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...
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...
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 /...
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...
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....
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Six Red Flags Your Team is Unhappy and How to Fix Them Fast
By Lord Mark Price
An engaged workforce drives performance, but dissatisfaction often surfaces quietly. Drawing on 40 years’ experience, Lord Mark Price identifies six warning...
Insights into the Relevance of Strategic Management
By Dr. Anna Rostomyan
In order to thrive, start-ups and other innovative ventures are well advised to begin with a well-thought-out plan. Could the concept...
The Digital Revolution Forgot Management
By Carlos Hernandez Jerónimo
Digital tools are rushing into boardrooms like robots into kitchens. Yet, without order, structure, and clear management, they only speed up...
Virtual Working: When It Comes to Sensitive Conversations, the Medium Affects the Message
By Dr Melissa Dunlop and Professor Adrian Furnham
The remote-working era brought us many challenges in communicating effectively with our fellow humans via a computer...
Stop Solving With Addition: How Default Thinking is Costing Your Company
By Donna McGeorge
Innovation isn’t always about what’s next or new. Sometimes, it’s about what you’re willing to walk away from. Strategic subtraction is a...
Nordic Leadership in an Age of Decision Fatigue
By Frida Kristina Nilsson
Many in the modern workplace are reaching the limits of their decision-making capacity. Leaders face a rising tide of choice paralysis,...
How to Turn Long-Term Expatriates Into Global Assets
By Sebastian Reiche, Stefan Jooss, Margaret Shaffer and Jan Selmer
More and more professionals are extending the time they spend on international assignments, building lives...
Powerful 2026 Resolutions from Leaders Shaping the Future of Work
By Charlie Curson, Barbara Salopek, Dominic Colenso, Jenny Millar, Angela Cox, Mehdi Paryavi and Jean-Paul Fonteijn
This article explores the key leadership mindsets set...
5 Leadership Competencies Every Modern Business Needs
By Peter Fenley
This article argues that modern leadership goes far beyond authority and titles. It highlights five essential competencies—emotional intelligence, adaptability, strategic thinking, inclusive...
The Great Disengaged: Why Re-Recruiting Your Own People is the Smartest Talent Strategy in...
By Dominic Ashley-Timms and Laura Ashley-Timms
Job hugging’ is on the rise as high retention becomes a red flag and silent productivity killer – but...
What Western Leaders Can Learn from China’s Changing Business Etiquette in 2026
By Dr Catherine Hua Xiang
Chinese business etiquette is often reduced to rigid hierarchy and indirect communication, but this perspective no longer reflects reality. In...
Radical Renewal – Why it is Critical for Companies and Why they Fail in...
By PhD Nando Malmelin and Matti Pihlajamaa
In volatile environments marked by geopolitical shocks, sustainability pressures, and rapid advances in AI, incremental improvement alone can...
Being Part of a Business Group Is Beneficial – but Some Firms Gain More...
By Jeoung Yul Lee and Dr. Murod Aliyev
From LVMH to Meta, business groups promise brands scale, capital, and credibility. But new research shows that...
Why a Successful Leader is an Engaging Storyteller
By Ang Brennan
Most strategies fail not because they're poorly designed, but because leaders haven’t yet developed the storytelling skills to make them live and...
From Protest to Proxy: Hacktivists on the Front Line in Europe
By Mackenzie Storm
Hacktivists have evolved from conscience-driven activists to state-sponsored cyber soldiers waging hybrid war against businesses critical to society, from energy to finance,...
The Democratisation Tax: Why Modern Enterprise Leaders are Evolving from Aggregators to Synthesizers
By Tariro Mutizwa
Navigating the systemic friction of decentralised C-suites now necessitates that CEOs move beyond strategic aggregation to master the discipline of active strategic...
Trust Is the Moat That Growth Metrics Cannot Build
By Yulia Farber
After a decade of hypergrowth metrics defining success, the companies built to last are those that users actively choose to trust.
For ten...
Why AI Ignores Great Marketing and What to Do About It
By Petra Smith
Generative AI doesn’t respond to persuasive copy - it evaluates consistency, specificity, and third-party evidence across your entire digital footprint.
Marketing has always...
Connecting the Dots to a Successful Transformation: People, Technology, and Mindset
By Samah El Hage and J. Mark Munoz
Transformation is accelerating, yet many programs fail to deliver sustained value. This article introduces the DOTS model—Direction,...
Why Trust Is the Future of AI Leadership – Interview with Alice Sesay Pope
As AI transforms organisations, leaders who build trust through transparency, governance, and human judgment will create more lasting value than those focused on technology alone.
As...
Don’t Outsource Trust to AI – Use AI to Scale Trustworthy Advice
By Prashant Bharadwaj and Dominic Houlder
The next big scandal in professional and financial services may not begin with fraud or negligence. It may...
Five Things CEOs Still Get Wrong About AI Transformation
By Andrew Lopianowski and Mike Pino
Most AI transformations fail because leaders treat AI as a technology rollout, when it is really a test of judgement, leadership,...
The Disconnection Dilemma
By John Cooper and Dr Mary-Clare Race
Why Leaders and Managers Struggle to Build Connection in Modern Workplaces
Sherlock Holmes once commented to his loyal assistant,...
Everyone Talks About Human-in-the-Loop, but Few Really Understand What it Means
By Terence Tse
Human-in-the-loop sounds reassuring, but simply having humans involved doesn’t guarantee accountability. Discover what effective AI oversight really requires—and why ownership matters.
Almost everyone...
Why Strategy is More Like Astrology than Astronomy
By Pawel Nowak
Strategy is a future-focused discipline that rarely risks being wrong: its explanations are flexible enough to accommodate almost any outcome.
Strategy speaks about...
Why Tightening Control Threatens Organisational Agility and Survival
By Justin Pennington
Agility depends less on asking people to adapt than on designing organisations that can sense, decide and respond in time.
On 1 June...
