Confronting management myths
Many business myths have become a kind of accepted wisdom. These myths are rarely challenged in real life, despite being the subject of plenty of research....
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Mark Schneider
As CEO of Nestlé, Mark Schneider is arguably the most powerful man in the food and beverage industry. And, as he reveals to IMD President Jean-François Manzoni in the latest episode of...
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22 April 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Podcast • 1 min read • 
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CEOs get paid more than anyone else in the corporate world, and are seen as having a similarly outsized influence on their companies’ fortunes....
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Entrepreneurs like to gamble
31 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Podcast • 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...
Chinese companies don’t innovate
25 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Podcast • 1 min read • Podcast available
For decades, politicians and business leaders in the West have portrayed China as a place where innovations are copied - not created. But has this picture of an “imitation nation” blinded us...
Leaders are born, not made
18 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Podcast • 1 min read • Podcast available
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Management under the microscope
8 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Podcast • 1 min read • Podcast available
The corporate world is full of platitudes about management and leadership that form a kind of accepted wisdom about how things are done in business....
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