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Innovation Strategy
The New Digital Mandate: Cultivate Dissatisfaction
People who are satisfied with the current way of doing business are not likely to transform it.
Developing Strategy
Tangled Webs and Executive Naïveté
Leaders in a digital world have to navigate more complexity than ever before.
AI & Machine Learning
Using AI to Help the World Thrive
Microsoft has launched a $50 million initiative to figure out ways to help AI “save the world.”
Culture
Rationalizing Yourself Out of a Promotion
Some women who feel like they won’t “fit” a job description will talk themselves out of wanting it.
Collaboration
Architect Your Company for Agility
To facilitate speed, companies must design themselves to minimize obstacles to getting work done.
Managing Your Career
The Long Journey to Understanding Intangible Assets
The “intangible assets” people bring to their jobs are valuable — but challenging to quantify.
Corporate Social Responsibility
The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Create Value for Stakeholders
Shareholders are just one group of stakeholders who matter. Suppliers and employees do, too.
Collaboration
We Must Rescue ‘Win-Win’ From Its Buzzword Status
Companies often compete as members of networks, making collaboration essential for getting work done.
Developing Strategy
Don’t Get Caught in the Middle
Our digital world is rendering traditional intermediaries obsolete. Make sure you are not one of them.
Developing Strategy
Focusing on What 90% of Businesses Do Now Is a Big Mistake
It’s not smart to base any part of your strategy on what you see in the rear-view mirror.
Developing Strategy
Your Company Doesn’t Need a Digital Strategy
When it comes to digital transformation, digital is not the answer. Transformation is.
Collaboration
Putting an End to Leaders’ Self-Serving Behavior
Organizations need decision makers with central (and internalized) moral identities.
Business Models
Don’t Confuse Digital With Digitization
Digitization alone doesn’t make your company “digital” — but these five guiding principles can help.
Innovation Strategy
The Case Against Agility
Ideas that have anchored technological decision-making have become unsuitable for the emerging world.
Developing Strategy
Which Rules Are Worth Breaking?
Disrupting the status quo is often valuable, but taken too far, it can lead to ethical crises.
Managing Your Career
Who’s Building the Infrastructure for Lifelong Learning?
With people living longer than ever, there must be a way to promote regular education.
Leadership Skills
Will, Skill, and Velocity: Survival Skills for a Digital World
The future belongs to those who possess flexible talents, nerve, and personal speed.
Collaboration
The Upside of Being a Woman Among ‘Bros’
In certain circumstances, managers are more responsive to suggestions from the opposite gender.
AI & Machine Learning
When Jobs Become Commodities
It pays to ask yourself whether your job is common and repetitive enough to be done by a machine.