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When you design for pure self-organisation, you usually don’t achieve it. Here’s what’s missing.

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Accrual accounting can help offset seasonal cash flow swings to give a more accurate picture of firm performance.

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As a concerned boss, colleague or friend, what can you do?

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The question isn’t whether quantum computing works, it’s whether your business is ready when it does.

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Before jumping into decision analysis, leaders must first articulate their purpose.

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Leadership & Organisations

Can Leaders Count on Self-Organisation?

Phanish Puranam

When you design for pure self-organisation, you usually don’t achieve it. Here’s what’s missing.

Economics & Finance

What Earnings Reveal That Cash Flow Hides

Martin Kapons

Accrual accounting can help offset seasonal cash flow swings to give a more accurate picture of firm performance.
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Leadership & Organisations

Looking Out for the Burnt-Out One

Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries

As a concerned boss, colleague or friend, what can you do?

Operations

Quantum’s Transistor Moment

INSEAD Knowledge

The question isn’t whether quantum computing works, it’s whether your business is ready when it does.

Strategy

Don't Run the Numbers Until You Know Why

E. Soyer, I. Tsetlin

Before jumping into decision analysis, leaders must first articulate their purpose.

Responsibility

Why Some People Notice Inequality and Others Don't

J. W. K. Pow, A. J. Yap, C. Chen, K. Nault

Global measures indicate that inequality is at a record high – but that's not how most people experience it day to day.

Responsibility

Why Europe’s Rearmament Depends on Energy Sovereignty

H. Huibregsten, T. Van Zandt

Spending more on defence while remaining dependent on imported fossil fuels risks deepening the continent’s vulnerability.

Leadership & Organisations

How Boards Adapt to Owner Dynamics

Massimo Massa

A board’s oversight of a firm and its leadership is fundamentally shaped by owners’ interests.

Leadership & Organisations

What "Creative Differences" Really Means

Spencer Harrison

Two words appear in entertainment headlines more than almost any other excuse, but are they doing more harm than good?
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Leadership & Organisations

What AI Adoption in Global Firms Really Looks Like

R. Aggarwal, M. Stabile

AI is transforming organisations in theory, but the real battle is making it work in practice.

Leadership & Organisations

The Childhood Roots of Excessive Work

Lily Fang

Plus other findings about hedonistic pleasure, insider trading, how organisations should recentralise and more.

Operations

How to Make the Most Out of Value-Based Healthcare

S. Chick, S. Hasjia, S. Zorc

The effectiveness of basing healthcare reimbursement policies on health outcomes lies in the ability to align diverse incentives. That’s why contract design matters.

Leadership & Organisations

Can Leaders Count on Self-Organisation?

Phanish Puranam

When you design for pure self-organisation, you usually don’t achieve it. Here’s what’s missing.

Leadership & Organisations

Looking Out for the Burnt-Out One

Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries

As a concerned boss, colleague or friend, what can you do?

Strategy

Don't Run the Numbers Until You Know Why

E. Soyer, I. Tsetlin

Before jumping into decision analysis, leaders must first articulate their purpose.

Leadership & Organisations

How Boards Adapt to Owner Dynamics

Massimo Massa

A board’s oversight of a firm and its leadership is fundamentally shaped by owners’ interests.

Leadership & Organisations

What "Creative Differences" Really Means

Spencer Harrison

Two words appear in entertainment headlines more than almost any other excuse, but are they doing more harm than good?
1 comment

Leadership & Organisations

What AI Adoption in Global Firms Really Looks Like

R. Aggarwal, M. Stabile

AI is transforming organisations in theory, but the real battle is making it work in practice.

Leadership & Organisations

The Childhood Roots of Excessive Work

Lily Fang

Plus other findings about hedonistic pleasure, insider trading, how organisations should recentralise and more.

Strategy

The AI Maturity Pyramid

V. F. He, P. Puranam

Why AI transformation starts at the bottom.
1 comment

Leadership & Organisations

What Does a Board Member Actually Do?

Annet Aris

Good governance isn’t just a compliance exercise; it’s what makes or breaks a company.
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Leadership & Organisations

21 Questions About CEO Succession

Stanislav Shekshnia

A new book can help organisations focus on the right issues and nail this fraught process.

Leadership & Organisations

When AI Starts to Think for Itself

INSEAD Knowledge

The question isn’t what the machines are capable of, but whether leaders are keeping up.

Career

AI and the Future of Executive Coaching

Nadav Klein

What the technology delivers and what only humans can provide.