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mitsloanme.com | Adam Job |Nikolaus Lang |Ulrich Pidun |Martin Reeves
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During the past few years, company strategies have been disrupted repeatedly by major shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic, the outbreak of war in Ukraine and the Middle East, and breakthroughs in generative AI. In the first months of 2025, a stream of political surprises has been impacting company agendas — and further upheavals seem likely.
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1 month ago | 
sloanreview.mit.edu | Adam Job |Nikolaus Lang |Ulrich Pidun |Martin Reeves
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty ImagesDuring the past few years, company strategies have been disrupted repeatedly by major shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic, the outbreak of war in Ukraine and the Middle East, and breakthroughs in generative AI. In the first months of 2025, a stream of political surprises has been impacting company agendas — and further upheavals seem likely.
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2 months ago | 
bcghendersoninstitute.com | Tania Lekhraj |Martin Reeves |Simon Levin |Adam Job
In 2024, eight of the ten most populous countries in the world held general elections.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
bcghendersoninstitute.com | Tania Lekhraj |Adam Job |Martin Reeves
Language reflects social reality. For example, the language of the Himba tribe in Namibia has distinct terms for various shades of green, because distinguishing between these shades is crucial in an environment where plants and their conditions are important for survival. Conversely, the Himba language has no separate words for blue and green—instead, a single term encompasses both colors, reflecting the lack of importance of this distinction in the daily lives of the Himba.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
infobae.com | Martin Reeves |Jack Fuller |Adam Job |Martin Reeves |Jack Fuller
Compartir conocimientos sobre cómo deben hacerse las cosas es una capacidad crucial para las empresas que buscan garantizar la calidad y la consistencia frente a la presión constante de la competencia. En cualquier organización, mediana o grande, la separación estructural y geográfica, la gran variedad de tareas y funciones, y la rotación y movimiento constantes de empleados, hacen que esta transferencia de conocimientos sea un desafío perpetuo.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
bcghendersoninstitute.com | Tania Lekhraj |Martin Reeves |Jack Fuller |Adam Job
Sharing knowledge about how things are to be done is a crucial capability for corporations, as they try to ensure quality and consistency in the face of constant pressure from competitors. Startups may get by relying on team members observing and learning from one another, but in any medium-sized or large corporation, structural and geographical separation, a wide array of tasks and functions, and constant employee turnover and movement make this knowledge transfer a perpetual challenge.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
hbr.org | Martin Reeves |Jack Fuller |Adam Job
Sharing knowledge about how things are to be done is a crucial capability for corporations, as they try to ensure quality and consistency in the face of constant pressure from competitors. Startups may get by relying on team members observing and learning from one another, but in any medium-sized or large corporation, structural and geographical separation, a wide array of tasks and functions, and constant employee turnover and movement make this knowledge transfer a perpetual challenge.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
weforum.org | Adam Job
Corporation imagination is constrained by ingrained thinking – instead we must envisage new ways to drive growth and advantage. Science fiction offers companies a radically different way of approaching future possibilities. We outline a six-step process for evolving your company’s mental models, leveraging science fiction to unlock innovation.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
bcghendersoninstitute.com | Tania Lekhraj |Martin Reeves |Adam Job |Charikleia Kaffe
With the era of “free capital” having come to an end, the globalization premium stalling, and ecological constraints encroaching, companies can no longer rely on a rising tide to lift all boats. Instead, they will need to imagine new offerings and ways of doing things that will drive future growth and advantage.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
bcghendersoninstitute.com | Tania Lekhraj |Martin Reeves |Adam Job |Deborah Bendennoun
Learning creates an advantage in a stable environment. By repeatedly performing tasks, businesses learn to execute them more efficiently—it’s the experience curve effect. But as our world changes more quickly than ever, efficiency increasingly gets trumped by adaptability. And experience, which traps us in a backward-looking perspective, becomes more curse than blessing.
