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10 Challenges of Senior Leadership
The main challenges facing today’s business leaders are analysed and addressed in research from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)
WEBINAR
Human-Centered Leadership in Times of Transformation
Video Recording: Four experts from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) discuss the important benefits of empathetic leadership in times of change
BOOK REVIEW
Time for Distributed Leadership
Up-beat guide heralds the end of traditional command-and-control and ushers in a new human-powered leadership
RESEARCH
Generative AI and Jobs
Recent research suggests the post-AI job scene will be less dire than many have envisaged but training and preparation are key
VIEWPOINT
How to Transition to the C-Suite
5 key capabilities for a successful shift to the C-level, from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)®
WEBINAR
AI and the Changing World of Work
Video recording: Cranfield experts examine the transformative impact of AI on workplace skills, and talent management
BOOK REVIEW
Beating Burnout at Work
An authoritative antidote to executive stress, overwhelm, and burnout
RESEARCH
Boardroom Diversity Revisited
A recent study questions received opinion on the business case for executive racial/ethnic diversity
VIEWPOINT
AI Enhanced Action Learning
emlyon business school’s custom-training program director, Gilles Basset, reveals the potential for generative AI to improve executive education programs
BOOK REVIEW
Realistic Responsible Business
NYU Stern’s Alison Taylor shows how business leaders can take a stance for social and environmental good while maintaining commercial focus
RESEARCH
Is Your Workforce Reinvention Ready?
Gallup and PWC stress the importance of preparing employees for the AI era
VIEWPOINT
10 Leadership Trends for 2024
Thom Dennis highlights ten characteristics leaders should aim to foster for the year ahead
RESEARCH
How Team Member Selection Goes Wrong
New study reveals how perceptions of competence versus interpersonal skills can be inaccurately judged when choosing team members
VIEWPOINT
Delivering Strategic Change
MIT Sloan’s Dr Elsbeth Johnson has developed a powerful new step-by-step framework for one of the toughest endeavors in management: leading strategic organizational change
WEBINAR
From Micro-Credentials to Masters
Video recording: Cranfield experts consider how executive learning is being rewired to fit the changing world of work
WEBINAR
3 Tensions Global Leaders Must Resolve
Video recording: Two experts from CCL to consider the challenges faced by today’s senior leaders
BOOK REVIEW
Sustainable Performance Leadership
A new guide helps businesses navigate towards net zero and social good with real impact and high performance
BOOK REVIEW
Benefit from a Good Jobs Strategy
MIT’s Zeynep Ton’s new book shows how giving people ‘good jobs’ is better for business and how businesses should go about creating them
RESEARCH
Empowering the Circular Economy
A new short paper proposes a better definition the Circular Economy to help it contribute to sustainability
VIEWPOINT
Integrated Thinking and Reporting
The ‘Integrated Reporting’ movement, spearheaded by the IFRS Foundation, demonstrates ‘Integrated Thinking’ in action
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
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Leading Strategy Execution
John O’Dwyer and Kelly Murumets discuss project and strategy execution, the focus of Rotman’s timely GettingItDone® workshop
BOOK REVIEW
Fostering Intentional Senior Leaders
The Chancellor of the University of Toronto offers a profound and timely model for upgrading corporate leadership to meet the challenges of our times
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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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Time to Scale Leadership Development
CCL experts suggest 5 key considerations for reimagining leadership development for our turbulent times
WEBINAR
An Executive’s Guide to Social Media: 7 Strategic Purposes of Social
Watch digital marketing and social media guru Annmarie Hanlon in this webinar that will update and upgrade the way you view and use social media in your organization
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Should Employers Help with Inflation?
