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Boosting Wellbeing at Work
Oxford Saïd experts explain the sources of employee happiness
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How to Accelerate Corporate Innovation
MIT Sloan experts explain how to engage successfully with innovation ecosystems
BOOK REVIEW
Leading in a Polarized World
New methodology for leadership in an age of outrage proposed by Oxford professor of business and public policy
RESEARCH
The Hare and Tortoise in Teams
Recruiters should look for conscientiousness as much as proactivity when hiring team members
VIEWPOINT
How AI Can Enhance Negotiation Skills
Professor Jared Curhan reveals the positive contribution AI is already making in supporting leaders with negotiation
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The Challenges of Intentional Leadership
A conversation with Professor Kenneth Corts of the Rotman School of Management
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Change Is Not Always Good
A provocative new book reveals the downside of strategic and organizational change and the benefits of stability
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Industry Beyond Digitization
Two renowned authorities on strategy and innovation explain how the fusion of physical products and services with real-time data and AI will shape the industrial future
RESEARCH
Reconcile Arguments and Move On
Harvard and BC University study values conversational receptiveness in our polarized times
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The World Beyond the Horizon
Video recording: Cranfield’s Joe Nellis, Professor of Global Economy, prepares managers to adapt, innovate, and thrive in an uncertain future
RESEARCH
Employees Vs Company First
When managerial prosocial preferences conflict with company priorities
RESEARCH
Middle Managers: Heroes or Villains?
RSM's Professor Murat Tarakci examines the changing but still vital role of the middle manager in a new study
VIEWPOINT
Developing Emerging Leaders
Professor Julie McCarthy explains the thinking behind Rotman School of Management’s executive program for up-and-coming leaders
VIEWPOINT
Developing Senior Executives
Preparing Senior Executives to Meet the Multiple Challenges of Global Leadership
BOOK REVIEW
Abundance Leadership
Why an abundance mindset is key to leading a creative, high-performing, joyous team, or organization
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Delivering Genuine ESG
In a recent webinar Rotman’s Walid Hejazi and two senior ESG executives showed the true path to ESG—deflecting scepticism and debunking myths
BOOK REVIEW
A House for Leaders
Patrick Flesner’s engaging story reveals the essence of great leadership
VIDEO
Leadership for Good – Making It happen
WEBINAR RECORDING: Cranfield experts show how to better articulate your organization’s purpose and sustainability strategy and explain its relevance
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Causes and Cures of Burnout
Amy Bradley and Katherine Semler suggest steps to mitigate overwhelm and burnout at work
RESEARCH
Supporting Unconventional Entrepreneurs
A recent study argues for a holistic view of diversity and inclusion in the area of entrepreneurship
BOOK REVIEW
AI—The Human Dimension
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic reveals how AI is changing the way we live and the way we are
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The Evolution of Flexible Work: Where Do We Go from Here?
Webinar recording: Lively virtual panel with two of the UK’s leading authorities on flexible work
VIEWPOINT
Effective Executive Coaching
Rotman School of Management offers an invaluable template for the transformation from okay coach to truly great coach
WEBINAR
Extended Reality Check: A Guide to XR’s Business Implications
Webinar recording explores the wide-ranging business applications and implications of AR, VR, Metaverse, and other XR technologies
BOOK REVIEW
The Disruptive Economics of AI
Rotman economists, Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb, delve deep into the transformative power of artificial intelligence
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Valuing High Sensitivity at Work
Vlerick’s Karlien Vanderheyden highlights the benefits and challenges presented by individuals with sensory processing sensitivity
WEBINAR
The Do’s and Don’ts of Workplace Wellbeing
Watch our recorded webinar with Warwick Business School’s Dr Redzo Mujcic to learn how to institute a wellbeing strategy in your organization
RESEARCH
The Road to Meritocracy at Work
MIT Sloan and Berkeley Haas study reveals the barriers to achieving meritocracy in the workplace
BOOK REVIEW
Finding Positivity in Uncertainty
A thought-provoking guide to facing the unknown and turning uncertainty to innovation and gain
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Understanding Leadership Psychology
Professor Maja Djikic describes the thinking behind Rotman School of Management’s ‘Psychology of Leadership’ program
BOOK REVIEW
Surviving Jerks at Work
NYU psychology prof on toxic co-workers and what to do about them
BOOK REVIEW
Brave New Business Thinking
Former Rotman Dean, Roger Martin, offers a better way to think about fourteen essential aspects of management
RESEARCH
Addressing Severe Uncertainty
HEC Paris’ Professor Brian Hill offers valuable guidance at a time of economic, geopolitical, and environmental uncertainty
BOOK REVIEW
Leading Wisely in Turbulent Times
Leadership guru Kets de Vries lauds reflection and self-knowledge as the royal road to wisdom—the quality leaders need above all others
BOOK REVIEW
Feeling the Love—at Work
Amelia Dunlop’s guide to elevating human experience (and performance) at work by nurturing worth and growth through love
RESEARCH
Productive Meetings and Conversations at Work
With 71% of senior managers reporting their meetings to be unproductive new research offers a better way
VIEWPOINT
What’s Your Problem?
