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How to Accelerate Corporate Innovation
MIT Sloan experts explain how to engage successfully with innovation ecosystems
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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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Stepping Up to Senior Leadership
CCL’s approach to preparing executives for impactful leadership at the organizational level
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10 Leadership Trends for 2024
Thom Dennis highlights ten characteristics leaders should aim to foster for the year ahead
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Developing Senior Executives
Preparing Senior Executives to Meet the Multiple Challenges of Global Leadership
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Transformational Impact with emlyon
What sets customized programs at emlyon apart from the competition?
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Getting Men Onside with Gender Parity
Thom Dennis, CEO of Serenity in Leadership, suggests 10 ways to involve men in countering gender bias and discrimination
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Developing Healthcare Leaders
A conversation with Brian Golden, Professor in Health Sector Strategy at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management
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Time to Scale Leadership Development
CCL experts suggest 5 key considerations for reimagining leadership development for our turbulent times
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People Analytics: Applied AI
Five examples of effective use of people analytics at work, from St. Gallen University
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Diversity with a Difference
Michigan University’s Debotri Dhar argues for a nuanced framing of diversity in organizations to promote, not only social justice, but also innovation, conflict management, and talent retention
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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
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Creating Customer Centric Leaders
How HEC Paris designs executive programs on customer centricity
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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
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Tailor-Made Leadership for the Post-Pandemic World
Emmanuel JouJon explains how HEC Paris’s custom programs are adapting to meet the changing needs of executives and companies beyond the pandemic
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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
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Igniting Innovation
HEC Paris’ Jean-Rémi Gratadour offers valuable keys to meeting the challenges of innovation in disrupted times
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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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Business Model Innovation Meets Organizational Design
Influential author and Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan, Bill Fischer offers concrete tips on leading business model innovation—and reveals the importance of organizational design in the process
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Business Benefits of Social Enterprise
Adding a social angle to your business is an opportunity, not a cost, say HEC Paris’ Florian Hoos
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New Leader Integration
An initiative from the Rotman School of Management, led by Geoffrey Leonardelli, helps executives move to new roles and new jobs successfully
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Creating Intelligence in Times of Uncertainty
Why you should be making decisions right now
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Scoping the Path Ahead for Exec Ed
After a turbulent year, new best practices for executive learning in the new normal are emerging for university-based business schools and their corporate clients
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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
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Diversity, Inclusion and Disability
Thom Dennis and Jane Hatton offer 12 ways to stop tokenism and break the stigma of disability in the workforce
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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
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10 Ways to Stop Bullying at Work
Even remote workers experience bullying—now is the time to stamp it out
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Group Coaching to Unify Executive Effort
INSEAD’s Manfred Kets de Vries explains how group coaching can create forces for change to refocus conflicted executives on strategy implementation
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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
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A Pivot to Online with Long-Term Value for Executives
Cranfield School of Management’s success delivering online learning during the pandemic augers well—not only for the now, but for the future of executive education
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Attention, Energy, & Momentum: Thriving in a New Normal
Managing attention spans and maintaining high energy in our increasingly digital daily lives
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Negotiation Strategies Online and Offline
London Business School’s Professor Gillian Ku offers strategies and tactics, employing planning and cooperation, for conducting complex negotiations
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Learning from Those Living Through Change
Hult Ashridge’s Professor Ilze Zandvoort on supporting employees through the emotional cycles of complex change
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Creating a Crisis-Ready Board
Rotman’s David Beatty discusses the measures boards should take to ensure survival and seize long-term opportunities
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Better Connections in the Workplace
Hult Ashridge’s Guy Lubitsh on why making connections within your organization is so important, and a new model and approach that can help
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Complex Drivers of Employee Motivation
Columbia’s Stephan Meier on why motivating employees is more complicated than you think
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Actors and Architects of Ethical Behavior
Creating a workplace culture conducive to making ethical decisions
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Aston Goes Multi-Disciplinary in a Complex World
Combining business school and university-wide expertise to support innovation, creativity and capability development in organizations
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Apprenticeship Levy with Impact
How Aston University is developing middle-management competence with the Apprenticeship Levy – and without
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Learning for Disruption
When no strategy is safe, learn from those who have experienced the same intensity of change as you, says Patrick Faniel, Managing Director at Management Centre Europe (MCE)
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FinTech in Large Organizations
RSM’s Daniel Liebau on how to make innovation and change happen
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Exploring the Efficacy of Monetary Incentives to Motivate Employees
Professor Karen Sedatole explains the four core principles of how and when to use pay and bonuses to improve employee performance
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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
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Nobody Does It Better
How family companies quietly outperform other companies (even in today’s disruptive environment)
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Having a Voice and Giving a Voice
The importance of speaking up and encouraging your team to speak up
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Problem Statements Solve Problems
Schulich SEEC on how to write clear objective Problem Statements – the key to finding solutions to complex problems
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Forecast Documents for Business
HEC’s Etienne Krieger explains the value of business forecasting, planning, and budgeting
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Executive Learning for Life
Life-long learning is central to HEC Paris’s strategic vision and lies behind its move up the FT world executive education rankings
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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
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Leadership Improvisation
Goizueta’s Allison Gilmore on using improvisation, the comedian’s stock-in-trade, to create leadership resilience
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Building Brands for the Future
Kellogg School of Management’s Tim Calkins on brands and brand management in our hyperconnected age
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Digital Innovation & Design Thinking
Dirk Deichmann discusses the innovative potential of human creativity in the age of algorithms and big data
BOOK REVIEW
Design Thinking in Organizations
How ‘design thinking’ theory is being successfully translated into real-world innovative practice
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Women Leaders Vs Less Competent Men
New book laments the preponderance of incompetent men blocking the progress of women leaders and offers some solutions
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Perfect Your Leadership Story
What’s Your Leadership Story? Make Sure You Tell the One You Intend
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Innovation Unplugged
Insights on creating a Silicon Valley in the Alpine region offer lessons to all
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5 Building Blocks for Industry 4.0
IESE’s Marc Sachon shows how people and machines can work in sync to successfully implement Industry 4.0
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Evaluating Executive Learning Impact
How the CISL Impact Benchmark Study helps improve leadership development with data
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A Manifesto for Better Business
New book offers a powerful reply to the steadily increasing criticism of free market business
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The Psychology of Resilience
CCL’s Frédéric Funck on how performance psychology can help you build the mental resilience to release your full leadership potential
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4 Principles for Leading Change
Change efforts often fail – but there are ways to increase your chances of successful company-wide transformation
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Cultivating Leadership Energy at IMD
Organizational psychologist Shlomo Ben-Hur discusses why CLEAR is so unlike any other leadership program
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New Technologies' Impact on HR
5 ways emerging technologies are transforming the HR landscape
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Brexit Viewed as a Major Project
Addressing the project management skills needed to avoid operational chaos
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Theresa May’s Glass Cliff
Is Mrs May's Brexit Glass Cliff an exemplar of modern leadership?