IMD’s Anand Narasimhan offers advice to employers on helping employees through the cost-of-living crisis
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People Analytics: Applied AI
Five examples of effective use of people analytics at work, from St. Gallen University
WEBINAR
Intentional Leadership: 8 Key Capabilities of Successful Leaders [Webinar recording]
Rose Patten, Chancellor of the University of Toronto, in an interview and event focusing on the eight capabilities of resilient and intentional leaders
RESEARCH
Lifelong Learning and University-based Business Schools
New analysis for executive education leaders - joint research report from AACSB, IEDP, and UNICON
VIEWPOINT
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
RESEARCH
Keeping AI Ethical in Business
Oxford Saïd study offers a guide to maintaining ethical boundaries in the use of artificial intelligence
BOOK REVIEW
Helping Women Leaders Thrive
Female leaders at Simmons University and Deloitte US offer advice to women who have arrived at the top but are struggling to thrive
BOOK REVIEW
Accountability for the Good and Bad
New book shows how ‘accountability’ in its true sense can unlock personal and team performance
WEBINAR
Organisational Resilience: Practical Steps You Can Start Tomorrow
Webinar recording: How might we prepare and adapt to challenges and disruptions to survive, prosper and be future-ready? Where do we start?
BOOK REVIEW
Executive Education Post-Pandemic
A positive assessment of the changing face of corporate and executive learning provision post-pandemic and beyond
VIEWPOINT
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
WEBINAR
Healthcare Leadership Development for a pandemic world – and beyond!
Oxford Saïd’s Dr Mark O’Brien and vastly experienced healthcare leader Dato Dr Jacob Thomas discuss the critical role of healthcare leadership development, in this recoded webinar
BOOK REVIEW
Creating Net Positive Business
Paul Polman and Andrew Winston offer a uniquely authoritative guide to doing good business while doing good for the planet and society
WEBINAR
Retaining Key Talent
Cranfield experts discuss how to use the UK Apprenticeship Levy to counter the current retention crisis and optimise corporate talent strategies in this recorded webinar
VIEWPOINT
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
VIEWPOINT
Impact Drivers vs. Impact Destroyers
In revisiting HBR’s challenging 2016 article ‘The Great Training Robbery’, Cranfield University experts Wendy Shepherd and Mark Threlfall reveal seven bad practices in executive development that stifle impact—and five key drivers for improving it
RESEARCH
Cultivating Gratitude at Work
Research linking gratitude with prosocial, helpful behaviour highlights mindfulness as a way to achieve this at work
VIEWPOINT
Progress in Gender Equality
Gender parity may be some way off but the Swiss example shows that progress is being made
BOOK REVIEW
Avoiding Collaboration Overload
A perceptive guide to working smarter and staying on top in our ‘always-on’, highly-collaborative world
VIEWPOINT
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"
BOOK REVIEW
The Accelerated Future of Work
Jeff Schwartz highlights opportunity, resilience and growth in an optimistic guide to the disrupted future of work
BOOK REVIEW
Playing a Longer Game
Dorie Clark’s new book shows how to be a long-term thinker in a short-term world and why it matters
VIEWPOINT
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
VIDEO
People Strategy 2030: Understanding Your Future Workforce
In this recorded panel event Cranfield School of Management experts discuss the future of work and workforce management
VIEWPOINT
Training Professional Managers
The Aston Professional Managers' Award continues to raise the skill level of the UK’s emerging managers and young professionals
REPORT
FT CLO Survey Sees Growth for Exec Ed
Training budgets set to maintain and increase to meet new requirements in the workforce, while Chief Learning Officers focus on return on investment, change management, and diversity - reveals new FT report
EVENT
Collaboration: New Models in Executive Education
Impressions, insights and takeaways from Day Three of UNICON’s Directors’ Conference 2021 hosted by Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC)
BOOK REVIEW
How to Compete with the Digital Giants
A new guide shows how customer focused strategies can enable businesses to compete successfully in the era of diverse markets and digital giants
EVENT
Being a Resilient Leader
A new Rotman program provides practical tools to support hard-pressed leaders and their organizations through hard times
RESEARCH
Leadership Genesis
IMD study reveals four ‘origin stories’ about how leaders came to leadership and shows how these define the way they enact the role
RESEARCH
Embracing Employee Activism
Hult Ashridge’s Megan Reitz and John Higgins identify the do’s and don’ts in harnessing activist sentiment to achieve good organizational outcomes
BOOK REVIEW
Better, Simpler Strategy
Harvard's Felix Oberholzer-Gee presents a strategic framework for a post-pandemic trajectory to growth and financial success
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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
VIEWPOINT
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?’
