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BOOK REVIEW
The Trillion Dollar 'Con’ in Consultancy
Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington debunk the myth that consultancies add real value and extol the learning organization
BOOK REVIEW
AI—The Human Dimension
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic reveals how AI is changing the way we live and the way we are
VIEWPOINT
Effective Executive Coaching
Rotman School of Management offers an invaluable template for the transformation from okay coach to truly great coach
FROM THE MAGAZINE
Developing Leaders Quarterly
Developing Leaders is now available on subscription in print and online formats
BOOK REVIEW
Navigating to Equity and Inclusion
Georgetown’s Ella Washington maps the corporate journey from good intentions to truly establishing a diverse and inclusive workplace
VIEWPOINT
Valuing High Sensitivity at Work
Vlerick’s Karlien Vanderheyden highlights the benefits and challenges presented by individuals with sensory processing sensitivity
BOOK REVIEW
Defending Human Centred Innovation
Mauro Porcini’s impassioned plea for people-centred, world-changing innovation
RESEARCH
The Road to Meritocracy at Work
MIT Sloan and Berkeley Haas study reveals the barriers to achieving meritocracy in the workplace
VIEWPOINT
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
VIEWPOINT
Understanding Leadership Psychology
Professor Maja Djikic describes the thinking behind Rotman School of Management’s ‘Psychology of Leadership’ program
WEBINAR
Supply Chain Disruption: From The Back Office To The Boardroom [ROUNDTABLE]
Video recording: A virtual roundtable and open Q&A, focused on four crucial elements of today’s global supply chain debate: talent, leadership, strategy, and resilience
BOOK REVIEW
Brave New Business Thinking
Former Rotman Dean, Roger Martin, offers a better way to think about fourteen essential aspects of management
RESEARCH
Pros and Cons of Face-to-Face
LSE study reveals that effective communication, essential to all group success, is usually best face-to-face—but not always
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
RESEARCH
The Impact of Executive Education
Dr Wendy Shepherd discusses the unique research behind Cranfield Executive Development’s Annual Impact Report
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
A Blueprint for Smart Decisions
Rotman School of Management’s Anne Bowers discusses how to develop a strategy for competitive advantage
VIEWPOINT
Developing High-Potential Executives at Orange
Orange Business Services places its trust in HEC Paris to train its high-potential employees
RESEARCH
How Future Fit Companies Excel
Research from Vodafone and LSE reveals a close correlation between being ‘fit for the future’, commercial performance, and social impact
WHITE PAPER
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
VIEWPOINT
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
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
RESEARCH
Equality Drive by Women in Finance
A WIBF and LSE’s framework for promoting gender equality in the finance sector offers lessons for all
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
RESEARCH
The Return of Craft Work
New research shows how ‘craft’ as a way of work organization can offer solutions to today’s workplace challenges
BOOK REVIEW
Understanding the Dynamics of Power
An essential guide to how power works and how everyone can harness it to make change happen
REPORT
Redesigning and Reimagining Executive Education
Impressions, insights and takeaways from UNICON’s Annual Workshop 2021, hosted by the University of St. Gallen’s Executive School of Management, Technology and Law (ES-HSG)
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
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
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
FROM THE MAGAZINE
Developing Leaders eMagazine - Issue 37
Scoping the way forward for executive education — how the pandemic has accelerated changes already afoot in the corporate learning sector and what the future holds
VIEWPOINT
Building a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace
For HEC Paris Professor, Matteo Winkler, diversity is about headcount, whereas inclusiveness is making each head count
REPORT
Developing Future Leaders - New Report
A new report from IEDP highlights the critical skills needed in business today―and the latest routes to acquiring them
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
Financial Analysis for HR Professionals
A new Rotman initiative aims to give HR executives enough financial savvy to contribute effectively at the highest level
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
BOOK REVIEW
The Imaginative Organization
How to unleash new ideas, creativity and innovation to create your company’s future
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
RESOURCE
Partnership for Sustainability
An exemplary learning collaboration between Michigan Ross School of Business, The University of Michigan’s ERB Institute and The Dow Chemical Company
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
VIEWPOINT
Embracing Change
Aston’s Corporate Client Solutions team embraced the change of a pandemic-enforced pivot to virtual. The lessons they learned show a path to flourishing results in customised executive development delivered online
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
Applying Behavioural Science
An authoritative guide to becoming a behaviourally informed organization
REPORT
A Net-Zero Covid Recovery Plan
Oxford SSEE publishes a net-zero emissions pandemic recovery plan
REPORT
Stimulating Strategic Philanthropy
Cambridge Judge Business School report calls for philanthropists in the Global North and Global South to collaborate better beyond the pandemic
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
WEBINAR
Algorithmic Business Thinking
MIT Sloan Executive Education’s Paul McDonagh-Smith explains how algorithms and the technologies behind can drive your organization forward
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
WEBINAR
Building (Virtual) Presence
Rotman’s Maja Djikic shows how to build trustworthiness and rapport through virtual communication [webinar recording]
VIEWPOINT
10 Ways to Stop Bullying at Work
Even remote workers experience bullying—now is the time to stamp it out
WEBINAR
Online Learning and Leadership
From ‘Doing’ Leadership Online, to ‘Being’ an Online Leader: How to Achieve Deeper Learning Levels in the Emerging Reality [Webinar recording]
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
VIEWPOINT
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
VIEWPOINT
Post-Pandemic Leadership Challenge
St Gallen’s Prof Winfried Ruigrok describes the three-part strategic and human capital challenge posed by COVID-19
VIEWPOINT
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
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
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
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
The Purpose of Answers
Oxford’s Educational Approach for the 2020s: A Conversation with Andrew White and Caroline Williams of Oxford Saïd Business School
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
BOOK REVIEW
Economics Beyond the Pandemic
A review of ‘Economics in the Age of COVID-19’ - the new book from Rotman School of Management professor Joshua Gans
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
EVENT
Virtual Roundtable: Emerging from the Crisis
View a recording of this thought-provoking virtual roundtable—when leading voices from the sector discussed talent development in a New Normal
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
PODCAST
My Boss is a Robot – Help!
Ben Laker opens Henley’s new series of essential podcasts with his, mostly positive, perspective on 2030’s predicted half-human half-digital workforce
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
NEWS
Executive Education for After the Crisis
Schulich SEEC suggests now is the time to build a bridge to your future with executive education
VIEWPOINT
Intersection of Data & Human Experience
Columbia’s Omar Besbes explains the importance of bringing human experience and domain expertise to data analytics
VIEWPOINT
How B2B Marketing is Learning from B2C
B2B marketing practice will follow the lead set by B2C marketers in the years ahead
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
RESEARCH
Developing Mindsets for Growth
Hult Ashridge’s Nadine Page explains why growth mindsets really matter, and how we can develop them in individuals, teams and organizations
VIEWPOINT
Executive Presence
MIT Sloan’s Rob Salafia explains the importance of executive presence and offers advice on how to develop it
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
Apprenticeship Levy with Impact
How Aston University is developing middle-management competence with the Apprenticeship Levy – and without
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
FinTech in Large Organizations
RSM’s Daniel Liebau on how to make innovation and change happen
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
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
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