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Spotting and Backing Intrapreneurs
Cognitive neuroscientist, Lynda Shaw, explains how to understand and support intrapreneurs
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Transformative Leadership Training
For Thomas Misslin, transformation rather than training is the aim of executive education at emlyon business school
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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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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
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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
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Intrapreneurship with emlyon for competitive advantage
emlyon pioneers in inspiring and equipping intrapreneurs for business success
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Integrated Thinking and Reporting
The ‘Integrated Reporting’ movement, spearheaded by the IFRS Foundation, demonstrates ‘Integrated Thinking’ in action
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Options for Leadership Learning
In-person, live online, self-paced online, coaching—the options for developing leadership skills are many. CCL experts use research-based evidence to help you find the right fit for your organization
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Effective Executive Coaching
Rotman School of Management offers an invaluable template for the transformation from okay coach to truly great coach
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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
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Understanding Leadership Psychology
Professor Maja Djikic describes the thinking behind Rotman School of Management’s ‘Psychology of Leadership’ program
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Threats to Cyber Security
Advice from St. Gallen University’s Samir Aliyev amid a gathering storm of potential cyber risk
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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
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The Disciplined Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship is a non-linear yet systematic process that can and should be learned to help solve our biggest challenges. MIT’s Bill Aulet shows us how it can be done
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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
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Embracing Inclusive and Equitable Business
HEC Paris’ Marieke Huysentruyt explains why organizations should open their minds to inclusive business
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Conflict Resolution Between Associates
HEC Paris’ Etienne Krieger reveals how a simple equation can resolve conflicts between associates
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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
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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
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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
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Apprenticeship Levy for Leaders
Now in its fourth year the Senior Leader Apprenticeship, a leadership pathway co-created by large UK employers including Aon and Cranfield School of Management and powered by the Apprenticeship Levy is beginning to form a dynamic new playbook for others to follow
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Training Professional Managers
The Aston Professional Managers' Award continues to raise the skill level of the UK’s emerging managers and young professionals
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Innovation, Purposeful Leadership and Inclusive Growth: The Three Pillars that Drive Us Forward
Anne Valérie Corboz, Associate Dean HEC Paris Executive Education, in conversation
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Digital Learning at HEC Paris
A new way of learning that is attracting more and more companies
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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
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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
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The Hazards of Hiring with AI
St Gallen’s Prof Dr Gudrun Sander shows why recruiting processes need a combination of human and machine to avoid stereotypical bias
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How L&D Steers Organizational Change
Cranfield University’s Wendy Shepherd and Steve Macaulay explain what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to L&D’s role in transformational change
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Executive Education in a Future World
Cranfield Executive Development’s Camilla Jonsson and Mark Threlfall in conversation
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Post-Pandemic Leadership Challenge
St Gallen’s Prof Winfried Ruigrok describes the three-part strategic and human capital challenge posed by COVID-19
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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
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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
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Building Back Better After the Pandemic
Rotman School of Management professors Sarah Kaplan and Soo Min Toh look to the future for organizations
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A Refreshing ‘New Normal’ for Leadership Development
Saïd Business School’s Steve Mostyn considers the future of executive education with lessons learnt from the lockdown
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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
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No More Business as Usual
A conversation with Tim Wray, Professor of Practice and Director of Executive Education at Warwick Business School
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Building a Cyber-Safe Business
Dr Ruth Massie on cyber as a leadership problem, as opposed to a technical problem, speaking at the latest Leadership Series event from Cranfield School of Management @Brand Exchange, London
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Managing with Machines
Rotman School of Management’s Matthew Mitchell shows how AI and machine learning can transform complex business challenges into new opportunities
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The Three Shifts of Leadership Mastery
Columbia’s Hitendra Wadhwa explains how to reset mindsets and practices to address the challenges of leadership today
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Actively Fostering Compassion at Work
8 lessons to help create a workplace culture where compassion is embedded into systems and practices, and where individuals are treated with dignity and care
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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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Good Bosses and Bad Bosses
Cass Business School’s Dr Amanda Goodall says experts can make good bosses, and bad bosses are less common than we might imagine
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Black Swan Events in Project Management
Schulich’s Doug Boebinger asks: Do project managers adequately prepare for unforeseen events and their consequences?
