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Sep 13, 2024 | 
imd.org | Tania Lennon |Misiek Piskorski
While a lot of attention has focused on the rapid shifts in job skills required to keep pace with change for performance in organizations, the same trends are being observed in executive leadership roles. According to Accenture’s 2024 Pace of Changesurvey, business leaders reported a 33% change in their job demands in the past year alone and anticipate an even faster rate of change in their sectors in the year ahead.
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Dec 27, 2023 | 
imd.org | Tania Lennon |Misiek Piskorski |Arturo Bris
Our relationship with work – our own expectations and those of the people we hire – is still changing, and so is the nature of that work itself. COVID-19 permanently changed the psychological contract between employer and employee, with dramatically enhanced expectations of flexibility in work practices.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
imd.org | Alyson Meister |Sophie Bacq |Peter Vogel |Misiek Piskorski
It also helps to understand that anxiety is common.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
imd.org | Richard Baldwin |Howard Yu |Arturo Bris |Misiek Piskorski
Since Adam Smith’s seminal 1776 work An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, scholars and practitioners have grappled with a central question: Why are some nations rich while others are poor? While this question is of vital interest to policymakers, businesses, and citizens around the globe, we are far from a consensus.
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Oct 6, 2023 | 
imd.org | Howard Yu |Shereen Daniels |Misiek Piskorski |Tania Lennon
â¯In a bold move earlier this year, Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify took a radical step towards boosting productivity: it instituted a ban on meetings with more than two participants.
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Sep 30, 2023 | 
imd.org | Jerry Davis |Misiek Piskorski |Tania Lennon |Vanina Farber
Can businesses do well by doing good? Should they? This question has eluded resolution for generations and is now taken up by Republican presidential candidates in the US from Ron DeSantis to Mike Pence, who are campaigning against ESG investing and what they see as the sinister threat of ‚Äúcorporate wokeism‚ÄĚ. One candidate, pharma investor Vivek Ramaswamy, has even published an anti-ESG screed titled Woke Inc.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
imd.org | Misiek Piskorski |Tania Lennon
Cindy Candrian’s interest in machine learning began in the most unlikely way. Out driving with her mum, she noticed that, while her latest-model car had a distance control function, her mother wouldn’t use it. Not trusting the technology, she had simply blocked it. The moment sparked an epiphany for Candrian: “I thought, even if we have these amazing tools, they’re useless if people aren’t going to use them.
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
imd.org | Michael Wade |Amit M. Joshi |Alyson Meister |Misiek Piskorski
Ten years ago, 3D printing was heralded as the answer to so many of life’s problems. By now we were supposed to be using a 3D printer to print our food, our clothes, and even to build the house of our dreams. Some predicted that 3D printers would be as common as washing machines and that most middle-class households would be making their day-to-day essentials out of liquid silicone.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
imd.org | Lazaros Goutas |Alyson Meister |Misiek Piskorski |Michael Wade
Full-time employees will spend an estimated 90,000 hours working, or around one-third of their adult life. It is no surprise, then, that workplace stress shapes our mental well-being, but just how much of a toll is it taking? The answer, it seems, is a lot. The latest Gallup polls show that nearly half of employees feel high levels of stress at work. In fact, workplace stress is at an all-time high. The personal cost of all this is huge, says Alyson Meister, but it’s also just bad business.
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
imd.org | Alyson Meister |Misiek Piskorski |Michael Wade |Amit M. Joshi
You would never want your pilot, your surgeon, or your favorite athlete to go to work depleted and exhausted, so why do we expect this in the office? Somehow the business world has been won over by the assumption that you can just keep pushing; that you can drink a Red Bull and push harder or pull an all-nighter and stay at the office 24/7. For decades that has been the stamp of commitment and engagement while avoiding recovery was something to be celebrated.
