Niels Christiansen, how did LEGO regain momentum?
LEGO CEO Niels Christiansen on simplification, sustainability, and competing for children’s attention....
Jean-François Manzoni (JFM) is Professor of Leadership, Organizational Development and Corporate Governance at IMD, where he served as President and Nestlé Professor from 2017 to 2024. His research, teaching, and consulting activities are focused on leadership, the development of high-performance organizations and corporate governance. In recent years JFM has also been increasingly focused on finding ways to ensure leadership development interventions have lasting impact, particularly through the use of technology-mediated approaches, and on closing the growing managerial “knowing-doing gap”, i.e., the gap between what managers kind of know they should be doing and the extent to which they actually behave that way in practice.
May 12, 2026 • by Jean-François Manzoni in I by IMD Podcasts • 2 min read • Podcast available
LEGO CEO Niels Christiansen on simplification, sustainability, and competing for children’s attention....
May 12, 2026 • by Jean-François Manzoni in CEO Dialogue Series • 6 min read
Niels B. Christiansen tells Jean-François Manzoni how he streamlined the leadership and targeted adult customers to re-energize the toy giant. ...
March 10, 2026 • by Jean-François Manzoni in CEO Dialogue Series • 10 min read
Slawomir Krupa, CEO of Societe Generale, tells Jean-François Manzoni how restoring financial discipline and protecting the bank’s capacity to innovate under pressure helped restore faith in one of Europe’s oldest institutions...
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