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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...

The Quality of Working Life: Managers’ Wellbeing, Motivation and Productivity

By Les Worrall & Cary Cooper The recent economic crisis has created waves of turbulence that have rocked and even sunk many UK organisations....

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...

What to Remember When Learning More About Your Family’s Past

Everyone desires to have a close-knit, happy, and peaceful home. Indeed, knowing your family's lineage is an aspiration of many. The objective lies in...
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What Kind of Challenges for Businesses Face with Compliance in 2021?

Compliance is one of the most important parts of a business that a company can face, and yet so many are still making errors....

So, you think you have a strategy? Five poor excuses for a strategy

By Freek Vermeulen No matter how colourful your PowerPoint presentation, it does not mean you have a strategy. So what is strategy and what are...
Customer Relationships

The Importance of the Human in Customer Relationships: Interview with Bruno R. Cignacco, Author...

Bruno R. Cignacco, author of The Art of Compassionate Business, elaborates on the transformative power of personalised, service-oriented business strategies to foster stronger, more...
Emotional Intelligence as a Game Changer in Global Business

Emotional Intelligence as a Game Changer in Global Business

By Dr Anna Maria Rostomyan, PhD Mentor, Swiss School of Business Research Emotional Intelligence (EQ) can be considered to be one of the cornerstones...

Ethel Cofie, CEO, EDEL Technologies

Life is full of challenges, and one of the early lessons that I learnt, is the fact that life does not give you what...
Shifting the Gender Gap to an ‘All Differences Matter’ Narrative

Shifting the Gender Gap to an ‘All Differences Matter’ Narrative

By Lianne Taylor CPsychol This article purposefully shifts the narrative that disadvantages female entrepreneurs to a focus on entrepreneurial differences in thinking, traits and behaviour...
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How to Be a Great Manager

Your management style can significantly impact the work environment that you create for your employees. Great management skills can lead to a more positive company...

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...
Business woman stress and burnout

How to Protect Your Senior Leaders from Burnout: Simple, Company-Wide Leadership Behaviour Changes to...

By Andy Brown Protecting senior leaders from burnout is essential for sustainable business success. This article from award-winning leadership coach and Amazon best-selling author, Andy...
Gina Lodge

The Coach Route to Transformation: Helping Individuals and Organisations to Arrive at their Full...

Interview with Ms Gina Lodge CEO of The Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC) Businesses across all industries have discovered that executive coaching is one of...
Internet of Things

Using Blockchain To Secure The ‘Internet Of Things’

Technology keeps revolutionizing the world, and over the years, there has been an increase in device connectivity. Some of these devices include streetlights, cameras...
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How to Combat Imposter Syndrome as a Female Leader 

By Sue Musson There are four timely questions doing the rounds about imposter syndrome:  How prevalent is it?   Why does it matter?  Whose job is...
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: AI – What Questions do Directors Need to Ask?

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. There is much discussion about AI, especially after the launch...

6 Key Skills Every CTO Must Have

What does it take to become an awesome CTO? If that’s one of your dreams or perhaps you are already a tech leader looking...
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: Being on the Board – Keeping it Simple

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series Amid global uncertainty, are boardrooms needlessly complex? Is It possible...

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...
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Networkracies – From Hierarchy to Connectivity

By Dr Leandro Herrero Is the future of the organization ‘Network First’? The knowledge base organization looks certainly more and more like a networkracy. We...

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,...
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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...
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The LGBTI+ Wisdom Among Us: Redefining the Concept of Leadership 

By Joel A. Davis Brown  In an era defined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (V.U.C.A.), traditional leadership models are proving inadequate to meet global...
Digital Trust is on the Horizon

Digital Trust is on the Horizon: Interview with Warren Dumanski, Executive VP and General...

In an ideal world, businesses would be able to carry out their digital business transactions safely, securely, ethically and reliably. In short, they need...

Judith Owigar, Founder, Akirachix

I think the most important thing is to expose women to technology early enough for them to experiment so that when the time comes...

Curiosity That Drove a Journey to Tech Leadership and Innovation

Interview with Archana Kamath of DigitalOcean From her early fascination with electronics to her leadership in software-defined networking (SDN), Archana Kamath, Senior Director of Engineering...

Senior Team Development for the Unwilling

By John Sutherland Traditional team work over-emphasises the whole team approach far more than is needed for most practical purposes. In this article, John Sutherland...