Warwick Business School’s Dr Umar Taj shows how tightly defined problem statements are key to using behavioral science in helping organizations ‘do’ culture change
VIEWPOINT
Developing High-Potential Executives at Orange
Orange Business Services places its trust in HEC Paris to train its high-potential employees
VIEWPOINT
Creating Customer Centric Leaders
How HEC Paris designs executive programs on customer centricity
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5 Capabilities for Strategic Flexibility
Vlerick Business School report describes the strategic flexibility needed to set a trajectory for growth in turbulent times and the skills required to develop it
CORPORATE PRACTICE
Developing Talent at MBDA Missile Systems
How MBDA partners with HEC Paris Executive Education to attract, nurture and retain top talent - a decade of trust and collaboration
WHITE PAPER
Responsible Capitalism Post-Pandemic
UVA Darden professors consider seven key issues businesses must address to be ready to help solve global environmental and societal issues
VIEWPOINT
Embracing Inclusive and Equitable Business
HEC Paris’ Marieke Huysentruyt explains why organizations should open their minds to inclusive business
VIEWPOINT
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
WEBINAR
The Great Training Robbery
In this video recording, Cranfield University experts explain how to avoid bad practices and learn five key impact drivers for executive education in your organization
BOOK REVIEW
Understanding the Dynamics of Power
An essential guide to how power works and how everyone can harness it to make change happen
VIEWPOINT
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
VIEWPOINT
The Curse of Knowledge: Why Experts Struggle to Explain Their Work
Senior Lecturer in Management Communication at MIT Sloan, Miro Kazakoff, explains why—even armed with insights based on sound data—leaders are still often failing to persuade their audience
VIEWPOINT
How to Master Upward Influence
Professor Connson Locke offers practical advice and tips on how to make our voices heard, influence people with more power than us―and create positive change
VIEWPOINT
5 Core Skills to Harness Data and Make Better Decisions
LSE’s Dr James Abdey considers five essential skills for professionals seeking to analyse data in more meaningful ways, communicate more effectively using data, and to make better, data-informed decisions
VIEWPOINT
The Power of Purposeful Leadership
How Purposeful Leadership is turning businesses into something bigger and better
VIEWPOINT
Building a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace
For HEC Paris Professor, Matteo Winkler, diversity is about headcount, whereas inclusiveness is making each head count
EVENT
Stimulating Radical Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Warwick Business School’s James Hayton helps corporate entrepreneurs find new markets, technologies, and business models
EVENT
The Supply Side: New Models in Executive Education
Impressions, insights, and takeaways from Day One of UNICON’s Directors’ Conference 2021, hosted by Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC)
EVENT
Apprenticeship Levy [Live Panel Event]
Upskilling UK Senior Leaders to Face Tomorrow’s Challenges
VIEWPOINT
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
VIEWPOINT
Digital Learning at HEC Paris
A new way of learning that is attracting more and more companies
BOOK REVIEW
Being Brave at Work
Darden’s Professor Jim Detert describes the value of courage in the workplace and how it can be developed through practice
VIEWPOINT
The Challenge of Data Transformation in Companies
HEC Paris’s Julien Lévy considers a central driver of the digital revolution
VIEWPOINT
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
BOOK REVIEW
Learn Digital Body Language
A timely guide to communicating with positive emotional connection in the digital space
VIEWPOINT
Post-pandemic Executive Education
In a recent letter to the deans of its business school members, Lise Hammergren, UNICON Board Chair, offers her observations on the current state of university-based executive education and a view of the future
VIEWPOINT
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
REPORT
A Net-Zero Covid Recovery Plan
Oxford SSEE publishes a net-zero emissions pandemic recovery plan
