Issue 88, Autumn 2017

Cover story

Global Perspective
Common purpose: Realigning business, economies, and society

by Colm Kelly and Blair Sheppard

Today’s economic and political upheavals reflect an ongoing misalignment between business and economies (on the one hand) and acceptable societal outcomes (on the other). There is still time to adjust, if we are willing to reexamine some long-held assumptions.

In this issue

Common Purpose: Realigning Business, Economies, and Society; Finance and HR: The Executive Partnership That Transformed a Company; 10 Principles for Leading the Next Industrial Revolution; What the Body Tells Us about Leadership, and More

Technology
10 Principles for Leading the Next Industrial Revolution

by Norbert Schwieters and Bob Moritz

Tools and techniques to ensure your company will stand out in the new age of digitization. See also “A Guide to Leading the Next Industrial Revolution.”
Thought Leaders
What the Body Tells Us about Leadership

by Art Kleiner

In this Thought Leader interview, social presencing theater innovators Otto Scharmer and Arawana Hayashi describe how to develop your management skills through physical awareness. See also “Eileen Fisher on Leadership.”
Global Perspective
It’s all Cass Sunstein’s default

by Sally Helgesen

The law professor who brought behavioral science into public policy believes that with a little intervention, we can all have the freedom to choose wisely.
Strategy & Leadership
GMO
Finance and HR: The Executive Partnership That Transformed a Company

by John Berisford and Jack Callahan

Six years ago, two executives new to their jobs led the strategic transition that remade McGraw-Hill into S&P Global.

Leading Ideas

Capable Dealmaker

Consumer Products
In High Spirits

by Akshat Dubey and Rakesh Mani

How to capitalize on the boom in craft liquors.
s+b Blogs

Organizations & People
Is your company’s diversity training making you more biased?

by David Rock and Heidi Grant

Corporate inclusion programs often trigger an us-versus-them mind-set. But establishing shared goals can help get teams on track.
Young Profs

Thought Leaders
Howard Yu Disrupts Disruptive Innovation

by Laura W. Geller

The IMD professor describes how the accelerating pace of technological change puts new pressures on established companies.
Innovation
Innovation from farm to table

by Barry Jaruzelski, Volker Staack, and Tom Johnson

Investment in agricultural R&D is essential to feeding the world’s growing population.
Healthcare
s+b Trend Watch: The Rise of Counterfeiting

Fraudulent products are booming in the global economy. And although we hear a lot about fake handbags, watches, and other luxury goods, counterfeit drugs are far more common.

Essays

Technology
The New Class of Digital Leaders

by Pierre Péladeau, Mathias Herzog, and Olaf Acker

Faced with organizational challenges, more and more companies are hiring an executive to manage their digital transformation.
Innovation
The Next Big Technology Could Be Nanomaterials

by Jeffrey Rothfeder

Discoveries surrounding a new class of impossibly small and improbably powerful compounds could reshape the materials industry — and the world around us.

Books in Brief

Business Literature
Woman at Work

by Jill Priluck

In a new memoir, Wall Street veteran Sallie Krawcheck recalls her career and her evolution into an entrepreneur and advocate for women in the workplace.
Business Literature
The Science Behind Mental Preparation

by Daniel Gross

In his new book, Daniel McGinn investigates the ways people prepare themselves to perform, taking us beyond the clichés of yoga poses, centering exercises, and nap rooms.

Recent Research

s+b Blogs

140 Characters Can Make or Break Your Brand

by Matt Palmquist

An informal social media style can backfire on an unknown company or boost trust among an audience that is already familiar with the firm.

Trending articles

1.The power of feelings at work
By aligning the pursuit of business objectives with the meeting of human needs, companies can tap into powerful emotional forces in their current cultural situations.
2.Are You Increasing Your Learning Agility — Or Are You Missing Out?
To be a more agile leader, nurture the habits that accelerate your learning capacity and be aware of the ones that block new experiences. For more insight, see “Leaders: Break Through Your Learning Blockers.”
3.Connecting the dots in an uncertain world
Business professor Christian Busch makes the case that serendipity is a skill, resulting from a mindset that allows you to see and act on opportunities in seemingly unrelated facts or events.
4.Managing with the Brain in Mind
Neuroscience research is revealing the social nature of the high-performance workplace.
5.People are more trustworthy than you think
When leaders routinely default to an attitude of mistrust, they create a negative loop that undermines relationships and hinders change.

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