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Developing Emerging Leaders
Professor Julie McCarthy explains the thinking behind Rotman School of Management’s executive program for up-and-coming leaders
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Developing Senior Executives
Preparing Senior Executives to Meet the Multiple Challenges of Global Leadership
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Glass Ceiling: Still Here, Still Breakable
MIT’s Professor Fiona Murray and Senior Lecturer Elsbeth Johnson offer six approaches to help women leaders break through the glass ceiling once and for all
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Getting Men Onside with Gender Parity
Thom Dennis, CEO of Serenity in Leadership, suggests 10 ways to involve men in countering gender bias and discrimination
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Time to Scale Leadership Development
CCL experts suggest 5 key considerations for reimagining leadership development for our turbulent times
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Why Workplaces Need a Wellbeing Strategy
Dr Redzo Mujcic, explores the link between organizational performance and workplace wellbeing—and describes the thinking behind Warwick Business School’s ‘Creating Value Through Workplace Wellbeing’ course
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Diversity with a Difference
Michigan University’s Debotri Dhar argues for a nuanced framing of diversity in organizations to promote, not only social justice, but also innovation, conflict management, and talent retention
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A Blueprint for Smart Decisions
Rotman School of Management’s Anne Bowers discusses how to develop a strategy for competitive advantage
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Creating Customer Centric Leaders
How HEC Paris designs executive programs on customer centricity
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The ‘Third Way’ to Innovate
In a brutally competitive market sometimes a great product just isn’t enough. MIT Sloan’s David Robertson uses the corporate journey of LEGO® to provide a fascinating look beyond ‘incremental’ and ‘disruptive’ innovation, and offers a ‘third way’ to innovate, when a great product isn't enough
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Tailor-Made Leadership for the Post-Pandemic World
Emmanuel JouJon explains how HEC Paris’s custom programs are adapting to meet the changing needs of executives and companies beyond the pandemic
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Why Lifelong Learning is Essential
HEC Paris Executive Education responds to a report, by Dell and the Institute for the Future, that "85% of the jobs that will exist in 2030 have not yet been created"
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Igniting Innovation
HEC Paris’ Jean-Rémi Gratadour offers valuable keys to meeting the challenges of innovation in disrupted times
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Competition Law vs the Tech Giants
LSE’s Niamh Dunne, Associate Professor of Law, discusses the challenges facing competition law as it seeks to deal with the evolving problems posed by Big Tech
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Business Model Innovation Meets Organizational Design
Influential author and Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan, Bill Fischer offers concrete tips on leading business model innovation—and reveals the importance of organizational design in the process
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The Power of Purposeful Leadership
How Purposeful Leadership is turning businesses into something bigger and better
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New Leader Integration
An initiative from the Rotman School of Management, led by Geoffrey Leonardelli, helps executives move to new roles and new jobs successfully
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Financial Analysis for HR Professionals
A new Rotman initiative aims to give HR executives enough financial savvy to contribute effectively at the highest level
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Scoping the Path Ahead for Exec Ed
After a turbulent year, new best practices for executive learning in the new normal are emerging for university-based business schools and their corporate clients
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Healthcare Leadership and Innovation
Warwick Business School Professor and former CEO of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, Dr Bernard Crump, gives a mid-pandemic assessment
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Diversity, Inclusion and Disability
Thom Dennis and Jane Hatton offer 12 ways to stop tokenism and break the stigma of disability in the workforce
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Time to Embrace the Internet of Things
Ruby Grey explains how the Internet of Things (IoT) will drastically transform how we do business
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Artificial Intelligence for Executives
The University of St. Gallen’s Stephanie Schoss discusses the mindset, skills and knowledge needed for executives to thrive in an AI enhanced world
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Group Coaching to Unify Executive Effort
INSEAD’s Manfred Kets de Vries explains how group coaching can create forces for change to refocus conflicted executives on strategy implementation
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Deeper, More Resilient Learning
The Wharton School’s Mike Malefakis asks: What Next for Exec-Ed?
