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10 Leadership Trends for 2024
Thom Dennis highlights ten characteristics leaders should aim to foster for the year ahead
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Three key areas of expertise at emlyon business school
emlyon business school benefits from three deep and longstanding areas of expertise which it leverages to support companies meet the fast-developing challenges of business today
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Transformational Impact with emlyon
What sets customized programs at emlyon apart from the competition?
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Don't Resign, Reassign!
The iOpener Institute’s job crafting initiative can help you improve your happiness at work—small changes to make a big difference
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Developing Healthcare Leaders
A conversation with Brian Golden, Professor in Health Sector Strategy at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management
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Alleviating Burnout at Work
Dr Amy Bradley and Dr Katherine Semler explain what organizations can do to help tackle burnout
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People Analytics: Applied AI
Five examples of effective use of people analytics at work, from St. Gallen University
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Learning Business Readiness
Rotman’s ‘Business Readiness Certificate’ for young professionals and graduates with non-business degrees: Stephanie Hodnett, Executive Director of Rotman Executive Programs in conversation
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AI and Big Data: Reality Beyond the Hype
St. Gallen Executive School’s Johannes Binswanger provides a realistic assessment of the impact of Big Data and AI on how we work
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Developing High-Potential Executives at Orange
Orange Business Services places its trust in HEC Paris to train its high-potential employees
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The Environment and Business Post COP26
Experts from Cambridge Judge Business School reflect on COP26 and on how the relationship between business and the environment goes two ways
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The Danger of False ESG Claims
University of St Gallen compliance expert explains how good ESG (Environment Social Governance) intentions create legal, ethical, or reputational liability
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Innovation to Meet Social and Eco Challenges
HEC Paris’ Laurence Lehmann-Ortega explains how to capitalize on innovation to respond to social and environmental challenges
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Pandemic Driven Innovation and Transformation
HEC Paris’ Christopher Hogg describes how the crisis stimulates innovation and accelerates the economic transformation of companies – and how to capitalize on it
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Is Your People Strategy Today Fit for Tomorrow’s Workforce?
A powerful tide of workplace change is shaping the demands, needs and expectations of the modern workforce. A cross-discipline panel of experts from Cranfield School of Management asks: is your people strategy up to the challenge?
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No, Robots Aren’t Destroying Half of All Jobs
LSE’s Professor Leslie Willcocks with eight important qualifiers to the widespread idea that ‘47% of jobs will disappear to automation’ by 2030
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Business Benefits of Social Enterprise
Adding a social angle to your business is an opportunity, not a cost, say HEC Paris’ Florian Hoos
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Building a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace
For HEC Paris Professor, Matteo Winkler, diversity is about headcount, whereas inclusiveness is making each head count
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Creating Intelligence in Times of Uncertainty
Why you should be making decisions right now
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How Is Exec Ed Innovating with Program Design to Meet the Needs of the Modern Learner?
A new Accelerated Management Development Program from Michigan’s Ross School of Business shows how top business schools are evolving their offering to better meet the changing requirements of executives taking the step up to leadership
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A Double Helix Structure to Drive the Digital Economy
MIT Sloan’s Paul McDonagh-Smith describes the ‘twisted ladder structure’ of our physical and digital worlds, that can help organizations shape the digital economy
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Embedding UN SDGs Into Business Practice
With many of the ‘Why?’ arguments behind alignment with the UN’s SDGs hard-won, Rotterdam School of Management’s Eva Rood moves on to consider the more complex ‘How?’