EVENT
Inclusion: Shaping Executive Education in the 4IR - Part One
Impressions, insights and takeaways from Day One of UNICON’s Team Development Conference 2020 hosted by Thunderbird School of Global Management
EVENT
Impact: Shaping Executive Education in the 4IR - Part Four
Impressions, insights and takeaways from Day Four of UNICON’s Team Development Conference 2020 hosted by Thunderbird School of Global Management
RESEARCH
A Downside to Great Expectations
Study shows how setting high performance expectations can often be counterproductive
WEBINAR
Inclusive Growth Leadership
Schulich’s Brett Richards and Renée Bazile-Jones explain how best to develop adaptability, inclusiveness, and growth in your organization, in this webinar recording
RESEARCH
Post-Pandemic Scenario Planning
IMD’s Michael Wade offers help to business leaders planning for an uncertain future
VIEWPOINT
10 Ways to Stop Bullying at Work
Even remote workers experience bullying—now is the time to stamp it out
VIEWPOINT
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
VIEWPOINT
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
RESEARCH
Avoiding a Social Media Firestorm
A recent study offers insights for detecting, preventing and mitigating online firestorms
VIEWPOINT
Post-Pandemic Leadership Challenge
St Gallen’s Prof Winfried Ruigrok describes the three-part strategic and human capital challenge posed by COVID-19
BOOK REVIEW
When More Is Not Better
Roger Martin’s new book considers how obsessive ‘economic efficiency’ is undermining democratic capitalism
VIEWPOINT
Making the Recovery Green
Hult Ashridge’s Matthew Gitsham and Julian Thompson discuss the potential for a post-pandemic economic recovery to have a green focus
VIEWPOINT
Rapid Innovation in Executive Education
MIT Sloan’s Peter Hirst considers the impact of the pandemic and how it will spur innovative approaches to executive learning
VIEWPOINT
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
VIEWPOINT
Negotiation Strategies Online and Offline
London Business School’s Professor Gillian Ku offers strategies and tactics, employing planning and cooperation, for conducting complex negotiations
PODCAST
Gig Leadership – Taking Turns at the Tiller
Professor Bernd Vogel concludes Henley’s recent series of essential podcasts with an introduction to the concept of rotating leadership where many people spend an interim period at the helm
VIEWPOINT
Coaching for Effective Leadership
Hult Ashridge’s Erik de Haan discusses leadership shadows, derailment, and the positive impact of executive coaching
WEBINAR
Explore vs. Exploit for Renewal and Recovery
Oxford Saïd’s Prof Marc Ventresca, looks to strategic innovation to re-imagine the firm—and the economy—re-balancing exploration and exploitation
WEBINAR
Negotiation Fundamentals for Business Leaders
In this webinar recording Gillian Ku, Professor of Organizational Behaviour at London Business School, offers practical insights on the strategy and science behind effective negotiations
VIEWPOINT
Innovation Readiness for the New Normal
Rotman School of Management’s Dr. Angèle Beausoleil on how to navigate barriers and stimulate the innovation needed to survive and thrive
WEBINAR
Leading an AI Boosted Business
In this recorded webinar, Georgetown University’s Professor Jose-Luis Guerrero explains how the nature of leadership and employment will be changed by greater use of AI in workplaces
NEWS
Resources from UK Business Schools for Lockdown and Beyond
Three useful online responses to the COVID-19 crisis from some of the UK’s leading business schools
VIEWPOINT
No More Nine-to-Five
Three Rotman experts discuss the challenges and opportunities for those leading a remote workforce
VIEWPOINT
Intersection of Data & Human Experience
Columbia’s Omar Besbes explains the importance of bringing human experience and domain expertise to data analytics
VIEWPOINT
Complex Drivers of Employee Motivation
Columbia’s Stephan Meier on why motivating employees is more complicated than you think
VIEWPOINT
Managing with Machines
Rotman School of Management’s Matthew Mitchell shows how AI and machine learning can transform complex business challenges into new opportunities
VIEWPOINT
Actors and Architects of Ethical Behavior
Creating a workplace culture conducive to making ethical decisions
VIEWPOINT
