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  • How Remote Work Changes Design Thinking ^ SR0368

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    How Remote Work Changes Design Thinking

    By Daniel Wentzel Alice Minet Stefan Raff-Heinen Janina Garbas

    When designers are developing new product concepts, collaborating in person with product testers and other team members is often the best option. But using digital tools to collect people's input remotely might be a better alternative - sometimes...

    March 11, 2025
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  • The Hidden Battle for IP Protection in Alliances ^ SR0367

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    The Hidden Battle for IP Protection in Alliances

    By Jens-Christian Friedmann Dovev Lavie Linda Rademaker Andrew Shipilov

    Strategic alliances are crucial for accessing specialized resources and knowledge. But a partner may exploit proprietary information or use predatory means to access it, leading to intellectual property (IP) loss. To protect their IP, companies must...

    March 11, 2025
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  • The Way to Net Zero: Reducing Emissions Takes Teamwork ^ SR0366

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    The Way to Net Zero: Reducing Emissions Takes Teamwork

    By Martin Glaum Alexander Gerybadze Thomas Muller-Kirschbaum Ralph Schweens

    Reducing industrial greenhouse gas emissions to meet climate targets is a difficult challenge, but business transformations by chemical sector giants BASF and Henkel show that progress is possible. While both companies have separately made numerous...

    March 06, 2025
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  • Amid DEI Rollbacks, Champion Allyship ^ SR0365

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    Amid DEI Rollbacks, Champion Allyship

    By Meg A Warren

    As businesses face pressure to roll back DEI initiatives, maintaining an inclusive workplace matters more than ever. Research points to practical ways in which leaders and managers can preserve inclusion, which can help companies stay competitive while...

    March 05, 2025
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  • More Human: A New Leadership Paradigm Emerges ^ ROT516

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    More Human: A New Leadership Paradigm Emerges

    By Rasmus Hougaard Jacqueline Carter

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) has placed leaders at the helm of a crucial decision: Will AI create an era of mechanical, impersonal efficiency or will it catalyze a human-centric renaissance, redefining leadership itself? The authors argue that this can...

    May 01, 2025
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  • AI Ethics Strategy Lessons From H&M Group ^ SR0372

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    AI Ethics Strategy Lessons From H&M Group

    By Martin Kornberger Elmira van den Broek Stephan Leixnering

    You can't approach AI ethics with only formal procedures, say leaders at global retailer H&M Group. So to help build its collective moral compass, the company has built a culture of AI ethics based on experimentation. Its AI ethics training emphasizes...

    March 31, 2025
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  • Why the Law Against Business Bribes Is Good for Business ^ SR0371

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    Why the Law Against Business Bribes Is Good for Business

    By Michael H. Posner

    The Trump administration's suspension of enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act threatens a law that has protected U.S. businesses for nearly 50 years. Enacted with strong business support, the FCPA sets clear prohibitions against bribery and...

    March 17, 2025
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  • How to Strategize in an Out-of-Control World ^ SR0370

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    How to Strategize in an Out-of-Control World

    By Adam Job Nikolaus S. Lang Ulrich Pidun Martin Reeves

    Increasingly, politics is a generator of surprises that reverberate in boardrooms around the world. But political risk is a special kind of risk for business leaders to manage. This article explores the current realities of political risk, strategies...

    March 10, 2025
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  • Building One KPI to Rule Them All ^ SR0364

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    Building One KPI to Rule Them All

    By Omri Morgenshtern Tarik Fadil

    Travel site Agoda set out to create a new key performance indicator that could help it monitor and align progress on its strategic goals. The KPI also needed to help the business development team make better decisions that factored in a large number of...

    March 05, 2025
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  • When Your Go-To Leadership Style Stops Working ^ H08QZN

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    When Your Go-To Leadership Style Stops Working

    By Nihar Chhaya

    In any leadership role, your style of engaging others plays a significant part in determining success, sometimes even more than the subject matter of the work. And when your style suddenly loses its desired impact, it can be hard to know how to shift it...

    May 30, 2025
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  • The Risks of Collecting Employees' Biometric Data ^ H08QRZ

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    The Risks of Collecting Employees' Biometric Data

    By Andrew Park Jan Kietzmann Jay Killoran

    Companies use these programs to increase safety and productivity-but run the risk of harming employee engagement, trust, and mental health.

    May 29, 2025
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  • To Create Value with AI, Improve the Quality of Your Unstructured Data ^ H08QX8

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    To Create Value with AI, Improve the Quality of Your Unstructured Data

    By Thomas H. Davenport Roger W Hoerl Thomas C. Redman

    To improve how businesses use unstructured data, leaders should follow a series of steps that begin by addressing unstructured data quality issues, identifying and assessing the data to be used, and assembling the right team to manage it all. From there,...

