Navigating the data-driven landscape: the role of ambidextrous leadership
Leveraging real-world data can be transformative, and leaders need to both transform their core activities and pursue new opportunities....
May 13, 2025 • by Luca Condosta in Business Leaders • 3 min read
The CDO, formerly a figurehead for regulatory compliance, is now a key driver of company strategy. Luca Condosta describes the essential skills that CDOs require to turn DE&I concepts into actual commercial...
Continue readingOctober 16, 2023 • by Mohan Subramaniam , Richard Roi in Business Leaders • 6 min read
Leveraging real-world data can be transformative, and leaders need to both transform their core activities and pursue new opportunities....
September 26, 2023 • by Anita Sundby in Business Leaders • 8 min read
Anita Sundby flew high in a male-dominated, workaholic corporate world before her company let her go without any explanation. Now, having interviewed dozens of former CEOs, she offers advice on how to...
September 8, 2023 • by Susan Goldsworthy in Business Leaders • 6 min read
Insights into the urgent need for a mind shift in leadership, as well as dispelling myths, addressing psychological barriers and fostering a growth-mindset for a brighter future....
August 22, 2023 • by Frédéric Dalsace in Business Leaders • 6 min read
Your customers can tell you everything you need to know to build your business, says Professor Frédéric Dalsace of IMD provided you pick the right ones to learn from...
July 12, 2023 in Business Leaders • 7 min read
Ukrainian human rights lawyer Oleksandra Matviichuk, in an interview with I by IMD at the St Gallen Symposium, implored business leaders to stop taking their democratic freedoms for granted and to look...
May 11, 2023 • by Michael R. Wade in Business Leaders • 7 min read
We need a new type of leader for the digital age says Michael Wade, Professor of Innovation and Strategy & Cisco Chair in Digital Business Transformation. However, they should not discard their...
April 28, 2023 • by Michael Skapinker in Business Leaders • 7 min read
The sheer scale of the carnage from the bubonic plague gave the surviving workforce in the Middle Ages undreamt of bargaining power. While far less severe, the effects of COVID-19 combined with...
April 21, 2023 • by Albrecht Enders in Business Leaders • 11 min read
Vocal leadership consultant Robin De Haas explains to Albrecht Enders how executives can achieve greater influence and avoid miscommunication by learning to coordinate the muscles involved in breathing and creating sounds....
April 20, 2023 in Business Leaders • 6 min read
When Russia invaded Ukraine in late February 2022, Taras Panasenko (IMD EMBA 2023), CEO and co-founder of dollar store chain Avrora, was plunged into crisis mode. Then he decided to expand his...
April 6, 2023 • by John R. Weeks in Business Leaders • 10 min read
STADA CEO Peter Goldschmidt on instilling an entrepreneurial ethos to help STADA outperform its peers and making growth mindset a strategic priority....
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