Leadership
Lessons Learned From Outside Innovators
Outsiders can spark change by seeing what others miss, offering fresh ideas that need support to thrive.
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Hot Topics for Leaders
- Managing Your Career
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Hot Topics for Leaders
- Managing Your Career
- Leading Change
- Crisis Management
Hot Topics for Leaders
- Managing Your Career
- Leading Change
- Crisis Management
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Talent Management
Five Interview Questions GenAI Can’t Answer
In this short video, a leadership expert shares ways to distinguish real expertise from AI-assisted interview responses.
Innovation Strategy
Why Great Ideas Die on Managers’ Desks — and How to Save Them
When managers build more diverse networks, they’re more likely to recognize the value of employees’ breakthrough ideas.
Skills & Learning
Leaders’ Critical Role in Building a Learning Culture
Leaders’ essential but overlooked role in facilitating learning can be enhanced with this five-part process.
Sustainability
How to Embed Purpose at Every Level
To be effective, corporate purpose must be embedded in an organization and aligned with goals, strategies, and metrics.
Culture
How Leaders Champion Culture: Six Essential Lessons
Learn from six leaders whose records on building a values-driven culture stand out compared with their peers’.
Managing Your Career
A Better Way to Compare Yourself to Colleagues
Self-comparisons can be demoralizing, but strategically comparing yourself against your peers can be a tool for growth.
Collaboration
Why Meetings Need a Constructive Devil’s Advocate
Having someone take on a critical reviewer role can enhance a meeting’s effectiveness and lead to better decisions.
Leadership Skills
Ask Sanyin: Leading Through Uncertainty
This brief video explores practical approaches for supporting teams and finding opportunities amid unpredictability.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
The Great Power Shift: How Intelligent Choice Architectures Rewrite Decision Rights
Agentic AI adopters must proactively address decision rights allocations, power dynamics, and decision-making practices.
AI & Machine Learning
Building a Data-Driven Culture: Four Key Elements
Why is building a data-driven culture incredibly hard? It calls for a behavioral change across the organization.