3 Key Organizational Shifts to Bolster Profits, People, and the Planet
By Maria Brinck
Businesses can thrive globally by integrating environmental, social, and governance principles into long-term strategy, demonstrating that responsibility and profitability go hand in...
In Cross-Cultural Negotiations, Prepare for “Tight–Loose” Clashes
By Katie Shonk
Cultural mismatches, especially between “tight” and “loose” organizational norms, can derail even the most promising business partnerships. Here, Katie Shonk explores the...
Onboarding Immigrant Employees Amid Growing Far-Right Support
By Dr. Max Reinwald
In the global context of mass migration and aging workforces, immigrant newcomers play a vital role in the labour markets of...
Strategic Insights: Taking Over a Start-Up vs. an Established SME
By Fernanda Arreola, Damien Guermonprez, and Renaud Redien-Collot
The skills required to successfully lead one type of enterprise may not fully apply or be relevant...
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Value?
By Ari-Matti Erjansola
This essay discusses the plural nature of value in business, arguing that value is not fixed or purely economic but relational and...
Negotiation Mindset Transformation: Driving Growth in the Business Landscape
By Karin Mugnaini
Negotiation is a strategic business driver with impact on value creation and performance. This article explores how companies can achieve consistent success...
Dynamic Strategy Map: Navigating Uncertainty with Real-Time Adaptation
By Alex Milovanovich
Blending classic and modern strategy thinking, this article presents the Dynamic Strategy Map - an iterative, seven-step process, integrating deliberate strategy building...
Scaling You: Human + Digital = A Winning Formula for Small Business Success
By Elizabeth Eiss
As a small business owner or solopreneur, you are the engine of your business—and the driver, mechanic, and GPS all rolled into...
Building Strategy Capabilities for Uncertain Futures
By David Booth and Eva Tomas Casado
The business environment is changing, and strategy needs to follow. Traditional strategic planning methods no longer serve their...
The Business Case for Happiness: Five Expert Tips for Creating Thriving Workplaces
By George Kohlrieser, Andrew Kohlrieser, Lord Mark Price, Zoe Sinclair, Michael Wade, Amit Joshi and Tim Duggan
In an era where employee wellbeing fuels business...
GenAI: Prompting A Better Marketing Strategy
By Joerg Niessing and David Dubois
Amid the rise of GenAI, executives must master prompt crafting to optimize their marketing and sales strategies.
In the ever-evolving world...
US Tariffs: How Should Europe Respond?
By Dr Angela Garcia Calvo
As Europe (and the rest of the world) continues to navigate the daily twists and turns of President Trump’s recent...
Business Teams: Bad, Sad, and Mad… and How to Fix Them
By Georgie Fienberg and Adrian Furnham
If you want the best from your car, it helps to have some idea of how it all works....
The Business Symphony: Management Lessons from Music Creation
By Varun Yadav
Introduction
The corporate world has long borrowed insights from disciplines such as military strategy, psychology and philosophy. In this trend of cross-discipline management...
Psychological Safety: The Visible Hand of Disruptive Innovation
By Dr Alexandra Dobra-Kiel
In an era defined by rapid technological advancements and unprecedented global challenges, the need for disruptive innovation has never been greater....
How to Lead Successful Change Management for Good
By Knut Haanaes and Julia Binder
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety. This...
How to Better Understand Your Market to Drive Business Growth
By Francis Rodino
If you don’t truly understand your market, you’re shooting in the dark. Successful businesses thrive on market intelligence—knowing exactly who their customers...
Getting Value from Digital Technologies
By Frank Cespedes and Georg Krentzel
Companies need digital technologies in an omni-channel buying world where online and in-person interactions are complements, not either /...
Navigating the Ethical Landscape of Generative AI
By Laetitia Cailleteau, Philippe Roussiere and Professor Thierry Rayna
With the game-changing explosion of AI into the commercial world, business leaders have, predictably, focused on the...
Four Areas Where Boards Fall Short
By Didier Cossin and Yukie Saito
This article examines four critical governance failures in boards: risk management, strategic oversight, executive and non-executive relationships, and integrity....
Small Employers 2025: Scaling Impact on Customers, Community & Capital
By Elizabeth Eiss
Small businesses, the backbone of the global economy, face unique challenges in scaling their impact while juggling limited resources. In 2025, the...
“Delegate to Grow, Deliver Work with Real Impact, Stay Deliberately Profitable:” Eight Creative, Tech...
From an AI-driven creativity crisis, the new junk food ad ban to a possible Omnicom/Interpublic merger, 2024 has been nothing if not challenging. As...
The Application And Impact Of Emotions in Politics
By Dr. Anna Rostomyan and Dr. Monika Klein
Emotions play a significant role in political decision-making. In this hypothesis, the authors suggest that emotions, such...
Unlocking innovation with xTech partners
By Alan Thorogood and Stephanie L. Woerner
When undertaking a sizable project, a large organization might consider partnering with a small company in order to...
