Michael R. Wade

Entrepreneurs like to gamble

31 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read

We like to think of successful entrepreneurs as brazen risk-takers, betting everything on a new invention or idea. But take a closer look at their decision-making - and a very different picture...

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Chinese companies don’t innovate

25 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read

For decades, politicians and business leaders in the West have portrayed China as a place where innovations are copied - not created. But has this picture of an “imitation nation” blinded us...

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Leaders are born, not made

18 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read

Over a hundred years ago, the explorer Ernest Shackleton safely led his crew through a series of disasters in one of the world's harshest environments....

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Inside the rebel mind of Google’s AI pioneer

15 March 2021 • by Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, Michael R. Wade in Audio articles • 6 min read

Demis Hassabis created the algorithms that crushed the world’s finest chess and Go players. But now it’s time to get serious as the DeepMind co-founder and CEO takes on his biggest challenge...

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Redefining leadership for a digital age 

11 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade, Andrew Tarling, Rainer Neubauer in Innovation • 2 min read

What does it mean to be an effective leader in an environment characterized by increasing digital disruption? ...

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Management under the microscope

8 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read

The corporate world is full of platitudes about management and leadership that form a kind of accepted wisdom about how things are done in business....

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