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5 Keys to Managing Virtual Teams
St Gallen’s Prof. Winfried Ruigrok describes five essential things you need to know about managing your team virtually
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2020 Leadership Lessons for 2021
Mark Threlfall and colleagues offer twelve thoughts for Christmas to help us prepare for a better New Year
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10 Ways to Stop Bullying at Work
Even remote workers experience bullying—now is the time to stamp it out
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Distance Learning Reimagined
Warwick Business School’s Dot Powell, Pietro Micheli, and Tim Wray discuss what the past few months have shown about remote learning—what’s effective and how organizations and individuals can benefit
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A Strategizing Framework for the Digital Era
Hult Ashridge’s Dr Mike Cooray and UCL’s Dr Rikke Duus offer a framework for re-thinking organizational competitiveness in digital spheres
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A Leadership Stimulus Package
Rotman School of Management’s Nouman Ashraf offers a prescription for better post-pandemic leadership
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Attention, Energy, & Momentum: Thriving in a New Normal
Managing attention spans and maintaining high energy in our increasingly digital daily lives
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The Purpose of Answers
Oxford’s Educational Approach for the 2020s: A Conversation with Andrew White and Caroline Williams of Oxford Saïd Business School
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Learning from Those Living Through Change
Hult Ashridge’s Professor Ilze Zandvoort on supporting employees through the emotional cycles of complex change
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Ethical Decision Making in a Crisis
Hult Ashridge’s Roger Delves discusses the tension between personal values and organizational imperatives—and why otherwise ethical people sometimes make unethical decisions
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Better Connections in the Workplace
Hult Ashridge’s Guy Lubitsh on why making connections within your organization is so important, and a new model and approach that can help
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How B2B Marketing is Learning from B2C
B2B marketing practice will follow the lead set by B2C marketers in the years ahead
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Actors and Architects of Ethical Behavior
Creating a workplace culture conducive to making ethical decisions
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Executive Presence
MIT Sloan’s Rob Salafia explains the importance of executive presence and offers advice on how to develop it
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Apprenticeship Levy with Impact
How Aston University is developing middle-management competence with the Apprenticeship Levy – and without
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Mind-and-Machine
Kellogg School of Management’s Brian Uzzi on how AI can offer the best of both worlds
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FinTech in Large Organizations
RSM’s Daniel Liebau on how to make innovation and change happen
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New York Smart; World-Class Ready: Executive Education in the Big Apple
A conversation with Fenwick Huss, Willem Kooyker Dean of Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, and Clayton Shedd, Executive Director of Executive Education
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Design Thinking Complex Problems
St Gallen faculty Rachel Brooks and Jennifer Hehn on how design thinking combines human-centricity and rapid prototyping for complex problem-solving
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Mastering Supply Chains
Sustainability and ethics are central Schulich SEEC’s signature Masters program – as supply chains face new legislation on sustainability
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Having a Voice and Giving a Voice
The importance of speaking up and encouraging your team to speak up
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Finance for a Sustainable Future
RSM’s Dirk Schoenmaker on combining financial/economic with social/environmental thinking for businesses to operate with purpose and profit
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Forecast Documents for Business
HEC’s Etienne Krieger explains the value of business forecasting, planning, and budgeting
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Networks for Entrepreneurship
HEC’s Etienne Krieger stresses the value of trust in building support networks for entrepreneurial projects
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Talent Management Goes Agile
Executive leaders are losing patience with traditional tools for managing talent, says Ronny Vansteenkiste, a Senior Associate with Management Centre Europe and a Fortune 500 veteran
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Transformative Online Learning
INSEAD’s designs for highly personalized online learning to scale digital transformation
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Building Brands for the Future
Kellogg School of Management’s Tim Calkins on brands and brand management in our hyperconnected age
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Innovation and Strategic Stability
Rotman’s Angèle Beausoleil argues the need for design-led innovation leadership
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Design Thinking in Organizations
How ‘design thinking’ theory is being successfully translated into real-world innovative practice
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Diversity Beyond Fairness
Well-managed diversity can drive business success in our connected world
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Perfect Your Leadership Story
What’s Your Leadership Story? Make Sure You Tell the One You Intend
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Using Pretotypes to Drive Innovation
IMD’s route to transforming technology into working solutions quickly
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5 Building Blocks for Industry 4.0
IESE’s Marc Sachon shows how people and machines can work in sync to successfully implement Industry 4.0
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Enabling Leaders to Develop their People
David Dinwoodie describes how CCL are helping managers to become more actively involved in the development of their own staff
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A Manifesto for Better Business
New book offers a powerful reply to the steadily increasing criticism of free market business
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Solve Big Problems – Sell the Solutions
New book reveals the techniques top strategy consultants use to solve complex business problems and sell their solutions
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4 Principles for Leading Change
Change efforts often fail – but there are ways to increase your chances of successful company-wide transformation
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Managing the Risk of Disruption
Cass Professor Elena Novelli offers five strategies for survival in the face of disruptive technology business models
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New Technologies' Impact on HR
5 ways emerging technologies are transforming the HR landscape
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May, BREXIT and the Human Brain
A neuroscience perspective on Theresa May’s approach to the BREXIT negotiations
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Theresa May’s Glass Cliff
Is Mrs May's Brexit Glass Cliff an exemplar of modern leadership?
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The Entrepreneur as Explorer
HEC Academic Director Albert Meige suggests three key characteristics entrepreneurs share with explorers
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Is Disruption Really the New Norm?
