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How biases, politics and egos trump good strategy?

An insightful blog on cognitive biases and social dynamics during strategy development and execution and highlights how hidden forces unconsciously might sabotage the best-laid strategies and plans

Growth versus Fixed mindset

Individuals who believe their talents can be developed (through hard work, good strategies, and input from others) have a growth mindset. Research reveals that they tend to achieve more than those with a more fixed mindset (those who believe their talents are innate gifts). Find out your current mindset by completing a quick assessment?

How adaptable is your organization?

Adaptable Organizations are living and breathing enterprises organized around networks based on how people work and behave, distributing and maximizing human potential. How adaptable is your organization? Check it out!

The Fearless Organization Scan

Psychological safety is required for team high-performance. The Fearless Organization Scan maps how team members perceive the level of psychological safety in their closest context. 

Results research: ‘Digital-in-the-mind of the CEO’

Highlights on research project ‘Digital-in-the-mind of the CEO’. The report maps the digital readiness of Belgian organizations and shares thoughts, practices, critical success factors and challenges to make them (more) digital ready.

The three altitudes of leadership

Interesting insight relevant for modern business leaders having to combine complex and sometimes contradictory mindsets: global, strategic, tactical, value-creating, intellectual, creative, learning, emotional, pragmatic, process, customer, community and SELF.

11 Leadership Guidelines for the Digital Age

Old ways of running a company won’t cut it in a digital world. This article presents 11 strategic implications and recommendations grouped in three catagories: business environment, organisation and strategy.

5 tips on how to boost Emotional Capital

Despite spending time and resources developing ambitious strategies, why do some leaders still fail to execute them? Based on research by INSEAD faculty, this SlideShare explores how managers can boost a vital but often neglected element within the organisation: Emotional Capital.

The Set-Up-To-Fail-Syndrome

Cartoon explaining ‘The Set-Up-To-Fail-Syndrome’, a no harm intended relationship spiral between bosses and sub-ordinates from bad to worse.

HR as a Force for Digital Change

Report from Helen Rosenthorn at Prophet which explores how HR can realize its potential as a catalyst for digital change across three levers: leadership, culture and strategy.

The value of Executive Coaching

The client speaks … interesting testimonial, thought-piece developed by Dr Mannie Sher from The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.

“Freud for companies”

Trends interview with Geert Vercaeren on his recent research on how to get rid of silo-mentality and improve inter-group collaboration.

How to avoid silo-working and improve collaboration

Abstract of recent INSEAD research by Geert Vercaeren on the challenges of human dynamics of collaboration within and between organizations. He also developed an approach on how to maximize the success of initiatives to get rid of silo-working, silo mentality by integration a functional and psychological perspective in a hands-on approach.

“The smell of the place”

A brilliant speech from Professor Sumantra Ghosal at the World Economic Forum about corporate environments and the faults of management in creating a positive work place.

Five reasons most companies fail at Strategy Execution

Dr. Quy N. Huy, a strategy professor at INSEAD identified five main emotion-based barriers to strategy execution within organisations. He states that if your organisational culture has these five characteristics, all attempts to implement strategic change will likely be doomed.

How Avoidance Destroys Strategic Initiatives

Avoidance is an extremely common response to strategic initiatives that makes executives put off critical issues. Roger Lehman from INSEAD and John Young from RedElephant Technology state that to overcome it, you might start looking out for some crucial signs.

Why the most successful businesses have strong values

Among high-performing companies, two-thirds are increasingly focusing on values instead of rules. Embedding values into the core of an organization is no easy task. But the outcome is worth it: a human organization inspired by purpose, based on values and led with moral authority.

The Principle of Charity

Neil Bearden, Associate Professor of Decision Sciences at INSEAD, offers a simple methodological prescription for fighting our natural tendency to treat our own interpretations as facts. The idea is called ‘The Principle of Charity’.

How great leaders inspire action

Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership — starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers …