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How to quiet your inner critic

June 22, 2021 • by Alyson Meister, Amanda Sinclair in Brain Circuits • 3 min read

Brain circuits How to quiet your inner critic by Alyson Meister, Amanda SinclairPublished 22 June 2021 in Brain circuits Is the person who is stressing you out you? Here are ways to...

How to be an ally

June 21, 2021 • by Howard H. Yu in Brain Circuits • 2 min read

Do you wonder how you can show up for your LGBTQ+ colleagues? Here are some tips....

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An adventurer’s advice? Don’t stress over things beyond your control

June 21, 2021 in Magazine • 8 min read

Bertrand Piccard believes the COVID-19 crisis could be a chance to reset our priorities, leading to a more efficient, cleaner and fairer world. Interview by Alyson Meister...

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Does your company need to strengthen or weaken its regional focus?

June 19, 2021 • by Niccolò Pisani in Brain Circuits • 1 min read

This exercise helps you to evaluate whether your company’s regional focus needs to be strengthened or weakened....

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Accelerating transitions to sustainable business models after COVID

June 18, 2021 • by Vanina Farber in Leading in Turbulent Times • 4 min read

There is a growing need to provide executives with the tools to take a more integrated approach to impact and business – and to change mindsets when it comes to financial decision-making....

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Why business leaders should be looking to Asia for inspiration

June 18, 2021 • by Philip Rosenzweig in Leadership • 3 min read

From trade to transport, finance to pharmaceuticals, we should look East for inspiration, says Phil Rosensweig....

Try this drill with your team today to prepare for a ransomware attack

June 18, 2021 • by Öykü Işık in Brain Circuits • 3 min read

A new cybersecurity report is making headlines for its finding the vast majority of ransomware victims are attacked more than once and the costs are steep. Are you prepared to handle this...

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Why worry about the wellbeing of winners?

June 18, 2021 • by Merete Wedell-Wedellsborg in Leadership • 7 min read

Success in business is normally an energizer, but everything changed in this era of pandemic fatigue, writes Merete Wedell-Wedellsborg...

The importance of being out in the workplace

June 17, 2021 • by Nikki Symmons in Leadership • 6 min read

Leadership The importance of being out in the workplace by Nikki Symmons Published 17 June 2021 in Leadership • 6 min read DownloadSave “From the locker room to the board room, visible LGBTQ+ female leaders are...

China needs to do more to rank with the world’s best

June 17, 2021 • by Arturo Bris in Competitiveness • 6 min read

Why is the second largest economy only 16th in global competitiveness? Size and state dominance may still be partly to blame, but the People’s Republic is moving in the right direction, writes...

Is fast fashion going out of fashion fast? Look east for answers

June 16, 2021 • by Patrick Reinmoeller, Mark J. Greeven, Yunfei Feng in Asian hub • 5 min read

Shein’s super-charged rise has lessons for fashion retailers around the world, say Mark Greeven, Patrick Reinmoeller, Mark Greeven, and Yunfei Feng....

How global  is your company, really? 

June 16, 2021 • by Niccolò Pisani in Brain Circuits • 2 min read

This exercise takes you through three steps to help you evaluate how global your company really is....

Chinese lessons in entrepreneurship: Choose the right track and insist on doing the right thing

June 14, 2021 in Technology • 4 min read

Julian Ma, founder and CEO of Inceptio Technology, the self-driving truck startup, and veteran of Tencent, Motorola and G7, advises would-be entrepreneurs to stick to their true passions and focus on people,...

Asia holds key to CO2 emissions crisis

June 14, 2021 • by Nick Parsons in Asian hub • 3 min read

The impact of CO2 emissions on climate change is one of the most urgent problems facing the world today, but any solution must focus on Asia....

Marta Herraiz Fernández shows organizations how to be strong allies of their LGBTQ+ employees

How to be a strong ally of LGBTQ+ employees

June 10, 2021 • by Marta Herraiz Fernández in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion • 4 min read

As a young woman Marta Herraiz Fernández struggled to define her sexuality because of a lack of positive role models. Now she is recognized as one of the leading voices for LGBTQ+...

Don’t return to work; reimagine it

June 10, 2021 • by Robert Hooijberg, Michael D. Watkins in Strategy • 6 min read

Many businesses are mandating rigid approaches to returning to the office. Instead, leaders should focus on leveraging what we have learned about work through the pandemic and organize schedules and space around...

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What a truly inclusive strategy looks like

June 9, 2021 • by James E. Henderson in Leading in Turbulent Times • 4 min read

The once popular model of having a high-level management team develop a strategy which is then communicated to the rest of the organization is quickly becoming archaic. A truly inclusive strategy is...