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Four reasons you may want to localize your supply chain

November 15, 2021 • by David Bach, Salvatore Cantale in Brain Circuits • 2 min read

Businesses are looking at becoming more local, or at least more diverse in terms of their supply chain as a path to resilience. If you find yourself reconsidering your supply chain, here...

COP26 represents call to action for business leaders

November 15, 2021 • by Julia Binder, Salvatore Cantale, Vanina Farber, Knut Haanaes, Natalia Olynec, Karl Schmedders in Sustainability • 8 min read

At the UN climate summit, world leaders agreed on three ways to tackle climate change. Some say these moves are not aggressive enough. Here is how business leaders can play a crucial...

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Have you considered the actual relationship between E, S and G?

November 15, 2021 • by Christos Cabolis, Karl Schmedders in Competitiveness • 6 min read

On the heels of the COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference there is global buzz about ESG goals, but many gaps remain between companies’ talk and their actions....

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Outsourcing offshore? How to pick the perfect partner (and get customers on board)

November 12, 2021 • by Gary Gregory, Liem Viet Ngo in Strategy • 7 min read

Offshore partners can benefit customers, here's what to look for when outsourcing....

An exercise to help you remember the importance of slowing down

November 12, 2021 • by Sameh Abadir in Brain Circuits • 2 min read

Managing in crisis requires you to slow down and stay calm. This is an exercise to see if you are too quick to make decisions....

Reality check: Are you living up to your diversity and inclusion commitments?

November 11, 2021 in Brain Circuits • 3 min read

Back in June, you may have joined companies across the globe professed their commitments to inclusion, but are you keeping up?...

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Antje Kanngiesser

November 11, 2021 in CEO Dialogue podcast series • 1 min read • Podcast available

In a rapidly decarbonizing world, the energy sector is facing immense challenges, challenges that Antje Kanngiesser is tackling head-on...

ESG investment must be built on measurement of real impact

November 11, 2021 • by Mikkel Larsen in Sustainability • 7 min read

Measuring the true impact of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investments is crucial to assessing the claims made by their promoters and comparing different opportunities. This is a difficult task but not...

Impact of parental leave on companies

November 10, 2021 • by Anne Ardila Brenøe in Audio articles • 7 min read

Output, labor costs, profitability, and company survival are largely unchanged, according to research focused on Denmark, a rich nation with a generous benefits system....

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Has your family business changed to reflect the times?

November 10, 2021 • by Peter Vogel in Brain Circuits • 3 min read

Many families are making the sometimes difficult decision to pivot from their core business models and transform them into purpose-driven ones. Leveraging your assets for the greater good isn’t just good business,...

The CEO’s post-pandemic survival guide: ESG targets take center stage

November 9, 2021 • by Didier Cossin, Michael D. Watkins, Richard Roi in Audio articles • 6 min read

CEO turnover is rising after a COVID lull as boards place corporate culture and social responsibility at the heart of performance criteria, equal to shareholder value creation....

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Five steps to preventing conflict on teams

November 9, 2021 in Brain Circuits • 2 min read

If you act in the early stages of team’s existence, you can help proactively keep them on track to form stronger bonds and foster a positive atmosphere. There is a five-step process...

Coaching Corner: the five batteries to keep charged to be at your best

November 8, 2021 • by Francesca-Giulia Mereu in Management • 6 min read

How understanding what energizes you can help you build up daily habits to sustain yourself when faced with change and rising uncertainty....

There’s a new world order – is your strategy keeping up with it?

November 5, 2021 • by Patrick Reinmoeller in Brain Circuits • 2 min read

Relevance is a quality that leaders formerly tended to overlook, but the new business landscape is making it a key driver of business strategy....

Protecting us against the financial fallout of COVID’s sequel: the reinsurance industry has its work cut out

November 5, 2021 in Leadership • 4 min read

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?

November 4, 2021 • by Jennifer Jordan, Ask Agger in Brain Circuits • 4 min read

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?

November 4, 2021 • by Peter Vogel, Malgorzata Smulowitz in Family business • 6 min read

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...

Are you struggling despite “winning”?

November 3, 2021 • by Merete Wedell-Wedellsborg in Brain Circuits • 3 min read

Winning leaders are reporting having mixed emotions, feeling just as exhausted as their more unfortunate peers, and on top of that being puzzled by their reactions to their own flourishing during a...

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Malaysia’s digital competitiveness: Time to step up

November 3, 2021 • by Arturo Bris, Misiek Piskorski in Competitiveness • 6 min read

Investment in digital hardware and a long history as a manufacturer and exporter of high-tech goods has long given Malaysia strong digital fundamentals....

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Common prosperity: China’s new course

November 3, 2021 • by Alicia García 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 García-Herrero, Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at Natixis....