Confronting management myths
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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Michael R. Wade
Michael R Wade is TONOMUS Professor of Strategy and Digital at IMD and Director of the TONOMUS Global Center for Digital and AI Transformation. He directs a number of open programs such as Leading Digital and AI Transformation, Digital Transformation for Boards, Leading Digital Execution, Digital Transformation Sprint, Digital Transformation in Practice, Business Creativity and Innovation Sprint. He has written 10 books, hundreds of articles, and hosted popular management podcasts including Mike & Amit Talk Tech. In 2021, he was inducted into the Swiss Digital Shapers Hall of Fame.
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Digital transformation: how to bridge the gap between knowledge and action
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...
CEOs impact performance
April 22, 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • 
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CEOs get paid more than anyone else in the corporate world, and are seen as having a similarly outsized influence on their companies’ fortunes....
Culture eats strategy for breakfast
April 15, 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
Over the past twenty years, a simple five word phrase has become one of the most popular ideas in business....
AI is coming for your job (part 2)
April 8, 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
In the past, when machines replaced human workers we created new jobs elsewhere and avoided mass unemployment....
AI is coming for your job (part 1)
April 1, 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
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....
Entrepreneurs like to gamble
March 31, 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
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...
Chinese companies don’t innovate
March 25, 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
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...
Leaders are born, not made
March 18, 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
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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Management under the microscope
March 8, 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
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....