A faster path to intelligence
Rod Collins | 13 Nov 2019
If AI applications can be designed as collective intelligence systems, they may be able to help us move past the rancid divisiveness and entrenched thinking that prevents us from solving our most pressing problems.
The business five principles of Mars
James M. Kerr
Quality, responsibility, mutuality, efficiency and freedom are the foundation of a company culture that has endured through generations of candy-loving kids, big and small.
Embracing the paradoxes of leadership
Ella Miron-Spektor
In today’s organisations, demands, goals and expectations are dynamic, complex and interconnected. That’s why we need to move from an ‘either/or’ to a ‘both/and’ view of priorities.
How artificial intelligence will transform human thinking
Rod Collins
Will AI benefit mankind or could it lead to the end of the human race? A better understanding of the relationship between human thinking and AI may shed some light on this great uncertainty.
Why business strategy needs to be more than perfume
Daniel Deneffe
Many ‘grand’ business strategies are well-packaged and smell great. But what ultimately determines the success of a business isn’t strategy but something much more simple: the choices that customers make to buy or not to buy.
How to tell if you're mansplaining
David Livermore | 17 Sep 2019
Are mansplaining and its close cousin, whitesplaining, real things or are they just more pop psychology terms? David Livermore interviews Dr Amy Heaton to find out.
The new rules for how business works
Rod Collins
Whether we like it or not, the digital revolution has completely rewritten the rules of how the world works. And even more disconcertingly for those who want to hold onto the old rules, this revolution is only just getting started.
Three inconvenient truths about corruption
Marc Le Menestrel
Any definition of corruption that does not include your own actions is a self-protective fantasy. So having honest, adult conversations about corruption requires accepting that none of us is ethically pure.
The Connected Manager
Mapping the power in your organization
21 Oct 2019
Forget job titles, do you know who has the real power in your organization and who has real influence where it matters most?
Getting feedback from a virtual audience
10 Sep 2019
Speaking to large groups on-line can be deeply disconcerting. Why? Because even in a lecture-type presentation, you get all kinds of feedback. But doing it virtually feels like you’re talking into a void.
Podcasts
Long Distance Leadership
What Matters
We talk to our old friend and long-time Management-Issues columnist, Wayne Turmel, about his book “The Long Distance Leader - Rules for Remarkable Long Distance Leadership”.
Hot Topics
Creativity & Innovation
Improve your personal creativity and help organizations do the same.
Customer Service
Because good service starts with good management.
Leadership
Have we learned anything new about leadership over the past few decades?
Team Building
How to put the "we" into a team.
The Change Challenge
Most change initiatives fail to deliver. Here's why.
Interviews
The geopolitics of the steppes
Jean-François Fiorina, Associate-Dean of Grenoble Ecole de Management, talks to Central Asian specialist, writer and explorer, René Cagnat, about the changing geopolitics of a vast region of the globe that is often overlooked.
It’s a fake! Countering the counterfeiters
Counterfeiting has become a global epidemic. Pierre Delval, one of the world’s leading authorities on counterfeiting, talks to Jean-François Fiorina, Associate-Dean of Grenoble Ecole de Management, about the scale of problem and the measures we need to take to combat it.