Three things sport can teach leaders
Olympians Matthijs Büchli and Susan Goldsworthy show how to apply principles from elite sport to achieve your leadership goals with less stress....
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The commitment gap: Why climate-linked pay incentives can only go so far
16 hours ago • by Christos Cabolis, Karl Schmedders in Sustainability • 9 min read • 
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Climate-linked pay cannot, on its own, solve Mark Carney’s ‘tragedy of the horizon’. Christos Cabolis and Karl Schmedders explain why the gap between intent and reality is structural, and what action boards...
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The boomerang buccaneers
How established companies can create a successful spin-off and then bring it back home. OPPO’s experiment with OnePlus offers a blueprint for established enterprises seeking to sustain performance through breakthrough innovation. ...
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Lessons from AkzoNobel on collaborative innovation
How to avoid being disrupted? Partner with your disruptor, argue AkzoNobel Chief Innovation Officer David Williams and IMD Professor of Innovation Strategy Murat Tarakci, as they unpack how to identify collaborative innovation...
How to survive disruption?
How can established businesses innovate without undermining their core operations? Issue 24 of I by IMD explores corporate self-disruption, global innovation ecosystems, and the workplace behaviours that influence productivity, risk-taking, and renewal....
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