Turning Talent Data into Talent Intelligence
By Nik Kinley & Shlomo Ben-Hur
Talent management is built upon talent intelligence—the understanding that businesses have of the skills, expertise and qualities of their...
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...
Structure Follows Strategy – But May not Look Like You Imagined
By John Sutherland
In the world of structural design, one size does not fit all. It pays massive dividends to get the structure fit for...
Build High-Quality Connections
By Jane E. Dutton
Jane E. Dutton explains why high-quality connections (HQCs) are critical building blocks for bringing out the best in people and...
Flexibility to Improve Forecast Accuracy
By Karin Bursa
To succeed in a business economy shaped by uncertain demand and rapid market changes, companies must be able to sense and adapt...
Needs-Based Coaching: Employee Motivation in a New Light
By Craig Perrin
Behind every unmotivated employee is a leadership problem to be solved. Yet many leaders see motivation as a game of rewards and...
Delivering Transformational Change
By David Miller
Change is becoming more frequent, radical and complex. Failure rates of change projects are high because organisations fail to implement the change...
Creating Effective Organisational Systems through Experimenting with Human Nature
By David De Cremer and Tian Tao
If organisations are serious in building cultures that can translate the desire to create joint value into a...
How to Stand Out Online
By Dorie Clark
Adapted from Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It (Portfolio/Penguin 2015), this article discusses how...
Building an Innovation Mindset
By Jeff Gaspersz
The prime source of the innovation power in any firm lies in the mind of its employees. When they are mentally prepared...
The Five Fundamentals of Effective Performance Management
By David G. Collings and John McMackin
In this article the authors present the five issues that any organisation must tackle in order to design...
Why You Need Digital Know-How –Why We All Need It
By Howard Rheingold
We’re in a period where the cutting edge of change has moved from the technology to the literacies made possible by the...
Work Teams Have Emotions, Too (and you need to understand them)
By Sigal G. Barsade and Donald E. Gibson
As the use of groups and teams increases in organisations, more studies consider behaviours in a group...
Eight Types of Corporate Crisis and the Role of National Culture
By Kai Hammerich & Richard D. Lewis
A crisis is a defining moment in any organization’s life. Below, Kai Hammerich and Richard D. Lewis consider...
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...
The Need For Reputation Management Capabilities
By Daniel Diermeier
Maintaining a strong reputation is critical for a company’s sustained success. Yet, almost every day a new crisis makes the headlines. These...
Are You – And Your Company – Prepared For The Future Of Work In...
Assessing Your Level Of Preparedness In 10 Key Domains1
By Simon L. Dolan, Alex Makarevich and Kristine Marin Kawamura
This article describes 10 key dimensions that...
Future Work: Changes, Choices & Consequences
By Jonathan Trevor
Despite enabling widespread automation of routine tasks, mechanical technologies have created many more job opportunities than they have replaced in our Industrial...
Succession Redefined: Family Business Succession in the 21st Century
By Richard Shrapnel
In this article – the final in the Succession Series by Baker Tilly International – the author considers how business succession has...
Is Compassionate Leadership a Driver of Huawei’s Business Success?
By David De Cremer and Tian Tao
In this article, the authors trace giant telecom Huawei’s success to its founder’s commitment to compassionate leadership. In...
GLOOM vs. BLOOM OF THE FUTURE OF WORK: Can We Chart A Positive Roadmap?
By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo
As the digital era is continuously in its process to ripen, discussions of destructive unforeseen...
Incorporate Innovation into your Business Model
Interview with Jeff Rosenthal
Innovation is a surefire way to achieve growth and success for your company. Below Jeff Rosenthal, CEO of the UC Berkeley...
Performance Management Systems in Mexico: The Dual Logics of Evaluating Performance
By Anabella Davila & Marta M. Elvira
Understanding Performance Management systems implementation is critical for multinationals operating in countries with contrasting cultures. For firms...
Dynamism and Discontinuity: Eight Trends in the Business Environment that will Shape Strategy
By Mike Canning & Eamonn Kelly
The need for bold strategies to capitalise on the dynamism of our times has never been greater. Below, Mike...
What Could Be a Hidden Key for a Successful Merger and Acquisition Project?
By Mark Goyens and David De Cremer
The way we engage, communicate and deal with people involved in each phase of a merger and...
