Top ten: The most read s+b articles of 2021
Shaping better meetings, the ESG revolution, and a guide to value creation are among our most popular articles this year.
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Best Business Books 2021
Writers at strategy+business choose the best reads of the year in seven categories.
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The 10 most read s+b articles of 2020
Running a company in a pandemic-impacted world, the trouble with “managers,” and more of the most read stories this year.
Top shelf picks: Best Business Books 2020
Writers at strategy+business pick the year’s best books in seven categories.
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Favorite s+b covers, 1995–2020
The magazine’s longtime art director chooses 15 memorable covers from our first 25 years.
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The six elements of transforming information into insight
How to build a world-class data and insights capability in the post–COVID-19 world.
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The s+b crossword
Get ready to put your knowledge of all things business to the test with a puzzle celebrating our 25th anniversary.
Three tips for reinventing your employee experience
Applying design thinking principles will enable a quick bottom-up reform, with changes driven by a deep understanding of your people.
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Planning for the unpredictable
When faced with uncertainty, successful companies prepare and act, rather than react.
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Six tips for optimizing your B2B relationships in the time of COVID-19
B2B companies can use the COVID-19 crisis as an opportunity to reevalute what clients and stakeholders need, and accelerate products and services that will better serve them.
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Five attributes to transform your compliance strategy
Organizations that shift compliance from a cost of doing business to a position of strategic value can generate significant competitive and cost advantage, and build trust. For more insight, see www.pwc.com/compliance-transformed.
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Six tips for making the digital customer experience more human in the time of COVID-19
How do you keep — and deepen — your vital connection to consumers at this most critical time? Here are six practices to guide you.
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Five perspectives on succeeding in uncertainty
For businesses battling the COVID-19 crisis, it may be hard to envision what the world is going to look like in the future. What is clear is that uncertainty will remain constant. These insights from five CEOs on how they manage in uncertain times — which were published before the pandemic — are a reminder that resilience and agility are important drivers of success, whatever the economic and business environment.
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10 CEO perspectives on upskilling
Two years’ of interviews with CEOs from around the world reveal how leaders view the effect of technology on their workforces. For more insight, see PwC’s 23rd Annual Global CEO Survey.
What you read: The 10 most popular s+b articles of 2019
How to think like a CEO, handing off the baton after a long tenure, and more of the most read stories this year.
How to be an outstanding leader
We look at how executives and those on their way to leadership roles can navigate today’s complicated business landscape.
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A guide to establishing your leadership presence
Express your own commitment as a leader in a more effective way. For further insights, read “10 principles for leadership.”
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The digital approach to organizational effectiveness
How leaders can use digital twin technology to optimize their company’s health. For more insights, see www.pwc.com/digitaltwin.
Top shelf picks: Best Business Books 2019
Writers at strategy+business pick the year’s best books in seven categories.
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How businesses can deliver on trust in the digital age
The first step to rebuilding trust is to be aware that change and complexity are constant and that everyone — customers, regulators, employees, and the general public — are potential stakeholders.
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A guide to workforce transformation
How to raise the skills of your employees so that they can move successfully into the future. For further insights, read “10 principles of workforce transformation.”
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Diagnose your risk of unforced errors
Create an early warning system to avoid self-sabotaging behaviors. For further insight, read “Develop a personal early warning system to avoid making bad leadership choices.”
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6 steps to upskilling your people
A comprehensive way to build talent and fill jobs in our rapidly changing digital economy. For further insights, read “A strategist’s guide to upskilling.”
Voice technology delivers on banking needs
Financial services is full of customer pain points that could be resolved with the help of voice-assisted devices. For further insight, read “Banking on voice.”
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How new leaders can step out of the shadow of a legendary CEO
Five game-changing practices to help those waiting in the wings succeed. For further insights, read “Succeeding the long-serving legend in the corner office.”
Three ways to better understand disappointments at work
The next time you’re confounded by an unexpected or confusing situation at work, use these practical strategies to move forward with greater success. For further insights, read “Three ways to demystify disappointments at work.”
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Make the most of tax time
Taxes are often viewed as simply a compliance issue. But what if organizations thought of taxes as a way to benefit their businesses now, and help them plan for a better future? Here, a collection of articles delves into different corners of the tax world to explain how it’s done.
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Empowering employees with creativity during a transformation
Dan Cable, professor of organizational behavior at the London Business School, argues that although managers need an element of control to get results, change efforts should happen with less work and more play. For more insights, visit the Transformation Talks podcast series.
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Trusting the executive team during a transformation
Moya Greene, former chief executive of Royal Mail, shares insights on how to approach a complex change initiative involving multiple stakeholders. For more insights, visit the Transformation Talks podcast series.
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Involving your whole organization in the transformation journey
Tim Davie, CEO of BBC Studios, talks about making change efforts meaningful by involving people at every level of the process. For more insights, visit the Transformation Talks podcast series.
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How to be confident when you’re not
Two strategies to help you be a more self-assured leader. For further insights, read “How to regain your confidence when it falters.”
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The Future Value of Your Data
The monetary value of information about a single person’s online and offline activity may reach $10 a month by 2025 in the U.S. For further insights, read “Tomorrow’s Data Heroes.”
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A Guide to Modernizing Your Company’s Technology
An essential pocket guide for your digital transformation, from legacy technology systems to the platforms of the future. For more insight, read “10 Principles for Modernizing Your Company’s Technology.”
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Five Ways Companies Can Give People a Good Work Experience
Workers today want careers that fit their values, are enjoyable, and contribute to society. Here’s what business leaders can do to deliver on this idea of “good work.” For further insights, read “Good Work.”
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Changes to the Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
The gap between the world’s poorest consumers and others is diminishing. For more insight, read “The New Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid.”
AI Predictions You Can’t Afford to Ignore in 2019
Despite all the information available about artificial intelligence — and the efforts business leaders are making to come to terms with this technology — there are still some takeaways you should consider this year. Gain additional insights with PwC’s 2019 AI Predictions.
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How to Refocus the Role of the Chief Strategy Officer into a Competitive Advantage
Four ways to help your CSO create value. For more insight, see the 2018 Chief Strategy Officer Benchmarking Study from Strategy&, PwC’s strategy consulting business.
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Accidental Adversaries
Inside every company, people work across functions to meet their own goals and their firm’s priorities. But relationships that start out well often become adversarial over time. For more insight, read “Turning ‘Accidental Adversaries’ into Allies.”
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Why You Need to Pay More Attention to Indirect Taxes in 2019
Three key trends that are shaping value-added and sales taxes. For more insight, read “It Pays to Keep Tabs on Indirect Taxes.”
What You Read: The 15 Most Popular s+b Articles of 2018
The revenge of print, why our brains fool us, and more of the most read stories this year.
How to Fail the Right Way
Improvising in a structured manner will help ensure big bumps in the road don’t throw you completely off course. For more insight, read “How to Fail Successfully.”
Top Shelf Picks: Best Business Books 2018
Writers at strategy+business pick the year’s best books in seven categories.
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Who Are the Top Innovators?
Explore the companies that made the 2007, 2012, and 2017 high-leverage innovator lists with our interactive tool. For further insight, see What the Top Innovators Get Right.
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A Guide for Designing a Successful Corporate Transformation
Four building blocks that are essential to every major change effort. For more insights, visit pwc.com/transformation.
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Banish These Words from the Business Lexicon
They’re outdated, inaccurate, misleading, or simply eye-roll inducing. For more insight, read “How the Right Business Language Can Catalyze Change.”
How to Deal with “Difficult People”
Three ways to work across deep divisions. For more insight, read “There’s No Such Thing as Difficult People.”
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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.”
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Four Ways to Deal with Problematic Situations
How to resolve issues without compromising your values. For more insight, read “Collaborating Isn’t the Only Option.”
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3 steps to building trust in AI
It is human nature to distrust what we don’t understand, and much about AI may not be completely clear. For further insights, read “The Future of Artificial Intelligence Depends on Trust.”