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A Pivot to Online with Long-Term Value for Executives
Cranfield School of Management’s success delivering online learning during the pandemic augers well—not only for the now, but for the future of executive education
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Create a Digital Learning Strategy the MIT Way
Paul McDonagh-Smith sets out the principles and possibilities for digital learning in organizations—based on the creation of MIT Sloan’s own digital learning strategy
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Negotiation Strategies Online and Offline
London Business School’s Professor Gillian Ku offers strategies and tactics, employing planning and cooperation, for conducting complex negotiations
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A Time to Humanize Business
Hult Ashridge’s Vlatka Hlupic presents a people-first model to support organizations ‘do the right thing’, and sustain long-term success
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Creating a Crisis-Ready Board
Rotman’s David Beatty discusses the measures boards should take to ensure survival and seize long-term opportunities
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Intersection of Data & Human Experience
Columbia’s Omar Besbes explains the importance of bringing human experience and domain expertise to data analytics
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Complex Drivers of Employee Motivation
Columbia’s Stephan Meier on why motivating employees is more complicated than you think
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The Changing Role of the University Executive Education Function
A new co-ordination across Aston University is bringing faculty and expertise together from different schools and departments to create and deliver new value and services for clients in a way which other universities can learn from
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Aston Goes Multi-Disciplinary in a Complex World
Combining business school and university-wide expertise to support innovation, creativity and capability development in organizations
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Hypotheses not Predictions
Ryan Hamilton discusses the value of scientific thinking in business
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Learning for Disruption
When no strategy is safe, learn from those who have experienced the same intensity of change as you, says Patrick Faniel, Managing Director at Management Centre Europe (MCE)
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Coaching’s Bright Future
Henley’s Jonathan Passmore discusses the benefits and impact of individual and team coaching
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Exploring the Efficacy of Monetary Incentives to Motivate Employees
Professor Karen Sedatole explains the four core principles of how and when to use pay and bonuses to improve employee performance
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Finessing the Family Enterprise
Moonshot opportunities and insights from multigenerational family enterprises
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Nobody Does It Better
How family companies quietly outperform other companies (even in today’s disruptive environment)
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Leading Organizational Resilience
Professor David Denyer and Dr Elmar Kutsch combine for an engaging presentation at the latest Leadership Series event from Cranfield School of Management @Brand Exchange, London
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Problem Statements Solve Problems
Schulich SEEC on how to write clear objective Problem Statements – the key to finding solutions to complex problems
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Innovating with Real World Impact the Goal for UEFA and IMD at ‘Innovation Week’
Improving the experience of football fans at Euro 2024 with the 2019 UEFA Innovation Challenge Powered by IMD, ECAL and ThinkSport for MBA candidates
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Executive Learning for Life
Life-long learning is central to HEC Paris’s strategic vision and lies behind its move up the FT world executive education rankings
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The Entrepreneurial Corporation
CJBS’s Jeremy Hutchison-Krupat discusses how organizations can gain and maintain an entrepreneurial orientation
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Leadership Improvisation
Goizueta’s Allison Gilmore on using improvisation, the comedian’s stock-in-trade, to create leadership resilience
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Five Strategies for Creative Negotiation
Insights from IESE’s Kandarp Mehta on ‘The Power of Creative Comebacks’ in unlocking negotiations
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Digital Innovation & Design Thinking
Dirk Deichmann discusses the innovative potential of human creativity in the age of algorithms and big data
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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Entrepreneurship
Etienne Krieger shares two important insights for entrepreneurs: for starting up, for scaling up an enterprise
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Women Leaders Vs Less Competent Men
New book laments the preponderance of incompetent men blocking the progress of women leaders and offers some solutions
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The Innovation Navigator
How to leverage digital design and collaborative culture to steer through the ever-expanding innovation landscape
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Innovation Unplugged
Insights on creating a Silicon Valley in the Alpine region offer lessons to all
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Architecting Culture Change
CCL's David Dinwoodie discusses the need to craft developmental architecture for ‘leadership at every level’ of your organization
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Evaluating Executive Learning Impact
How the CISL Impact Benchmark Study helps improve leadership development with data
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How Blockchain Benefits Business
Rotman’s Andreas Park explains why blockchain technology and machine learning are keys to future business success
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The Psychology of Resilience
CCL’s Frédéric Funck on how performance psychology can help you build the mental resilience to release your full leadership potential
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The Age of the Digital Human
How people and their organizations must develop to get the best from all that digital has to offer
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Cultivating Leadership Energy at IMD
Organizational psychologist Shlomo Ben-Hur discusses why CLEAR is so unlike any other leadership program
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The Independents’ Challenge
The necessarily uncomfortable role of Non-Executive Directors: Insights from Rotman’s David Beatty
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Brexit Viewed as a Major Project
