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Delivering Stakeholder Value Through Human Capability:
The Emerging World of Work
by Dave Ulrich

Everyone recognizes the rapidly evolving world of work with social, technology, economic, political, environmental, and demographic (STEPED) disruptions. While it might have been possible before to focus on customer or strategy or technology or culture or people or leadership or new HR operating models, today’s complex and rapidly changing business context requires alignment, integration, and simplicity in the face of complexity. Let me suggest three simple (not easy!) principles shaping the new world of work. […]

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How the Dionysian Imperative Changes Business Management
by Janka Krings-Klebe and Jörg Schreiner

While the landscape shifts beneath our feet – marked by disruption, blurred boundaries, and accelerating change – many organizations still cling to outdated instincts. For generations, management has been guided by a quest for order and predictability, trying to tame uncertainty through rigorous processes and disciplined decision-making. This inclination aligns well with what Nietzsche, in The Birth of Tragedy, called the “Apollonian” impulse: the drive toward harmony, rationality, and controlled form. Yet Nietzsche also highlights a contrasting “Dionysian” force – one that brings forth ecstasy, chaos, and the powerful wellspring of creativity. Balancing these two impulses, he claimed, was vital for the brilliance of ancient Greek tragedy, where structure and chaos coexisted to produce artistic greatness.[…]

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Delivering Stakeholder Value Through Human Capability:
The Emerging World of Work
by Dave Ulrich

Everyone recognizes the rapidly evolving world of work with social, technology, economic, political, environmental, and demographic (STEPED) disruptions. While it might have been possible before to focus on customer or strategy or technology or culture or people or leadership or new HR operating models, today’s complex and rapidly changing business context requires alignment, integration, and simplicity in the face of complexity. Let me suggest three simple (not easy!) principles shaping the new world of work. […]

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2025

AI: Transforming the Future of Organizational Leadership
By Annika Steiber

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fast becoming a core element of business performance. From generating content to automating workflows, generative and agentive AI are changing how organizations operate. Yet amid the media buzz and market hype, it’s important to separate substance from sensation. AI is not a force that will replace human leadership—it’s a tool that, when used well, will enhance decision-making, improve effectiveness and efficiency, and empower transformation.[…]

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2025

When Leadership Becomes Plural: Rethinking Authority in a Dionysian Age
by Janka Krings-Klebe and Jörg Schreiner

In the first two parts of this series, we explored how the Dionysian imperative challenges core assumptions of modern management. We saw how organizations must move beyond the Apollonian pursuit of order and stability, embracing instead a more dynamic interplay between structure and emergence. We followed the transformation from hierarchy to ecosystem and asked what it means for companies to behave more like living systems than machines. But even as strategies evolve and structures adapt, one domain resists change most persistently: leadership. Despite the shift toward distributed intelligence and decentralized action, the image of the omniscient leader – decisive, visionary, in control – still dominates our organizational imagination
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