Next-gen leaders hold key to faster progress on sustainability
The next generation of business leaders can play a vital role in speeding up progress on sustainability, according to leadership expert Clarke Murphy. ...
Book Club
Book Club
From the journey of senior executives to issues of gender and data bias, each month, we’ll discuss one recently released book, and add a new one to the list, so you'll be able to plan ahead.
Our first four books are recent releases that have been very well received. Together they give a sense of the books we’ll read: the first follows the journey of a senior executive in a given company and industry; the second book looks at issues of gender and data bias; and the third and fourth address important geopolitical and economic trends.
Book Clubs
Thursday, 15 December at 12:00 CET
Mike Brent and Nigel Melville, authors of When Teams Work: How to develop and lead a high-performing team, share their thoughts about how to create effective teams and how to avoid the major traps teams fall into. Their book is based on their combined academic input and lived experience; both have taught and coached hundreds of teams and thousands of managers in sport, business, and organizations.
Together with IMD Professor Ina Toegel, Mike and Nigel discuss important areas such as building trust, engagement, and psychological safety, as well as the skills needed to successfully coach and facilitate teams.
Thursday, 23 March at 12:00 CET
The Future of Competitive Strategy
Mohan Subramaniam, Professor of Strategy and Digital Transformation at IMD and author of the new book The Future of Competitive Strategy: Unleashing the Power of Data and Digital Ecosystems, shares his thoughts on the new drivers of competitive advantage in the digital era. He focuses on how legacy firms – or firms that have forged their competitive strengths in an era before the internet, can shift their competitive focus from products, value chains and industry structures to data, digital platforms, and digital ecosystems.
In a discussion with IMD Professor Phil Rosenzweig, Mohan discusses some key frameworks from his book and shares many examples of legacy firms who are making the necessary transition to compete effectively in a changing digital world.
Previous books of the month
October 2022 : Sustainable Leadership
The next generation of business leaders can play a vital role in speeding up progress on sustainability, according to leadership expert Clarke Murphy.
Summer 2022 and beyond
After we discuss a book, we will add one to the list, so that you can plan your reading for the next few months.
Library
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Emotional intelligence may be the key to an agile organization
To be an agile leader, you must foster your emotional intelligence. While many executives find it frightening to allow themselves to be emotional in a professional setting, it’s required to have the...
How to strategize your way out of complex problems
In Solvable, Arnaud Chevallier and Albrecht Enders have developed a three-step process for complex problem solving: frame, explore and decide....
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Next-gen leaders hold key to faster progress on sustainability
The next generation of business leaders can play a vital role in speeding up progress on sustainability, according to leadership expert Clarke Murphy. ...
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Books to inspire, inform and entertain
From dealing with burnout and bullsh*t to the joys of friendship and climbing mountains, IMD professors offer a varied choice of summer reading material ...
Agility is what you need to future-proof your business
Any company that wants to last needs to learn the art of agility, best understood as creating flexibility and fostering entrepreneurship at the strategic, organizational and management levels....
Geographical location – or helping to create it – dictates companies’ success
To boost company performance, executives must support the competitiveness of their countries and embrace public-private collaboration to help articulate and implement national strategy, say IMD Professors Arturo Bris and Phil Rosenzweig....
The holistic approach to value capture – ask four questions
An award-winning book on business model innovation helps leaders engineer their way to success by reframing their businesses in today’s virtual setting...