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The interplay in jazz starts in an instant and then takes its own route to unexpected results. When members are attuned to the groove – the underlying driving beat of your organization – they feel a sense of purpose, a place to be safe and to do what

Jazz musicians try to redefine mistakes as chances or opportunities. In order for your own organization’s performance to succeed, allow, embrace, and welcome mistakes as a learning opportunity. Welcoming mistakes can allow members to tap into their i

Hannes Gurzki is a program director at ESMT Berlin and passionate about topics of luxury, branding, marketing, sales, strategy, and creative leadership. He is passionate about exploring the symbiosis of arts and business. He studied business administ

[1] Ormazabal, G. (2016). Risk oversight: What every director should know. IESEInsight, issue 28 1st Quarter. [2] Derisbourg, Y. (1993). Monsieur Honda. Paris: Editions Robert Laffont. [3] Kotter, J.P. (1997). Matsushita Leadership. Lessons from the

Pedro B. Agua is a Weapons and Electronics Engineer, and currently a Professor of General Management at the Portuguese Naval Academy and Senior Teaching Fellow at AESE Business School in Lisbon. Professor Agua has authored many articles and book chap

As founder and CEO of The DPO Centre, Rob Masson is actively driving innovation, transformation and thought leadership in data protection and privacy. With over 30 years of business experience, Rob has been involved in delivering solutions to some of

Behaviours needed from leaders and organisational cultures that should be created now for hybrid workplaces can be examined through the 5 Levels of The Management Shift framework (Figure 1): This 5-Level Model shows that there are 5 Levels that our

With over 15 years experience in leadership development across the globe, designing, developing, facilitating, and coaching across the leadership pipeline, Windy Tshepiso Maledu is passionate about coaching, leadership and behavioural change. As a Se

David De Cremer is a Provost’s chair and professor in management and organizations at NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. He is the founder and director of the Center on AI Technology for Humankind at NUS Business school. Before mo

Promoting curiosity to facilitate identifying multiple uses of knowledge and products already available is an important ability for any company when dealing with change and disruption. The establishment of WeLink as a digital platform in the office o

Hubert Etienne is a Ph.D candidate in philosophy at Ecole Normale Supérieure and Facebook AI Research. He is a lecturer in data economics at HEC Paris and a lecturer in AI ethics at Sciences Po, Polytechnique and ESCP Europe. J. Mark Munoz is a Pro

1 a rise in supply, increasing the number of substitutes and dragging prices down 2 better access to information through consumer watch, aggregation and comparison platforms, and information access facilitators (e.g., Yuka) 3 world-scale platforms

1. https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/06/08/covid-19-to-plunge-global-economy-into-worst-recession-since-world-war-ii 2. https://voxeu.org/article/recovery-and-reconstruction-europe-after-wwii 3. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/

Anna Saghabalyan was Director of Communications for a Canadian mining company working in Armenia from 2012-2020. Prior to that she was Head of Communications for an Armenia-based NGO, The Civilitas Foundation. She spent 10 years as senior corresponde

Francine Espinoza Petersen is Associate Professor of Marketing at HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne and an academic partner of HEC Lausanne’s Swiss Center for Luxury Research (SCLR). Her research focuses on consumer emotions and well-being. Her wo

Dr Mike Cooray is a Professor of Strategy & Transformation at Ashridge Executive Education at Hult International Business School. Mike is an Academic Director on the MBA and Executive Masters Programmes and designs and delivers multiple digital trans

• What works for us? After a few months, is it still working, what else could we do? • Are we all being heard? What exactly are our practices and ways of working helping or hindering? • What counts as professional practice for us here? • What are we

Chris Nichols is co-founder of the specialist systems change consulting firm GameShift, Over the past three decades he has worked in public service, consulting, finance and academia. His work brings creative provocation and spiritual practice to the

The typical rationale put forward for failing digital transformation is linked to ill-designed processes, absence of organizational commitment, and poor digital skills. There are obvious operational mistakes--but one more insidious form of failure is

Nicolas van Zeebroeck is a professor of digital economics and strategy at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He serves on Belgium’s High Council for Employment and as Advisor to the Presiden

Rosario (Roy) Girasa is Distinguished Professor of Pace University and has been a professor of law in the Lubin School of Business on the Pleasantville, NY campus since 1980. He holds four degrees: a BS and PhD from Fordham University, an MLA from Jo

1 For a detailed discussion of blockchain and artificial intelligence, see Rosario Girasa’s Regulation of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technologies, Palgrave Macmillan (2018), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a Disruptive Technology: Economic T

Imène Brigui, associate professor and researcher at emlyon business school, holds a PhD in Computer Science from Paris Dauphine University. Her research areas focus on Artificial Intelligence and in particular Intelligent Agents. During more than 15

1. Sneader K. and Singhal S., (2021). “The next normal arrives: Trands that will define 2021 – and beyond”, Mc Kinsey & Company, January. 2. Holz R., (2009). “An Investigation into Off-shoring and Back-shoring in the German Automotive Industry”, PhD

Luigi Gentili is a sociologist, professor of Brand economy and Media studies at the Pantheon Institute, Design & Technology of Rome. He is also the president of CEIMA, Centre for the Study of Managerial Innovation. He has worked with various business

Aftermath the worldwide corona-virus pandemic explosion, many international companies have decided to repatriate their productive activities. Offshoring, practised for more than 20 years, seems to be outdated. Recent research carried out by McKinsey

Aaron van Klyton (PhD, King’s College London) is assistant professor of international business at Ramapo College of New Jersey and visiting professor on the PhD Business Management Programme at the University of San Buenaventura-Cali, Colombia. He co

Kyle Scott, PhD, MBA has previously written for The European Business Review and other publications including Forbes, Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post and dozens of other news outlets and trade publications. Kyle has authored five books wit

Listening is part of jazz performance, and much more of its development originates in listening. Nurture and model a culture of listening as a value. In this, you establish a practice for listening for, dealing with, and building on the unexpected. W