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March 20, 2026 • by Alfredo De Massis in Family business • 7 min read
An Italian healthcare firm and Turkish industrial conglomerate show how to tap into existing ideas and knowledge to innovate and stay competitive....
Continue readingNovember 16, 2021 • by Michelle Lemaître in Sustainability • 7 min read
Among the triumphs of the 2020 Tokyo Games were a few firsts that offer lessons in sustainable leadership...
November 15, 2021 • by David Bach, Salvatore Cantale in Brain Circuits • 2 min read
Businesses are looking at becoming more local, or at least more diverse in terms of their supply chain as a path to resilience. If you find yourself reconsidering your supply chain, here...
November 15, 2021 • by Julia Binder, Salvatore Cantale, Vanina Farber, Knut Haanaes, Natalia Olynec, Karl Schmedders in Sustainability • 8 min read
At the UN climate summit, world leaders agreed on three ways to tackle climate change. Some say these moves are not aggressive enough. Here is how business leaders can play a crucial...
November 15, 2021 • by Christos Cabolis, Karl Schmedders in Competitiveness • 6 min read
On the heels of the COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference there is global buzz about ESG goals, but many gaps remain between companies’ talk and their actions....
November 12, 2021 • by Gary Gregory, Liem Viet Ngo in Strategy • 7 min read
Offshore partners can benefit customers, here's what to look for when outsourcing....
November 12, 2021 • by Sameh Abadir in Brain Circuits • 2 min read
Managing in crisis requires you to slow down and stay calm. This is an exercise to see if you are too quick to make decisions....
November 11, 2021 in Brain Circuits • 3 min read
Back in June, you may have joined companies across the globe professed their commitments to inclusion, but are you keeping up?...
November 11, 2021 in CEO Dialogue podcast series • 1 min read • Podcast available
In a rapidly decarbonizing world, the energy sector is facing immense challenges, challenges that Antje Kanngiesser is tackling head-on...
November 11, 2021 • by Mikkel Larsen in Sustainability • 7 min read
Measuring the true impact of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investments is crucial to assessing the claims made by their promoters and comparing different opportunities. This is a difficult task but not...
November 10, 2021 • by Anne Ardila Brenøe in Audio articles • 7 min read
Output, labor costs, profitability, and company survival are largely unchanged, according to research focused on Denmark, a rich nation with a generous benefits system....
November 10, 2021 • by Peter Vogel in Brain Circuits • 3 min read
Many families are making the sometimes difficult decision to pivot from their core business models and transform them into purpose-driven ones. Leveraging your assets for the greater good isn’t just good business,...
November 9, 2021 • by Didier Cossin, Michael D. Watkins, Richard Roi in Audio articles • 6 min read
CEO turnover is rising after a COVID lull as boards place corporate culture and social responsibility at the heart of performance criteria, equal to shareholder value creation....
November 9, 2021 in Brain Circuits • 2 min read
If you act in the early stages of team’s existence, you can help proactively keep them on track to form stronger bonds and foster a positive atmosphere. There is a five-step process...
November 8, 2021 • by Francesca-Giulia Mereu in Management • 6 min read
How understanding what energizes you can help you build up daily habits to sustain yourself when faced with change and rising uncertainty....
November 5, 2021 • by Patrick Reinmoeller in Brain Circuits • 2 min read
Relevance is a quality that leaders formerly tended to overlook, but the new business landscape is making it a key driver of business strategy....
November 5, 2021 in Leadership • 4 min read
The CEO of reinsurance firm Hannover Re is encouraging his staff to draw on the right side of the brain to model various unthinkable future scenarios, potentially as disruptive as COVID-19....
November 4, 2021 • by Jennifer Jordan, Ask Agger in Brain Circuits • 4 min read
The pandemic has left companies across the globe trying to navigate the issues in an entirely new framework – the virtual world. Yjod requires adjustments to leadership that require understanding the paradoxes...




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January 22, 2026 • by Shelley Zalis in The Female Quotient
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March 11, 2026 • by Heather Cairns-Lee in Videos
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March 9, 2026 • by Peter Vogel, Etienne Eichenberger in Videos
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February 23, 2026 • by Ginka Toegel in Videos
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March 12, 2026 • by Susan Goldsworthy in Podcasts
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Chinese auto startup NIO went from zero to nearly a million customers in under ten years. Mark Zhou, who leads product and R&D, discusses how; and explains why community – not hardware...
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