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...
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...
The Strategy-to-Execution Process: A Critical Component of Transient Competitive Advantage
By Jack Calhoun
It’s not simply having a good idea that separates marketplace winners from losers – it’s possessing the ability to execute. In fact,...
The End of Competitive Advantage
By Rita McGrath
Businesses are competing in increasingly volatile and uncertain global situations. Below, Rita McGrath suggests that stability, not change, is the state that...
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....
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...
Competitive Advantage Through HR Innovation
By Upamali Amarakoon, Jay Weerawardena, & Martie-Louise Verreynne
Despite great recognition for human resources (HR) as a source of value addition within firms, HR innovation...
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...
Changes in Work, Changes in Self? Managing our Work and Non-Work Identities in...
By Lakshmi Ramarajan & Erin M. Reid
Diverse workplaces are challenging the boundaries between workers’ personal and professional lives, as workers today navigate employer pressures...
New Business Creation Among BRICS Seven Times Faster Than G7 Since The Financial Crisis
By Jean Stephens, CEO of RSM International
RSM International is the seventh largest global network of independent audit, tax and advisory firms. Below, a comparative...
How Enterprises Exploit Five Digital Capabilities to Globalise
By Siew Kien Sia, Peter Weill & Christina Soh
Some of the most successful enterprises have embraced global diversity and operate nimbly in multiple countries...
The Hidden Costs In Business Processes
By Richard Ward
Most businesses are affected by hidden costs in procurement, distribution, order processing, sales and finance. Organisations can benefit from a careful review...
The Blue Line Imperative: A Radical New Approach to Value-Based Leadership
By Kevin Kaiser & S. David Young
In The Blue Line Imperative: What Managing for Value Really Means, Kevin Kaiser and S. David Young introduce...
Security-as-a-Service: At Your Service
By David Sandin
David Sandin, product manager of Clavister shows how new approaches to delivering next-generation security can benefit your business.
The firewall has been the...
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,...
Overcoming Our Obsession With Technology While Getting The Best It Has To Offer
By Larry D. Rosen
We are all showing signs of obsession, accessing our smartphones all day (and all night) due to a need to reduce...
Creative Strategy: A Guide for Innovation From Mind To Method
By William Duggan
In Creative Strategy: A Guide for Innovation, William Duggan shows how the human mind creates solutions to new problems and then translates...
Feeling and Affect in the Contemporary Workplace
Rick Iedema & David Grant
Ongoing organisational change and rapid product and service turnover are demanding increasing levels of employee commitment to innovating work...
The Daily Practice of Leadership Communication During Times of Change
By Terry Pearce
In this article Terry Pearce, the author of LEADING OUT LOUD A Guide For Engaging Others In Creating The Future, places authenticity...
6 Keys to Inventory Optimisation
By Karin Bursa
Many companies around the world have adopted inventory optimisation and those without a formal process are falling behind their competition. Effective companies...
Judgment Calls: Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams that Got Them Right
By Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville
In Judgment Calls: 12 Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams that Got Them Right, Thomas Davenport and...
Best of All Worlds: Hybrid Models of Public-Service Delivery
By Tim Cooper & Matthew Robinson
Governments around the world are facing increasing pressures on all fronts. From Europe to Japan to the United States,...
Four Truths About Marketing Lady Gaga
By Mathieu Deflem
‘There can be no fame attained, nor any accompanying revenue acquired, in any career based on artistic or other intrinsically valid accomplishments...
Competitive Advantage Rewired
By Adrian T H Kuah, Mark Esposito & Terence Tse
Is competitive advantage still an applicable concept so many years after its introduction? Our research...
Talenting: Framework and Metaphors for a New Processual Approach to Talent Management
By Simon L. Dolan & Paulo Hayashi Jr.
Although the necessity for attracting, retaining, and motivating talent is an old challenge for all competitive organisations,...
