Talent
The Career Canvas: Nine strategic moves beyond the traditional ladder
The career ladder is obsolete. Here’s how to survive and thrive through a 60-year career.
June 12, 2026
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Progression and Talent
Building the talent pipeline for future success.
To thrive in a fast-changing world, organizations need a resilient, agile leadership pipeline with the skills and mindset to innovate, execute, and compete. Drawing on IMD experts, industry practitioners, and global thought leaders, we explore how to accelerate learning and development to meet current and emerging needs, attract and retain top talent, and equip leaders with the skills to drive future success.Featured Publication:
Unlock your winning potential
The human potential issue
Potential is realized or wasted. How can we fulfil our own potential? Can organizations create winning environments for all talent? In Issue 15 of I by IMD, our diverse cast of experts offers ways to unlock potential in turbulent times.
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Artificial Intelligence
Publicis Sapient on AI: A three-step guide to psychological safety
While it is normal to be nervous about AI, organizations must create a psychologically safe environment in which their employees can innovate and experiment, says Publicis Sapient’s Kameshwari Rao
June 8, 2026
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Talent
The readiness gap: Why workforce agility will decide who wins
Workforce agility, not access to AI tools, will define competitive advantage. Here’s how leaders can close the readiness gap.
June 4, 2026
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Governance
Building a competitive board: Who is the ideal director?
Sitting on a board can be career-building, socially-elevating, and incredibly interesting, but it isn’t right for everyone. This is a must-have guide for aspiring board members and a hiring template for the boards who need them the most.
May 29, 2026
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Governance
The perfect power couple? When the board needs an executive chair
A valuable source of stability and leadership capacity, or a governance model that blurs accountability and boxes in the CEO? Hans-Christoph Hirt and Roger Barker explore the benefits and pitfalls of the executive chair.
May 26, 2026
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Artificial Intelligence
The deepfake CEO: Why leadership teams may have a false sense of security
Effective defense against deepfakes depends on how CEOs shape behavior, communication, and decision-making under pressure, says Öykü Işık.
May 22, 2026
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Brain Circuits:
Brain Circuits
Cull or cultivate? Protecting your entry-level leadership pipeline
Protect your pipeline: actionable steps to develop leaders from entry-level roles as AI transforms junior work tasks.
June 11, 2026
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Brain Circuits
Five leadership challenges faced by techies and how to meet them
Learn effective strategies for techies transitioning into leadership roles, including embracing human nature and fostering team cohesion.
June 4, 2026
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Brain Circuits
How to be a good mentor
Learn how great mentors listen, ask better questions, and guide growth—helping mentees gain clarity, confidence, and take meaningful next steps
April 28, 2026
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Brain Circuits
Is your workforce strategy skills-powered?
A skills-first approach is emerging as the future of workforce strategy. Jeff Schwartz and Mike Worthington identify the key questions to consider and explain how it’s done.
April 2, 2026
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Brain Circuits
Competitive identity: Your hidden lever in a transition
Considering a career transition? Begin by identifying your unique values and strengths. Sophi Hazi and Arturo Pasquel guide you through the process.
March 26, 2026
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Brain Circuits
Checklist: Are you responding to changing workplace demographics?
As workforces age, organizations must confront a critical question: how will extended lifespans reshape leadership, organizational strategy, and the very concept of a career? Anna Erat identifies four focus areas to sustain performance, preserve brain capital, and create meaningful career pathways.
March 19, 2026
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Coaching Corner:
Artificial intelligence
Hit the pause button so you and your team can fast forward
Explore Jan’s journey of leadership self-discovery to enhance team trust and foster a collaborative workplace.
June 5, 2026
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Coaching
Balancing empathy with authority: Setting boundaries doesn’t make you an unethical leader
Joanna’s fear that setting boundaries would make her unkind cast her team adrift. ChloĂ© Christopoulos says clarity and accountability are not departures from care, but expressions of it
April 2, 2026
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Career path
Why you need to agree to disagree
Elizabeth faces a career crossroads and works with a coach to clarify her ambitions, negotiate her future, and harness the power of constructive disagreement
February 20, 2026
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Conflict
Embracing conflict, the catalyst for renewal
David learns to see conflict not as an end, but as a cycle of renewal – embracing tension, repair, and trust to transform his work relationships
January 30, 2026
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Burnout buster
Slow down! Why doing too much is not helping you or your team
Striving to be a superhero has backfired professionally and personally for ambitious Frances. It’s time to ease her foot off the gas, says Qi Zhang
January 30, 2026
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Executive coaching
Stuck in the safety zone? Here’s how to break free
Hard-working Francine is good at what she does, but risk-averse. By exploring what’s holding her back, she learns to drive herself and her organization to greater heights.
October 31, 2025
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Book
Rewriting Your Leadership Code
How your childhood made you the leader you are, and what you can do about it