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Nordic Leadership Expedition
Hannes Leroy, associate professor at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM), describes a leadership development experience that is a force for positive change
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Dealing with Emotion at Work
HEC Paris’s Marc Beretta discusses the place of emotions in the workplace
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The Dynamics of Innovation
Etienne Krieger considers the competing forces of customer-oriented and scientist-oriented innovation
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Championing AI for Business
Professor Phanish Puranam on how organizations can develop the mindsets and skills to win with Artificial Intelligence
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Re-building Trust in Business
What’s Love Got to Do with It? Insight from Henley Business School
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Promoting Nice Guys and Female Leaders
Michigan Ross’s David Mayer on why organizations should support positive behaviours and avoid gender stereotypes
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Beyond Greenwashing
Professor Michael Lennox on how companies must integrate environmental sustainability as a core value in their mission
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Executive Education Refreshed
Camilla Jonsson describes how Cranfield has shaped its general management portfolio to meet clients’ changing needs
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Business Presentation for Leaders
Kellogg’s Prof Tim Calkins offers a comprehensive guide to the science and art of delivering great presentations
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A Mindset for Sustainability
IEDP talks to Matt Gitsham on embracing a globalized business mindset to tackle societal issues
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Mastering Catastrophic Risk
Howard Kunreuther and Michael Useem show how companies are coping with disruption and offer profound insights on mitigating and managing risk
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Neuroscience for Business Impact
The Wharton School’s Michael Platt is at the forefront in accessing the business benefits of neuroscience
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Collaborate, Compete and Innovate
Sigvald Harryson and Johan Roos offer a methodology for driving breakthrough innovation through collaborative competitions
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4 Levers for an Agile Culture
Margaret De Lattre on how to shift your organization’s culture to be both efficient and more agile and flexible
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Functionalization: A Key to Survival
The move away from marketing ‘products’ towards marketing ‘functions’ is a move to business sustainability
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Non-Profits and For-Profits Come Together
IMD offers a space for Non-Profits and For-Profits to learn to collaborate for a better world
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Addressing Workplace Bullying
Jeneva Patterson offers four revealing stories to inspire action for a zero tolerance corporate culture
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4 Ways to Avoid Burnout
Prof Richard Jolly suggests what to do if you or your team are at risk of burnout
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From Marketing Chief to CEO
ESADE professors offer 7 strategies for gaining promotion to the top job
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The Rise of Andragogy
The growing understanding of the theory and practice of teaching adult learners
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New Year, New You?
David Pendleton proposes a New Year’s refresh focused on three leadership domains: strategic, operational and interpersonal
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Better Key-Account Relationships
Four tips for key-account salespeople ...and one for their customers!
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The Changing Workplace
How generational change is changing the way we work – what leaders really need to know
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Creating High Performing Teams
A conversation with Goizueta Business School’s Professor J. B. Kurish
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Developing More Responsible Leaders
The role of immersive ‘corporate international service learning’
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Moving up to Leadership
How to approach the first 100 days in a new position ― lessons for business and politics
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Supply Chain Innovation
Suppliers as a source of innovation in a fast-changing environment
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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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Influence and Persuasion at Work
Wharton’s Richard Shell offers advice on improving influence and building stronger rapport
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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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Connecting the Dots Within
How social outreach and cultural intelligence can drive innovation
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Hiring for an Ethical Culture
Finding employees who endorse, shape, and push an ethical culture
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Leading Corporate Sustainability
What are the leadership skills required in companies committed to sustainability?
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Leading a Gen Y Workforce
Millennials want to be inspired and involved and need a different kind of leader
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The Rise of the Tech Giants
HEC Paris Professor Jeremy Ghez calibrates the power of the GAFAs
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Engaging Strategy Processes
To make good strategies companies need strategy processes with a ‘wow’ factor
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Digital’s Commercial Imperative
4 Principles of Digital Transformation: Customer Experience, Innovation, Collaboration, and Co-creation
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Confronting a Crisis of Leadership
People need direction and to believe that someone knows where the boat (be it an organization or a nation) is going
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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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Driving Social Business Impact
Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus launches an inspirational initiative to reset the economic agenda at HEC
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Globalization – Is the End Nigh?
Insights on the ‘Future of Globalization’ in three essential videos from IMD's Professor Stéphane Girod
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Exemplary Executive Education
‘Standing on the Teacher’s Desk’: A Profile of Professor Darren Dahl at UBC Sauder School of Business
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Good Neighbours or Global Citizens?
Why CSR is about local initiatives as well as box-ticking to meet global standards
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Trump Vs Hillary: A Neuroscience View
What neuroscience tells us of the present state of play and its outcome
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Responsible Business to Benefit All
Adopting ethical business practices with respect for the wider community
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Millennial Women in the Workplace
How the attitudes and aspirations of young women will affect organizations and their leadership
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Bet on People Before Strategy
6 ways HR can help business-line leaders overcome common pitfalls and confront current business challenges
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Take-out in a Takeover - The MD of course!
Which key posts need replacing to ensure a successful acquisition?
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Body, Brain and Peak Performance
Insights from the neuroscience of our hunter-gatherer forebears that are both refreshingly simple and often overlooked
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5 Enablers of Big Data Driven Strategy Execution
Businesses access vast amounts of data but struggle to use it to execute strategy - yet in theory, the possibilities are endless, says Darden School of Business professor Raj Venkatesan
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Lack of Sleep Is a Leadership Issue
Neuroscience reveals the effects of sleep deprivation on performance
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Propelling Women Leaders to the Top: How Business Schools Can Help
New thinking is needed to help women climb the business school career ladder, according to Sally Blount, Dean of the Kellogg School of Management
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The Shadow of the Leader Can Be Positive
The "Shadow of the Leader" can be used to open people’s minds - a short video with Prof Jim Stengel of UCLA Anderson
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Getting Fired is GOOD for Leaders
The downside of corporate existence can prepare leaders for next top job
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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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Do Leaders Ever Stop Developing?
How leaders go on developing themselves and their businesses
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Tiff Macklem on Governance Fit for the Future
A Conversation with the dean of Dean of Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto
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The Leadership Grand Gesture
Just occasionally leaders need to make a grand gesture to get their message across
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Why Innovation Efforts Fall Short
The leadership reasons that cause organizations to struggle with innovation
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Bruno Busacca: Designing Growth in a Complex World
A Conversation with the Dean of SDA Bocconi School of Management
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Systemizing Business Model Innovation (BMI)
A BMI prototype that can drive business performance
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A Conversation with Maury Peiperl
Director Cranfield School of Management, Pro-Vice-Chancellor Cranfield University
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When Leaders Fall Out – Run for Cover!
When ambitious leaders vie for position you must know your people really well and act decisively
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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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War-gaming, Emergent Play, and Mission Command at Cass and Sandhurst
Officer training colleges such as Sandhurst are one of the few institutions managing to achieve positive behavioural change – continually, and sustainably. Is there a secret sauce? – Something to be bottled for use in L&D?
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What about the Workers? If Robots Take the Jobs
NYU Stern's Professor Nouriel Roubini sounds a warning
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Attitudes that Hamper Women’s Progress
Why business should counter the powerful effects of 'gender determinism'
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Virtual Classes Designed for Leaders
Clever application of technologies can unleash effective online executive learning
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Four Ways to Spur Innovation in a Corporate Environment
Generating an overall culture of innovation
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10 Ways Mindfulness Makes Better Meetings
Focus clearly to make more effective contributions