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Ask Sanyin: How Do You Build for an Unpredictable Future?

While the pandemic was a wild ride of uncertainty for me and many of my peers in leadership, it feels like we never regained our footing.

What You Still Can't Say at Work

Most people know what can’t be said in their organization. But leaders can apply these techniques to break through the unwritten rules that make people self-censor.

Make Character Count in Hiring and Promoting

Most managers focus on competencies when evaluating candidates but it’s character that will transform the DNA of the organization. Here’s how to assess it.

Why Influence Is a Two-Way Street

Managers achieve better outcomes when they prioritize collaborative decision-making over powers of persuasion.

Know Your Data to Harness Federated Machine Learning

A collaborative approach to training AI models can yield better results, but it requires finding partners with data that complements your own.

How Integrating DEI Into Strategy Lifts Performance

Incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion practices into core business planning can provide a competitive edge.

The Myth of the Sustainable Consumer

Companies that understand the different kinds of consumers for sustainable products can market to them more effectively.

A Practical Guide to Gaining Value From LLMs

Getting a return from generative AI investments requires a systematic approach to analyzing appropriate use cases.

Improve Workflows by Managing Bottlenecks

Understand whether process or resource constraints are stalling work.

Craft Schedules That Work for Everyone

Business leaders can improve retention and business performance with schedules that make sense for workers’ lives.

Design Work to Prevent Burnout

A new model for improving work design supports change that increases employee engagement and reduces stress.

Leveraging Growth with Business Strategy Formula

In the past few years, the world has become a much more turbulent place as a result of the spread of pandemics, the outbreak of wars, geopolitical upheavals, collapse of the traditional order and the rise of AI.

When Qualified Women Resist the Leader Label

Many women are less likely than men to see themselves as leaders despite their demonstrated abilities.

Does GenAl Impose a Creativity Tax?

LLMs can boost worker productivity, but outputs may reflect less human creativity and originality.

A Better Way to Avoid Project Delays

Many organizations estimate project timelines inaccurately. Working from past project examples, however, can improve on-time completion.

How to Build Diverse Leadership Teams by Enlisting Stakeholders

Make allies of people inside and outside your organization who are invested in strengthening talent pipelines.

Cutting LastMile Delivery Costs

New tactics can boost profitability and satisfaction with subscription services.

Engaging Employees in Growth and Innovation

Bob Stiller founded Green Mountain Coffee Roasters in Waterbury, Vermont, in 1981, serving as CEO and president until 2007 and chairman until 2012.

Avoiding Harm in Technology Innovation

To capitalize on emerging technologies while mitigating unanticipated consequences, innovation managers need to establish a systematic review process.

Make a Stronger Business Case for Sustainability

When greener products and processes add costs, managers can shift other levers to maintain profitability.

How to Turn Professional Services Into Products

Product-based business models can help services firms achieve greater scale and profitability. But the transformation can be challenging.

Do You Really Need a Chief AI Officer?

The right answer depends on the strategic importance and maturity of AI in your company.

Where To Next? Opportunity on the Edge

Doing business in regions considered less stable or developed can pay off for companies. But they must invest in working with local communities.

Make Smarter Investments in Resilient Supply Chains

Many companies invest in resilience only after a disruption. Applying the concept of real options can help decision makers fortify supply chain capabilities no matter the crisis.

The Three Traps That Stymie Reinvention

Organizational identity, architecture, and collaboration can be either assets or liabilities to pursuing growth in new sectors.

What Makes Companies Do the Right Thing?

Vaccine makers varied widely in their engagement with global public health efforts to broaden access to COVID-19 immunizations. Ethically motivated leadership was a dominant factor.

Build the Right C-Suite Team for Your Strategy

CEOs can foster a more effective leadership team by understanding when to tap senior executives' competitive instincts and when to encourage collaboration.

A Better Way to Unlock Innovation and Drive Change

A strengths-based approach to building teams can win employee commitment to change and foster an inclusive, agile culture.

The Four Guardrails That Enable Agility

Large organizations can move as fast as startups if leaders empower employees to act autonomously via well-defined constraints.

How Workplace Safety Improves Performance

OSHA's longest-serving administrator identifies safety approaches that work and those that don't.