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How to Balance Digital Expertise and Sustainability
Bringing digital prowess and sustainable practices together should be at the forefront of strategic thinking for any business. For further insights, read “Digital Technology and Sustainability: Positive Mutual Reinforcement.”
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How innovation is revolutionizing the energy industry
The power landscape is changing quickly, providing new opportunities for both upstarts and traditional utilities.
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Digital Nomads
A quick look at the challenges faced by location-independent freelancers, and the opportunities they present for organizations. For more insight, read “Designing a Future for the Untethered Workforce.”
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How Can You Make Your Company’s Culture Go Viral?
By carefully selecting the change-driving behaviors that are right for your organization, and the mechanisms to spread them, you can drive cultural evolution. For further insights, read “Make Your Company’s Culture Go Viral.”
Summer Reading: 8 Business Books – in Pictures
A selection of books perfect for your commute — or the beach.
Hospitality in Action: Danny Meyer Sets the Table at Union Square Cafe
Scenes from Union Square Cafe as the staff gets ready to open for the day show the company’s culture of “enlightened hospitality” in action. For more insight, read “Danny Meyer’s Recipe for Success.”
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How to Fight in a Productive Way
Three tactics your team can use to encourage fair — and useful — fighting. For more insight, read “Why Teams Should Argue.”
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Three Questions to Help You Become a “Yes, And” Leader
Approach every conversation as an opportunity to improvise. For more insight, read “Using Improv to Transform How You Lead.”
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How Journaling Can Help Leaders Achieve Their Goals
Tips for clarifying your thoughts and testing new ideas. For more insight, read “Journaling Can Boost Your Leadership Skills.”
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How Strategic Leaders Reframe Deceptive Messages
Four steps that can help you lead your organization past its self-defeating limits. For further insights, read “Conversations That Kill Your Culture.”
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You’ve Reached a Career Milestone. Now What?
If you want to advance in your job and find meaning in your day-to-day work, consider these strategies. For further insights, read “What to Do When Success Leaves You Empty.”
12 Illustrations about Management Thinking
A look at the artwork from the recent pages of strategy+business, on themes including overcoming bias at work, competitiveness in the age of digitization, and the ethics of CEOs.
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The Habits that Slow Down Women’s Careers
Marshall Goldsmith and Sally Helgesen on how female professionals can change self-limiting behaviors. For related insights, read “How Women Can Succeed by Rethinking Old Habits.”
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How to Innovate by Stretching Yourself Mentally
The greatest learning often takes place when we step outside our comfort zones.
For further insights, read “Two Simple Concepts to Free Up Innovation.”
For further insights, read “Two Simple Concepts to Free Up Innovation.”
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How Emotional Energy Drives Employees to Excel
It’s a self-reinforcing cycle that starts with pride. For more insight, read “How to Harness Employees’ Emotional Energy.”
Artificial Intelligence: What to Expect in 2018
Eight ways that AI is likely to reshape business in the next 12 months. For further insights, see PwC’s study.
What You Read: The 15 Most Popular s+b Articles of 2017
Among all the articles we’ve published over the last year, here are the ones that drew the most attention.
Myanmar’s Challenging Pathway to Growth – in Pictures
Myanmar’s emergence on the global stage will not follow the same trajectory as other frontier nations. For further insights, read “Myanmar’s Halting Economic Steps onto the Global Stage.”
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A Guide to Winning the Digital Disruption Game
How to develop a coherent strategy to face today's technological threats. For more insight, read “10 Principles for Winning the Game of Digital Disruption.”
Best Business Books 2017 — In Pictures
Our writers’ selection of the year’s best business book in seven categories.
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Why do you avoid acting on feedback at work?
Break out of the habit and address the issue that is holding back your career.
Disruptors and the Disrupted: A Tale of Eight Companies — in Pictures
The fear of disruption is often exaggerated. In reality, organizations that are threatened by new technologies and new players usually have more time than they realize to craft an effective response. For further insights, read “The Fear of Disruption Can Be More Damaging than Actual Disruption.”