Executive Presence
MIT Sloan’s Rob Salafia explains the importance of executive presence and offers advice on how to develop it
VIEWPOINT
Aston Goes Multi-Disciplinary in a Complex World
Combining business school and university-wide expertise to support innovation, creativity and capability development in organizations
VIEWPOINT
Business for Society and the Environment
IMD's Frédéric Dalsace believes a new era of business engagement with CSR can mean real change
VIEWPOINT
Hypotheses not Predictions
Ryan Hamilton discusses the value of scientific thinking in business
VIEWPOINT
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)
VIEWPOINT
Coaching’s Bright Future
Henley’s Jonathan Passmore discusses the benefits and impact of individual and team coaching
BOOK REVIEW
Building China/West Business Relations
Barbara Xiaoyu Wang’s ‘Guanxi in the Western Context: Intra-Firm Group Dynamics and Expatriate Adjustment’ reviewed
VIEWPOINT
Black Swan Events in Project Management
Schulich’s Doug Boebinger asks: Do project managers adequately prepare for unforeseen events and their consequences?
VIEWPOINT
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
CORPORATE PRACTICE
Making Leaders
emlyon and Capgemini France collaborate to deliver an innovative customized executive program
VIEWPOINT
Nobody Does It Better
How family companies quietly outperform other companies (even in today’s disruptive environment)
RESEARCH
Value of Dyslexia in Organizations
A new EY report highlights the value of dyslexic capability and neuro-diversity for organizations of the future
EVENT
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
RESEARCH
Achieving a Circular Economy
Saïd Business School report offers a framework for systems change and a guide towards a circular economy for collaborating organizations
FROM THE MAGAZINE
Creating a Thinking Culture
Saïd’s Alison Nolan on creating the capacity to think well ‘In the Eye of the Storm’
NEWS
Behaviour Science for Organizations
WBS program shows how to apply behavioural science to transform your operations, culture and stakeholder relations
VIDEO
Ideas Around Ethical Leadership
Diverse perspectives were key to considering responsible leadership at the FRED Leadership Event in London
NEWS
Leadership Response - Military and Business
Approaches to leadership learning: Emory Executive Education's Ken Keen in conversation with IEDP
RESEARCH
Recruiting Expert Talent
A new study looks at the value of ‘exploding offers' and other techniques in securing top talent
RESEARCH
What About the Workers?
New study shows welcome positivity in the European workforce even in the UK as it prepares for Brexit
EVENT
Going Beyond Strategy: and Knowing How to Do It
Professor Patrick Reinmoeller keeps us abreast of the latest strategy thinking at a recent London thought-leadership event from Cranfield School of Management
VIEWPOINT
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
RESEARCH
Ambidexterity for an AI Future
How diverse top management teams and a focus on continuous improvement can win the present and the future
VIEWPOINT
Empowering the Family Enterprise
The Kellogg Center for Family Enterprise has a mission to support and sustain family businesses – the bedrock of the global economy
FROM THE MAGAZINE
Elevating Design into Strategy
6 factors crucial to raising design to a strategic level
VIEWPOINT
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
VIDEO
Business and Exec Ed for Social Good
UBC Sauder’s Robert Helsley discusses executive education, sustainable business, and innovation for positive social change with Roddy Millar
VIEWPOINT
Transformative Online Learning
INSEAD’s designs for highly personalized online learning to scale digital transformation
VIEWPOINT
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
VIEWPOINT
Dealing with Emotion at Work
HEC Paris’s Marc Beretta discusses the place of emotions in the workplace
RESOURCE
Learn to Lead Multi-Generations
Download Vanderbilt University’s compelling 'Learning Tool' for managers of multi-generational workforces
NEWS
Creativity and the Value of Failure
Cambridge Creativity Lab – an inspiring, stimulating and disruptive seminar for leading innovation
VIEWPOINT
Championing AI for Business
Professor Phanish Puranam on how organizations can develop the mindsets and skills to win with Artificial Intelligence
