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strategy and business2 min de lecturePsychology
Many Facets Of Leadership
The most popular topic in business writing is leadership. Perhaps that’s because wisdom on the subject is so elusive. To be a great (or even good) leader, there is no easy formula to follow, and much of the guidance you’ll find is clichéd or, worse,
strategy and business2 min de lecture
The Three Ts Of Handling Consumer Data
When consumers get to the cash register or checkout screen, they are increasingly asked to disclose personal information. Studies show that even people who harbor privacy concerns are willing to provide personal details to a company. Indeed, most con
strategy and business4 min de lectureLeadership
How To Think Like A CEO
The list of qualities and habits of mind required to succeed in the role of CEO is long; it includes resilience, stamina, high IQ and EQ, confidence, ambition, humility, vision, trustworthiness, and presence. It would be easy to come up with a hundre
strategy and business7 min de lecture
Creating An Agile Mind-set At PepsiCo
It appeared to be a routine day at the cookie factory in Mar del Plata, Argentina — a facility operated by PepsiCo Central and South America (CASA). Freshly baked treats were continually transferred from an enormous industrial oven onto an assembly l
strategy and business8 min de lecture
The Fourth Industrial Revolution In Agriculture
Do all cows’ faces look the same to you? They don’t to systems powered by artificial intelligence (AI). Bovine facial recognition technology, developed through a strategic partnership between Cargill and an Irish technology company called Cainthus, e
strategy and business6 min de lecture
What Avengers: Infinity War Can Teach Us About Business
What does a movie about a team of superheroes — scientists, soldiers, magicians, monsters, androids, and aliens — who collaborate to try to stop the destruction of half of all life in the universe have to do with business? I didn’t expect to see a co
strategy and business5 min de lectureSmall Business & Entrepreneurs
Can You Be A Shaper Of Great Institutions?
As a business strategist and writer, R. Gopalakrishnan has devoted his work to studying ethics, leadership, and human capital. He began his 31-year-long career at Unilever’s massive, idealistic India business, and then became a board director at the
strategy and business12 min de lectureLeadership
Thawing The Frozen Middle
Close to US$3.8 trillion was expected to be invested by businesses in digital transformations in 2019, up 3.2 percent on the previous year, as companies try to transform the way they work in the face of technological change, market disruption, and un
strategy and business8 min de lecture
Business Could Steer India And The World Out Of Troubled Waters
Having grown up in India, I remember how monsoons brought relief from scorching heat and produced lush greenery and lots of bugs. But as a visitor to India last August, I saw water scarcity woven into the fabric of day-to-day life and puzzled over th
strategy and business7 min de lecture
Niche Work If You Can Get It
Whatever you’re going to do, do it well. Sounds obvious. But deciding precisely what to do — or whether to keep doing it — is often hard for leaders as they look to distinguish their companies, stay competitive, and adapt to changing market forces. N
strategy and business20 min de lectureLeadership
ROX3: Boosting Returns On Leadership, Customer, And Employee Experience
At one of the world’s most respected manufacturers — a company known for innovation and employee engagement — the CEO was asked recently about his greatest concerns about the enterprise. “We lack leadership capacity,” he said. The company was enterin
strategy and business18 min de lecturePsychology
10 Principles For Leadership Presence
THINK BACK to the last conference you attended. How many presentations do you remember? Probably not too many. As a leader or aspiring leader at any level, one of the biggest challenges you face is to inspire and motivate other people so that they ca
strategy and business14 min de lectureLeadership
Leaders In Waiting
Jakarta, Indonesia, is a sprawling city of more than 30 million people. Like many other burgeoning capitals, it has a housing problem. Rents downtown are high, despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of properties are unoccupied. This forces peop
strategy and business15 min de lectureIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
The Thought Leader Interview: John Hennessy
It would be difficult to imagine someone more wired into the culture at the nexus of technology and higher education than John Hennessy. A computer scientist who joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1977, he started a highly successful compan
strategy and business5 min de lecture
What’s Your Story?
