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Why We Need A Resolution Revolution 

By David Liddle If you've ever thought that there must be a more positive, less damaging way of resolving workplace disputes than that offered by...
High Performance

How Can Businesses Cultivate High Performance and Harness it for Success?

By Sarfraz Ali In this article, Smartsheet’s Sarfraz Ali takes a deep dive into high-performance – what it is and what drives it, how businesses...

Don’t Hire for Culture Fit

By Ruchika Tulshyan Hiring for culture fit is among the most widespread and exclusionary hiring practices today. Leaders must concentrate on culture add to be...

Culture Is Still ‘‘a Thing’’: On Why It’s So, but Shouldn’t Be

By Ernst Graamans The time has come to see culture in business settings in a new light – not as a ‘‘collective programming of the...
Merger

Navigating Tech Companies Mergers: The Key to a Seamless Transition

By Slava Todavchich Successful company mergers have far-reaching impacts, not only shaping the competitive landscape but also influencing the lives of employees and the fabric...
Radical Innovation

The Bias Against Radical Innovation

By Oguz Acar The problem with truly innovative ideas is that, far from being enthusiastically received by those entrusted with evaluating them, they are more...
doping sustainability

Doping Sustainability

By Maude Lavanchy and Karl Schmedders “The system” doesn’t necessarily reward companies for their initiatives towards sustainability. In fact, they may find themselves at a...
Ian Johnston

Want to Succeed in Business? Get your Culture in Good Shape

Interview with Mr. Ian Johnston, Partner at Heidrick & Struggles It’s common to refer casually to a company’s “culture”. But what does that really mean...

A New Generation of Entrepreneurs: Moving with Purpose

By Fernanda Arreola and Gregory Unruh Have you ever noticed how successful entrepreneurs seem to be driven by a kind of inspiration? But where do...

Why Many Modern Psychology Test Publishers Fail

By Adrian Furnham In the midst of the razzmatazz surrounding AI, we hear a lot about its potential for the recruitment process. But is it...

Resilience Is More than Being Able to Rebound: It Should Be Used As a...

By Jacques Bughin While they may not be able to prevent pending economic crises such as those resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses can use...
Leaders’ Behaviours and Organisational Cultures

Leaders’ Behaviours and Organisational Cultures Needed for Success in a Post Covid Hybrid Workplace

By Vlatka Ariaana Hlupic The global pandemic has changed all aspects of our lives including the way that we are now working. As organisations are...
Corporate ESG Programme

Designing a Corporate ESG Programme that Attracts, Nurtures, and Retains Women

By Chaitra Vedullapalli Inclusion is the new kid on the block that every company interested in advancement is courting. And one of the best methods...
strategic failure

Strategic Failure as a Source of Information

By Svyatoslav Biryulin We live in a culture of success. We adore successful people and often feel distressed when we believe we are not. Evolution...
HR Development

Sustaining Non-profits: HR Development, Succession Management, and Leadership Continuity

By Nils Geib Non-profits are at a loss in their quest for professionalisation without competent leadership personnel and their ongoing development. This article draws on...
Transformation of Education

New Outlook, New Educational Curricula And Proactivity

By Dr Mario Raich, Dr Kristine Marin Kawamura, Dr Simon L. Dolan, Dr Paweł Rowiński and Mr Claudio Cisullo  PART II: Towards A Visionary Prescriptive Transformation...
hiring

Make Hiring a Delightful Employee Experience

How to upgrade your employer brand to attract and retain the best talent By Avi Liran As the war for talent intensifies, creating a Delightful Employee...
Spying

Trust, Treason and Treachery: The Psychology of Spying

By Adrian Furnham and John Taylor “In the world of intelligence, it is trust not betrayal which dominates the mindset” What exactly do spies do? What...
business consultant

What Is a Business Consultant?

Hiring a consultant may assist companies in improving their performance and making the required adjustments to attain success. Business consultants aid organizations in overcoming...
Digital Era

Towards the Future of Work – How to Thrive in the Digital Era

By Francesca Cristea The world has rapidly changed during the last two years marked by the global pandemic and our society took a big leap...
Switching Off the Always-On Culture

Switching Off the Always-On Culture

By Avi Liran and Marianna Pascal In mid-November 2021, Portugal made it illegal for bosses to contact employees after work. Legislators wanted to protect employees from...
Lack of Innovativeness

What if Your Business Model Was to Blame for Your Lack of Innovativeness!

