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What should your sustainability strategy look like?

12 April 2021 • by Knut Haanaes, James E. Henderson in Sustainability • 5 min read

The first steps towards creating a credible sustainable business, is to clearly frame what sustainability really means for your organization and ensure cross-organizational buy-in. ...

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Monopoly free and open to critique: with decentralized finance, this could be the future of our financial system

9 April 2021 in Finance • 4 min read

Decentralized finance is causing quite a stir, not least its dominant blockchain-based ledgers. In the latest edition of Fintech Chainmail, our interview series with a Fintech leader, we meet Ajit Tripathi, head...

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AI is coming for your job (part 2)

8 April 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....

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How to put purpose at the core of strategy

8 April 2021 • by Thomas W. Malnight in Strategy • 3 min read

Competition for new growth and opportunity is fierce and relentless. In this fight, business leaders are often left puzzled as to why their strategies, the result of arduous planning and painstaking research,...

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Progression planning: 4 ways to create tomorrow’s leaders today

7 April 2021 • by Richard Roi in Leadership • 5 min read

Why are more and more companies accelerating the integration of their succession management and leadership development programs? The answer is simple: impact. Connect the two and you could be growing your future...

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Why 2021 is the year to focus on sustainability

6 April 2021 • by Knut Haanaes, Natalia Olynec, James E. Henderson in Sustainability • 4 min read

In the first of a three-part series, we outline why adopting a sustainable business approach is a profitable, future-proof business strategy....

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How to boost your team’s immunity to conflict: Step 3 of 5

4 April 2021 • by Ginka Toegel, Jean-Louis Barsoux in Brain Circuits • 2 min read

Destructive conflict is often rooted in perceived incompatibilities between team members. By being proactive and surfacing these upfront, when the pressure is off, managers can inoculate teams against future blow-ups. ...

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How to boost your team’s immunity to conflict: Step 2 of 5

3 April 2021 • by Ginka Toegel, Jean-Louis Barsoux in Brain Circuits • 2 min read

Destructive conflict is often rooted in perceived incompatibilities between team members. By being proactive and surfacing these upfront, when the pressure is off, managers can inoculate teams against future blow-ups. ...

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Sustainability: attitude will help solve climate crisis

2 April 2021 • by Knut Haanaes in Videos • 2 min read

In this case study, Professor Knut Haanaes says we can tackle the environmental emergency — it depends whether you see the glass as half full or half empty. ...

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AI is coming for your job (part 1)

1 April 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....

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The future of work revolves around not WFH or salary, but purpose

1 April 2021 • by Jennifer Jordan in Strategy • 4 min read

Prospective workers will prioritize purpose – whether this means status, pride or meaning derived from work – in the post-COVID world. ...

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Archegos, the Wall Street fire sale, and the need for reporting requirements

1 April 2021 • by Salvatore Cantale, Karl Schmedders in Finance • 4 min read

Lessons in corporate governance and regulatory oversight in hedge fund sell-off....

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Entrepreneurs like to gamble

31 March 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...

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The office is not dead… yet

31 March 2021 • by John R. Weeks, Mahwesh Khan in Human Resources • 6 min read

Creativity could become a casualty of the new workplace order if you don’t reassess the functions that workspaces need to serve as employees embrace a new hybrid model of working....

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How to avoid a CEO succession crisis

30 March 2021 in Strategy • 7 min read

Picking the right CEO to succeed at your organization requires careful consideration – here are important considerations when you make the transition....

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Globalization has rallied during the pandemic – here’s what that means for leaders

29 March 2021 • by Sameh Abadir, Mark J. Greeven in Strategy • 5 min read

Covid-19 does not, as many detractors believe, sound the death knell for globalization. In fact, the pandemic is its saving grace — and there are big implications coming down the pipeline for...

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Israel shows the way to build government efficiency over time

26 March 2021 • by Arturo Bris in Finance • 5 min read

Economic resilience and a private-public health partnership have given Israel the competitive edge in vaccination roll-out....

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