NEWS
Career-Defining Executive Education
Cranfield launches four experiential programs focused on the key transition points on the journey from executive to senior leadership
NEWS
Flipping the Learning Sequence
An innovative Rotman program focuses on context specific challenges rather than legions of leadership concepts
BOOK REVIEW
Women Leaders Vs Less Competent Men
New book laments the preponderance of incompetent men blocking the progress of women leaders and offers some solutions
VIEWPOINT
Re-building Trust in Business
What’s Love Got to Do with It? Insight from Henley Business School
RESEARCH
Moral Benefit of ‘Bringing Self to Work’
How bringing your whole self to work inspires ethical behaviour
NEWS
Raising the Bar in Healthcare Leadership
Schulich SEEC’s Masters Certificate promotes excellence in healthcare management practice
RESEARCH
Share Leadership to Spread Innovation
A new real-world study shows how shared leadership among managers and professionals can ensure that innovation diffuses more widely
EVENT
Developing Impactful Career Transitions
Join Cranfield’s complimentary leadership learning event at Chelsea Football Club on Tuesday, 26 February
VIEWPOINT
Beyond Greenwashing
Professor Michael Lennox on how companies must integrate environmental sustainability as a core value in their mission
VIEWPOINT
Executive Education Refreshed
Camilla Jonsson describes how Cranfield has shaped its general management portfolio to meet clients’ changing needs
NEWS
Communications in the Era of Fake News
RSM Masterclass explores the widening role for communication professionals in the evolving new media landscape
BOOK REVIEW
A Manifesto for Better Business
New book offers a powerful reply to the steadily increasing criticism of free market business
MASTERS
An Executive MBA Evolution
Bath University’s London/Bath/Silicon Valley-based EMBA aims to leverage Apprenticeship Levy funding to build leadership capability
VIEWPOINT
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
WHITE PAPER
Digital Culture Change
HEC Paris White Paper explains the cultural, rather than technological, changes needed to thrive in the digital era
WEBINAR
Performance Psychology [WEBINAR]
Watch IEDP's webinar with CCL’s Frédéric Funck on how to ‘Reclaim Control, and Find your Flow’ – for you and your team
REPORT
Corporate Learning Priorities 2018
The 2018 Pulse Report from FT │ IE Corporate Learning Alliance assesses changing attitudes to leadership development and executive education
BOOK REVIEW
Mastering Catastrophic Risk
Howard Kunreuther and Michael Useem show how companies are coping with disruption and offer profound insights on mitigating and managing risk
VIEWPOINT
Educating Executives to Change the World
HEC Paris’s ‘Tomorrow is Our Business’ campaign highlights the key themes for transformative business education
FROM THE MAGAZINE
A Tipping Point
Ilona Haaijer, Dave Tullett and Andrew White: A time for new leadership consciousness to emerge
FROM THE MAGAZINE
Moving On Up
Cranfield’s Kim Turnbull James, Susan Vinnicombe and Hilary Harris offer a gender perspective on practical inclusive talent management for senior roles
EVENT
Unblock the Female Leadership Pipeline
Join Cranfield, on 28th September, to help women in your organization reach the top [Free Workshop]
MASTERS
Executive Masters in Focus
IEDP Developing Leaders is increasing its coverage of world-class EMBAs and post-experience Masters
VIEWPOINT
Brexit Viewed as a Major Project
Addressing the project management skills needed to avoid operational chaos
VIEWPOINT
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
NEWS
Developing Project Managers
Schulich’s Masters Certificate builds project management skills and provides the foundation for a successful management career
RESEARCH
Embedded Mental Models
Understand the embedded mental models in your organization and identify the blind spots
Excellence in Executive Education
Henley’s ‘Higher Education Pathway’ program for the British Army takes top place at Chartered ABS’s Executive Education Awards
FROM THE MAGAZINE
Developing Leaders eMagazine - Issue 29
Overcoming Digital Overload: A Leadership Challenge
FROM THE MAGAZINE
Evolving Executive Education
Nathalie Lugagne, Associate Dean, HEC Paris Executive Education, in conversation
VIEWPOINT