By Fernanda Arreola, Raphaël Maucuer and Adrien Terlier Innovation is a crucial driver of success for organizations. It is a tool for nurturing a competitive...
Unlocking Schumpeter

Unlocking Schumpeter. Fostering Innovation Within Our Organizations

By Pedro B. Agua History has shown that when organizations have approached some threshold concerning their markets saturation, be it by product or process improvements,...
Digital transformation

We Have No Other Way than Becoming Digital: 5 Steps to Digital Transformation

By Max Azarov, CEO & Co-founder of Novakid In 2020, global spending on digital transformation topped $1.3 trillion. That's a 10.4 percent year-on-year increase. There's...
Smart business

Parts of Business You Need to Transform Now

By Bojana Vojnović Smart businesses are continuously improving. And with the huge moves that the pandemic has brought, businesses have been forced to change in more...
Accounting

Best 5 Lease Accounting Software

Lease accounting tasks require accuracy. Make one mistake and you risk becoming non-compliant to rigid accounting standards which leads to hefty penalties among other...
Agile Org

5 Ways to Build an Agile Organization

An agile business model aims at satisfying customer wants through the continuous delivery of valuable goods and services. It's a customer-centric organization that transforms...
Diversity

Why Resurfacing the Forgotten Dimension of Diversity is a Business-Critical Priority

By Jon Chan, Gráinne Bryan and Nina Mohadjer, FTI Technology  A recent Harvard Business Review article claimed that the most often forgotten dimension of diversity is social class. While more...
employers

Five Post-Pandemic Questions For Employers

While it has been around a year and a half since Covid-19 first began to disrupt daily life, many of us still remain confused...
Business amidst COVID-19

How have business priorities changed pre- and post-Covid?

By Francois Lacas, Deputy COO at Yooz The global pandemic has dramatically refocused business priorities for businesses across the UK. In a life before Covid, businesses...

Customer Obsession Is Today’s Transformation Imperative

By Shirley Macbeth, Chief Marketing Officer, Forrester Who drives transformation in your business? After years of fighting for a seat at the boardroom table, the...

Building Businesses in a Pandemic, the Smart Way

Modern technology is dazzling, powerful, and has countless applications, but can it be used to help HR teams make hiring decisions, which traditionally involve...
agile

Five Critical Aspects of a Successful Transformation from Matrix to Agile

By Yves Doz and Maria Guadalupe Created in the 2000s by software developers, the Agile way of working is fast becoming the defining approach across...

Quantum Leadership for Recovery

By Vlatka Hlupic Even before the advent of the global pandemic necessitated a rethink of leadership models, the world of work managed by the old...

5 Tips to Manage your Hospitality Business post-COVID

The time has come – this is the moment that the entire hospitality industry has been waiting for. As the world relieves itself from...
A-Z Guide to Corporate Culture for Leaders

The A-Z Guide to Corporate Culture for Leaders

The phrase corporate culture has become a trend in the business world. Company culture is an essential factor for hiring and retaining top talent...

How Duty of Care Became Top Priority for Businesses

CEO of risk intelligence company Riskline, Kennet Nordlien, shares his first-hand experience of responding to businesses’ needs during the pandemic Duty of care is now...
consultant

Client Advisory: How To Cultivate The Ultimate Consultant For Real-World Strategies That Work

By Leon Gauhman Leon Gauhman, chief strategy officer at digital product consultancy Elsewhen, explains how clients can sidestep endemic problems in the consultancy sector, vetting...
business colleagues

From Surviving to Thriving: Business after Coronavirus

At the beginning of 2020, many people found it difficult to adapt to some of the changes due to the pandemic. Everyone can tell...

How to Encourage Innovation in Your Business

Innovation is more than a business buzzword that is currently in vogue; it is a hugely valuable concept that has actually been around for...
productivity

4 Tips for Successful Adoption of New Technology

What good is an investment in the latest technologies if no one within the organization uses it? This is all too common in practice...
Values in Organisations

Internalising Values in Organisations

By William S. Harvey, Sharina Osman and Marwa E.A. Tourky We read a lot about the importance of organisations being led by their values, but...
corporate foresight

Building a future-proof company – Four cornerstones of transformative corporate foresight

By Nando Malmelin, Matti Pihlajamaa and Pauli Komonen The article provides a new framework to manage and develop corporate foresight, guiding strategic thinking and business...
Gina Lodge

Soft Skills: Key To Leadership In A Changed World

Interview with Gina Lodge, CEO of The Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC) Nobody knows for certain what the post-COVID business world will look like...
Crisis communication

Seven Lessons From Crisis Communications During the Pandemic

By Adnan Bashir If you happen to be a marketing or communications practitioner, chances are that the first half of 2020 was a whirlwind time...
digital marketing consultation

Time for change: Why the consulting sector needs a new commercial ethos

By Leon Gauhman Leon Gauhman, chief strategy officer at Elsewhen, explores how big consulting can revive its damaged reputation in the wake of bungled Covid-19...
modern office

Getting back to the office, what are the next steps?

It’s been almost a year since office spaces were left deserted and replaced with the majority of the UK working from home. With the benefits...
synergy or conflict

Synergy or Conflict? Lessons for managers on how to successfully adopt AI to augment...

By Jakob Stollberger and David De Cremer Artificial intelligence undeniably offers the potential to improve decision-making, at least in certain contexts. In this article, AI experts Jakob Stollberger...

Managing By Traction (MbT) Reinventing Management in the Cyber-Age

By Mario Raich, Tomasz Krzemiński, Claudio Cisullo, Simon L. Dolan and Bonnie A. Richley Abstract “We are at a critical turning point in human history!  We...

4 Ways COVID Will Change Business Forever

By Samantha Rupp The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has changed nearly every aspect of our daily lives. From how and where we work to the ways...

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