly volatile world what were tried and true business maxims yesterday probably won’t work today. Just think...
Reimagining Enterprise IT for an Uncertain Future
By Jeanne G. Harris, Allan E. Alter, Stéphane J.G. Girod and Iris A. Junglas
The role of the information technology department is under scrutiny in...
Reclaiming the Battlefield of Consumer Influence
By Paul F. Nunes and Joshua B. Bellin
Companies are increasingly finding their marketing messages contradicted – or worse, turned against them – by a...
Simpler Organisation Designs Improve Company Performance and Employee Motivation
By Simon Collinson, Melvin Jay & Mary Pizzey
Walmart earns $400 billion each year by serving over 100 million customers every week in 4,500 retail...
Neuroeconomics. An Emerging Field of Theory and Practice
By James Giordano, Roland Benedikter and Nadia Flores
This article gives a short, introductory overview of basic aspects of the emerging field of neuroeconomics, as...
When Spending Hurts
By Nailya Ordabayeva and Pierre Chandon
Thorstein Veblen coined the term conspicuous consumption in 1899 to describe spending with the intention of gaining social status.1...
Developing Trust and Relationships in the Supply Chain using Social Media
By Daniel E. O’Leary
Social media facilitates gathering information and knowledge from disparate sources, which in turn allows sharing of information, knowledge and plans, all...
Making China Your Top Priority
By Gong Li, Henry Egan and Andrew Sleigh
Companies have never had such an array of options when it comes to investment opportunities in the...
Effectively Managing Innovation
By Daniel Evans
At EMLYON we have had the opportunity to help develop the innovation efforts for companies around the world. Our combined experience suggests...
Patients Know Best
By Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
It was not until the 18th century that scientists accepted the existence of queen bees. Until that point they insisted that only...
How Europe Can Rebuild Skills and Generate Growth
By Tim Cooper, Athena Peppes, Mark Purdy and Matthew Robinson
Europe is facing a jobs and unemployment crisis that is unprecedented in recent times
• Since...
Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace
By Ari Kaplan
The technological landscape has reshaped the way white collar workers cultivate and promote their businesses. This article offers insights on taking advantage...
Innovative Technologies in Aviation Logistics
Due to the fierce competition caused by the economic downturn, rising fuel costs and growing customer demand, airfreight companies are forced to look for...
How the dot-CO domain opened the door to a new era of Internet innovation
By Kieren McCarthy
Taking on an industry titan is never easy. So it was with a small upstart domain extension hoping to challenge the dominance...
Walking the New Corridors of Power: Positioning your Business for the Era of Emerging-Market...
By Mark Purdy, Athena Peppes, Armen Ovanessoff & Kuangyi Wei
Over the past decade, the corridors of trade and investment have increasingly been occupied by...
Innovating Beyond the Familiar
By Patrick Barwise & Seán Meehan
Don’t be overawed by Apple – your company too can innovate beyond the familiar. This isn’t about “blue-sky thinking”,...
Needed: Executives (and Citizens) with a Global Mindset
By Nakiye A. Boyacigiller
We are facing challenges of a global nature that require global citizenship, global responsibility, and global solutions. These cannot be achieved...
The Search for Innovation Leadership
By Jeff Gaspersz
What do we need to do to build the leaders that are equipped for the new innovation challenges?
In all the years I...
KYOCERA – a uniquely resource-efficient approach to product design
By Tracey Rawling Church
KYOCERA is a name that may not be familiar, but the company has quietly been designing and manufacturing resource efficient products...
Reinventing Management
By Julian Birkinshaw
What is the future of management? Can management be reinvented to make it more effective as an agent of economic progress and...
Making Inclusive Growth a Reality: Lessons from India
By Raghav Narsalay and Anish Gupta
Reaching out to the poor in emerging markets has long been a laudable social goal. But in India today,...
On The Trail with the Idea Hunters
By Andy Boynton, Bill Fischer, with William Bole
High-value ideas are not necessarily created. More often than not, they are already out there, waiting to...
Managing Paradox: the discipline of strategic execution
By Andrew Binns and Wendy Smith
When a business faces the paradox between transforming for the future and securing its current market position, leading change...
Getting a Job In 2025
By Lynda Gratton
Lynda Gratton’s new research identifies the careers and skills likely to be valued in the next decade.
Even with my own three decades...
Redesigning Leadership: Design, Technology, Business + Life
By John Maeda and Becky Bermont
There is a simple saying in Japanese that epitomizes the nature of striving for excellence, “Ue ni wa ue...
Why Europe’s head belongs in the Cloud
By Harry van Dorenmalen, Chairman, IBM Europe
The emergence of Cloud computing stands out as one of the key technological advances of the last 30...
Brain Science and the Tasks of the Manager
By Robert Chapman Wood, Gerald A. Cory Jr., and Osvald M. Bjelland
Ego and empathy—the two great drivers of business—come from distinct sets of elements...
Invisible Capital and Why We Need to Democratize Entrepreneurial Opportunity
By Chris Rabb
Invisible capital is the toolkit of our skills, knowledge, networks, experiences and other resources, along with the set of assets we were...
Getting Face Time
By Andreas Wienold, EMEA VP at LifeSize
At a time when we’re overwhelmed by information via email, social media and other communication, face time still...
What Managers Need to Know about Platforms
By Annabelle Gawer
A new and powerful way to compete has taken shape in our business landscape: Platform competition
Whether we are talking about Google,...
Managing Digital Natives – Opportunity or Challenge? Tell me when you were born and...
By Karsten Jonsen, Rafael Martin and Stephanie Weg
Who are these Digital Natives and what makes them different? How can business use shifts in behavior...
Your four opportunities to capture customers who no longer care where they buy: The...
By Robert H. Bloom
Today, sellers live in a virtual glass houses – they are stripped naked by social media, vulnerable to the attitudes, positive...
Jumping the S-Curve: How to Reach the Top – and Stay There
By Paul Nunes and Timothy Breene
One obvious trait of high-performance companies is that they are all adept at launching new businesses -- a process...
Why Emotions Are as “Soft” as Gold Bars (Making Money)
By Dan Hill
For brand-oriented consumers and leaders as well as your average worker, emotions matter. Emotions are central, not peripheral, to both marketplace and...
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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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