WEBINAR
Developing a Diversity Strategy
Georgetown’s Brooks Holtom offers an evidence-based guide to fostering diversity in your organization
VIEWPOINT
Time to Embrace the Internet of Things
Ruby Grey explains how the Internet of Things (IoT) will drastically transform how we do business
REPORT
Reporting Enterprise Value That Matters
The IIRC, a champion of integrated reporting, offers a financial disclosure standard to address climate change
EVENT
Intelligence: Shaping Executive Education in the 4IR - Part Two
Impressions, insights and takeaways from Day Two of UNICON’s Team Development Conference 2020 hosted by Thunderbird School of Global Management
FROM THE MAGAZINE
Developing Leaders eMagazine - Issue 36
How to build leadership capacity and resilience for the enormous challenges of the post-pandemic world
RESEARCH
Innovation Despite Constraints
Contrary to conventional wisdom some level of constraint helps drive innovation
EVENT
Intersectionality and Inclusion
How do you build inclusivity into your organization’s agenda? A new series from Oxford Saïd Business School explores
WEBINAR
Lessons from Behavioural Economics
Aston University's Matt Olczak, Maria Kozlovskaya reveal what behavioural economics teaches us about the COVID-19 pandemic and our disrupted business world [Webinar recording]
BOOK REVIEW
A Crisis Leadership Playbook
Gary Burnison, Kornferry CEO, offers a timely guide to accelerating through the ‘crisis curve’
BOOK REVIEW
Negotiating the Sweet Spot
Kellogg School of Management’s Leigh Thompson offers practical negotiation strategies for use in relationships, workplaces and online
RESEARCH
Without Team Buy-In Diversity Fails
RSM study shows how diversity initiatives must be managed to deliver performance improvements
VIEWPOINT
Kind, Calm, and Safe: Leading in a Time of Covid-19
Are there some early leadership lessons we might draw from comparatively successful outcomes in the global pandemic? If so, then the work of Dr Bonnie Henry, Provincial Health Officer for British Columbia, Canada, is a good place to look
BOOK REVIEW
Living a Values-Based Life
A timely book from Kellogg School of Management’s Harry Kraemer shows how to find purpose and satisfaction in your 168-hour week
RESEARCH
Social Silencing at Work
Hult Ashridge’s Professor Debbie Bayntun-Lees enquires into the injustice of being ‘silenced’ in everyday conversation, as often experienced by women in the workplace
VIEWPOINT
Leadership for a Nimble Response
MIT Sloan’s Deborah Ancona explains why ‘distributive leadership’ is need for organizations to offer nimble responses to today’s unprecedented challenges
VIEWPOINT
Building Back Better After the Pandemic
Rotman School of Management professors Sarah Kaplan and Soo Min Toh look to the future for organizations
RESEARCH
Welcoming Neurodiversity at Work
Hult Ashridge’s Emma Day-Duro considers the benefits ‘neurodiverse’ employees can bring to an organization, and how they can best be supported
WEBINAR
Tactics to Improve Diversity & Inclusion
Georgetown McDonough’s Professor Ella Washington offers new, actionable, tactics for improving diversity and inclusion efforts
NEWS
Virtual Sessions for Your Organization with Columbia Business School Faculty
Let Columbia Business School’s world-renowned faculty help your organization address the challenges brought by the COVID-19 lockdown
VIEWPOINT
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
RESEARCH
How Engaged Is Your Team?
Dr. Amy Bradley introduces a research-based diagnostic for assessing employee engagement at team level—created by Hult Ashridge Executive Education
RESEARCH
Creating a Sense of Belonging
Hult Ashridge’s Lee Waller on why some employees feel a sense of not belonging at work and how to create a culture of belonging
NEWS
Resources for Lockdown and Beyond: US & Canada
Highlighting four particularly useful online responses to the COVID-19 crisis from leading business schools in the US and Canada
VIEWPOINT
No More Business as Usual
A conversation with Tim Wray, Professor of Practice and Director of Executive Education at Warwick Business School
RESEARCH
Organisational Learning After the Crisis
Download Warwick Business School’s ‘Organisational Learning Report 2020’
NEWS
The Management-Leadership Shift
Professor Diana Cordova on the critical thinking behind Kellogg’s new Enterprise Leadership Program
WEBINAR
Strategy Visualization [Webinar]
Watch this Webinar with Vanderbilt professor David Nour on learn how to deliver information visually in a clear and concise manner
VIEWPOINT
Embracing Change to Drive Innovation
Columbia professor Angela Lee reveals the root causes of resistance to change
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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
BOOK REVIEW
Speaking Up and Taking Heed
The vital importance to saying what needs to be said and hearing what needs to be heard
RESOURCE
An Open Strategy Toolkit
A complimentary ‘Toolkit’ from Warwick Business School to help you develop a winning open strategy for your enterprise
RESEARCH
What Exactly is Team Coaching?