Maintaining a Strong Organisational Culture in a World of Continual Change 

By Carole Valette In today's environment of rapid and constant change, organisational culture has become a crucial focus. With persistent instability—that some are calling...

Re-invent Yourself as COO

By Nathan Bennett & Stephen A. Miles We focus on factors that have fundamentally changed demands on COOs: global recession, the evolving paradigm surrounding governance,...
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4 Trends in Reputation that CEOs Need to Understand

By Sharon Fishburne Businesses of all sizes are having to think more seriously about their reputations. A reputational crisis not only damages consumer confidence in a...
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Board Simulations are Key to Future-Proofing Your Business

By Shefaly M Yogendra, PhD Board drills or simulations sharpen leadership’s ability to anticipate future challenges, react calmly to ‘black swan’ events and leverage opportunities...

What Digital Leadership Does

By Stijn Viaene Leadership has been an indispensable factor in any business development. As businesses undergo digital transformation, Stijn Viaene offers exciting insight on digital...

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...
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Beyond the Regulatory Checkbox: Navigating Europe’s Shifting Sustainability Rules with Strategic Intent

By Jens Laue, Matthew Robinson, Monique de Ritter and Michela Coppola As Europe recalibrates its sustainability regulations, it may seem natural for businesses to ease...

Happy New Year: MacGregor on Executive Health

By Steven P. MacGregor For most of Europe, especially those engaged in academic pursuits, September marks the beginning of a new year. After the traditional...
Remote Working

Five SAP Security Activities That Organisations Should Consider with the New Era of Remote...

By Dudley Cartwright Stephen McBride, Forbes Magazine contributor and editor of RiskHedge Report, predicts in his article that the largest cyberattack in history is imminent, with the...
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Legal and Compliance Challenges in Ethical Value Chains: Mitigating Corruption and Protecting Brand Equity

By Ken D. Johnson and Dana E. Heitz The article explores how companies can build ethical value chains by addressing corruption through legal compliance and...
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From Burnout to Breakthrough: Why Resilience Matters and How to Create It 

By Shawna Simcik   In today’s demanding corporate environment, employees are more burned out than ever. Even high-performing employees, who may continue to deliver results and...

Changing The CEO Politics and Decisions at the Top

By Guido Stein & Manuel Gallego   Introduction 
Companies statistically dismiss twice as many CEOs in bad economic times as in good. Certainly, many senior executives have...
Andrea Falleni of Capgemini

AI Agents at the Helm: Capgemini’s Vision for Smarter, Greener Businesses

Interview with Andrea Falleni of Capgemini From steering a 20-person startup to leading Capgemini’s vast Southern European region, Andrea Falleni knows what it takes to...
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Business-Centric GRC for SAP Customers – How to Get the Most out of Your...

By Dudley Cartwright, co-founder and CEO of Soterion Investing in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) is one of the most important business investments you can...

Fintech: a Force for Disrupting and Democratising Financial Services

Fintech is like a snowball on a hill that is getting bigger and bigger and changing finance tremendously. London-based entrepreneur Viktor Prokopenya is well...

Looking at the Universe as a Systemic Whole: Women in Global Leadership

Interview with Magdalena Mook  CEO, International Coach Federation The International Coach Federation (ICF) is a rapidly growing organisation, encompassing 26,000 professional coaches globally. The European Business...
ZeroBounce CEO Liviu Tanase

ZeroBounce CEO Liviu Tanase on Leadership, AI, and the Future of Email

Interview with Liviu Tanase of Zerobounce As founder and CEO of ZeroBounce, Liviu Tanase has built one of the most trusted names in email deliverability....
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: Mastering Internal Board Evaluation

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. Corporate Governance Codes worldwide state that an internal board evaluation...
Leadership Lessons from Julius Caesar

What Leaders Can Learn from Caesar’s Successes and Failures

By Dr Paul Vanderbroeck More than two millennia after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of history's most compelling case studies in leadership. Thus, in...
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: My Experience of Working with a Board for the...

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. Boards can be complex structures, which can be overwhelming for...
Microplate Reader

What are the Functions of Microplate Readers?

When the pandemic hit us, two years ago, microplate readers became a necessary tool, in all hospitals and laboratories, for testing purposes. They became...

The Employee Owned Business Model During Growth and Adversity: How Well Does it Hold...

By Joseph Lampel, Ajay Bhalla & Pushkar P. Jha Criticism of modern corporate capitalism in the wake of the current economic crisis is reawakening interest...