Artificial Intelligence for Beginners
‘Prediction Machines’ a new book by three Rotman professors demystifies AI for the confused and worried
VIEWPOINT
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
VIEWPOINT
Addressing Workplace Bullying
Jeneva Patterson offers four revealing stories to inspire action for a zero tolerance corporate culture
VIEWPOINT
Connecting for Change in Public Services
One woman’s mission to revolutionise public service provision
WEBINAR
8 Ways HR Can Create Value
Join HR guru Dave Ulrich to learn how HR can deliver sustainable value to your organization — in a complimentary webinar on 24 May
MASTERS
An Empowering Epiphany
A conversation with HEC Paris Executive MBA alumnus, Anne Bougel, CEO of Labelium Canada
NEWS
Managing Risk and Performance
Schulich Masters Certificate focuses on balancing risk and reward to protect enterprise value
RESOURCE
How to Avoid Imposter Anxiety
Advice from Wharton on how leaders can find authenticity and counter imposter syndrome
VIEWPOINT
From Marketing Chief to CEO
ESADE professors offer 7 strategies for gaining promotion to the top job
VIEWPOINT
How Women Can Win at Negotiations
5 ways women can advocate for themselves at critical points in their careers
FROM THE MAGAZINE
4 Leadership Lessons from Jazz
Jazz offers many of the elements needed to lead successful projects and organizations
VIDEO
Looking Over the Crest of the Hill
A Conversation with Bruce Wiesner, Associate Dean for Executive Education, UBC Sauder School of Business.
RESEARCH
Lessons in Strategic Change
Professor Yasemin Kor investigates approaches to renewal in two disrupted industries
RESEARCH
CEOs Bring Harmony to Diversity
How bridge-building CEOs can unite diverse top management groups and boardrooms
RESEARCH
How Emotions Affect Strategy
The development of business strategy is as much about emotion as rational thought
VIEWPOINT
Ideabanks: Networking for Choice
Using loose network ties to seek new ideas and innovative solutions to complex problems
MASTERS
A Female Leader in the Gulf
A profile of London Business School EMBA alumnus - Amelie Zegmout
MASTERS
A Marathon of Learning
An IMD Executive MBA describes how his EMBA experience opened up new worlds
VIEWPOINT
Is Strategy a Relevant Concept?
Gérard de Maupeou explains why strategic thinking is still a relevant managerial discipline in a volatile world
BOOK REVIEW
Winning Against Business Threats
Rotman professors on anticipating, responding to, and surviving strategic threats to your business - and thriving
REPORT
Coaching and Mentoring
An important report into the methods and outcomes of coaching and mentoring in organizations across Europe
WHITE PAPER
Developing Forgotten Middle Managers
10 top tips for organizations looking to create a program for its forgotten people
RESEARCH
Managing Creativity in Organizations
How companies need to control the supply and demand of creativity
MASTERS
Developing Healthcare Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneur and Columbia EMBA alumnus David Kim is making healthcare more accessible and convenient
FROM THE MAGAZINE
Developing Leaders eMagazine Issue 27
Access the full magazine below. ‘From Apprenticeship to Mastership’
RESOURCE
Digital Learning Journeys [eBook]
An exploration of online learning being pioneered at Vanderbilt Executive Education. Download the complimentary eBook here
REPORT
Meeting Sustainable Development Goals
Download this new report from IIRC to help your business meet its sustainable development commitments
VIEWPOINT
Best Practice Online Learning
Vlerick’s Benjamin de Wulf discusses the new era of possibility for corporate learning with IEDP
VIEWPOINT
Developing More Responsible Leaders
The role of immersive ‘corporate international service learning’
WEBINAR
Women’s Leadership Roadblocks
Watch the recording of Prof Kimberly Pace’s webinar to avoid the roadblocks women leaders too often encounter
VIEWPOINT
Moving up to Leadership
How to approach the first 100 days in a new position ― lessons for business and politics
NEWS
Being an Enterprise Executive
Understand the mindsets of all company stakeholders and have an ‘outside-in’ perspective to be a true leader says Prof Ray Reilly
NEWS
Ethical Leadership in Business
Developing morally responsible leaders and gaining competitive advantage
RESEARCH
