The Better Boards Podcast Series: Governance – Wicked Challenges in Healthcare
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Healthcare in the U.K. is state-funded and led by way...
Coaching: What is it and does it work?
By Adrian Furnham
Business coaching is big business. Two years ago, the International Coaching Federation had 53,000 members and estimated that there were 100,000 life...
Can AI Make Us Better Leaders?
By Nell Watson
In boardrooms worldwide, a quiet revolution is underway. Artificial intelligence, once confined to routine tasks, is now poised to transform leadership. As...
How to Lead Other Students — 10 Tips
Leadership is an extremely important quality to have. It allows you to quickly take charge of matters and lead them in the direction you...
Interview with Dr Bruno Cignacco on the topic “Compassion and Business”
In your new book “The Art of Compassionate Business” you talk a lot about compassion in business, why is compassion so important for business...
The Use of Dopamine to Enhance Resilience in a Post COVID-19 Era: Lessons From...
By Simon L. Dolan and Kyle M. Brykman
Introduction
Resilience is an emerging concept in business and psychology. Its origins are in the school of thought...
Fueling the Basketball Athlete: A Nutrition and Hydration Guide
Becoming a great basketball player is more than just about training and mastering the fundamentals. While experience in the hardwood is unmatched when it...
Tyrant Leadership: Putin and the Psychology of Power
By John Taylor and Adrian Furnham
Vladimir Putin appears to be firmly in control of his country, able to bend it to his will and...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: On Creating a Digitally Savvy Board
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Being digitally conversant in an era of digital transformation is...
A Wake-Up-Call for the Boards on Innovation
By Alessandro Di Fiore, Jonas Vetter and Joachim von Heimburg
Today, innovation is not limited to products, but includes business models. Boards can play a...
Could you answer these 3 questions?
I need your help.
I’ve been asked to reflect on 3 questions for an interview this week on the Innovation Ecosystem podcast. Founded by anthropologist...
Corporate Social Responsibility: Do Companies Have Souls?
By Bill Novelli
The harshest criticism of corporate social responsibility is that companies are essentially immoral, or rather amoral. It’s said that money trumps everything,...
Simonetta Di Pippo, Director, UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
I believe that true passion has no gender and focusing on your goals and dreams helps you to overcome gender and cultural boundaries.
Simonetta Di...
Create an Alumni of Retired Board Members
Don’t close the door to a source of wisdom and advice that can aid better decision making
Nine years is usually the maximum amount of...
What Challenges Does 2024 Have in Store for Securing Cyber-physical Systems?
Interview with Grant Geyer, Chief Product Officer at Claroty
Criminal groups are increasingly targeting operational technology (OT), the systems that control and monitor physical hardware and...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Mastering Internal Board Evaluation
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Corporate Governance Codes worldwide state that an internal board evaluation...
Claiming Your Value: A Key Skill for Women in Transition
By Sally Helgesen
“What’s your worth?” might be one of the more difficult questions that women, particularly in the corporate world, need to face. In...
Women in the Paid Labour Force: Global Work-Family Challenges and Solutions
By Bahira S. Trask As an increasing number of women join the global labour-force, families have undergone...
Where Healthcare is a Pet Subject: Interview with Junko Sheehan, Founder & CEO of...
It’s no surprise that the healthcare sector has huge potential for making a positive social impact. But it’s not only humans that have health...
Identity In and Around Organisations
By Majken Schultz & Steve Maguire
At the heart of any successful organisation lies a powerful conception of identity: the coherent way in which it...
Actions Speak Louder Than Words – Why Adaptive Non-Verbal Communication is a Key Leadership...
By Dr Connson Locke
Non-verbal communication is extremely influential in interpersonal encounters, and knowing how to leverage non-verbal signals effectively can be a key leadership...
Attributes of Engineers and Engineering for the 21st Century World
By PE Seeram Ramakrishna
The world’s leading businesses are global. Below, PE Seeram Ramakrishna argues that engineering education should be reformed to nurture ‘global engineers’...
Top 10 Most Inspiring Leaders in India 2021
The legacy of a country is enhanced by changemakers who contribute to the nation's efforts in a way that takes it away from ‘the...
