Organizational Preparedness with COVID-19: Strategic Planning and Human Creativity
By Yingying Zhang-Zhang and Arup Varma
COVID-19 arrived with force and unpredictability, dragging sectors and industries to an unprecedented and uncertain situation. Companies and organizations reacted, but most...
COVID as an Economic Opportunity: Lessons From the Subprime Crisis on Resilient Businesses
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...
From Family Business to Global Brand
Raben Group has branches in 13 European countries, employs a total of 10,000 employees, and dispatches over 8,500 trucks on the road each day....
Why Culture is the Ultimate Business Symptom and NOT a Root Cause of a...
By Jim Vaselopulos
When we think of medical symptoms, fever, chills, or nausea might come to mind. But what about business symptoms? These “problems”, more...
Making Failure Work
By Ricardo Viana Vargas, Edivandro Carlos Conforto, and Tahirou Assane Oumarou
For all organisations and managers failure is a recurring reality. But despite failure being...
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...
6 Essential Tips for Aspiring Entrepreneurs
There are thousands, if not millions, of people across the globe with an ambition to run their own successful enterprise. Unfortunately, the majority of...
Why Leaders Fail
By Patrick R. Dailey
“All too frequently, an exceptional executive encounters a corporate trap door, falls, and then derails. This article presents 21st century challenges—corporate...
Serving valued banking relationships generation after generation
Aside from having the second largest banking sector in the Eastern Caribbean region, Antigua and Barbuda also houses the “grandfather” of international financial services...
Keeping your Head up: Experiences that Shape your Life and your Face
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...
Strategic Leadership for Growth in Turbulent Times
By Peter Lorange
In uncertain times, strategic leadership is crucial for navigating growth. Dr Peter Lorange, Honorary President of IMD, explores how executives can harness...
Will AI Ever be Fully Ethical? We are at a Crossroads – The Time...
By Sara Portell
This is clearly a provocative question, but it is one that most organizations, regulators and societies are grappling with right now and...
Agility and Resilience: The Essential Qualities of Leadership in the Digital Age
By Katharina Lange
Transforming an organisation is never an easy task, especially when competitive pressure becomes merciless. There always seems to be a faster, better, bolder,...
Operationalising Excellence: Making it Happen – Part II
By Sean Culey
It is easy to look good in a boom.
It is a lesson that the executives at Chaos Corp have learnt the hard...
Why Value Value?
By Tim Koller, Richard Dobbs and Bill Huyett
Most executives have figured out how to create value for shareholders through experience, observation, and intuition. They’ve...
Zhang Yiming: The Self-made Billionaire and Entrepreneur Behind TikTok Boom
At only 36 years of age, the founder behind one of the most viral social media platforms now has a net worth of $16.2...
Leadership and Culture: Part 2 – Engaging the Enterprise: Creating a Growth Mindset Tribe
Mindset Tribe
By Sean Culey
Part 1 of this article (published in The European Business Review, May/June 2012) set out the case for Culture; it’s impact...
Change or Transformation?
By Dr. Nina Mohadjer
It may be said that to implement change in an organisation takes a real leader. But, as Nina Mohadjer contends, to...
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...
2023 in Review
By Emil Bjerg, journalist and editor
With 2023 coming to an end, we review the most impactful events in a year that’ll be remembered particularly...
Lessons Had and Lessons Learnt — Leading in Times of the Pandemic
By Patricia Casaburi
CEO of Global Citizen Solutions, Patricia Casaburi, shares her trials and tribulations of leading her team through Portugal’s second lockdown to publish...
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...
Nabilah Alsagoff, Founder and COO, PT Nusa Satu Inti Artha (DOKU)
Women have strong minds and we believe that our skills to empower the work force can make a difference in the industry that we...
Artificial Intelligence: Will You Be a Saboteur or an Impressionist?
By Gregory Unruh and Fernanda Arreola
The rapid adoption of AI in today's organisations leaves workers with two choices: waste their energy in a futile...
