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Culture is not what leaders say. It’s what they reward and punish
Learn to ‘read the air’: how to build emotional capability into your organization • Eugene Cha Navarro explores how organizations can turn human understanding into an operating system for repeatable competitive advantage
Four archetypes of routine practices • My research shows that successful organizations cultivate emotional capability deliberately through four archetypes of routine practice. These recurring practices show people what good judgment looks like, enable them to learn from respected leaders, and make clear which emotional qualities the organization values and rewards.
The wrong formula: lessons from Honda’s $100m blunder
How employee benefits made the US the world’s weirdest country • The financial fate of most Americans hangs on the performance of a handful of Big Tech stock prices, warns Jerry Davis
Flying blind Scenario planning in a climate-disrupted world • Business leaders are imagining possible futures without confronting the real risk of systems breakdown, argue Thomas Gauthier and Andrew Hoffman
FIVE KEY QUESTIONS FOR EVALUATING SCENARIOS
10 leading questions • Håkon Bruaset Kjøl Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer at True Corporation, the Thai telecoms group
Longevity, leadership, and separating the science from the hype • As part of our MBA Dialogue series, Kate Millican talks to Clinique La Prairie CEO Simone Gibertoni about transforming a heritage brand, managing executive stress, and turning longevity promise into science-based reality
Beyond inclusion: how women can build real influence in the boardroom • Women aim for impact in the boardroom and yet leave their roles earlier than men. Jennifer Jordan, Ruth V Aguilera, and Alexander Fleischmann highlight three behaviors to turn presence into influence
Navigating the changes as investors rethink climate targets • As the market-led approach to decarbonization gives way to more realistic, policy-informed thinking, Hans-Christoph Hirt and Tom Gosling explain how business leaders should shift focus from ambitious promises to deliverable strategy
FROM AMBITION TO CREDIBLE CONTRIBUTION • How investors are redefining their climate role, and what it means for companies
The knowing-doing gap: why companies struggle to act on market signals • Firms have never had better data, yet many remain slow to act. The culprit, suggest Luigi Mirri and Niccolò Pisani, is ‘organizational latency’
How to turn market signals into action: four commercial coordination archetypes
What’s hot … and what’s not • The first of a regular look at what’s trending and what’s passé
Physical AI: how to tap human know-how on the factory floor • Kazuo Ichijo and Yunfei Feng explain why capturing engineering expertise, and not relying on generic algorithms, is the next frontier in unlocking value
What can only humans do? Why the fourth industrial revolution needs a fifth • Shelley Zalis suggests ways leaders can build an HI strategy for the age of AI
Preserving the human edge in the...