Leading in the Post-Covid World

As the world stares down year three of a crisis that has affected so many lives and livelihoods, we’re bringing you a look at how it has affected business and society as well, and how to prepare for what might come next.

Beyond “No Politics”: The Business Case for Meaningful Transformation 

By Kate O’Neill  Calls to keep business “politics-free” often overlook crucial issues at the intersection of technology, humanity, and commerce. In this timely piece, Kate...

Reversing the Decline: How HR Teams Can Drive Gender Parity in 2025

By Professor Geeta Nargund Recently, The Pipeline, a leading gender and diversity consultancy, reported a fall in the percentage of women in executive committees of...

Beyond AI Adoption: Why Workforce Upskilling is the Real Competitive Advantage 

By Michael Wade and Amit Joshi  A large insurance company planned to roll out AI tools for their employees, including models for churn reduction, customer...

Leading Change with the Status Quo

By Jason Kofman and Leo Rocha Change is inevitable — but failure doesn’t have to be. Yet too many organizations struggle with change programs because...

The DEI Crossroads: How European Organisations Can Navigate Change 

By David Liddle  European leaders face a pivotal moment. As DEI comes under fire globally, particularly in the United States, David Liddle challenges organisations to...

Profit Over People: What will Define the Future Legacy of Today’s...

By Professor Bernd Vogel As the world of work continues to evolve, leaders face growing pressure to balance or prioritise people over short-term profit. Professor...

Innovating Your Team’s Conditions for Success: Use the 3 Cs!

By Fernanda Arreola and Dan Hammond As leadership roles move from merely directorial to creating great conditions for team success, leaders should employ the three...

Transforming Business Education Through Sustainability and Innovation

By Dr. George Sammour This article explores how business schools can transform education by embedding sustainability and innovation across curricula, research, teaching, and operations. Drawing...

From Frustration to Focus: The Leadership Shift Required to Succeed in...

By Louisa Loran Leaders often face the challenge of navigating constant change, where the instinct is to signal involvement, substituting activity for progress and leading...

Crisis Leadership in Action: A Balancing Act between the Past and...

By David De Cremer The year 2020 will remain in our collective memory as a “crisis” year. It is the year where COVID-19 hit the...

Leading in a Post-COVID World

By Daniel Breitenstein As we look beyond COVID-19, Daniel Breitenstein, General Manager of Astellas Pharma Germany and Head of the DACH Region, shares how collaboration,...

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. ...

How Leaders Can Overcome their Biases to Succeed in the Post-Crisis...

By Nikolaus Obwegeser, Noemie Tentillier, and Tomoko Yokoi Research has shown that our ability to deal with a crisis is heavily dependent on our perception...

Covid-19, Stress, Self-Esteem, Values, and Psychological Well-being: How to Assess Risks...

By Dr. Simon L. Dolan and Dr. Salvador Garcia Sanchez A few years back, we published several books dealing with Stress, Self -Esteem, Health and...

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...

COVID-19 vaccines to save the world: don’t neglect supply chain challenges

By Gilles Paché Since the spring of 2020, due to the spread of a new, very virulent coronavirus, the planet has been going through an...

Why Is Digital Transformation So Hard? Leaders Must Manage Multifaceted Change,...

By Joerg Niessing and Fred Geyer Leaders understand that digital transformation is an imperative.  Shareholders demand it. Customers expect it. The commercial impacts of COVID-19...

Leadership in Times of Crisis

By Lucy Franklin What a difference a few weeks makes. When planning for the new financial year, I doubt anyone in Europe saw this coming...

An Effective Intersection of Automation and Productivity: Interview with TimeXtender CEO,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

How European Companies can use the Cloud to Increase their Competitiveness

By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Sybille Berjoan, Surya Mukherjee and Gargi Chakrabarty Most European business leaders think of cloud as shared, public data centers to host workloads...

Making a Mid-Career Pivot with the Advanced Finance Program

Suzanne Ley spent more than 15 years in corporate and investment banking when she decided she needed a new challenge. “The dynamics of the...

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

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...

Pioneering Biotech Investment with Patient-Centric Vision

Interview with Dr. Simeon George from SR One Capital Management The biotech industry, a realm of constant innovation and transformation, is driven by brilliant minds...

The Better Boards Podcast Series: Is Your Board Adapting to a...

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. Recent research revealed that 87% of board members believe market...

Sounding the Alarm: Early Warning Systems to Build Nature-Positive and Climate...

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...

Elon Musk’s ‘Hardcore’ Management Style: a Case Study in What Not...

By Libby Sander As a case study in how to implement organisational change, Elon Musk’s actions at Twitter will go down as the gold standard...

Trailblazer Females – Women’s Day 2023: Today’s Workplace Equality Challenges

By Marcelina Horrillo Husillos, Journalist and Correspondent at The Business European Review As we celebrate International Women's Day in 2023, this article explores the incredible...

When I Grow up I Want to be a 21st-Century Leader

By Dr. Nina Mohadjer Leadership is one of the most misused words of our times. Based on my own experiences, I discuss how to move...

Cybersecurity: The Future of Passwords and Passwordless – Interview with Michael...

Digital security remains a core concern for businesses, as the scary headlines continue to shriek of stolen and encrypted data, phishing, breaches, and intrusions....

A Practical Guide to Kick-starting Your Cyber Supply Chain Risk Programme

By Dr. Kamil J. Mizgier The digitalisation of global supply chains is unstoppable and there is no doubt about the upside potential it brings in...

ChangeNOW: Where Sustainability Solutions are Found – and Accelerated

Interview with Santiago Lefebvre, Founder and CEO of ChangeNOW If change for sustainability is to be made a reality, there needs to be a place...

Keeping your Head up: Experiences that Shape your Life and your...

Interview with Mr. Mark Anderson, CEO of Alteryx While it is undeniably true that we are all the sum of our experiences, it is also...

Why Strong Technology Leadership Matters to Europe’s Future Competitiveness

The Right Leadership Can Help Bridge Europe's Lag in Technology Adoption, R&D, and Patents By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Svenja Falk, and Surya Mukherjee Increasing leaders’ technology quotient...

Resilience to Turbulence: How to Keep Going in Uncertain Times

Interview with Petra Jenner, Senior Vice President and General Manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Splunk Recently, dramatic events like pandemics and...

Climate Action is in the Hands of the C-Suite

By Renaud Bettin As companies face rising pressures from consumers, investors, and sustainability reporting regulations, it is essential that the entire C-Suite assumes responsibility for...

COVID as an Economic Opportunity: Lessons From the Subprime Crisis on...

By Jorge Sá Most businesses were taken completely off-guard when the COVID crisis hit. The absence of historical data on such an event meant that...

Mission, Vision, Values: A Blueprint For Success

By Ken Gavranovic and Lee Atchison excerpted from their book BUSINESS BREAKTHROUGH 3.0 Sam Goldwyn reportedly said that a verbal contract isn’t worth the paper...

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