Why Many Sales Incentive Models are Short Sighted
By Leo Rocha and Jason Kofman
Picture running a marathon as if it were a sprint. Initially, your speed puts you ahead, but as the...
The Consistency Trap: How to Make Better Decisions
By Dr. Tim Mullett, Reader, Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School
Repetitive strain: Consistency bias can blind decision-makers to key factors when making similar choices.
Practice makes...
Economic Shocks and Business Resilience: Exploring the Success Strategies of Nordic Companies in a...
By Olli-Pekka Lumijärvi, Olga Nissen, and Alexandra Selmer
Tough times don´t last, tough people and tough companies do. This statement is exemplified by 206 companies...
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Deconstructing the Myth of Entrepreneurship
By André Laplume and Sepideh Yeganegi
In the dynamic landscape of entrepreneurship, individual visionaries often hog the spotlight. Yet, beneath this glare lies a startling...
Flat Organizations Can Foment Trust and a Sense of Purpose, but Come with Their...
By Mireia Las Heras and José Pérez del Valle
Flat organizations are becoming popular across industries, emphasizing employee autonomy and responsibility. While these models promote...
Hospitality Industry Need to Utilize Data to Become More Sustainable
By Dr. Carlos Martin-Rios
The hospitality industry is responsible for 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and according to the Global Hotel Decarbonization Report published...
Using Stories to Create Exceptional Performance
By Lior Arussy
Arguably one of the most powerful examples of a performance-defining event for a company was done by a chain-smoking, alcohol-drinking CEO. His...
From Cradle to Manager: Children’s Books as a Pathway to Build Emotional Intelligence and...
By Jason Woldt and Mary Sue Woldt
What makes a great leader? Can children be trained for leadership right from the cradle? In this article,...
What Makes a Business a Masterpiece?
By Peter Lorange
No aspect of a person’s behaviour exists in a vacuum, so that there is no clearly delineated boundary between the ways in...
Towards the Building of Organisational Resilience: Uncovering the Key Features
By Simon L. Dolan, Adnane Belout, Jean-Luc Cerdin, and Javier Casademunt1
Introduction
Organisational resilience refers to an organisation's ability to adapt, respond, and recover from disruptive...
A Winning Deal: How Biculturals Can Supercharge Your International Business Negotiations
By Priyan Khakhar and Jasmina Najjar
Transform how you approach international business negotiations with new findings that provide a novel contribution to the field. Discover...
Magnetic Loyalty: Crafting Effective Loyalty Programmes that Attract and Retain Customers
By Klaus Heine and Vanessa Brunner
Most brand managers today see room for improvement in their repurchase rates, particularly as Generation Z tends to exhibit...
How to Future-proof Your Business?
By Jerry Temko
During the past few months, major recruiters have been reporting on the impact that today's choppy economic headwinds are having on the...
Strategy at the Pace of Technology: Integrating Technology Into Strategy Development Can Drive Growth...
By Rachel Barton
Most business leaders understand that the boldest business strategies are both informed by and delivered through technology. Our study explores three significant...
Why the Ethical Use of AI Matters for Your Career
By Jack McGuire, David De Cremer, Leander De Schutter, and Yorck Hesselbarth
In the contemporary digital era, innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI) are profoundly transforming...
The Key Success Factors of a Powerful AI Factory
By Jacques Bughin
More and more companies are leveraging data and deep machine learning algorithms, leading to the emergence of the "AI factory" model. As...
The Eutopia of Engaging in Unconditional Kindness to Self and Others
By Salvador García Sánchez and Simon L. Dolan
Introduction
“Resilience” seems to be a common term used by professionals in many disciplines. Psychologists and medical experts...
Artificial Intelligence and Negotiations: Should You Go All in?
By Daniel Freeman
AI is becoming smarter and being utilised in our daily lives, whether we realise it or not. You may be wondering at...
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...
A Framework For Risk Governance
By Pedro B. Agua
When it comes to approaching risks, we find that compliance is a necessary condition, but, not a sufficient one. Risk has...
Future Shaping for Active and Collaborative Strategising
By Katri Valkokari, Sofi Kurki, Juuli Huuhanmäki, Jyri Rökman, and Kalle Kantola
Business strategists could be forgiven for being content merely to draw up contingency...
How to Thrive in Radical Uncertainty
By Nando Malmelin and Sofi Kurki
The term “VUCA” is familiar to most of us as a convenient label to characterise our constantly changing world....
The Art and Science of Generating Insights for Creating More Effective Boards
By Sabine Dembkowski
To be effective, a company needs an effective board. Effectiveness reviews are one way to achieve this, but what insights are needed...
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...
Approaching Risk From the Boardroom
By Francisco Vieira and Pedro B. Agua
Boards of directors have been forced to pay increased attention to organisational risk and due governance. It is...
Can You Teach Leadership?
By Adrian Furnham
Can leadership be taught or is it an innate talent? This age-old question has been the topic of many debates in the...