Henley Business School’s Rebecca Jones defines the key components of team coaching
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Strategy for a Messy Tomorrow
John Kim on strategy development and implementation for an unpredictable business world
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Leadership for Industry 4.0
The 4th Industrial Revolution will require a major shift in management outlook and performance—a step up from ‘Level 1’ to ‘Level 5’, says Prof Vlatka Hlupic
NEWS
The Data-Driven Mine
Schulich SEEC program encourages the successful use of data analytics in the mining industry
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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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Inclusion by Design
Rotman’s Geoff Leonardelli explains the thinking behind an innovative program promoting diversity and inclusion
VIEWPOINT
The Sisterhood Posse
Women championing women for leadership roles with RSM's Dianne Bevelander
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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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See, Be and Make the Change
Emerging World helps the Kuwaiti Petroleum Corporation get future-ready through human development
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Mindsets for Change
IMD’S Robert Hooijberg discusses how to develop mindsets for enabling organizational change
RESEARCH
Leaders Fit for the Future
What do today’s leaders wish they’d known – and what aspiring leaders of tomorrow need to develop now
RESOURCE
Five Ways to Be a Better Coach
Download Vanderbilt University’s essential 'Learning Tool' to hone your coaching skills
VIEWPOINT
Andragogy’s Emotional Element
Understanding the emotional element in andragogy is the key to adult education
VIEWPOINT
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
REPORT
Getting Women on Boards
Cranfield’s 'Female FTSE Board Report' has good news but raises concerns about ‘tick box’ attitudes
NEWS
Leadership Lessons from Neuroscience
MIT Sloan’s Tara Swart applies the latest learning from cognitive science to leadership development
RESOURCE
Overcome Women Leaders’ Roadblocks
Download Vanderbilt University’s compelling 'Learning Tool' for aspiring women leaders
BOOK REVIEW
Questions Are the Answer
Hal Gregersen on why dramatically better solutions first need better questions – and how to find them
RESEARCH
The Art of the Strategic Pivot
How enterprises can change direction when facts dictate and keep their key stakeholders onside
VIEWPOINT
Profit Plus People and Planet
St. Gallen’s Prof. Dr. Karolin Frankenberger on bringing responsible business into current business models
VIEWPOINT
Pros & Cons of Blind Recruitment
St. Gallen’s Gudrun Sander considers whether using anonymous job ads and blind-profiles is a good way to foster diversity
RESEARCH
Creating a Workforce for an AI Future
A study of student attitudes to a career shared with machines is a wake-up call for educators and employers
VIEWPOINT
The Entrepreneurial Corporation
CJBS’s Jeremy Hutchison-Krupat discusses how organizations can gain and maintain an entrepreneurial orientation
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5 Keys to a Cybersafe Culture
MIT Sloan’s cybersecurity research team reveal five effective practices to make cybersecurity a way of life
VIEWPOINT
Leadership Improvisation
Goizueta’s Allison Gilmore on using improvisation, the comedian’s stock-in-trade, to create leadership resilience
RESOURCE
A Performance Psychology Toolkit
Download this complimentary toolkit from CCL’s Frédéric Funck to build mental resilience and unleash your full leadership potential
NEWS
Headspring Executive Development
FT and IE Business School launch ‘Headspring’ to strengthen their position in the executive development sector
NEWS
Building Project Management Skills
SEEC’s Masters Certificate provides the foundation for individual management careers and a core competency for organizations
