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Relevance is a quality that leaders formerly tended to overlook, but the new business landscape is making it a key driver of business strategy. ...
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Can 12 minutes of breathing a day change how you lead?Â
Mindfulness expert Christoph Glaser shares insights from Breathe, his best-selling book on how simple, breath-based techniques can reduce stress, sharpen focus, and help leaders stay centred under pressure. ...
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Protecting us against the financial fallout of COVID’s sequel: the reinsurance industry has its work cut out
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. ...
Do you know the three paradoxes of leading virtual change?
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...
Can Rockefeller, Bezos and IKEA turn the developing world green?
The welcome announcement of a multi-stakeholder philanthropic partnership to accelerate the adoption of green energy in Africa, Asia and Latin America is a bold move. But, like all philanthropy, it must overcome...
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Common prosperity: China’s new course
3 November 2021 • by Alicia GarcĂa Herrero in Asian hub • 4 min read
Faced with an inevitable slowing of economic growth, Xi Jinping is driving a sea change in China, says Alicia GarcĂa-Herrero, Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at Natixis. ...
Employees behaving badly: how high CEO pay can encourage wider wrongdoing
1 November 2021 • by Stephen Smulowitz, Juan Almandoz in Human Resources • 6 min read
Research suggests that CEO stock option schemes combined with a large pay gap can encourage and motivate lower-ranking employees to commit illegal behavior. ...
Questions you need to ask to develop an effective strategy office
This is never going to be a one-size-fits-all proposition, but you can use the ISC framework to guide your strategy formulation and execution. This framework comprises three different diagnostic points....
Is your company falling in to these traps when crafting strategy?
Businesses large and small pour tons of time and resources into crafting smart strategies each year. Your strategy, after all, is the ultimate roadmap for success. But many companies still fail to...
Have you fallen into one of these ESG risk traps?
Even if your company has what appears to be a strong and effective statement on the environment, sustainability and governance, it’s worth periodically reviewing whether you are actually living your stated values....
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