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Competitiveness
Kati ter Horst on being a first-time CEO when the old rules are gone
May 14, 2026 • by David Bach in Leaders Unplugged • 
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Outokumpu CEO Kati ter Horst on steel, free trade, Europe’s competitiveness, AI, sustainability, and leading when the old rules are gone....
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Niels Christiansen, how did LEGO regain momentum?
LEGO CEO Niels Christiansen on simplification, sustainability, and competing for children’s attention.
Podcast Series
CEO Dialogue
Jean-François Manzoni, President of IMD, hosts frank discussions with CEOs of companies including Nestlé, AstraZeneca and many more.
Leaner, cleaner, faster, stronger: How ABB is reshaping an engineering icon for the future
How Hindustan Unilever is winning over India’s middle class
Why Novo Nordisk’s CEO has learned to trust his gut feeling
ACWA Power’s Marco Arcelli: ‘I’m the Chief Facilitating Officer’
Henkel’s Carsten Knobel: A CEO who sticks to his strategy
Antoine de Saint-Affrique
Should I Fly
In a rapidly warming, post-pandemic world, Jim Pulcrano and Patrick Reinmoeller set out to answer one simple question: Should I fly?
The Interview
With great power comes great responsibility. Leaders of organizations from Alvanon to Zurich Zoo share insights on their own journeys.
It is a strength, not a weakness to say ‘I don’t know’
The Interview: Didier Cossin on high-performance boards
ACE Founders, with Ian Charles Stewart and François Randin
‘Cognitive’ technology and smart thinking: redefining city living
How AI gives Taobao’s one billion customers the personal touch
Reframing the role of anxiety in leadership
Management under the microscope
With the help of some of the world’s leading academics and executives, Professor Michael Wade turns six “accepted truths” on their heads.
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Chinese companies don’t innovate
March 25, 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Podcasts • 1 min read • 
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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...
ShareLeaders are born, not made
March 18, 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Podcasts • 1 min read • Podcast available
Over a hundred years ago, the explorer Ernest Shackleton safely led his crew through a series of disasters in one of the world's harshest environments....
Management under the microscope
March 8, 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Podcasts • 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....