Summer Reading: 10 Business Books – in Pictures
A selection of books perfect for your commute — or the beach.
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Eileen Fisher on Leadership: The Personal Side of Organizational Change
The founder of the apparel company talks about how much personal growth leaders should demand — of employees and themselves. For further insights, read “Eileen Fisher and the Personal Side of Leadership.”
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How Future-Proof Are You?
Whether you’re sinking beneath your workload or sailing through with ease largely depends on your ability to suss out subtle challenges and turn them into opportunities.
Get Ready for Eight Surprising Disruptions
A look at the major challenges and opportunities in your industry. For more insights, read the full collection of trends from Strategy&.
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CEOs under Fire
A graphic showing why more chief executives are being ousted for ethical lapses, and some tips on how to prevent missteps. For more insight, read “Are CEOs Less Ethical Than in the Past?”
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A Guide to Leading the Next Industrial Revolution
Ten tips to navigate the opportunities and uncertainties of this great wave of technological change. For more insight, read “10 Principles for Leading the Next Industrial Revolution.”
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A Guide to Strategy through Execution
How to get the strategists and implementers in your company to work together effectively. For more insight, read “10 Principles of Strategy through Execution.”
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A Guide to Organization Design
Ten tips to help you get your reorg right the first time. For more insight, read “10 Principles of Organization Design.”
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David Smick Explains How Main Street Capitalism Can Be the Great Equalizer
The editor of the International Economy outlines a plan for restoring income growth based on encouraging startups and competition.
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Self-Aware Robots
What really happens to human systems — machines, processes, and businesses — when smart machines enter the picture? For related insights, read “Five Overlooked Principles Shaping the Destiny of Your Business.”
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Joann Lublin Explains How Women Executives Are Earning It
Interviews with dozens of women who have risen to the C-suite illuminate triumphs, travails, and important lessons.
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How to Define Your Corporate Identity
Having a clear sense of who you are will help you grow coherently, and outpace the competition. For further insights, read “Pulling the Triggers That Pull Companies.”
What You Read: The 10 Most Popular s+b Articles of 2016
Among all the articles we’ve published over the last year, here are the ones that drew the most attention.
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How to Create a Brexit Business Strategy
A handy guide for enterprise leaders on managing the U.K’.s split from the European Union. For more insight, read “Business Beyond Brexit.”
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Marc Levinson Explains How an Extraordinary Time in the Global Economy Ended
The remarkable gains in productivity in growth in the post–World War II years ground to a halt in the 1970s — and we’re still living with the fallout.
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How Strategic Leaders Use Their Brain
Neuroscientists are learning how executive decision makers can use their minds to transform organizations. For further insights, read “The Neuroscience of Strategic Leadership.”
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Sebastian Mallaby Explains What Alan Greenspan Knew
The former Federal Reserve chairman’s remarkable career offers insight into the links between politics and markets.
Best Business Books 2016 — In Pictures
The “top shelf” picks in our Best Business Books 2016 roundup.
How Non-Tech Companies Are Joining the Software Revolution — in Pictures
Digital technologies are changing the game even in places where you might not expect it, including how pizzas get delivered and how household appliances function. For further insights, read “Software-as-a-Catalyst.”
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Jonathan Tepperman Explains How to Fix the World’s Thorniest Problems
From income inequality to gridlock, progress is coming from some unlikely sources.
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William Taylor Explains How Companies Can Be Simply Brilliant
Innovation and superior performance aren’t just for Silicon Valley disruptors and global giants.
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A Guide to Customer Strategy
A handy pocket guide for engaging with your users. For more insight, read “10 Principles of Customer Strategy.”
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Ryan Avent Explains How We Can Build the Wealth of Humans
As machines grow smarter and capture more of the value associated with work, how will people continue to keep busy and thrive?
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Innovators: Are You a Challenger or a Defender?
Understanding your personal strength can help guide your career choices.