VIEWPOINT
The Dynamics of Innovation
Etienne Krieger considers the competing forces of customer-oriented and scientist-oriented innovation
RESEARCH
Causes and Cures of Disengagement
Research into the barriers to team engagement reveals nuances of disengagement and suggests some remedies
RESEARCH
Gender Approaches to Decision Making
Leadership decision making and the implications of male ‘thinking’ and female ‘feeling’ approaches
WEBINAR
Family Enterprise Success and Survival
Watch as MIT’s John Davis delivers this high-level webinar with IEDP and learn a new formula for the long-term survival and success of family enterprises
FROM THE MAGAZINE
Developing Leaders eMagazine - Issue 31
Sustainable Business and Responsible Leadership
VIEWPOINT
Executive Education’s Enduring Value
The aims and experiences of four General Management Program participants highlight the value of business school exec ed
VIEWPOINT
Perfect Your Leadership Story
What’s Your Leadership Story? Make Sure You Tell the One You Intend
NEWS
Smart City Leadership
SEEC sets municipal leaders on a SMART path to future development and growth
RESEARCH
Agenda for Executive Development
St. Gallen Executive School investigates the top management agenda for executive learning and development (L&D)
VIEWPOINT
Using Pretotypes to Drive Innovation
IMD’s route to transforming technology into working solutions quickly
VIEWPOINT
Upside to an Ageing Workforce
London Business School’s Professor Andrew Scott reveals a ‘longevity dividend’ that companies can unlock to boost productivity
RESEARCH
Bias Against Women Leaders
New research on sex roles shows people are more prejudiced against women leaders than statistics might indicate
VIDEO
2 Drivers of Gender Inequality at Work
Columbia’s Prof Mabel Abraham highlights two causes of gender inequality in the workplace
VIEWPOINT
Developing a Digital Culture
HEC Paris’s Kristine de Valck stresses the importance of training and life-long learning in preparing for our digital future
WHITE PAPER
Open Organizations Vs Digital Disruption
How open organizations with aspirational purpose can thrive in the era of digital disruption
WEBINAR
5 Keys to Unlock Innovation [WEBINAR]
Watch our recent webinar with LBS’s John Dore to discover how to maximise your organization’s innovation potential
REPORT
Towards Gender Parity
A new report monitors the progress of female representation in business leadership and offers recommendations
VIEWPOINT
Digital Barbarians at the Gate
HEC’s Albert Meige considers digital disruption and the future of the mobility market citing Total, Tesla and Amazon
WEBINAR
EQ: The Leader’s Edge [WEBINAR]
Georgetown’s Michael McDermott to explore ways to improve your and your team’s EQ (emotional intelligence)
VIEWPOINT
4 Principles for Leading Change
Change efforts often fail – but there are ways to increase your chances of successful company-wide transformation
EVENT
Avenues for Digital Leadership
Join Henley’s Bernd Vogel and Lebene Soga on 24 Oct to explore game-changing opportunities for high-performance digital leadership
VIEWPOINT
Cultivating Leadership Energy at IMD
Organizational psychologist Shlomo Ben-Hur discusses why CLEAR is so unlike any other leadership program
RESEARCH
Emerging Markets Experience is Key
Yusaf Akbar highlights the value of emerging markets experience in developing the agile leadership skills needed in our volatile business world
FROM THE MAGAZINE
Developing Leaders eMagazine - Issue 30
Walking in Fog: Creating Order out of Disorder
VIEWPOINT
New Technologies' Impact on HR
5 ways emerging technologies are transforming the HR landscape
WEBINAR
Leadership Coaching [WEBINAR]
Watch IEDP's webinar with Vanderbilt’s Mark Cannon to strengthen your employees and your organization through effective coaching
BOOK REVIEW
Collaborate, Compete and Innovate
Sigvald Harryson and Johan Roos offer a methodology for driving breakthrough innovation through collaborative competitions
BOOK REVIEW
Can Business Save the Earth?