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...
Why Should Managers Be Socially Responsible?
By Antonio Argandoña
Why should managers put Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) into practice? The so-called legal, ethical, social and business cases provide several reasons. In...
Franziska Gsell, CMO, IWC Schaffhausen
We women should not take such gender biases too seriously and put limitations on our career choices and ourselves.
Franziska Gsell majored in Business Administation...
Embody True Charisma: Be the Leader Everyone Wants to Follow
By Ravi Rajani
This article helps leaders redefine their definition of charisma, whilst unveiling a specific framework to help others feel significant in your presence....
Ethics in Leadership: The Best Executive Education Programs of 2024
By Pamela Martinez
Ethical leadership must be a core value in today’s business world.
Introduction
The significance of emotional intelligence among leaders has escalated in importance for organisational...
What Leaders Can Learn from Both Clinton and Trump
By Katharina Balazs
When connecting with an audience, Hillary Clinton leads with the head while Donald Trump comes from the heart: both hold lessons for...
The Future of Gender Equality, from School to Boardroom
Helena Morrissey Talks with Camille Merrells
Helena Morrissey is the unstoppable CEO of Newton, Chair of the Investment Management Association (IMA) and founder of...
Shattering Glass Ceilings: How Women in Tech® Global Is Empowering Women to Succeed in...
Interview with Ayumi Moore Aoki, Founder and CEO of Women in Tech Global
In this interview with EBR, Ayumi Moore Aoki, founder and CEO of Women...
“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...
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...
Is the Toxic Working Culture an Opportunity for Company and Personal Growth?
By Marcelina Horrillo Husillos, Journalist and Correspondent at The European Business Review
The link between toxic gap, gender gap and mental health is key to...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Leading an Effective Board
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What does good look like? What does it mean to...
Leadership with a Smile Managing Our Emotions as a Tool of Enacting Leadership
By Marian Iszatt-White
Practicing leaders often have to manage their emotions as part of enacting their leadership role: whilst we all do this as part...
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...
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...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: The Power of Trust – How Can Boards Build...
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Trust is the most potent force underlying the success of...
Why are some firms becoming more successful during the COVID-19 pandemic?
By Peter Lorange
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a worldwide recession of immense proportions. Many companies are closing down, either for good or temporarily. ...
Rachel Delacour: “Climate Leaders will be Next on the CEO Seat. And They Will...
By Rachel Delacour
In 2020, only 5% of FTSE 100 CEOs were women, at the current rate of growth, its predicted that it would take...
Big Business Models Are Back-to-Front Create Long-term Value By Putting Shareholders At the Back-end...
By Paul Strebel
Large firms have been treating their shareholders as their most critical stakeholders. In the short run this might make sense, but not...
3 Reasons Saying ‘Yes’ is Stalling Your Professional Growth
By Katia Vlachos
Saying ‘yes’ too often can dilute your focus and impact, trap you in a reactive posture, and potentially lead to burnout, stalling...
Women Leading the Way in Sustainability: Shaping a Greener Future
By Julia Binder
In recent years, sustainable leadership has emerged as a powerful force reshaping corporate strategies worldwide. At its core, sustainable leadership prioritizes long-term...
Five Leadership Lessons that will Help you Boost Productivity
By Deborah Sherry
Today, businesses are presented with a plethora of opportunities arising from digital transformation. However, not all business leaders know how they can...
Why Storytelling is the Most Underrated Leadership Skill Today
By David Pullan and Sarah Jane McKechnie
In today's data-driven landscape, storytelling stands as the spark for organisational success. Business schools teach it, and research...
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...
Artificial Intelligence as an Enabler for the Real Kind: Interview with Kit Cox, CEO...
We’ve heard much about the applications for generative AI in the creative fields, such as writing, design, and software development. But what does the...
Why Empathy is Becoming the Most Scalable Performance Technology in Business
By Melinda McCormack
Human transformation, not digital transformation, will define the next decade of leadership. The leaders who will shape the future will not be...
Does Gender Parity in the Workplace Make Business Sense?
By Anthon Garcia
Closing the gender gap is more than just a matter of fairness. In the business world, pushing for gender parity expands the...