Frontiers of Prosperity: Cuba in Pictures
A look at what the last Communist country in the Americas can offer international companies. For further insights, read “Reconnecting Cuba.”
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Threatened by Dislocation
Not every new entrant in your market is a disruption. Learn how to diagnose and respond to threats. For further insights, read “Diagnosing Dislocation.”
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Unlocking Your Organizational DNA
Ten principles for empowering people and building high-performance companies. For more insight, read “The 10 Principles of Organizational DNA.”
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How Startups Can Avoid the Chrysalis Effect
Last year, startups died at a rate of one per week. When it comes to scaling, the chances of survival are even lower. For further insights, read “The Chrysalis Effect.”
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Michele Wucker Explains How We Can Avoid The Gray Rhino
Can we train ourselves to stop ignoring the obvious dangers we face?
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A Guide to Strategic Leadership
Ten principles that can enable you to unlock your company's potential. For more insight, read “10 Principles of Strategic Leadership.”
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A Guide to Leading Change Management
Ten time-honored tools and techniques in a graphic. For more insight, read “10 Principles of Leading Change Management.”
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Find Your Strategic Leaders
Most companies lack people in positions of power with the experience and confidence required to challenge the status quo. For further insights, read “10 Principles of Strategic Leadership.”
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Are You a Likely CEO?
Track your chances of becoming a chief executive at one of the world’s largest companies, based on a study of incoming leaders.
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How to Use Cybersecurity to Gain a Competitive Advantage
The security of barriers is based not just on keeping people out, but on watching people who come in. For further insights, read “Safety in the Cloud.”
What Good User Experience Looks Like
Some examples, past and present, of how good design overcomes complexity. See also “Your Employees’ User Experience Should Be a Strategic Priority.”
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Hiring through your employees’ social networks
Stanford's Adina Sterling dissects popular strategies to recruit top talent. For further insights, read “Social Network Effects in Hiring.”
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What Is Corporate Culture?
At its worst, culture can be a drag on productivity. At its best, it is an emotional energizer. Here's how companies can use it to gain a competitive advantage. For further insights, read “10 Principles of Organizational Culture.”
What You Read: The 10 Most Popular s+b Articles of 2015
Among all the articles we’ve published over the last year, here are the ones that drew the most attention.
Two Decades of Original Thinking — In Pictures
As s+b marks 20 years of publication, we look back (and forward) to reflect on the themes, people, and ideas that have animated two decades of original thinking. This photo gallery is part of the series of blog posts “Celebrating Two Decades of s+b.”
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How Mindfulness Can Prevent Retaliation at Work
UNC Kenan-Flagler professor Mike Christian discusses techniques executives can use to improve interpersonal relationships and performance. For more related insights, read “Mike Christian on Mindfulness and Mental Energy.”
Best Business Books 2015 — In Pictures
This photo gallery is part of the article “Best Business Books 2015.”
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Interactive: Where Companies Spend Their R&D Money
Comparing R&D spending in 2007 and 2015 reveals the new geography of innovation. See also “Innovation’s New World Order.”
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Are You a Producer or a Performer?
Every successful business needs both high-potential producers and high-potential performers. Which one are you?
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Who Are Your High-Potential Employees?
By identifying your top talent and putting them in the right position, you’re increasing your odds of creating new businesses.
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The A to Z of Tech Clusters
Brett Gilbert, associate professor at Rutgers Business School, discusses how clusters, or groups of companies that congregate in a region around a particular field, are evolving. For more related insights, read “How Tech Clusters Form.”
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20 Questions for Business Leaders
The entire history of management ideas can be seen as a series of answers to a few pragmatic queries.
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SoundBite: Why Does Big Data Matter?
Companies are using advanced data analytics to focus on a range of new business problems, and have found there are several keys to success in using big data. For more related insights, read “Overcoming Big Data’s Challenges.”
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What Makes Self-Made Billionaires Different
The unusual perspective of high-performing entrepreneurs allows them to turn good ideas into great businesses.
