Michael R. Wade

Confronting management myths

2 July 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 2 min read

Many business myths have become a kind of accepted wisdom. These myths are rarely challenged in real life, despite being the subject of plenty of research....

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Digital transformation: how to bridge the gap between knowledge and action

29 April 2021 • by Michael R. Wade, Jialu Shan in Technology • 5 min read

There is no hiding from digital disruption, and the pandemic definitely accelerated the process for many organizations. But while companies know they need to transform, they are really struggling with how to...

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CEOs impact performance

22 April 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read

CEOs get paid more than anyone else in the corporate world, and are seen as having a similarly outsized influence on their companies’ fortunes....

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Culture eats strategy for breakfast

15 April 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read

Over the past twenty years, a simple five word phrase has become one of the most popular ideas in business....

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AI is coming for your job (part 2)

8 April 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read

In the past, when machines replaced human workers we created new jobs elsewhere and avoided mass unemployment....

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AI is coming for your job (part 1)

1 April 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read

From the Terminator movies to the musings of Elon Musk, the world is full of worrying predictions about what will happen to us when machines become super-intelligent....

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Entrepreneurs like to gamble

31 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read

We like to think of successful entrepreneurs as brazen risk-takers, betting everything on a new invention or idea. But take a closer look at their decision-making - and a very different picture...

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Chinese companies don’t innovate

25 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read

For decades, politicians and business leaders in the West have portrayed China as a place where innovations are copied - not created. But has this picture of an “imitation nation” blinded us...

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Leaders are born, not made

18 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read

Over a hundred years ago, the explorer Ernest Shackleton safely led his crew through a series of disasters in one of the world's harshest environments....

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Inside the rebel mind of Google’s AI pioneer

15 March 2021 • by Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, Michael R. Wade in Audio articles • 6 min read

Demis Hassabis created the algorithms that crushed the world’s finest chess and Go players. But now it’s time to get serious as the DeepMind co-founder and CEO takes on his biggest challenge...

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Redefining leadership for a digital age 

11 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade, Andrew Tarling, Rainer Neubauer in Innovation • 2 min read

What does it mean to be an effective leader in an environment characterized by increasing digital disruption? ...

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Management under the microscope

8 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read

The corporate world is full of platitudes about management and leadership that form a kind of accepted wisdom about how things are done in business....

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