Corporate Learning in 2017
A new report from FT │ IE Corporate Learning Alliance offers a series of global perspectives on corporate learning and leadership development
VIEWPOINT
Six Qualities of Good Leadership
Six traits that get to the heart of what makes effective ethical leaders
VIEWPOINT
Women’s Leadership Ecosystem
How Smith College Executive Education is upping the ante in leadership development for women
NEWS
Non-Executive Directors | Broadening Horizons
Bath’s NED program seeks to produce a new diversity of highly capable, high-performing NEDs
VIEWPOINT
Leadership: Mind, Body and Spirit
Understanding the holistic way humans lead in sports, business and the military
RESEARCH
MIT Entrepreneurs and the Innovation Economy
The global impact of innovation entrepreneurship is evident at MIT
RESEARCH
Stewardship, Performance and Innovation
Introducing the ‘Stewardship Climate Scale’ as a tool for measuring corporate culture
RESEARCH
Leading through Digital Disruption
4 competencies for effective leadership in an environment of digital transformation
RESEARCH
The Dynamics of Change
The importance of strategic framing when selecting routines for change
BOOK REVIEW
Work Without Stress
How resilience can counter stress and how leaders can instill resilience in their employees
MASTERS
Inspired to Manage His Own Destiny
The leadership journey of HEC Paris EMBA alumnus Phil Waknell, Chief Inspiration Officer, Ideas on Stage
RESEARCH
Value Creation from Big Data
4 capabilities companies need to harness big data to create value
VIEWPOINT
Leadership Skills for a New Age
The digital revolution, diverse global workforces, and Gen Y aspirations challenge how leaders lead today
FROM THE MAGAZINE
Developing Leaders eMagazine Issue 25
Access the full magazine below. ‘Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age’
RESEARCH
Women, Negotiation, and Career Advancement
Overcoming the Barriers that Prevent Women Excelling in Negotiation
VIEWPOINT
Engaging with Generation Y
How virtual-world-savvy millennials benefit from face-to face communication and off-site meetings and events
VIEWPOINT
Non-Executive Director’s Role
What companies and potential NEDs need to know to establish their objectives and duties
VIEWPOINT
Humans Vs Machines – Mind the Skills Gap
Advances in technology will bring structural unemployment unless we fill the skills gap
WHITE PAPER
Harnessing Talent - Your Own and Others’
Even the most talented people, Einstein for instance, only succeed when they play to their strengths
VIEWPOINT
Employee Engagement and Sustainability
Sustainability engages employees/Engaged employees create sustainable companies
RESEARCH
Respect Boosts Creativity at Work
"Organizations are fertile terrains for interrelating that can either build or destroy human accomplishments including creativity."
REPORT
Agility Trumps Strategy in the Digital Age
Leadership agility is the prerequisite for digital transformation says a recent report from IMD's Centre for Digital Business Transformation
VIDEO
How Experiential Learning Can Drive Innovation
The confidence to fully embrace the innovation process comes from experience
VIEWPOINT
Leadership When Things Go Wrong
Strategies for handling the mistakes that beset all organizations at some time
VIDEO
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
VIEWPOINT
A Neuroscience Perspective on the US Presidential Campaign
Reflections on what is happening to human energy in the US Presidential elections
NEWS
Developing Innovative Principled Leaders at MIT
MIT's unique Advanced Management Program - What makes it so different?
VIEWPOINT
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
RESOURCE
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business [Chapter Download]
The first chapter of Professor Erin Meyer's book on navigating the complexities of cultural difference - available to download
RESEARCH
How Male Middle Managers Can Boost Gender Diversity
Gender inclusivity in the workplace implies proactive engagement from both sexes
RESEARCH
Values, Spirituality and Organizational Culture
The Challenges of Leadership in Tomorrowland - A long read by Simon L. Dolan of ESADE Business School
VIDEO
Systemizing Business Model Innovation (BMI)
A BMI prototype that can drive business performance
RESEARCH
Is Design Thinking the New TQM?