Using Technology To Turn The Dial On Inclusion: The Mental Health Opportunity
By Barbara Harvey
The stigma long associated with mental health challenges is fading. Companies should turn that to their advantage. Technology can help.
Companies increasingly understand...
How to Lead if You Inherit a Bad Situation
By Michael Watkins
As businesses navigate market disruptions, technological innovations and an increasingly turbulent world, leaders will frequently find themselves taking control of a team...
The Will and Skill to be Strategic
By Patrick R. Dailey & Chuck Russell
Strategy guidance is a board’s most crucial responsibility.
With contemporary directors repeatedly being exhorted to step up their contribution...
Powerful Pageants: What Smart Women can Learn from the Beauty Pageant
By Dr Audrey Tang
Perhaps we need to start by no longer referring to these events as beauty pageants. Modern Pageantry has already evolved in...
CEOs must Evolve as Chief Engagement Officers
By Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D.
This article unveils tools and techniques to engage employees effectively. It outlines the role of CEOs in leadership development programs....
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...
Why Sleep is So Important for Leaders
Experts have long recommended a nightly eight hours of sleep, but many people fail to achieve that amount. After all, work demands, family needs,...
Covering Blind Spots. Does the Board have the Right Information for Effective Decision Making?
By Pedro B. Agua
Does your board have the right information for decision making? Better decision making has been a growing demand at any organizational...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: The Role of the Next Generation on Boards of...
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Transferring a family-owned enterprise to the next generation raises complex...
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,...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Mastering the Company Secretariat
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Managing an ever-growing agenda, Company Secretaries today face a plethora...
Content Piracy Can Now Be Resolved With Bitcoin And Blockchain
From how a bank makes a loan to how a chip is manufactured, it's essential that everyone within that chain can reliably trust one...
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...
Are you having trouble recruiting developers for your project? Take a look at the...
Finding exceptional talent is getting increasingly challenging. Companies are competing aggressively for the best candidates, and everyone is upping their hiring game in a...
Different Ways to Invest in Your Employees
Your employees are the backbone of your company, as they are responsible for running various departments, such as sales, finance, and human resources. It’s...
Standardisation and Cooperation are the Future
Interview with Jonas Berggren CEO, SSG AB
According to Jeffrey Sachs, author of “The Age of Sustainable Development,” achieving sustainable development on our crowded, unequal,...
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...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Gender Equality in the Workplace Starts at the Top
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Despite living in an era of rapid technological advancements, ground...
Dominance and Prestige: Selecting the Leadership Approach that Fits
By Charleen R. Case and Jon K. Maner
Maximising your organisation’s effectiveness requires leaders who tailor their leadership approach based on the organisational culture, their...
Strategic Leadership and Decision Making Under Extreme Crisis: Looking at Complexity Through Flexible Lenses
By Pedro B. Água
Eleven years have elapsed since the 11 of March 2011, when one of the strongest earthquakes recorded in history did hit...
Why Focus-Based Leadership is Important to Huawei’s Business Strategy
By David De Cremer and Jess Zhang
Contemporary business develops at a rapid pace, with many uncertainties, internationally connected stakeholders, and little latitude to make...
Mastering Board Governance in the Digital Age
In the drive for digitalisation, the emphasis tends to be on the operational aspects of the business. But shouldn't there be benefits for the...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Behind the Closed Doors of Tech Start-up Boards
The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series.
The board is a powerful asset for tech start-ups, with...
The Heart of Change Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
By John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
In The Heart of Change, John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen argue that successful large-scale organizational...
Winning the War for the Best Female Talent
By Christie Hunter Arscott, Lauren Noël & Douglas Ready
The International Consortium for Executive Development Research (ICEDR) identifies five key themes that emerging women leaders...
Kathryn Finney, Founder & Managitng Director, digitalundivided (DID)
My philosophy for success and leadership is that leaders don’t necessarily have to have all the right answers every time, but they should trust...
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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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