Measuring the Relative Weights of E-Marketing Tools for Online Businesses
By Kin Meng Sam & Chris Chatwin
E-marketing strategy is normally based and built upon the traditional 4Ps (Product, Price, Promotion and Place), which forms...
Don’t Despair: Growth from Consumer Behaviour Change in Developed-Market Economies
By Paul F. Nunes, Sam Yardley & Mark Spelman
Mired in a period of low growth, developed economies are becoming increasingly tough places to do...
First Look: Developing A New Map For Effective Business Succession in Family Businesses
By Richard Shrapnel
Family Business Succession is never a simple, straightforward endeavour. Besides the financial outcomes of the transition, the human needs and emotional involvement...
Comparative Decision Making: An Emerging Interdiscipline
By Philip Crowley & Thomas Zentall
How can we continue to analyse human decision making in an age when free will is considered to be...
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...
Turn Time Into Money: Faster Growth Through Digital Reuse
By Stephanie L. Woerner, Peter Weill, & Mark P. McDonald
Today’s technologically savvy firms have created an internal digital reuse culture that significantly reduces time-to-market...
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,...
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...
How Western Multinationals Can Organise to Win in Emerging Markets
By Vimal Choudhary, Martin Dewhurst & Alok Kshirsagar
As Western multinationals shift their focus to emerging markets, they must adjust their structures, processes, and decision-making...
Identity In and Around Organisations
By Majken Schultz & Steve Maguire
At the heart of any successful organisation lies a powerful conception of identity: the coherent way in which it...
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...
Design vs. Discovery: Which Way to Innovation?
By William Duggan
“Design thinking” is slowly but surely taking over the field of innovation. The result is terrific design. But that’s not the same...
Global Recessions: A Survivor’s Manual
By Irv Rothman
The article is an excerpt from the book “Out-Executing the Competition: Building and Growing a Financial Services Company in Any Economy”, by...
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...
Fast-Expanding Markets: Where New Growth Can Be Found!
By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito & Khaled Soufani
This article is dedicated to provide a working definition of these markets, which we call “Fast-Expanding Markets”...
Building Ethical Business Cultures: BRIC by BRIC
By Alexandre Ardichvili, Douglas Jondle, Jack Wiley, Edgard Cornacchione, Jessica Li & Thomas Thakadipuram
As the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICs) continue...
A ‘Sigh of Relief’ at Davos: Confidence and Caution Shared Center Stage
By Michael Useem
“Wharton management professor Michael Useem, returning from his 11th trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, reports that confidence in the...
Why Our Decisions Get Derailed and How to Get Back on Track
By Francesca Gino
The Ducati motorcycle racing team, Ducati Corse, decided to compete in a motorcycle racing circuit, the MotoGP, for the first time in...
Predictive Analytics: New-generation Strategic Decision Support
By Tobias Klatt & Klaus Moeller
Environmental turbulence has be- come a key challenge for companies’ strategic planning. Planning results remain arbitrary and risky, and...
Unlocking Innovation Through Business Experimentation
By Stefan Thomke
There is a downside to businesses that focus heavily on standardization, optimization, and driving out variability: Such organizations leave themselves vulnerable to...
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...
DAFZA Offers Highly Developed Infrastructure and Quality Services to European Companies
Established in 1996 as a part of the Dubai Government’s strategic plan to be an investment driven economy, DAFZA is one of the fastest...
Structuring Your Organization to Meet Global Aspirations
By Suzanne Heywood & Roni Katz
The matrix structure is here to stay, but its complexity can be minimized, and companies can get more value...
Making Corporate Learning Work
By Shlomo Ben-Hur & Nik Kinley
Corporate Learning functions are under pressure to deliver like never before. Yet studies have repeatedly shown that business leaders’...
The Silicon Valleys of Latin America – searching for “Shared Value” development models
By Luciano Ciravegna
Between 2003 and 2012 Latin America has lived through an unprecedented period of stability and positive economic performance. A region once associated...