New book proposes a systemic model for innovating our way to sustainability
NEWS
Envisioning Digital Strategy
Prof Ting Li helps better equip companies to flourish in the digital era
VIEWPOINT
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’
BOOK REVIEW
Conscious People Shape the World
A new book sees consciousness as the genesis of effective change
NEWS
Maximizing Return on People Assets
Creating people strategies fit for the artificial intelligence era
MASTERS
Taking a Broader Leadership Role
The leadership journey of emlyon EMBA participant Matthew Cobham
CORPORATE PRACTICE
Break-Through at Bristol-Myers Squibb
emlyon’ s cultural transformation program at Bristol-Myers Squibb France
FROM THE MAGAZINE
Developing Modern Global Leaders
A conversation with Kelly Bean, President and CEO of University of Virginia Darden Executive Education
NEWS
Leading Transport Futures
Oxford series prepares leaders to address the global challenges and opportunities of the 21st century
MASTERS
Leverage the Levy for Leadership
Join Cranfield’s discovery day on 12th July to learn how Executive Masters funded by the Apprenticeship Levy can enhance your organization’s leadership
MASTERS
Most of All a Learner
The leadership journey of emlyon Executive MBA participant Sophie Prévost
RESOURCE
Apprenticeship Levy: eBook Guide
Download this complimentary eBook to fully understand what the Levy can do for your organization
VIEWPOINT
4 Ways to Avoid Burnout
Prof Richard Jolly suggests what to do if you or your team are at risk of burnout
EVENT
Are you engaging a multigenerational workforce?
The latest Foresight event from the FT | IE Corporate Learning Alliance probes HR’s role in engaging a multigenerational workforce
MASTERS
Using a Master’s in Mexico
Entrepreneur and emlyon alumnus Florence Robineau Bourgneuf brings French culture to Mexican homes with au pairs
VIEWPOINT
Leading Effectively in Aerospace & Aviation
How HEC Paris helps aerospace executives broaden their mind-sets to face the challenges of innovation and change
RESEARCH
Is Collaboration a Delusion?
Wharton researchers reveal collaboration’s dirty little secret
RESEARCH
Gender Parity on UK Boards
The ‘soft-law’ approach Vs intervention to achieve gender balance on UK boards
MASTERS
Impact Your Life, People and Society
How is the Executive EMBA of HEC Paris providing opportunities for women?
MASTERS
Mastering Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Inside the online master’s degree for budding entrepreneurs at HEC Paris
BOOK REVIEW
When Best Practices Are Bad Habits
Prof Freek Vermeulen reveals how bad habits are holding businesses back
EVENT
Inclusive Talent Development
Join Cranfield’s free workshops to foster inclusivity, leverage your Apprenticeship Levy, and enhance your workforce
VIEWPOINT
The Rise of Andragogy
The growing understanding of the theory and practice of teaching adult learners
WEBINAR
Strategy Execution
View the recording of Joe Ryan's recent webinar to increase your ‘execution IQ’ and deepen your strategic leadership skills
VIEWPOINT
Leaders as Explorers
Exploration happens outside the comfort zone – creating new business models, serving new markets and new customers
NEWS
Learn to be an Entrepreneur
Last chance! Receive a 10% discount on MIT’s Entrepreneurship Development Program, with Bill Aulet – Jan 28-Feb 2
VIEWPOINT
New Year, New You?
David Pendleton proposes a New Year’s refresh focused on three leadership domains: strategic, operational and interpersonal
MASTERS
Broad Learning in Brazil
IMD’s EMBA discovery journey focuses on developing growth strategies in challenging environments
MASTERS
Combining Finance with Non-Profit
Columbia EMBA Eddwina Bright is combing her finance and non-profit experience to make an impact on the world and on next generation leaders
RESEARCH
Reshoring Vs Staying Abroad
Important insight for companies deciding if they should stay or come back home
CORPORATE PRACTICE
Encouraging Better Teamwork at Total
emlyon’s 100% online customized program for Total is a model for the future of executive education
NEWS
Mastering Sales Leadership
Schulich helps senior executives master the critical-thinking skills and strategies required at the forefront of sales leadership
NEWS
Develop an Entrepreneur's Skillset
Join MIT Sloan Prof Bill Aulet’s Entrepreneurship Development Program. And receive a special 10% discount
MASTERS
Can a Masters Be 100% Online?