Addressing the project management skills needed to avoid operational chaos
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Integrative Thinking Now
Jennifer Riel offers new insights into the concept first elaborated by Roger Martin in ‘The Opposable Mind’ and updated by Jennifer and Roger in ‘Creating Great Choices’
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Data-Driven Decision-Making
Duke Fuqua professors on the opportunities that can be realised by marrying data analysis with commercial understanding
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A Force for Good in the City
The 'Tightrope Walkers' are fostering power with integrity in London’s business community
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Connecting for Change in Public Services
One woman’s mission to revolutionise public service provision
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Leading Effectively in Aerospace & Aviation
How HEC Paris helps aerospace executives broaden their mind-sets to face the challenges of innovation and change
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The Shift Towards Purpose
Oxford Saïd sees a growing desire to make a positive impact beyond just the bottom line
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Leaders as Explorers
Exploration happens outside the comfort zone – creating new business models, serving new markets and new customers
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Ideabanks: Networking for Choice
Using loose network ties to seek new ideas and innovative solutions to complex problems
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Staying Ahead in a Volatile World
Why being alert is not enough to beat VUCA and disruption
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Overwork Can Kill Productivity
5 recovery practices for individuals and strategies for HR to avoid employee overwork
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Best Practice Online Learning
Vlerick’s Benjamin de Wulf discusses the new era of possibility for corporate learning with IEDP
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Developing More Responsible Leaders
The role of immersive ‘corporate international service learning’
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Security Ensures Trust
Security isn’t just about risk and resilience. It’s also about trust and competitiveness
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Women’s Leadership Ecosystem
How Smith College Executive Education is upping the ante in leadership development for women
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Leadership: Mind, Body and Spirit
Understanding the holistic way humans lead in sports, business and the military
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Data Analysis – It’s a Human Issue
How selecting appropriate data to provide 'business' answers is a human responsibility
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Uber Lessons for Leaders
A CEO’s apology - mistakes are cathartic if leaders actively acknowledge them
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Creating Innovation Cultures
How collaboration between design and business mindsets builds innovative organizational cultures
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Reflection Trumps Uncertainty
Worried about the consequences of Brexit and Trump? Reflection helps us stay positive and effective in uncertain times
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Engaging with Generation Y
How virtual-world-savvy millennials benefit from face-to face communication and off-site meetings and events
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Harnessing Talent - Your Own and Others’
Even the most talented people, Einstein for instance, only succeed when they play to their strengths
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Lack of Sleep Is a Leadership Issue
Neuroscience reveals the effects of sleep deprivation on performance
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Leadership When Things Go Wrong
Strategies for handling the mistakes that beset all organizations at some time
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A Neuroscience Perspective on the US Presidential Campaign
Reflections on what is happening to human energy in the US Presidential elections
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Design Thinking – People | Process | Place
Enhancing teamwork and fostering greater innovation
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10 Commandments for the Family Business
Family businesses are the main economic driver in many countries across the world
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Predictive Analytics – The Future for Retail
In a recent article, Indian School of Business’ Professor Galit Shmuéli explains the value of and methodology behind ‘predictive analytics’.
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Why ‘Learning Agility' Is Key to Leadership Success
"There are five main characteristics that can be assessed to determine an individual’s learning agility."
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Are You Ready to Be CEO?
Statistics show that nearly half of all newly chosen CEOs will fail. CCL's Bill Pasmore explains who takes the blame for such a dismal record
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How the brain responds to feedback
The fifth and final note in this short series on your brain at work looks at neurological foundations of why positivity matters when leaders communicate with their people.
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Can Business Schools Meet the Challenges of the Future?
IMD President, Dominique Turpin, analyses the issues and forces that are buffeting business schools
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Gen Y, Social Entrepreneurship and a New Business Model
The involvement of ‘millennials’ in social entrepreneurship highlights how the corporate world can benefit from engaging a generation ambitious to change the world.
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The Sad Demise of the Chief Marketing Officer
An alarming trend in companies that claim to put the customer first
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My Way or the Highway - The Danger of Executive Bullying
For generations, victims of schoolyard bullying have been made to feel afraid, powerless and even stupid. They respond by drawing as little attention to themselves as possible and hoping the misery stops.
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Attention - I feel, therefore I think I am
Different parts of the brain get engaged by the different kinds of attention
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The Starfish and the Spider: A Metaphor for the Future
The future shape of organizations and their leadership
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Integrative Thinking Like Leonardo Did
Some advice from the man who has taught Nike, IBM and Microsoft’s leaders how to think like Leonardo Da Vinci.
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Good Ethics Is Good Business
Paul Danos on the ‘responsibility factors’, at play during the financial crisis, that lead executives to either ethical fame or failure
