I’m a great admirer of Emergent Futures Lab and regularly read their insightful posts and other content (you can sign up for their weekly newsletter here). Volume 193 of their newsletter challenges the dominant ‘Heroic Model of Creativity’ that shapes much Western creative practice.
I spent the first three days of this week in Berlin facilitating a seminar focused on building individual reflective practices. As always, the opportunity to work with global creative leaders was inspiring...
The promise that AI will automatically and democratically boost everyone’s creative work isn’t automatically true, according to rigorous research from USC, Temple University, and Sichuan University scholars.
Scott Taylor and his Babson College colleagues differentiate entrepreneurial leadership from traditional leadership by revealing its psychophysiological foundations. Their research shows that entrepreneurial leaders...
Eleanor Wiske Dillon and her Microsoft Research colleagues’ six-month study of 6,000 workers across 56 companies shows that while AI tools can swiftly boost individual productivity – saving users up to three hours a week on email – real transformation demands organizational evolution.
In today’s VUCA environment, the ‘silent killers’ framework still proves that the real enemy of strategic execution isn’t incompetence – it is often silence.
In a live session earlier this week in Paris with Karen Harris, MD of Bain & Company’s Macro-Trends Group, what was to have been an overview of current global economic trends became a focused presentation and discussion of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Earlier this week I attended a reception with Anne-Laure Le Cunff, whose Tiny Experiments offers a refreshing alternative to traditional goal-setting frameworks. Le Cunff, a Franco-Algerian neuroscientist and entrepreneur based in London, details how abandoning linear thinking enabled her to rediscover curiosity and construct a more adaptive path.
The “Cybernetic Teammate” study by Harvard and Wharton researchers with Procter & Gamble reveals how generative AI fundamentally transforms teamwork.
Self-reflection serves as a cornerstone of meaningful and effective leadership, yet as business psychology researchers Kross, Ong, and Ayduk demonstrate, it’s a double-edged sword.
Challenging the superficial understanding of network weaving as a relationship-building soft skill, experience designer and systems thinking expert Adrian Röbke outlines weaving’s deep function as the connective tissue holding adaptable ecosystems of change together and allowing complex challenges to be addressed.
Nearly eight decades ago, Canadian political economist Harold Innis gave a lecture in which he sketched a revolutionary framework for understanding media's impact on civilization, distinguishing between ‘time-biased’ (durable but immobile) and ‘spacebiased’ (portable but ephemeral) communication technologies.
Offering the critical insight that in organizational learning, no one-size-fits-all, INSEAD’s Gianpiero Petriglieri identifies three distinct leadership archetypes that drive learning effectively. ‘Custodians’ create structured boot camps focused on alignment and standardization, ideal for companies undergoing strategic shifts.
In Rethinking Work, former Publicis CGO and long-time creative industry thought leader Rishad Tobaccowala identifies five interconnected forces remaking the world of work: generational shifts as Gen Z enters the workforce,
How do innovative ventures succeed in established fields resistant to change? A fascinating study from two Stanford scholars – one of mission-driven entrepreneurship and international relations (Volmar), and the other of strategy and innovation in organizations (Eisenhardt) – examines two EdTech startups that took radically different approaches to disrupting higher education.
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Innovation thrives in the unknown. Discussing his new book, Uncertainty and Enterprise: Venturing Beyond the Known, Columbia professor Amar Bhidé makes a compelling case for embracing uncertainty rather than trying to eliminate it through statistical models.
At a Media Summit in Paris this week, the plans repeated by several of Europe’s most respected and influential journalistic and media brands involved extending their reach across new publications, channels, and specialized products.
The longtime University of Michigan Ross School professor has, with a collaborator, Chester Elton, looked beyond conventional tools and audits to pose one simple question about leadership: How often does someone leave an interaction with this leader feeling better (or worse) about themselves?
The longtime Stanford GSB professor has written three books about power that argue how, particularly in the world of management and work, leaders should act on things as they are rather than as they naively wish they were.
The VIA Institute on Character has grown out of the Positive Psychology sub-field of psychological research. It focuses on character strengths (and their foundational virtues) as bases for deeper self-understanding, growth, and fulfillment.
While vital to our understanding of learning and growth, “mindsets” are increasingly made to serve as elastic and abstract catch-all’s for discussions about how to drive the change and improvement of individuals and groups.
