Are you too optimistic?
There is a whole industry built around the power of positive thinking, but it is also important for leaders to be realists....
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China’s succession panic is a wake-up call for families everywhere
Many Chinese entrepreneurs who set up businesses during the economic liberalization of the late 1970s and 1980s are nearing retirement age without a willing or well-prepared family heir. It’s a timely reminder...
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Has your family business changed to reflect the times?
Many families are making the sometimes difficult decision to pivot from their core business models and transform them into purpose-driven ones. Leveraging your assets for the greater good isn’t just good business,...
The CEO’s post-pandemic survival guide: ESG targets take center stage
CEO turnover is rising after a COVID lull as boards place corporate culture and social responsibility at the heart of performance criteria, equal to shareholder value creation....
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Protecting us against the financial fallout of COVID’s sequel: the reinsurance industry has its work cut out
The CEO of reinsurance firm Hannover Re is encouraging his staff to draw on the right side of the brain to model various unthinkable future scenarios, potentially as disruptive as COVID-19. ...
Adopt an entrepreneurial mindset to take responsibility and capture the opportunities presented by the climate emergency
Professors from IMD and Oxford Saïd Business School explore the opportunities and risks presented to executives as they transform their businesses on the road to decarbonization....
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