The critical importance of innovation as well as 'quality' to corporate sustainability
VIEWPOINT
Using Carrots to Incentivise Innovation
Designing an optimal and strategic incentives system is key, says Singapore Management University Professor Thomas Menkhoff
BOOK REVIEW
Become the Best through Values-Based Leadership
Best self. Best team. Best Partner. Best investment. Best citizen.
VIEWPOINT
Big Questions, Big Data and Disruptive Innovation
Hal Gregersen introduces ‘catalytic questioning’
RESEARCH
Top 3 Challenges For First-Time Managers
Organizations need to invest in leadership development for first-time managers
VIEWPOINT
A Conversation with Monica McGrath
Vice Dean, Aresty Institute of Executive Education, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
RESEARCH
The Art of Apologising
“Sorry seems to be the hardest word” sang Elton John – but new research co-authored by Cambridge Judge Business School’s David de Cremer now suggests that it really needn’t be.
BOOK REVIEW
The Leadership Shadow: How to Avoid the Dark Side
"This book, rich with case studies, is a deeply thoughtful and illuminating read; a must for would-be stable leaders, executive coaches, and leadership developers everywhere."
RESOURCE
12 Keys to Collaborative Organizational Culture
This White Paper from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School explains why collaboration often fails in organizations, particularly those where virtual-communication and multiple locations are the norm
VIEWPOINT
10 Ways Mindfulness Makes Better Meetings
Focus clearly to make more effective contributions
VIEWPOINT
Corporate Culture Change: Why Small Details Matter
The Power of Corporate Culture — and How to Harness It
VIEWPOINT
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
VIEWPOINT
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
RESEARCH
Executive Development: A Global Perspective
How companies can align their talent management efforts both within their own organizations and with businesses around the world
VIEWPOINT
Future Leaders and the Trouble with Testosterone
How do we modify behaviours that are so biological in their basis?
RESEARCH
Employee Engagement: Engaging the CEO
Releasing the full potential of people at work to drive organizational growth
VIEWPOINT
Margaret Thatcher: An Appraisal of Leadership Style
On the death of the UK's first female prime minister
RESEARCH
Adapting to China’s Changing Business Climate
As it’s export-led economy moves to be one where domestic demand is an engine for expansion
VIEWPOINT
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.
VIEWPOINT
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.
VIEWPOINT
Attention - I feel, therefore I think I am
Different parts of the brain get engaged by the different kinds of attention
VIEWPOINT
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.
VIEWPOINT
Brain Gain: Dopamine, Emotions and Behaviour Change
Individuals trust what their own brains tell them from their own experience in preference to what any authority, however august, says. That is what makes shifting policy into social action so difficult.
RESEARCH
From Rumour to Fact - A Question of Certainty
Lessons on managing communications more effectively from Apple and McDonalds
VIEWPOINT
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.
VIEWPOINT
Embedded vs Bolt-on Sustainability
Incorporating environmental, health, and social value into core business activities
RESEARCH
Servant Leader Across Cultures
Fons Trompenaars on the organization as a cultural context for leaders
VIEWPOINT
Shakespeare's Lessons for Leadership
Has any mind brooded so long and so deeply on the subject of leadership as Shakespeare? Leaders have much to learn from the Bard
NEWS
Leadership Double Whammy for Michigan Ross
Best in leadership development and alumnus top in the list of managent gurus
VIEWPOINT
The Purpose of Leadership
Patrick Faniel, Managing Director of Management Centre Europe (MCE), discusses his new book, ‘What Leadership Is For’ with IEDP
BOOK REVIEW
Transforming the Business School MBA
MIT Sloan professor argues for a new values-driven MBA rooted less in traditional capitalist principles
RESEARCH
Innovation Genes - The 5 key discovery skills
A five-year study by leading professors from INSEAD, Harvard and Brigham Young University have identified five essential competences/abilities required for leading innovation - although as Hal Gregersen of INSEAD notes "you do not need all of the to be great."
RESOURCE
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