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2025

Turning Classical Design Thinking into a Human-Centred Business Playbook
By Nick Hixson

Business expansion presents organisations with dilemmas as old as commerce itself: how to scale without sacrificing human connection, and how to balance the demands of stability with the imperatives of adaptability. Insight into these challenges can be found not merely in contemporary management literature but also in the enduring structures of the Greek and Roman theatres in Syracuse, Sicily—each an ancient template for organisational design, and more significantly, for cultivating a culture fit for change.[…]

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2025

Next Generation for the Next Management
By Ekin Ilseven

At the Management Summit Lisbon 2025, Richard Straub opened with a Druckerian provocation: management must keep asking what kind of management society needs next. The event itself was built to do that; “Value Creation”, its guiding theme, aimed to transform conventional management, emphasizing how human relationships, trust, and structural agility can drive organizational vitality.[…]

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2025

Radical Leadership
By Markus Väth

Following the Second World War, western societies built what was called “social capitalism” (Richard Sennett): an economic system which was dominated by long-term employment, strong unions, stable organizations and long innovation cycles.
This changed from the 1970s. So-called “flexible capitalism” was on the rise and with it came significant changes in economic conditions inside and outside its organizations. These conditions are well-known: massive digitalization, faster innovation cycles, growing dependencies concerning supply chains across borders, increasing political instabilities, weakening unions and the rise of flexible job conditions, often to the disadvantage of the employee. […]

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2025

The Gardener and the Machine: Rethinking Leadership for the Post-Knowledge Age
By Mark BĂ©liczky

In an age when machines can learn almost anything, the true work of leadership is learning how to cultivate what machines cannot — understanding, trust, and the conditions for human flourishing.
Artificial Intelligence has achieved what Peter Drucker once called the triumph of knowledge. It can summarize, simulate, and predict with astonishing speed — yet it cannot understand. AI holds humanity’s accumulated intelligence but not its lived wisdom.[…]

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2025

Generativity and the Human Future of Leadership
By Joseph Pistrui and Dimo Dimov

Leadership as we’ve known it is faltering. The pace of change has outstripped our mental models, and the heroic ideal of the all-knowing leader can no longer bear the weight of complexity.
As artificial intelligence automates knowledge, institutions struggle with legitimacy, and ecosystems demand collective adaptation, the old forms of leadership—hierarchical, centralized, control-oriented—can no longer keep up.[…]

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Why Leaders Should Embrace The Value Creation Principles—And The Evidence That Supports Them
By Steve Denning

Business management today faces significant challenges, resulting in substantial economic costs. Global employee engagement remains at low levels. A PwC study indicates that customer trust in executives stands at 30%, while executives themselves estimate it at 80%—a notable misalignment. Meanwhile, many public companies deliver 10-year returns that fall short of the average S&P 500. A McKinsey study notes that only 27% of U.S. firms emphasize long-term returns. However, not all is bleak.[…]

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