How HEC’s pioneering 100% online degree is breaking new ground in executive education
FROM THE MAGAZINE
Learning with Impact
A conversation with Professor Jean-François Manzoni, President IMD
VIEWPOINT
The Changing Workplace
How generational change is changing the way we work – what leaders really need to know
VIEWPOINT
Creating High Performing Teams
A conversation with Goizueta Business School’s Professor J. B. Kurish
NEWS
Leading Innovation and Entrepreneurship
HEC Paris launches an innovative, self-paced, online degree (MSc) for time-pressed executives
RESEARCH
Easing Faultlines at the Top
How the CEO/top management team interface can alleviate faultlines and improve performance
BOOK REVIEW
Leadership with Purpose
Kevin Murray shows how finding 'purpose' can drive personal and organizational success
VIEWPOINT
Security Ensures Trust
Security isn’t just about risk and resilience. It’s also about trust and competitiveness
NEWS
Empowering Frontline Healthcare
Diabetes UK and Ashridge Executive Education develop clinical champions to make change happen
RESOURCE
Customer Focused Insights
6 research-based articles from Kellogg’s marketing savvy thought-leaders
FROM THE MAGAZINE
Developing Leaders eMagazine Issue 26
Access the full magazine below. ‘Changing Mindsets in Organizations’
VIEWPOINT
Vermeer’s Blue Ocean Thinking
A strategy to differentiate your business in the market and create spaces for ‘blue’ growth
MASTERS
Lawyer and Journalist to Leadership
The leadership journey of HEC Paris EMBA alumnus Anne-Claire Berg, Danone’s Culture & Engagement Director
NEWS
Strategic Marketing Analytics
From data-driven insight to customer-centric action – improve your marketing strategy
VIEWPOINT
Leading Corporate Sustainability
What are the leadership skills required in companies committed to sustainability?
VIEWPOINT
Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
4 branches of EI that humanize leadership: IEDP reviews Kerrie Fleming’s chapter from ‘Inspiring Leadership’
VIEWPOINT
Strategic Planning with Foresight
When qualitative rather than quantitative forecasting can be a better guide to your organization’s future
NEWS
Women Leaders in London
A New Program Helps Women Navigate the Challenges of the Corporate Career Ladder
NEWS
Effective HR Business Partnering
How HR business partners can work with senior leaders to support strategic business aims
EVENT
Neuroplasticity and Learning Best Practice
Why the best way to facilitate learning is to interrupt forgetting and boost memory retrieval
NEWS
Personal Professional Development
Two CEOs give their take on the benefits of participating in a high-quality senior executive program at Wharton
FROM THE MAGAZINE
Renu Kulkarni in Conversation
Discussion, Experimentation and Data-Gathering at Chicago Booth Executive Education
NEWS
Leading in an International Context
Unrivalled access to expertise in the multiple issues facing global businesses
FROM THE MAGAZINE
Developing Leaders eMagazine Issue 23
Access the full magazine below. From Innovation Graveyard to Innovation Hotbed
VIEWPOINT
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
VIEWPOINT
NHS Employee Engagement and Compassionate Leadership
Compassionate NHS staff should be able to live by their personal values
VIEWPOINT
Leadership Renewal and Organizational Transformation
Leaders must renew their thinking before they can transform their organizations
NEWS
3 Pillars of Leadership for the CFO of the Future
“Getting to CFO is 80% functional/technical and 20% leadership skills. Once in the CFO chair this equation is turned on its head.”
VIEWPOINT
Governance, Corporate Culture and Lessons from VW
Vlerick’s Ralf Wetzel considers the Volkswagen emissions scandal
RESEARCH
Engaging Stakeholders Globally
Georgetown McDonough and Rio Tinto’s Stakeholder Engagement Academy
VIEWPOINT
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
VIEWPOINT
Leader! Get Those Priorities Carved in Stone!
Agreeing the ground rules is key to leading change
RESEARCH
Scenario Planning to Help Solve Global Problems
Visualising conceivable future scenarios can help find solutions to complex global problems
WHITE PAPER
Creating Collaborative Leadership in Saudi Arabia
“Around the world the image of the authoritarian hero-leader is being challenged, and the Middle East is no exception.”
