Healthcare Leadership and Innovation
COVID-19 has placed enormous strain on healthcare systems around the world, causing untold disruption and tragic outcomes that will take time to measure in full. At the same time, the way healthcare...
View ArticleDemocratizing Learning at Allianz
This article is drawn from the presentation by Tony White, Global Head of Allianz University, at the insurance giant Allianz, to a recent online forum of senior learning and development professionals...
View ArticleExecutive Development in the Spatial Web
If you or your kids were out in the street stalking Pokémons in 2016, you already know what it feels like when physical and Web worlds collide. Your phone merged a virtual object into your real-world...
View ArticleHow to Succeed Under Pressure
Introduction to Pressure and Stress Pressure can be defined as the perceived burden of physical or mental distress and the constraint of circumstance. The perception of pressure is dependent on each...
View ArticleScoping the Path Ahead for Exec Ed
For over a decade, university-based business schools have been striving to build competence in their clients around managing the VUCA environment. The last twelve months have seen as live a road test...
View ArticleCoaching 21st-Century Leaders
When we step back and observe leaders today, several challenges quickly become apparent. Firstly, leaders are under more and more pressure, due to not only having to deliver profitable growth but also...
View ArticleA Smart Third Way
Post-war growth in Italian GDP was led by large State-owned public companies like IRI, ENI, and ENEL. Today the only Italian global players are still in the hands of the State, the others have either...
View ArticleThe Art of Self-Promotion Without Being Self-Promoting
As an executive coach, I work with my clients to help them clarify what they truly want and then assist them in getting from where they are to where they want to be. Part of this process involves...
View ArticleWhy Your Team Needs Expansive Thinking
AZUREY Inc.* is on the brink of collapse. During the COVID-19 pandemic, sales have rapidly declined since consumers were spending less on luxury goods and the forecasts say that the luxury industry...
View ArticleThe Road Toward More People-Centred Organizations
We work in a world of complexity and velocity, but the essential instrument we use to achieve progress people has not advanced in terms of its productive capacity like the computers and other...
View ArticleInnovating Innovation
Today’s world is characterized by challenges and uncertainties, such as climate change and the associated environmental disasters as well as resource scarcity, military conflicts, inflation, and...
View ArticleSustainable Business and Responsible Leadership
Business Schools are often maligned as being out of touch with what is going on in the world of business and society beyond the comfortable confines of academia. As with all such criticism, when enough...
View ArticleHow Blockchain Benefits Business
Blockchain technology has had some bad press over the past couple of years, largely due to the frenzy caused by speculation in the unregulated market of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. But also due to the...
View ArticleRisk & Permission
The world is awash with leadership advice, and research from countless business schools and consultants frequently lists out the key characteristics of good leaders. These tend to fall into two...
View ArticleDigital Barbarians at the Gate
How can a company like Total, the long-established megacorporation, whose activities span oil fields and renewable energy to filling stations, position itself to integrate the power of digital into its...
View ArticleDeveloping High Flyers at Emirates
Since the 2008 financial crisis, the airline and travel industries have been under unprecedented pressure, characterized by intense competition, fuel price volatility, and the need to keep pace with...
View ArticleData or Disney Keeping Organizations Human
Are companies interested in real people anymore or just their data? All-pervasive data capture means that, in principle, businesses know their customers better than ever, but are they looking to...
View ArticleCEO Activism and Its Implications for Executive Development
More and more businesses and business leaders are speaking up and taking action on issues widely seen as important to society. Nike has made a striking intervention in arguments about civil rights and...
View ArticleA Very Different Future for Executive Education
My daughter is 14. Demographic and economic data suggest her generation has a good chance of living to be 100 and working well into their 70s. This has huge implications for business schools, and...
View ArticleSimulation-Based Leadership Development
Despite the considerable resources, in terms of both finance and time, organizations pour into developing their leaders, the world continues to be beset by challenges and crises that poor leadership...
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