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...
Navigating the A.I. Era: How Riversoft from Taiwan Harnesses the Power of Generative A.I.
Exclusive Interview with Claude Shen, Chief Technology Officer of Riversoft Inc.
In a world where Generative A.I. has become ubiquitous, Riversoft's CTO, Claude Shen, discusses...
The Resilience Rings: A New Neuropsychological Framework for Building Resilience
By Javier S. Casademunt and Simon L. Dolan
Mental health problems, especially in the workplace, have become the current global pandemic that COVID-19 left behind....
Missing in Action: Policy Implications of Management Research
By Søren H. Jensen, Sascha Kraus and Herman Aguinis
One of the key stated goals of management research is to improve policymaking. But, based on...
How Should Brands Think About Political Activism?
By Matt Johnson
When it comes to engaging in activism, it's crucial that the brand should be intrinsically driven to address this issue, and isn't...
Future Thinking Bias or Foresight-Inspired Strategy
By Svyatoslav Biryulin
Many companies are happy having their three-year strategic plans (or even five-year ones). But such a short-seeing might be dangerous in the...
Remote Working: Why Your Career may not Zoom Ahead as Much as You’d Like
By Rocio Bonet and Peter Cappelli
Much is being said these days about what the future of work will look like. The most important of...
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...
Fixing the Progression Paradox: One Way to Accelerate Social Mobility
By Simon Eaves, Camilla Drejer and Dominic King
Socio-economic background continues to weigh on career progression in the UK. Despite this, a new Accenture study...
What The War In Ukraine Means For Business
By Paul Bracken
The war in Ukraine has far reaching implications for business. Companies will face more complicated political and social issues than the stark,...
The Imperative of the Vigilant Corporation
By Jacques Bughin
After COVID-19, now comes the appalling Ukrainian-Russian war, and the threat of stagflation. But if turbulent times rule –doesn't it pay to...
Five Lessons of Cybersecurity the Public Sector Can Offer
By Dr. Öykü Işık, Dr. Tawfik Jelassi and Valérie Keller-Birrer
The public sector’s many years of experience fighting for cybersecurity offers unique insights for businesses...
Interviewing Elites and Guanxi in China
By Dr Hongqin Li, William S. Harvey and Jonathan V. Beaverstock
With China’s growing influence, Chinese leadership is attracting more limelight from around the world....
How Corporations Can Partner With Startups In Emerging Markets
By Shameen Prashantham
Mingke Luo is a young Shanghai-based entrepreneur who is founder and CEO of MrS.ai, a startup that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to...
When The Opportunities Are Out Of Plain Sight
Interview with InterExec Founder, Mr. Kit Scott-Brown
Executives looking to progress their career face the problem that many of the best opportunities are not presented in...
Three Steps to Make Sure a Strategy is Implemented
By Pietro Micheli, Warwick Business School (WBS)
Studies have found that companies use many different methods to devise a strategy and even more ways in...
The Challenge of Digital Transformation
By Nicolas van Zeebroeck and Jacques Bughin
The typical rationale put forward for failing digital transformation is linked to ill-designed processes, absence of organizational commitment,...
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