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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.”
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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.
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.
InfographicAccidental 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.”
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.
InteractiveGMOWho 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.
VideoGMOA 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.
InteractiveBanish 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They’re outdated, inaccurate, misleading, or simply eye-roll inducing.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.”
InteractiveAre 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.”
InfographicFour Ways to Deal with Problematic Situations
How to resolve issues without compromising your values. For more insight, read “Collaborating Isn’t the Only Option.”
Interactive3 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.”
InteractiveGMOHow 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.”
VideoGMOHow Innovation Is Revolutionizing the Energy Industry
The power landscape is changing quickly, providing new opportunities for both upstarts and traditional utilities.
InteractiveDigital 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.”
VideoGMOHow 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.”
InteractiveHow 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.”
InfographicThree 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.”
InfographicHow 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.”
VideoHow 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.”
VideoYou’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.
PodcastThe 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.”
VideoHow 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.”
InfographicGMOHow 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.”
InfographicGMOA 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.
InteractiveWhy 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.
VideoEileen 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.”
InteractiveHow 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&.
InfographicCEOs 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?”
InfographicA 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.”
InfographicA 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.”
InfographicA 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.”
PodcastDavid 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.
PodcastSelf-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.”
PodcastJoann 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.
VideoHow 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.
InfographicHow 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.”
PodcastMarc 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.
VideoHow 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.”
PodcastSebastian 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.”
PodcastJonathan Tepperman Explains How to Fix the World’s Thorniest Problems
From income inequality to gridlock, progress is coming from some unlikely sources.
PodcastWilliam Taylor Explains How Companies Can Be Simply Brilliant
Innovation and superior performance aren’t just for Silicon Valley disruptors and global giants.
InfographicA Guide to Customer Strategy
A handy pocket guide for engaging with your users. For more insight, read “10 Principles of Customer Strategy.”
PodcastRyan 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?
InteractiveInnovators: 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.”
VideoThreatened 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.”
InfographicUnlocking Your Organizational DNA
Ten principles for empowering people and building high-performance companies. For more insight, read “The 10 Principles of Organizational DNA.”
VideoHow 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.”
PodcastMichele Wucker Explains How We Can Avoid The Gray Rhino
Can we train ourselves to stop ignoring the obvious dangers we face?
InfographicA 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.”
InfographicA Guide to Leading Change Management
Ten time-honored tools and techniques in a graphic. For more insight, read “10 Principles of Leading Change Management.”
VideoFind 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.”
InteractiveAre 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.
VideoHow 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.”
VideoHiring 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.”
VideoWhat 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.”
VideoHow 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.”
InteractiveInteractive: 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.”
InteractiveAre You a Producer or a Performer?
Every successful business needs both high-potential producers and high-potential performers. Which one are you?
PodcastWho 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.
The History Behind Adidas’s Success – In Pictures
In looking to its past, the company recognized the unique capabilities that are now shaping its future. See also “How Adidas Found Its Second Wind.”
VideoThe 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.”
Interactive20 Questions for Business Leaders
The entire history of management ideas can be seen as a series of answers to a few pragmatic queries.
VideoSoundBite: 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.”
PodcastWhat Makes Self-Made Billionaires Different
The unusual perspective of high-performing entrepreneurs allows them to turn good ideas into great businesses.
VideoSix 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.
PodcastMarshall Goldsmith on Finding Meaning at Work
To become a better leader, you need to start by asking yourself tough questions, and follow through.
VideoCEO 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.”
The Foundation of CEMEX’s Success — In Pictures
How the Mexican company developed the global capabilities needed to support its international business strategy. For more insights, read the related article.
VideoThe 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.
VideoHow 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.
VideoMindfulness 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.
7 Surprising Disruptions
Are you ready for what’s coming in your industry? For more insights, read the full collection of perspectives from Strategy&.
What You Read: The 10 Most Popular s+b Articles of 2014
Among all the articles we’ve published over the last year, here are the ones that garnered the most attention.
VideoHow 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.Best Business Books 2014—In Pictures
This slideshow is part of the article “Best Business Books 2014.”
Lessons in Product Design from Modern Warfare — In Pictures
This slideshow is part of the article “Warfare, Software, and Industrial Design.”
VideoThe New Supercompetitors
Companies that realize the power of their capabilities can shape how industries evolve. For more insights, read the related article.
VideoHow 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.”
VideoHow 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.”
VideoHow 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.
VideoWhat’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.”
VideoHow 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.”
InteractiveThe CEO Time Machine: Where Do You Belong?
In this interactive experience, answer a handful of questions about your leadership style, habits, and opinions. Then we’ll match your profile to the era in which you may be the best fit as CEO.- Video
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.” 
PodcastIn 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.
VideoWhy 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.”
VideoHow 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.”
InteractiveDiesel Gets Automakers’ Vote of Confidence
Automakers are far more confident about diesel’s popularity in the U.S. than they are about hybrids or electric cars. Here's a look at the real value of diesel.- Video
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.” - Video
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.” - Video
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.” 
InteractiveAre You Doing Enough to Retain Your Top Talent?
To assess how well you’re retaining your top talent, take our interactive quiz.- Video
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.” 
VideoIn 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."
VideoHow 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.
VideoIn 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."- Video
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." 
VideoIn 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.
VideoIn 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.
InteractiveAre 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.
VideoHow 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.
VideoHow 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.- Video
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. - Video
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. 
VideoIn 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.- Video
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.- Video
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. - Video
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.