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Data-Driven Decision-Making
Duke Fuqua professors on the opportunities that can be realised by marrying data analysis with commercial understanding
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Is Disruption Really the New Norm?
Don’t let fear of disruption divert you from the essential job of reviewing and renewing strategy
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Connecting for Change in Public Services
One woman’s mission to revolutionise public service provision
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The Shift Towards Purpose
Oxford Saïd sees a growing desire to make a positive impact beyond just the bottom line
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Ideabanks: Networking for Choice
Using loose network ties to seek new ideas and innovative solutions to complex problems
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Is Strategy a Relevant Concept?
Gérard de Maupeou explains why strategic thinking is still a relevant managerial discipline in a volatile world
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Overwork Can Kill Productivity
5 recovery practices for individuals and strategies for HR to avoid employee overwork
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Creating High Performing Teams
A conversation with Goizueta Business School’s Professor J. B. Kurish
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Developing More Responsible Leaders
The role of immersive ‘corporate international service learning’
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Women’s Leadership Ecosystem
How Smith College Executive Education is upping the ante in leadership development for women
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E-learning for Executives
Do Learning Management Systems have a future in management development?
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Data Analysis – It’s a Human Issue
How selecting appropriate data to provide 'business' answers is a human responsibility
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Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
4 branches of EI that humanize leadership: IEDP reviews Kerrie Fleming’s chapter from ‘Inspiring Leadership’
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Creating Innovation Cultures
How collaboration between design and business mindsets builds innovative organizational cultures
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Engaging Strategy Processes
To make good strategies companies need strategy processes with a ‘wow’ factor
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Engaging with Generation Y
How virtual-world-savvy millennials benefit from face-to face communication and off-site meetings and events
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Humans Vs Machines – Mind the Skills Gap
Advances in technology will bring structural unemployment unless we fill the skills gap
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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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Leadership When Things Go Wrong
Strategies for handling the mistakes that beset all organizations at some time
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Leadership Renewal and Organizational Transformation
Leaders must renew their thinking before they can transform their organizations
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Leader! Get Those Priorities Carved in Stone!
Agreeing the ground rules is key to leading change
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Leadership: Wily by Nature
Successful leaders need the bounce-back resilience of a cartoon character
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Design Thinking – People | Process | Place
Enhancing teamwork and fostering greater innovation
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Big Questions, Big Data and Disruptive Innovation
Hal Gregersen introduces ‘catalytic questioning’
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Four Ways to Spur Innovation in a Corporate Environment
Generating an overall culture of innovation
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Why ‘Learning Agility' Is Key to Leadership Success
"There are five main characteristics that can be assessed to determine an individual’s learning agility."
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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
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How the brain responds to feedback
The fifth and final note in this short series on your brain at work looks at neurological foundations of why positivity matters when leaders communicate with their people.
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Future Leaders and the Trouble with Testosterone
How do we modify behaviours that are so biological in their basis?
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Gen Y, Social Entrepreneurship and a New Business Model
The involvement of ‘millennials’ in social entrepreneurship highlights how the corporate world can benefit from engaging a generation ambitious to change the world.
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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.
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My Way or the Highway - The Danger of Executive Bullying
For generations, victims of schoolyard bullying have been made to feel afraid, powerless and even stupid. They respond by drawing as little attention to themselves as possible and hoping the misery stops.
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A Conversation with Charles Handy
The Future of Capitalism, The Changing Workplace, Leadership, and Happiness
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The Starfish and the Spider: A Metaphor for the Future
The future shape of organizations and their leadership
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Embedded vs Bolt-on Sustainability
Incorporating environmental, health, and social value into core business activities
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Good Ethics Is Good Business
Paul Danos on the ‘responsibility factors’, at play during the financial crisis, that lead executives to either ethical fame or failure
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Personality and Leadership Matrix
Dr David Pendleton Co-Director of the High Performance Leadership Programme at the Saïd Business School
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The Purpose of Leadership
Patrick Faniel, Managing Director of Management Centre Europe (MCE), discusses his new book, ‘What Leadership Is For’ with IEDP