Don’t let fear of disruption divert you from the essential job of reviewing and renewing strategy
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In Defence of the Levy
Lynette Ryals, Pro Vice Chancellor and Director, Cranfield School of Management, addresses critics of the UK’s Apprenticeship Levy
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How Women Can Win at Negotiations
5 ways women can advocate for themselves at critical points in their careers
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5 Predictions for L&D in 2018
FT | IE Corporate Learning Alliance predicts there will be more than just AI to concern L&D professionals this year
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Is Strategy a Relevant Concept?
Gérard de Maupeou explains why strategic thinking is still a relevant managerial discipline in a volatile world
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Creating High Performing Teams
A conversation with Goizueta Business School’s Professor J. B. Kurish
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Learning Ecosystems: Power of Collaboration
An interview with Dr Katharina Lange, Executive Director at Singapore Management University - ExD
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Six Qualities of Good Leadership
Six traits that get to the heart of what makes effective ethical leaders
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E-learning for Executives
Do Learning Management Systems have a future in management development?
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Vermeer’s Blue Ocean Thinking
A strategy to differentiate your business in the market and create spaces for ‘blue’ growth
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Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
4 branches of EI that humanize leadership: IEDP reviews Kerrie Fleming’s chapter from ‘Inspiring Leadership’
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Leadership Skills for a New Age
The digital revolution, diverse global workforces, and Gen Y aspirations challenge how leaders lead today
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Engaging Strategy Processes
To make good strategies companies need strategy processes with a ‘wow’ factor
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Big Data – Beyond the Hype
A lean approach to data science: introducing ESADE’s ‘Big Data and Analytics Canvas’
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Humans Vs Machines – Mind the Skills Gap
Advances in technology will bring structural unemployment unless we fill the skills gap
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Leading Teams Vs Teams that Lead
The three distinct territorial domains of leadership that make leaders incomplete, but teams - potentially - complete
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How HRM Can Broaden Its Social Role: Lessons from Latin America
HR could be playing a bigger role in society, says EGADE Business School’s Professor Anabella Dávila, with a unique perspective on HRM practices from leading Latin American companies
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Why Senior Leaders Should Go Back to School
It’s never too late, and you are never too old, to go to business school
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Leadership Renewal and Organizational Transformation
Leaders must renew their thinking before they can transform their organizations
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People Make Mergers Work: The HR Imperative
Managing this ‘people impact’ is a crucial dimension of managing a successful transition to the new business strategy
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Leader! Get Those Priorities Carved in Stone!
Agreeing the ground rules is key to leading change
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Leadership: Wily by Nature
Successful leaders need the bounce-back resilience of a cartoon character
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FIFA Leadership and Ethics
“It’s a Funny ‘Ol Game” – in a sport full of clichés the ongoing FIFA saga is now well beyond a joke. Kai Peters, Chief Executive at Ashridge Business School, discusses Sepp Blatter and leadership ethics
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Big Questions, Big Data and Disruptive Innovation
Hal Gregersen introduces ‘catalytic questioning’
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Four Ways to Spur Innovation in a Corporate Environment
Generating an overall culture of innovation
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Left Brain Right Brain: a Neuroscience Monkey Puzzle
Imagine being a lawyer and pondering, for your next fee account, the question: If a monkey has taken a selfie, who owns the image?
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Is Creating Shared Value (CSV) an Illusion?
The optimistic CSV agenda may fail to address the real trade-offs required to achieve socially benefical sustainable development
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Future Leaders and the Trouble with Testosterone
How do we modify behaviours that are so biological in their basis?
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Margaret Thatcher: An Appraisal of Leadership Style
On the death of the UK's first female prime minister
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Learning-Agile Leaders
Organizations need leaders who recognize when their current skill sets and knowledge are insufficient and irrelevant and who are willing to change course and learn new approaches - says Michael Campbell, Senior Research Analyst at CCL.
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Active Communication Drives Innovation
“When people are allowed to connect, amazing things can happen”
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A Conversation with Charles Handy
The Future of Capitalism, The Changing Workplace, Leadership, and Happiness
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Knowmads - The Transient Knowledge Worker
Learning to better manage knowledge workers is vital to coping with Society 3.0 says Ralph Blom, a program director at de Baak Management Centre in The Netherlands.
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The Curse of 70-20-10
Michael Stanford, Director or Partnership Programs at IMD, disputes the value of 70-20-10 as it separates on-the-job experience from formal development.
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Embedded vs Bolt-on Sustainability
Incorporating environmental, health, and social value into core business activities
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You can’t change culture; you can’t change attitudes
So focus on right behaviours and actions to shift attitudes
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Personality and Leadership Matrix
Dr David Pendleton Co-Director of the High Performance Leadership Programme at the Saïd Business School
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Exec Ed from a Zen Master and Christian Mystic
Lessons for leaders from Father Willigis Jäger