Strategic Transformation at Tennis Canada
By Roger Martin
Aside from the small percentage of hugely successful game-changing start-ups like Apple, Microsoft and Google it can be hard for a small...
Learn or Die: Every Business Will Be In The Business of Learning
By Edward D. Hess
The velocity of business change will increase over the next decade driven by technology advances making the speed and quality of...
Social Media Strategy: Learning from the Online Cola War
By Fang Liu and Willem Smit
The battle between Coca-Cola and Pepsi1 has been one of the longest and most arduous in the history of...
Talent Management 2.0: Transformation Powered By People
By Amber Román and Richard Lynch
In “Moving Beyond the Anecdotal: What Will It Take To Create Your Digital 2.0 Business Model,” we discussed our...
Effectively Managing Innovation
By Daniel Evans
At EMLYON we have had the opportunity to help develop the innovation efforts for companies around the world. Our combined experience suggests...
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...
The Personal Wealth Revolution – Time to Formalise Your Family Office
By Sherilyn Casiano
For the entrepreneur and closely- held family business owner, a family office, set up with the proper foundation, can be a huge...
Leading Teams: Tools and Techniques for Successful Team Leadership from the Sports World
By Paolo Guenzi & Dino Ruta
Sport can use some managerial know-how, and managers have a lot to learn from the world of sport. Below,...
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...
The Chief Strategy Officer in the European Firm: Professionalising Strategy in Times of Uncertainty
By Markus Menz, Günter Müller-Stewens, Tim Zimmermann & Christian Lattwein
The chief strategy officer (CSO) position has recently been gaining prominence in European firms. However,...
The Language of Deception
By Michael T. Braun, Lyn M. Van Swol & Deepak Malhotra
Separating lies from truths is key to successful negotiation, and research designed to uncover...
Le Roi est mort, vive Le Roi Life after Succession
By Sherilyn Casiano
In the conversation about succession planning, most of the discussion revolves around the future continuity of the business. Very little is said...
Economic Development: It’s About Placemaking
By Richard Ball
As we progress towards a knowledge-based economy, strategies for economic development must increasingly take into account the importance of place. Here, Richard...
Developing Multicultural Competence
By Luciara Nardon, Richard M. Steers & Carlos J. Sanchez-Runde
In our globally expanding economy, it is no longer enough for successful managers to have...
Gamifying E-Commerce: Gaming and Social-Networking Induced Loyalty
By Yasmin Razavi, Bernard Ho and Mark S. Fox
Introduction and Motivation
Customer loyalty has been an ongoing concern of retail companies and with the...
When Relationships at Work, Work (And Don’t Work!)
By Rachel L. Morrison, Helena D. Cooper-Thomas & Susan Geertshuis
Like them or loathe them we cannot escape the people we work with. In Relationships...
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...
Sustainability: A $12 Trillion a Year Market by 2030
By John Elkington and Richard Roberts
Leading companies today are starting to think of sustainability as a tool for growing profitability, using frameworks such as...
The Appearance of Innovation
By Alessandro Di Fiore, Elisa Farri and Andrea Segnalini
Developing innovation capabilities is no longer enough. For organisations, innovation marketing is the next frontier.
Appearances are...
Meeting Expectations
By John Sutherland
Most senior teams only have one or two ways of working together and never learn to vary their approach, based on the...
To Find Value in the Digital Age, Find It for Others First
By Omar Abbosh, Vedrana Savic and Michael Moore
To grow their businesses consistently, leaders must envision a much bigger picture of where value resides than...
Breaking the Mould! A New Business Model for the 21st Century
By Karl-Heinz Streibich
The pace of change in the digital era is too fast, and survival is the main objective. Software AG CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich...
Marketing Strategies for a Digital World
By Eric Greenberg and Alexander Kates
In an increasingly digital age, organizations are being rapidly educated about the importance and scale of digital channels, and...
Managing Customer Satisfaction Better
By Johannes Habel
Many companies draw the wrong conclusions from their customer surveys. There is a simple method that can provide a remedy, leading to...
Mastering Innovation in Family Firms: How to Resolve the Ability vs. Willingness Paradox
By Alfredo De Massis and Federico Frattini
Family firms represent a highly ubiquitous form of business organisation globally and are the backbone of many industrialised...
