How should CEOs respond to the era of hyper-vigilance
CEOs face greater scrutiny than ever. Retreating from the speaking spotlight is no solution. IMD’s Jean-François Manzoni explains how CEOs should talk with trust and integrity....
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.
September 3, 2026 • by Jean-François Manzoni in Governance • 6 min read
CEOs face greater scrutiny than ever. Retreating from the speaking spotlight is no solution. IMD’s Jean-François Manzoni explains how CEOs should talk with trust and integrity....
July 7, 2026 • by Jean-François Manzoni in CEO Dialogue Series • 8 min read
Ipsen CEO David Loew tells Jean-François Manzoni how relentless focus, the Pareto principle, and having fun helped energize a mid-sized specialty pharma player to take on bigger rivals....
May 12, 2026 • by Jean-François Manzoni in I by IMD Podcasts • 2 min read • Podcast available
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