READ THE FULL GRAPHIC VERSION Innovation must have purpose, writes Sanyin Siang Google the words ‘innovation and business’ and you’ll get nearly a billion results, showing just how far innovation occupies the minds of business leaders today. And why not? In a volatile, uncertain, chaotic and ambiguous (VUCA) world, the rules that our predecessors operated … Read more
READ THE FULL GRAPHIC VERSION Mike Canning learns how harnessing our imagination holds the key to success In The Origins of Creativity, Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist EO Wilson says, “Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species.” This will certainly be the case in the business world in the 2020s. As the rate of … Read more
READ THE FULL GRAPHIC VERSION Personal growth can only happen if we know who we want to be, says Sanyin Siang “We are not yet what we shall be.” These words, attributed to 16th-century theologian Martin Luther, are among my favourites in offering a mindset for living. They undergird my philosophy as a CEO coach … Read more
READ THE FULL GRAPHIC VERSION Rita Gunther McGrath corrects some incorrect assumptions When the ratio of assumption to knowledge is high, spending a lot of time on elaborate spreadsheets is senseless. Post-Covid-19, assumptions have the upper hand. It’s time to question them all – starting with those about cost-saving and efficiency. A certain kind of … Read more
In this edition of The GC People Leader Series Roxana Radulescu, Founder and Consultant at GC Partner All Personal, talks to Valeria Ponis, Corporate Development Manager at Deloitte Canada, about what it is to be a leader and how her natural proclivities support her in her leadership role. Educated at the University of Rome Tor … Read more
READ THE FULL GRAPHIC VERSION Shared values create a powerful sense of meaning As an immigrant who came to the US at a young age, the word ‘belonging’ holds special meaning for me. Being an immigrant, or in any way a ‘first generation’ in leaving one community and entering another, can be deeply unsettling. You … Read more
READ THE FULL GRAPHIC VERSION To guru, or not to guru? That is the question As academics began to parse rules for what constituted national, international, multinational or global firms, a handful sprang to international fame. It was the rise of the gurus. Michael Porter helped us devise strategies for this world, new to business, … Read more
The old tools don’t work anymore, writes Rita Gunther McGrath [button type=”large” color=”black” rounded=”1″ link=”https://issuu.com/revistabibliodiversidad/docs/full_book_dialogue_q4_2019_final_co/71″ ]READ THE FULL GRAPHIC VERSION[/button] The long postwar period of expansion of the US economy gave us many things. Steady economic growth. Bold new industries that operated on a global scale. The rise of the information worker. And many of … Read more
Rise to greet the unseen hand, writes Liz Mellon [button type=”large” color=”black” rounded=”1″ link=”https://issuu.com/revistabibliodiversidad/docs/full_book_dialogue_q4_2019_final_co/86″ ]READ THE FULL GRAPHIC VERSION[/button] There’s an apocryphal story about a group of monkeys, whose keepers prevent them from reaching a tempting bunch of bananas by spraying them with water. Once the monkeys have learned to keep away from the bananas, … Read more
Piers Cain discovers the dark arts of getting ahead [button type=”large” color=”black” rounded=”1″ link=”https://issuu.com/revistabibliodiversidad/docs/full_book_dialogue_q4_2019_final_co/85″ ]READ THE FULL GRAPHIC VERSION[/button] How far would you go to get a promotion? Would you take credit for another’s work? Steal their ideas? Double-cross someone who has gone out of their way to help you? Lie? Betray a friend? Leave … Read more