Energy economics expert Michael Pollitt explains why the most muscular solutions to the world’s energy transition are global.
Many would chalk up these differences to culture, the seemingly nebulous and hard-to-control factor that contributes to business success. Our work over the last three decades has centered on culture.
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Confidence is down. Pressure is up. In this episode of our Take on Tomorrow podcast, we are on the ground in Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, and we ask what it takes to ...
Leadership is not just for leaders anymore. Top companies are beginning to understand that sustaining peak performance requires a firm-wide commitment to developing leaders that is tightly aligned to ...
Almost every business today faces major strategic challenges. The path to creating value is seldom clear. In an ongoing global survey of senior executives conducted by Strategy&, PwC’s strategy ...
During the 1990s, no company was more identified with best practice in managing change than General Electric, and few outsiders were more identified with GE’s success than Noel M. Tichy. Between 1985 ...
A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2021 issue of strategy+business. In the blink of an eye, COVID-19 disrupted the business environment and illuminated a profound, sometimes overlooked ...
Each year, the Academy of Management recognizes one of the world’s most influential chief executives by inviting that person to keynote its annual meeting. When Zhang Ruimin gave the address in 2013, ...
A version of this article appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of strategy+business. Leaders today are well aware that their organization’s culture is an asset that must be managed with purpose and care.
A version of this article appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of strategy+business. “Everything went quiet.” That’s how one manager described the workplace immediately after his company announced a ...