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The Sisterhood Posse
Women championing women for leadership roles with RSM's Dianne Bevelander
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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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Andragogy’s Emotional Element
Understanding the emotional element in andragogy is the key to adult education
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Improving Employee Engagement
Despite better news, CCL suggests 4 areas in which companies can take steps to increase employee engagement
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Profit Plus People and Planet
St. Gallen’s Prof. Dr. Karolin Frankenberger on bringing responsible business into current business models
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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
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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
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Solving Complex Problems
MIT Sloan, the birthplace of ‘system dynamics’, offers hope for hard-pressed leaders perplexed by complexity
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Dealing with Emotion at Work
HEC Paris’s Marc Beretta discusses the place of emotions in the workplace
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Championing AI for Business
Professor Phanish Puranam on how organizations can develop the mindsets and skills to win with Artificial Intelligence
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Executive Education’s Enduring Value
The aims and experiences of four General Management Program participants highlight the value of business school exec ed
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Promoting Nice Guys and Female Leaders
Michigan Ross’s David Mayer on why organizations should support positive behaviours and avoid gender stereotypes
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Upside to an Ageing Workforce
London Business School’s Professor Andrew Scott reveals a ‘longevity dividend’ that companies can unlock to boost productivity
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Executive Education Refreshed
Camilla Jonsson describes how Cranfield has shaped its general management portfolio to meet clients’ changing needs
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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
BOOK REVIEW
Business Presentation for Leaders
Kellogg’s Prof Tim Calkins offers a comprehensive guide to the science and art of delivering great presentations
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Digital Barbarians at the Gate
HEC’s Albert Meige considers digital disruption and the future of the mobility market citing Total, Tesla and Amazon
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Mastering Catastrophic Risk
Howard Kunreuther and Michael Useem show how companies are coping with disruption and offer profound insights on mitigating and managing risk
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Educating Executives to Change the World
HEC Paris’s ‘Tomorrow is Our Business’ campaign highlights the key themes for transformative business education
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Collaborate, Compete and Innovate
Sigvald Harryson and Johan Roos offer a methodology for driving breakthrough innovation through collaborative competitions
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Being Prepared for Blockchain
St. Gallen’s Julio Prina deciphers some of the jargon behind Blockchain
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Functionalization: A Key to Survival
The move away from marketing ‘products’ towards marketing ‘functions’ is a move to business sustainability
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Artificial Intelligence for Beginners
‘Prediction Machines’ a new book by three Rotman professors demystifies AI for the confused and worried
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Addressing Workplace Bullying
Jeneva Patterson offers four revealing stories to inspire action for a zero tolerance corporate culture
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A Hybrid Digital Strategy Is Key
Why your company needs a hybrid online-offline strategy to win the digital disruption battle
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From Marketing Chief to CEO
ESADE professors offer 7 strategies for gaining promotion to the top job
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New Year, New You?
David Pendleton proposes a New Year’s refresh focused on three leadership domains: strategic, operational and interpersonal
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Better Key-Account Relationships
Four tips for key-account salespeople ...and one for their customers!
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Giving Voice to Values
A renowned resource for enabling values-driven leadership hosted at Darden
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6 Drivers of Brand Desire
Be authentic and unexpected – being predictable can kill your brand desire
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Supply Chain Innovation
Suppliers as a source of innovation in a fast-changing environment
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Ego and Eco Intelligence
6 keys to leadership when the workplace is less a hierarchy and more an ‘ecosystem’ of interconnected teams and individuals
WHITE PAPER
Harnessing Talent - Your Own and Others’
Even the most talented people, Einstein for instance, only succeed when they play to their strengths
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Lack of Sleep Is a Leadership Issue
Neuroscience reveals the effects of sleep deprivation on performance
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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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A Neuroscience Perspective on the US Presidential Campaign
Reflections on what is happening to human energy in the US Presidential elections
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Design Thinking – People | Process | Place
Enhancing teamwork and fostering greater innovation
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10 Commandments for the Family Business
Family businesses are the main economic driver in many countries across the world
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Predictive Analytics – The Future for Retail
In a recent article, Indian School of Business’ Professor Galit Shmuéli explains the value of and methodology behind ‘predictive analytics’.
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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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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
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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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Can Business Schools Meet the Challenges of the Future?
IMD President, Dominique Turpin, analyses the issues and forces that are buffeting business schools
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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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Active Communication Drives Innovation
“When people are allowed to connect, amazing things can happen”
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A Conversation with Charles Handy
The Future of Capitalism, The Changing Workplace, Leadership, and Happiness
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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.
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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.
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Embedded vs Bolt-on Sustainability
Incorporating environmental, health, and social value into core business activities
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You can’t change culture; you can’t change attitudes
So focus on right behaviours and actions to shift attitudes
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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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Exec Ed from a Zen Master and Christian Mystic
Lessons for leaders from Father Willigis Jäger
