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Future of work and learning expert Kelly Palmer shows businesses how to better train employees in an economy facing a critical skills gap.
Transform your business strategy with the work of these exceptional thought leaders.
On episode 23 of the Minds Worth Meeting podcast, Harvard’s Gary Pisano argues that big business can innovate as well as startups – provided they understand strategy and culture.
To get a seat at the table, women need to have confidence in themselves and the courage to stand up for what they deserve – and for each other.
Our clients aren’t just in the news. They are the news.
2018 was a rollercoaster ride for business. These four books are sure to put your organization back on solid ground.
What are the biggest obstacles to driving your company’s transformation? Too often, leaders think of the barriers purely in terms of technical or strategic issues. But Nathan Furr, INSEAD professor…
What is the biggest obstacle to large companies innovating and disrupting their industries? It may be perception. In an era where entrepreneurs are romanticized, we have become conditioned to believe…
In the bestselling book “New Power,” Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms offer a remarkable new way to harness power in a digitally connected world.
In a new book, leadership expert Hal Gregersen reveals how asking better questions will solve your most vexing problems, while creating innovative cultures.
Leadership is an all-encompassing challenge. These sessions will help turn problems into opportunities for personal and organizational growth.
Hal Gregersen shows how emerging technology can not only solve problems but prompt new questions and drive innovation.
To transform business and society, update your library with this list of thought leaders’ published and upcoming literature.
NEW to Stern: Dunkin’ Brands CEO Nigel Travis challenges convention in an endlessly disruptive international marketplace.
In a Harvard Business Review article, Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria reveal how executive leaders can allocate time efficiently, and maximize productivity.
In Forbes, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen look beyond company structure to get at the heart of what makes for a dynamic enterprise: leadership.
Stew Friedman offers a practical framework to bring harmony to your busy life and improve performance as a leader in all parts of it.
In a society that seeks answers to problems, Hal Gregersen reveals the creative power of inquiry.
Jeff Thomson, CEO of IMA, talks to Minds Worth Meeting about innovation, certification and the future of accounting.
Minds Worth Meeting converses with leadership expert and MIT professor Hal Gregersen, who discusses problem-led leadership and how it is changing the world.
Innovation guru Hal Gregersen has interviewed more than 200 CEOs across industries and from around the world. His discovery? A parallel crucial to reimagining business…
Companies struggle with innovation, and Greg Bernarda believes he knows why. They’re still operating in the 20th century, a world where exploitation – executing and scaling products and services in known environments – is key currency for success. To compete in the 21st century, companies need to…
Most of us spend our entire life looking for the right answers – from the first day of school until retirement, success is measured by answers. But the real value of those answers is based on the quality of the questions. Good questions inspire deep thinking and…
Hal Gregersen, executive director of the MIT Leadership Center, has spent more than a decade studying the world’s most successful business leaders. One of his most important findings: sometimes being successful means being quiet.
As a leader, how insulated are you? CEOs and other leaders can easily slip inside a bubble created by their own power and prestige. Outside this bubble are critical ideas and information, including small bellwether changes that signal big market shifts. Hal Gregersen, Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center, has a solution; in his words, “Innovative executives deliberately put themselves into situations where they may be unexpectedly wrong, unusually uncomfortable, and uncharacteristically quiet.”
Leaders are expected to have all the right answers. But getting those answers means asking the right questions. And the higher one climbs, the harder it becomes to ask these questions. How can you overcome this dilemma? Start early – establish bubble-bursting habits now to help surface the information you need tomorrow. Hal Gregersen, Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center, has recently shared tools in the Harvard Business Review that you can use today.
Two Harvard Business School professors apply their expertise to read the transition of candidacy to administration.
Are you living according to your values? Do you wish you had a better balance in your life? According to Wharton professor Stew Friedman, the world’s leading work/life integration expert, “It starts with three principles: be real, be whole, and be innovative.”
“We don’t often think of leaders as artisans, but like good craftspeople, good leaders go about their work thoughtfully and purposefully.” It’s an insightful comparison gleaned from Hal Gregersen’s experiences as a leadership advisor and as the mentee of a master craftsman, National Geographic photographer Sam Abell.
Is family a source of career conflict for you? Stew Friedman, the world’s leading work/life integration expert, would take that bet. But more than ever, he says, it’s not spouses and children causing the most angst – it’s mothers and fathers…
It’s pretty much fact: the world around us is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. These VUCA forces are recasting industries, companies and entire societies with lightning speed. Leadership, however, is…
We all talk about it. Most of us aspire to it; few of us, if any, ever achieve it. Some believe it’s something granted by employers. Others see it as…
It’s a service-driven world. The vast majority of the global workforce provides services. We rely on them; every day, we engage with any number of value-based services, from airlines and…
As the U.S. infrastructure crisis reaches a fever pitch in news coverage, public opinion and the next election cycle, Harvard’s Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s new book Move: Putting America’s Infrastructure Back…
If there’s one thing Americans can agree on, it’s the sorry state of our country’s infrastructure. We’re stuck, quite literally, and the inability to move affects every aspect of business…
Innovation is a top priority for enterprises around the world. The quickening pace of technological change and mounting pressure of global competition are helping fuel the urgency. But leaders can’t…
In the life of any organization, few events are as critical, visible or stressful as leadership changes. Yet, succession planning is rarely a priority, and too often given shorter shrift….
The world is in the throes of perpetual and permanent crisis – political, financial, ethical, health. Leadership, says Harvard University’s Ronald Heifetz, is both the problem and solution. It’s dangerous…
The leadership model is broken – and an entire generation of potential leaders is on the verge of falling through the cracks. Today’s organizations simply aren’t suited to thrive through…
There is no shortage of criticism for the financial sector, particularly in the incessant wake of the 2008 economic crisis. Yet, Wall Street’s size and profit continues to swell, and…
Advances in technology grant individuals more freedom than ever, yet businesses continue to take it away—stifling it by adhering to outdated, inflexible, top-down, command-and-control styles of management. And it’s to…
Gen Xers are moving into corner offices. Boomers are seeking ‘encore careers’ to extend their work life beyond retirement. Millennials are struggling to capture their career mojo in a still…
Sure, every single business and sector is being disrupted. But where will we find the vision, creativity, and leadership to innovate to address this? That’s where Rosabeth Moss Kanter comes…
Turbulence is the world’s new normal. No longer should we continue contemplating, “What does it all mean?” but instead start seriously preparing for and expecting the unexpected. What we need,…
The title of CEO does not make a true leader. After all, there is an immense difference between being in power and having power. As the world becomes increasingly interconnected…