    May 28, 2025
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  • The Right Way to Implement Stretch Assignments ^ H08QTQ

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    The Right Way to Implement Stretch Assignments

    By Shannon K Gilmartin Samantha Brunhaver Sara Jordan Bloch Gabriela Gall Caroline Simard Sheri D Sheppard

    Make the value and rewards clear, consistent, and accessible.

    May 28, 2025
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  • Can AI Agents Be Trusted? ^ H08QI3

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    Can AI Agents Be Trusted?

    By Blair Levin Larry Downes

    As these agents gain decision-making power, they also introduce significant risks.

    May 26, 2025
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  • How to Rescue a Failing Strategy ^ H08QTW

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    How to Rescue a Failing Strategy

    By George Bene Jason McDannold Beth Musumeci

    Four moves that will buy you time, create options, and protect you against the worst.

    May 23, 2025
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  • How to Delegate to Someone Who Doesn't Report to You ^ H08QO6

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    How to Delegate to Someone Who Doesn't Report to You

    By Melody Wilding

    The higher you rise in an organization, the more your success depends on delivering results through people who dont report to you, namely your peers. Delegating across means managing egos, politics, and invisible dynamics. Here are practical strategies...

    May 22, 2025
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  • Agentic AI Is Already Changing the Workforce ^ H08QBY

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    Agentic AI Is Already Changing the Workforce

    By Jen Stave Ryan Kurt John Winsor

    AI agents are fast becoming much more than just sidekicks for human workers. Theyre becoming digital teammates-an emerging category of talent. To get the most out of these new teammates, leaders in HR and procurement will need to start developing an...

    May 22, 2025
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  • How Gen AI Could Disrupt SaaS-and Change the Companies That Use It ^ H08QLK

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    How Gen AI Could Disrupt SaaS-and Change the Companies That Use It

    By Deep Nishar Nitin Nohria

    Generative AI is poised to revolutionize enterprise software, transforming traditional workflow systems into dynamic, goal-oriented environments. This shift will redefine how work is designed and executed, offering significant efficiency gains and new...

    May 21, 2025
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  • When the Best Leadership Skill Is Just Being Present ^ H08QLD

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    When the Best Leadership Skill Is Just Being Present

    By Lisa Zigarmi Stella Grizont

    Unlike traditional leadership responses to employees-offering advice, jumping to solutions, or minimizing feelings-attunement is about being with another person instead of trying to fix them or the situation. Its when a leader deeply notices, actively...

    May 19, 2025
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  • How Women in Leadership Can Shape How Others See Them ^ H08ODX

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    How Women in Leadership Can Shape How Others See Them

    By Deepa Purushothaman Colleen Ammerman

    Women in power face a well-documented lose-lose scenario where theyre either seen as competent but cold or likeable but not very effective. What if, instead of waging an unwinnable war against biases and expectations about who they are, women leaders...

    May 19, 2025
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  • Don't Silence Your Inner Critic. Talk to It. ^ H08QKP

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    Don't Silence Your Inner Critic. Talk to It.

    By Ron Carucci

    The most driven, high-performing individuals often harbor the harshest internal dialogue. The data bears this out for leaders, for whom the implications of excessive self-criticism can be far reaching. Its not reasonable to try to banish all self-doubt...

    May 15, 2025
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  • A New Framework for Going Viral ^ H08QFP

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    A New Framework for Going Viral

    By David Dubois

    This research-backed roadmap can help brands proactively unpack, assess, and optimize their content's potential.

    May 14, 2025
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  • How Language Shapes Your Organization ^ H0095B

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    How Language Shapes Your Organization

    By Kevin Allen

    The language that emanates from the executive suite creates "cultural permission" that can be the seeds of greatness...or destruction.

    July 24, 2012
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  • AI Is Great at Routine Tasks. Here's Why Boards Should Resist Using It. ^ H08PTL

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    AI Is Great at Routine Tasks. Here's Why Boards Should Resist Using It.

    By Vincent Bruni Bossio Devan Mescall Regan N Schmidt Anup Srivastava

    AI should be implemented thoughtfully to enhance rather than diminish the strategic influence of board chairs. By identifying key strategic roles and the actions through which leaders exercise the power inherent in their roles, as well as fencing AI...

    May 01, 2025
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  • To Make Your DEI Efforts More Effective, Challenge Outdated Models ^ H08PPX

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    To Make Your DEI Efforts More Effective, Challenge Outdated Models

    By Stephanie Creary Marla Baskerville Y Sekou Bermiss Atira Charles Quinetta Roberson Sean Edmund Rogers Alexis Nicole Smith Flannery Stevens

    Three ways to craft initiatives tailored to your company's context, needs, and strategy.

    April 23, 2025
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