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When faced with uncertainty, leaders cannot come up with the best solutions by themselves. They need to work with their teams. The Covid 19 pandemic is forcing leaders to face the limitations of a command and control...

Strategy@Work returns on 22 October to answer hard questions by unlocking the truth about transformation and challenge leaders to think outside the box and re-examine the way organizations operate. The Strategy@Work...

Qingdao, China: On 16 September 2020, the Business Ecosystem Alliance announced the winners of the inaugural Zero Distance Awards. The announcement was made at the annual Rendanheyi1 Conference hosted by the Haier...

Thinkers50 co-founders welcome the formation of the Business Ecosystem Alliance.  September 2020: The inaugural meeting of the Business Ecosystem Alliance was held on 16 September under the auspice of the annual...

Sanyin Siang helps leaders launch and create value by focusing on mindset, behavioral change, and team and culture building. She is a CEO coach and Executive Director of the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership &...

Richard D’Aveni was recently inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame. Here, we take a closer look at his work.  “D’Aveni is the Kissinger of corporate strategy,” Adrian Slywotzky, author of The Profit Zone,...

  Welcome to the What’s Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.   This week I am thrilled to bring the What’s Next! audience my first double-interview with brilliant academics Leon Prieto and Simone Phipps! Their...

There is a rich history of contributions made by African Americans in sports and entertainment. However, we sometimes forget about the Black business pioneers and social innovators who gained a cooperative advantage and...

American political democracy as we know it is in danger. After forty years of growing economic disparity, and accentuated by the 2020 pandemic, the average family in the United States may no longer believe that our...

On September 18 2020, we announced the new inductees into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame, which celebrates the people whose work established the foundations of modern management. The six new inductees included the first...

In 1926, Lyndal Urwick was a senior manager with the English chocolate manufacturer Rowntree.  At the behest of his boss he cancelled a weekend with his wife to attend a lecture by an American woman he had never heard...

Few industries or brands will survive unless they understand what Nilofer Merchant (nilofermerchant.com) calls “Onlyness” – the experience, talent, perspective, and purpose lying untapped in our own people. By...

Today more than ever we need leaders who can help transform our firms – so they become more agile, more innovative, more digitally savvy, and more customer-centric. The coronavirus pandemic has sped up change, but...

If anyone had told me, even a few years ago that I would have co-authored a book called Women Kind – Unlocking the Power of Women Supporting Women after spending a year loudly and proudly celebrating two women a day I...

Every crisis brings with it an opportunity and the global pandemic of 2020 is no different.  Whether we like it or not, our legacy as a leader is being made today. The way our decisions, actions, words, and choices...

Whitney Johnson is the CEO of WLJ Advisors and an expert on helping high-growth organizations develop high-growth individuals.  An innovation and disruption theorist, she is the author of the bestselling Build an...