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Six Questions to Increase Employee Engagement
Leadership author and executive coach Marshall Goldsmith — who is always skeptical of catchphrases like employee engagement — talks about the qualities necessary to galvanize individuals’ commitment at work.
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Marshall Goldsmith on Finding Meaning at Work
To become a better leader, you need to start by asking yourself tough questions, and follow through.
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CEO Succession: Why It Pays to Have a Plan
Large companies can lose billions of dollars when they don’t plan for changes in leadership. See also “The $112 Billion CEO Succession Problem.”
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The Challenges of Corporate Responsibility inside a Big Company
Former BP policy development manager Christine Bader discusses why CSR efforts fail - and how to help them succeed. For more insights, read the related blog post.
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How Inattentive Management Wastes Employees’ Time
The Center for Creative Leadership’s Jennifer Deal on how organizations can respect their people’s time. For more insights, read the related article.
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Mindfulness for Senior Executives
Harvard University social psychology professor Ellen Langer says organizations can make better decisions by setting the right context. For more insights, read the related article.
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How to Lead a Successful Global Team
INSEAD professor Erin Meyer discusses how companies can boost the efficiency of their multinational teams by focusing on how they communicate across cultures. For more insights, read the related article.
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The New Supercompetitors
Companies that realize the power of their capabilities can shape how industries evolve. For more insights, read the related article.
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How the Fresh-Start Effect Creates a Clean Slate
In this video, Wharton professor Katherine Milkman explains how to motivate people to move beyond their past failures and achieve their goals. For more insights, read “Katherine Milkman on Why Fresh Starts Matter.”
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How Your Brain Responds to Performance Rankings
Watch this video to see why traditional employee evaluations are flawed. For more insights, read “Kill Your Performance Ratings.”
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How to Scale Up Excellence in an Organization
Stanford’s Robert Sutton discusses the mind-set and strategies of companies that are most adept at building and spreading high standards.
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What’s the Future of the Workplace?
MIT professor Thomas Malone predicts that new technologies will enable more decentralized decision making and ultimately more freedom in business. For more related insights, read “Thomas Malone on Building Smarter Teams.”
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How to Lead Change Management
DeAnne Aguirre, senior partner with Strategy&, discusses techniques that can help companies transform quickly and effectively. For more insight, read “10 Principles of Leading Change Management.”
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How Apple and GE Create Smarter Teams
Successful companies, MIT professor Thomas Malone says, take advantage of collective intelligence theory to improve their performance. Also read “Thomas Malone on Building Smarter Teams.”
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In Conversation with Thomas Malone
MIT professor Thomas Malone discusses what makes a group smart, why women can increase a group’s collective intelligence, and more in this exclusive interview with strategy+business.
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Why Women Make Teams Smarter
MIT professor Thomas Malone discusses why women can increase a group's collective intelligence; read “Thomas Malone on Building Smarter Teams.”
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How Digitization Is Impacting Strategy
Rita Gunther McGrath says digitization is affecting strategy in new ways—for instance, by removing entry barriers and requiring greater flexibility. For more related insights, read “The Thought Leader Interview: Rita Gunther McGrath.”
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Is Your Strategy Stuck?
Rita Gunther McGrath uncovers how companies can tap into more dynamic tools to develop better strategies for how and where they’re competing. For more related insights, read “The Thought Leader Interview: Rita Gunther McGrath.”
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Making the Talent Leap of Faith
Rita Gunther McGrath explains why organizations need to shed their old-fashioned mentality about how they recruit people in order to fill the talent gap. For more related insights, read “The Thought Leader Interview: Rita Gunther McGrath.”
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Seeing Innovation in Strategic Terms
Rita Gunther McGrath reveals why innovation and strategy have converged—and what that means for how companies do business. For more related insights, read “The Thought Leader Interview: Rita Gunther McGrath.”
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Are You Doing Enough to Retain Your Top Talent?
To assess how well you’re retaining your top talent, take our interactive quiz.
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This Year’s Top Three Strategic Challenges
Rita Gunther McGrath outlines the hot-button issues that companies are facing in 2014. For more related insights, read “The Thought Leader Interview: Rita Gunther McGrath.”
