Why It’s Time to Kill Legalese
Plain-language contracts are better for your business — and your customers.
What B2B Buyers Really Care About
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The 4 Things You Need to Thrive in the Gig Economy
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4 Ways to Improve Your Strategic Thinking Skills
Think big picture, no matter where you sit on the org chart.
Diversity as Strategy - It's all about the leadership approach - Harvard Business Review
It’s become a cliché to say that leadership matters, but diversity is one of the areas in which executive leadership is often ineffectual. Executives’ espoused beliefs are frequently inconsistent with their behaviour, and they typically underestimate how much the corporation really needs to change to achieve its diversity goals. That’s because diversity strategies tend to lay out lofty goals without providing the structures to educate senior executives in the specific challenges faced by various constituencies. In addition, these strategies often don’t provide models that teach or encourage new behaviours. One of the most frequently mentioned diversity-related HR practice was the five-minute drill, which takes place during the discussion of management talent at the corporate and business unit levels. Executives are expected at any moment to be able to discuss any high-potential manager and an explicit effort is made to ensure that minorities and females are also discussed. The result has been to make the executives more accountable for spotting and grooming high-potential minority managers both in their own areas and across the business.
The Most Important Leadership Competencies, According to Leaders Around the World
They’re all hard to improve because they run counter to our instincts.
The Role of a Manager Has to Change in 5 Key Ways
The challenges organizations face today call for a new kind of leadership.
Hire Leaders for What They Can Do, Not What They Have Done
Three questions to ask about each candidate.
Great leaders tap into the needs and fears we all share. Great managers, by contrast, perform their magic by discovering, developing, and celebrating what’s different about each person who works for them. Here’s how they do it.
Our Favorite Management Tips from 2019
A curated list to help you do your job better.
Real Mentorship Starts with Company Culture, Not Formal Programs
Talent development is an informal, day-to-day process.
Companies can sustain their entrepreneurial energy even as they grow. Safeguarding the organization’s soul is a critical if little appreciated part of the founding cohort’s job, on par with such key decision areas as governance and equity splits. Netflix, Nike, BlackRock, Warby Parker, Study Sapuri, and Starbucks all blossomed as start-ups thanks to their founders’ deliberate efforts to preserve the alchemy that made them great enterprises from the beginning. Over the long term, a strong soul will draw in and fire up various stakeholders. Even as companies institute processes, discipline, and professionalization, they should strive to retain the spiritual trinity of business intent, customer connection, and employee experience. It’s the secret to not only growth but also greatness.
Neurodiversity Is a Competitive Advantage
Why you should embrace it in your workforce
The Surprising Power of Simply Asking Coworkers How They’re Doing
It builds connection and helps us all feel less lonely.
The Irresistible Power of Storytelling as a Strategic Business Tool
It might seem old-fashioned. But that’s what makes it so effective.
Use Storytelling to Explain Your Company’s Purpose
Three steps for composing a narrative.
How Women Can Develop — and Promote — Their Personal Brand
Establish a narrative and share your ideas.
How to Disagree with Someone More Powerful than You
Show them you’re on the same side.
Can 10 Minutes of Meditation Make You More Creative?
Google, Goldman Sachs, and Medtronic have all introduced mindfulness practices.
Mindfulness in the Age of Complexity
Photography: Webb Chappell Over nearly four decades, Ellen Langer’s research on mindfulness has greatly influenced thinking across a range of fields, from behavioral economics to positive psychology. It reveals that by paying attention to what’s going on around us, instead of operating on auto-pilot, we can reduce stress, unlock creativity, and boost performance. Her “counterclockwise” […]
Without Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness Doesn’t Work
The good and the bad of the latest corporate trend.
How Women Can Develop — and Promote — Their Personal Brand
Establish a narrative and share your ideas.
To Improve Your Team, First Work on Yourself!
In this Harvard article, "owning" the situation and recognizing that leadership and management blind spots, assumptions, and unconscious biases are often the reason behind high turnover, low productivity, and morale!
When Customers Want to See the Human Behind the Product
Sometimes people will pay more for the handmade and the authentic.
NXTP Labs: An Innovative Accelerator Model
NXTP Labs: An Innovative Accelerator Model
What Having a “Growth Mindset” Actually Means
Debunking three common misconceptions.
How Organizations Are Failing Black Workers — and How to Do Better
From hiring to inclusion to work assignments.
Harvard Business Review (HBR): Why every organisation needs an Augmented Reality Strategy?
Augmented reality technologies promise to transform how we learn, make decisions, and interact with the physical world. In this package we explain what AR is, how its applications are evolving, and why it’s so important.
If You Say Something Is “Likely,” How Likely Do People Think It Is?
Why you should use percentages, not words, to express probabilities.
The 30 Elements of Consumer Value: A Hierarchy
Measuring—and delivering—what consumers really want
Why Every Startup Should Bootstrap
Keep control of your company.
Why Microsoft Is Willing to Pay So Much for GitHub
Strategic factors are often more important than purely financial ones.
Great Leaders Don’t Need Experience
The finding: The best leaders tend to be outsiders who don’t have a great deal of experience. The research: Gautam Mukunda studied political, business, and military leaders, categorizing them into two groups: “filtered leaders,” insiders whose careers followed a normal progression; and “unfiltered leaders,” who either were outsiders with little experience or got their jobs […]
It will take years to transform business, but the journey begins now.
The Potential for Blockchain to Transform Electronic Health Records
It could give patients control over their own data.
Global Supply Chains Are About to Get Better, Thanks to Blockchain
We’ll be able to track goods between companies and across borders.
How Utilities Are Using Blockchain to Modernize the Grid
Welcome to a new era of decentralized power.
Blockchain Could Help Musicians Make Money Again
It has the potential to give us a new golden age of music.
The Hidden Advantages of Quiet Bosses
It’s conventional wisdom that’s supported by a decade of academic research: Extroverts make the best leaders. These people—dominant and outgoing—are favored in hiring and promotion decisions, and they’re perceived to be more effective by supervisors and subordinates alike. But our research suggests that in certain situations, an introvert may make the better boss. To be […]
What Makes an Effective Executive
Great managers may be charismatic or dull, generous or tightfisted, visionary or numbers oriented. But every effective executive follows eight simple practices.
Find new ideas and classic advice for global leaders from the world's best business and management experts.
The 4 Types of Innovation and the Problems They Solve
Disruption isn’t the only approach.
The Business of Artificial Intelligence
What it can — and cannot — do for your organization
Find new ideas and classic advice for global leaders from the world's best business and management experts.
Find new ideas and free advice on strategy, innovation and leadership, for global leaders from the world's best business and management experts.
How Blockchain Could Help Emerging Markets Leap Ahead
It could be applied to government, finance, and law.
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