If you’re in business, perhaps the most important question you can ask yourself is, “What’s your story?” Stories are how we make sense of the world and understand one another, and asking questions is how we begin to construct our stories. It’s hard t
strategy and business4 min de lecture
A Brave New Workless World
How would you feel if you no longer had to work? Ecstatic? Empty? Relieved? Anxious? All of the above? Economists and other thinkers have long debated the function of work in shaping human identity. Sigmund Freud considered work “indispensable,” and
strategy and business5 min de lecture
A Disappointing Progress Report On Diversity And Inclusion
Racial and ethnic minorities make up 38.8 percent of the population of the U.S. and a nearly equivalent share of its workforce. But minorities represent only 17 percent of full-time university professors and 16.6 percent of newsroom journalists. They
strategy and business2 min de lecture
The Addressable Future
Because it delivers more personalized experiences for audiences watching the same program, addressable advertising (which can serve different ads to viewers of the same show) offers the benefits of more precision and greater efficiency. The opinions
strategy and business2 min de lecture
Mythical Business Creatures
Why are we so fascinated with the billion-dollar startups known as unicorns? Surely, part of it is the immense wealth they generate, but I think it’s also the name — evoking the image of fantastical horned animals gamboling down the alleyways of Palo
strategy and business3 min de lecture
The Commanding Heights
How do you get to the commanding heights? It is pretty rare for an article in this publication to lead with a phrase popularized by that arch-critic of modern managerial capitalism, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. He used it to refer to the group of key indus
strategy and business4 min de lecture
Why Your Customers Should Be Central To Your Innovation Efforts
There’s a big mistake that a lot of companies make. It’s one that until a few years ago was common in my own organization, and it stems from the worthy goal of boosting innovation. The mistake is adopting what I call the “science fair” mentality: enc
strategy and business9 min de lecture
Trains, Automobiles, And The Plain Impact Of Transportation
William Knoedelseder, Fins: Harley Earl, the Rise of General Motors, and the Glory Days of Detroit (HarperBusiness, 2018) A TOP SHELF PICK Lawrence D. Burns, Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car —and How It Will Reshape Our World (with Chr
strategy and business5 min de lectureLeadership
How To Manage Mavericks
The maverick needs a rebrand. The term, usually defined as someone who is independent or unorthodox, can carry negative connotations that imply complication, contrariness, and chaos. In a society in which echo chambers create siloed workforces, where
strategy and business9 min de lectureLeadership
Creating Safe Spaces For All
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (And How to Fix It) (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019) A TOP SHELF PICK Amy C. Edmondson, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learnin
strategy and business6 min de lecture
How Cities Can Stay Cool On A Warming Earth
Air conditioning, a necessity of modern life, is unique because it perpetuates the very problem it solves. As the planet warms and as it prospers, more people demand air conditioning. Traditional systems consume a lot of energy, which requires burnin
strategy and business9 min de lecture
Make Economics Germane Again
Raghuram Rajan, The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind (Penguin Press, 2019) Victoria Bateman, The Sex Factor: How Women Made the West Rich (Polity, 2019) Binyamin Appelbaum, The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free
strategy and business9 min de lectureIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
The Catalytic Co-investor: How Siemens US Keeps R&D Alive
Siemens has been in the industrial technology business since it was founded as a telegraph company in Berlin in 1847. Its U.S. businesses began soon afterward, and evolved over years of cross-Atlantic collaboration into a US$90 billion industrial con
strategy and business10 min de lectureLeadership
Strategy Matters
Gary P. Pisano, Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation (PublicAffairs, 2019) Rita McGrath, Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019) A TOP SHELF PICK Nicolaj
strategy and business2 min de lecture
How To Identify Gaps In Your Distribution Model
It’s estimated that somewhere around 65% of all small businesses in the U.S. close within their first ten years of operation. Of course, there are thousands of companies across the county that remain stable and profitable well beyond the ten-year mar
strategy and business8 min de lecture
Get Real, Be Heard, Grease The Skids
Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019) A TOP SHELF PICK Stephen Martin and Joseph Marks, Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don’t, and Why (P

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