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In Conversation: Eric Ries on How to Gain Competitive Advantage
Eric Ries talks about how the “build, measure, learn” principle can help companies innovate and get ahead. For more related insights, read "Why Eric Ries Likes Management."
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How to Better Prepare for a Global Meltdown
The associate professor of finance at the Kellogg School of Management discusses the life cycle of a financial crisis. For more related insights, read “Efraim Benmelech on Financial Contagion."
America’s Manufacturing Advantage
A new wave of software innovation is about to transform industry — and give the United States the chance for a lasting edge.
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In Conversation: Eric Ries on the Finance of Innovation
In the fourth video interview of this five-part series, Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, describes his system of innovation accounting—and how it can convert learning into dollars. For more related insights, read “Why Eric Ries Likes Management."
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In Conversation: Eric Ries on the Value of Learning
In the third video interview of this five-part series, Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, discusses why it's important to attach metrics to the process of learning, using an idea he calls "validated learning."
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In Conversation: Eric Ries Thinks Management Isn’t a Bad Word
The Lean Startup author says that entrepreneurship is management — and describes how that concept can help achieve better results at any company.
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In Conversation: Eric Ries on How to be Entrepreneurial inside a Big Company
In the first video interview of this five-part series, Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, tells Paul Michelman, executive editor at strategy+business, that entrepreneurs exist everywhere—and discusses what that means for innovation at big companies.
Best Business Books 2013
Our review of the year's best business books, in pictures.
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Are You Caught in the Hindrance Trap?
Do you help bring out the best in your people or do you inadvertently hold them back from superior performance? Complete this assessment to find out.
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How to Find Creative Solutions? Struggle a Little Longer
Kellogg’s Loran Nordgren says the key to unlocking unconscious thought is being motivated to find answers.
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How Leaders Mistake Execution for Strategy
Former Strategy& senior partner Ken Favaro explains to former s+b executive editor Paul Michelman that when leaders substitute visions, missions, purposes, plans, or goals for the real work of strategy, they send their firms adrift.
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The Capable Strategist: We’re from Corporate and We're Here to Help
Former Strategy& senior partner Ken Favaro speaks with former s+b executive editor Paul Michelman about understanding the real value of corporate strategy and the head office.
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In Conversation: How to Use Conscious and Unconscious Thought to Make Better Choices
In the third part of our In Conversation video series, Kellogg's Loran Nordgren argues that while conscious thought helps you identify available options, unconscious thought helps you figure out which choice is best.
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In Conversation: Loran Nordgren on How to Encourage Innovation
In the second part of this "In Conversation" video series, Kellogg's Loran Nordgren talks about how tapping into the unconscious can spark creativity and innovation in the corporate world.
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Thought Leader Interview: Loran Nordgren
In the first part of this four-part video series, Loran Nordgren, an associate professor at Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, tells Amy D'Onofrio, enterprise practice coordinator at Booz & Company, that taking a break and distracting the mind can lead to higher-quality decision making.
The Story of UTCʼs Success–In Pictures
How United Technologies Corporation; — owner of Pratt & Whitney, Otis Elevator, and a wide range of other businesses; — became one of the major corporate success stories of the past two decades.
Business Opportunities in the Arctic
The earth’s northernmost regions are rich in resources. The challenge will be accessing them sustainably. This slideshow is part of the article “Is the Arctic the Next Emerging Market?
The Drone Maker's Story - in Pictures
A visual history of AeroVironment’s seemingly impossible innovations since it was founded in 1971.
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Rebranding Strategy: Why Traditional Strategy Planning Needs a Makeover
Harvard Business School professor Cynthia Montgomery speaks with Booz & Company partner Ken Favaro about why strategy needs to be reimagined, and how a leader can help define what a business is and why it matters.
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Structural Dynamics: Using Conversational Cues to Lead More Effectively
Systems therapist David Kantor speaks with Booz & Company partner Rutger von Post about how leaders can tap into "structural dynamics" to create better-performing teams.
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