The relentless twin demands of executing for today while reimagining for tomorrow, mean that leaders are grappling with an accelerated phase of business disruption, with more than $41 trillion of enterprise value at risk. But is enough being done to strengthen trust and creative resilience, which I define as the curiosity to learn and the courage to unlearn? Learning helps us evolve and unlearning helps us as the world evolves. […]
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No woman – no Drucker. Not only in terms of the physical body: his body of work was immensely inspired by women. When asked for a book recommendation, he would respond that any Jane Austen novel will do, since every Jane Austen heroine is a better manager and executive than any American CEO. […]
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In their well-known book A Behavioral Theory of the Firm, R. Cyert and J. March (1963) [1] proposed the notion of “organizational slack”, a notion central to their understanding of the firm as a coalition of competing and yet interdependent actors. This refers to (hidden) reserves (or redundancies) of resources which enable actors to escape the constraints that management imposes on their behavior in order to align and, possibly, optimize their performance with the overall objectives of the firm. […]
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Have you ever felt conflict about a work request? When your boss asks you to do something and you have an instinctive response, that causes you to hesitate? Or a colleague you respect asks you to contribute your thoughts but outside factors give you pause, and you question whether you should or shouldn’t? […]
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Edgar Schein passed away peacefully at home after he and his son Peter had just finished a productive afternoon of work with organization development colleagues. He passed without illness or suffering, as he had always hoped he would. He was 94.[…]
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It may not be coincidence that the International Day of Burn-out at Work on February 14 falls on Valentine’s Day. According to the WHO, burn-out is often linked to environmental factors such as work overload, relational problems, conflicts of values or micromanagement.[…]
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Interview with Terence Mauri, Founder of Hack Future Lab, MIT Entrepreneur Mentor and Visiting Professor at IE Business SchoolÂ
While leaders all over the world are rethinking the future of work, talent and leadership what are the top success headlines for 2023?
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The debate about ChatGPT has swept across the world like a storm, with hundreds of millions of users overwhelming OpenAI’s servers. Many people are both terrified and wowed by the new artificial intelligence (AI) tools, which seem to shake the very foundation of many sectors that were thought to be the last to be automated. Sectors such as education, art and design, and many others that rely on human creativity, critical thinking, and communication, are all being impacted by these tools.[…]
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