September/October 2022

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Thriving As An Ecosystem Partner
Researching ecosystems that span industries from e-commerce and publishing to semiconductors and healthcare over the past decade, we found companies that have been successful for years by contributing to an ecosystem. Sometimes, by contributing as pa
The European Business Review8 min read
Training Future Leaders Through A Transformational Educational Experience
S P Jain School of Global Management DUBAI • MUMBAI • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY Q Lovely to meet you, Dr Stockport! You had an impressive academic career before becoming the Dean of the EMBA and Professor of Strategy at SP Jain School of Global Management.
The European Business Review6 min read
Sustainable Investment: Marrying Greenness With The Traditional Values
Q Thank you for sitting down with us today, Mr Cisullo! You had quite a career before focusing on “green investing”. Was there a specific moment which influenced you to make this change? A Thank you and, indeed, I already had many years of experience
The European Business Review4 min readLeadership
Women In Transition – Countering Leadership Challenges With Learning
While in the past we saw our careers as ladders to climb, leadership transition opportunities are now plentiful.3 Non-linear leadership paths include the traditional, vertical transition - the step up the ladder. However, many other transition types
The European Business Review7 min read
The Many Colours Of Wisdom: Creating Reflective Leaders
But why is there such a paucity of wisdom? Why do so many very knowledgeable people lack wisdom? And what is wisdom all about? There are no easy answers. Generally speaking, however, looking at the wisdom equation, it pertains to the ability to deter
The European Business Review8 min readLeadership
Sustaining Nonprofits
Nonprofits are at a loss in their quest for professionalisation without competent leadership personnel and their ongoing development. This article draws on recent research findings on the strategic actions of nonprofits with respect to talent and lea
The European Business Review8 min read
Remote Working:
Why your career may not zoom ahead as much as you’d like Within the remote notion, some organisations are allowing workers to be always remote - never come in - while most others have “hybrid” models where workers are in the office only part of the t
The European Business Review7 min read
Laugh And The World Complains To HR: Humour At Work
Comedians themselves are very worried about the massive rise in complaints and threats from all quarters. Satire mocks people and institutions that are too rigid and pompous. It points up stupidity, hypocrisy and social injustice (hoping to promote c
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The Pitfalls Of Flaunting Your Social Status
In life, impressions matter. Whether we’re meeting with a client, attending a class reunion or going on a date, how others perceive us can make or break our goals. Many people wear luxury clothes, watches and handbags to signal their social status or
The European Business Review7 min read
Efficient Decision-making With Eq Skills In Business
In our everyday life, we are constantly faced with different situations that require drastic critical thinking and decisionmaking skills, especially in the business sector. Decision-making can be described as the process of making important decisions
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ON THE NEED TO REINVENT YOUR BUSINESS: Companies' Survival Depends on Different Phases of Development
Organisational leaders are expected to be visionary and inspirational by providing direction and empowering their people to collectively attain the goals the company set out to achieve. Although this view on effective leadership makes much theoretica
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Organising To Address Global Customers
Cnsider the following dilemma, based on a real occurrence: As part of its European operations, a major U.S. corporation, Firm A, operates wholly owned subsidiaries in, among other countries, both Germany and France. All country managers are expected
The European Business Review6 min readGlobalization
Managing Geopolitical Risk Under Uncertainty
Macroeconomic conflict and geopolitical volatility were among the top five threats to growth anticipated by CEOs, according to the latest PWC survey, published in January 2022. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February of this year, geopolitical
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Supply Chain Management In A Disruptive Environment
Even since the trade war between the US and China broke out in 2019, few would have expected our globe to become so restless, even up to the present, amid a sequence of major crises such as COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war. Gartner is a UK-based r
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The Power Of Big Tech Platforms Has Gone Too Far
There is a global shift in policies to curb the power of big tech platforms. Europe leads the way with antitrust regulation, but others, such as China, Australia, and the UK, are catching up. Even in the liberal US, there are changes in the regulatio
The European Business Review6 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
CONVERSATIONAL AI IS ASKING FOR ETHICAL OVERSIGHT. How Can Humans Best Answer The Call?
By some estimates, the market for conversational artificial intelligence (AI) technologies will reach $13.9 billion by 2025—and it’s easy to see why.1 Using advanced technologies like affective computing, facial recognition and large transformer mode
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"NET BUTTER OFF?"1: Why Companies Should Scale New, Tech-based Flexible Work Practices
For employees, at least in part, working from home is seen in the same light as that of companion research, which found that work welfare is closely linked to meeting six fundamental human needs through work.2 But despite the large quantity of manage
The European Business Review8 min read
How Middle Managers Can Make Your Company's Innovating Engine Hum
In today’s fast-changing, ultra-competitive business environment, most companies understand the urgency of innovation. We live in a world where unpredictable trends, from global pandemics to climate change, are continually throwing up new problems fo
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The Bias Against Radical Innovation
“Innovation” is possibly the hottest buzzword of the twenty-first century. A quick Google search on it will return almost two billion results1. Amazon alone contains over 70,000 books focusing on innovation2. One recent survey of managers shows that
The European Business Review9 min read
WHY CIRCULAR BUSINESS MODELS ARE SUPERIOR IN THE 2030s
The “born-circular” are companies designed for circular economy business models and have brought circularity into all the steps of product life and usage cycles. Just as “born-digital” companies have disrupted incumbents stuck in their bricks-and-mor
The European Business Review6 min read
Esg Strategy In Action
At 2019’s World Water Week2 in Stockholm, Truke feverishly took notes during a session based on a company guide3 that outlined a step-by-step approach on target setting for water. She felt she had finally found the playbook for Cargill’s water strate
The European Business Review4 min read
Skill-building Towards A Greener Future
This article presents an unprecedented business opportunity emerging from the transition of societies and economies in cities towards net zero. With cities responsible for more than 60 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), Wang and Kalra
The European Business Review32 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
Part Ii: new Outlook, New Educational Curricula, And Proactivity
This paper is Part II of two articles presented in sequence under the same principal heading. The subheading is somewhat different for these two parts, and they are very complementary. As our world, processes, and interconnections move faster in ever

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