WHITE PAPER
Leadership Across Borders
While a majority of organizations recognize the need to compete globally, very few have a strategy to develop leaders with the competence to truly compete globally.
VIEWPOINT
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
RESEARCH
A Conversation with Kelly Bean
Associate Dean, Executive Education, UCLA Anderson School of Management
VIEWPOINT
10 Commandments for the Family Business
Family businesses are the main economic driver in many countries across the world
BOOK REVIEW
Succession by Noel Tichy - A Review
"Every question about leadership ultimately gets down to development, its about crucible experiences that make others better"
VIEWPOINT
Leadership Journeys: Lego's Jørgen Vig Knudstorp
Leading by Mastering Paradoxical Thinking
VIEWPOINT
Four Ways to Spur Innovation in a Corporate Environment
Generating an overall culture of innovation
RESEARCH
Why Don’t Employees Speak-Up?
In a new study, NYU Stern Professors Elizabeth Morrison and Kelly See, along with Caitlin Pan of SIM University, examine why employees often withhold important suggestions and concerns, and find that a sense of powerlessness plays a key role.
VIEWPOINT
Why ‘Learning Agility' Is Key to Leadership Success
"There are five main characteristics that can be assessed to determine an individual’s learning agility."
BOOK REVIEW
Strategy Implementation
5 key processes managers must master to make a winning strategy work
BOOK REVIEW
How to Lead with Political Intelligence
IQ and EQ are not enough. For today's leaders political intelligence, PQ, is required
VIEWPOINT
Developing a Global Leadership Mindset
Business leaders operate in an irrevocably global world, and while travel may broaden the mind, managers taking on a global leadership role need more. Thunderbird’s Mansour Javidan and Jennie Walker explain...
RESEARCH
Re-shoring: Will Europe Follow the US?
"A third of the companies who were re-shoring had brought back business from Asia, a half from BRIC countries, and over 20% from Europe."
BOOK REVIEW
Grounded Leadership: Who You Are Not What You Do
In his new book, Bob Rosen suggests that leaders must develop six facets of personal ‘health’: physical, emotional, intellectual, social, vocational, and spiritual health.
VIEWPOINT
Can Business Schools Meet the Challenges of the Future?
IMD President, Dominique Turpin, analyses the issues and forces that are buffeting business schools
BOOK REVIEW
The Language of Leadership Communication
How to establish a culture of good communication in the organizations
VIEWPOINT
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.
RESEARCH
The Six Skills of the Perfect HR Professional
Based on a global survey of 20,000 HR professionals, Ross School of Business has identified six key competencies that go to make up the perfect HR professional.
VIEWPOINT
Change the Model, Not the Business
Gaining competitive edge from business model innovation
VIEWPOINT
The Importance of Legal Literacy for Executives
MIT Sloan’ John Akula explains why executives need to understand the legal implications of their decisions
BOOK REVIEW
Designing the Smart Organization
"As a transformational business practice learning has to leave the classroom and become a core element of the business process…”
VIDEO
The Intuitive Mind is a Sacred Gift
Renowned psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist’s animated lecture at the RSA in London
RESEARCH
Lean Principles for Knowledge Workers
Applying modern manufacturing ‘lean production’ principles to ‘knowledge work’
RESEARCH
The Feedback Gamble
The pros and cons of seeking feedback and how to use feedback to boost performance
VIEWPOINT
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
VIEWPOINT
Personality and Leadership Matrix
Dr David Pendleton Co-Director of the High Performance Leadership Programme at the Saïd Business School
VIEWPOINT
The 3 Strengths of a True Strategic Leader
“How do we lead in ways that position a business for the future while meeting current demands?”
NEWS
Leadership Change and Climate Change
Executive Education at Ross has joined forces with the Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO) to bring industry experts into its executive education programs focused on climate change.
NEWS
The Dawn of Degree Apprenticeships
Aston University is to offer more degree apprenticeships to aspirant young managers
WHITE PAPER
The Future of Talent Development
An important new White Paper by Sylvain Newton of Columbia Business School identifies three key areas for the future of the sector
