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Manage agility
May 18, 2018, 11:06 PM IST
By Baba Prasad The future [belongs to] what I call the intelligence-driven company. Look at agility from the intelligence perspective. In psychology, we no longer talk about IQ; we talk about what is called multiple…
May 18, 2018, 11:06 PM IST
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Design choice
May 17, 2018, 11:04 PM IST
By Richard Thaler The organising principle of nudge is something we call choice architecture. Choice architecture is something that can apply in any company. How are we framing the options for people? How is that…
May 17, 2018, 11:04 PM IST
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Markets Designed
May 11, 2018, 11:00 PM IST
By MICHAEL SANDEL Nobody likes to wait in line. Sometimes, you can pay to jump the queue. It’s long been known that, in fancy restaurants, a handsome tip to the maître d’ can shorten the wait…
May 11, 2018, 11:00 PM IST
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Native Wisdom
May 10, 2018, 11:11 PM IST
By DEREK LIDOW By opening day, the team felt fried. For two weeks, they had worked long hours to get Sam Walton’s second Walmart ready. Rebuilding and installing old fixtures salvaged from a store recently gone…
May 10, 2018, 11:11 PM IST
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Managing Sensibly
May 7, 2018, 11:11 PM IST
By DAN CABLE When you’re a leader — no matter how long you’ve been in your role or how hard the journey was to get there — you are merely overhead unless you’re bringing out the…
May 7, 2018, 11:11 PM IST
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On digital giants
May 4, 2018, 11:00 PM IST
By Martin Reeves The US West Coast and the east coast of China are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalisation. The leading…
May 4, 2018, 11:00 PM IST
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Managing Strategy
May 3, 2018, 11:11 PM IST
The goal of most strategy discussions is to approve or reject a single proposal brought into the room, suggesting different options.
May 3, 2018, 11:11 PM IST
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Corporate Mindfulness
April 28, 2018, 6:47 AM IST
By JAN-PHILIPP MARTINI Mindfulness is a centuries-old idea that has been reinvented to address the challenges of our digital age. In essence, mindfulness describes a state of being present in the moment and leaving behind one’s…
April 28, 2018, 6:47 AM IST
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Managing collections
April 26, 2018, 11:02 PM IST
By Arvind Govindarajan Et Al The global credit environment absorbed the effects of the financial crisis at varying speeds from market to market. In some places, loss rates have remained relatively high since 2008-09; in…
April 26, 2018, 11:02 PM IST
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Legally speaking
April 23, 2018, 10:51 PM IST
By Sandra Day O’ Connor What is it like working at the Supreme Court? Because I never dreamed that I would end up where I am, I had no preconceived ideas about the job upon…
April 23, 2018, 10:51 PM IST
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It’s all deep learning
April 20, 2018, 11:25 PM IST
By MICHAEL CHUI ET AL Artificial intelligence (AI) stands out as a transformational technology of our digital age — and its practical application throughout the economy is growing apace. Neural networks are a subset of machine…
April 20, 2018, 11:25 PM IST
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Managing Talent
April 16, 2018, 11:22 PM IST
By MIKE BARRIERE ET AL To understand how difficult it is for senior leaders to link their companies’ business and talent priorities, consider the blind spot of a CEO we know. When asked to identify the…
April 16, 2018, 11:22 PM IST
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On leading change
April 13, 2018, 11:41 PM IST
Randall Peterson Poor board oversight comes at a cost…The risks are clear. But what is shaping decision-making in the boardroom today? Three pressing themes emerge: disruption, digitisation, diversity. Chairs must become capable of responding effectively…
April 13, 2018, 11:41 PM IST
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Banking risks, returns
April 12, 2018, 11:22 PM IST
William Diamond When you put your money in the bank, you want to know it’s there. If you’re going to make a transaction and swipe your card, you want to be sure that money is…
April 12, 2018, 11:22 PM IST
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Act local, think global
April 9, 2018, 11:20 PM IST
The SDGs are about more inclusive growth, better social development and better consideration for environment and climate change issues.
April 9, 2018, 11:20 PM IST
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Masterful strategy
April 6, 2018, 11:04 PM IST
By Gianpiero Petriglieri In a fluid world of work, sociologist Anthony Giddens once wrote, “the capacity to keep a particular narrative going” is what gives us an identity. We might grow up being told that we…
April 6, 2018, 11:04 PM IST
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Numbers gaming
April 5, 2018, 10:58 PM IST
By Jerry Muller The focus on measured “performance outcomes” is related to abroad way of thinking about organisational life that emerged from business schools and business gurus. It substitutes managerialism for management. Managerialism is the…
April 5, 2018, 10:58 PM IST
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Urban data governance
March 29, 2018, 11:04 PM IST
WALTRAUT RITTER As nearly every major city in the world is developing some form of ‘smartification’ strategy, and vendors and service providers are lining up at the offices of urban decision-makers, a key question about…
March 29, 2018, 11:04 PM IST
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Banking on change
March 26, 2018, 10:49 PM IST
By Danilo Gargiulo et al From the perspective of the markets, it appears to be a great time for US banks. The industry’s return to shareholders has outperformed the broader market 32% versus 22% since…
March 26, 2018, 10:49 PM IST
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Welcome to the future
March 23, 2018, 11:36 PM IST
By Vivek Wadhwa The noted science-fiction writer William Gibson, a favourite of hackers and techies, said in a 1999 radio interview (though apparently not for the first time), “The future is already here; it’s just…
March 23, 2018, 11:36 PM IST
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