CEOs impact performance
CEOs get paid more than anyone else in the corporate world, and are seen as having a similarly outsized influence on their companies’ fortunes....
Michael R Wade holds the Cisco Chair in Digital Business Transformation and is Director of IMD’s Global Center for Digital Business Transformation. He directs a number of open programs such as Leading Digital Business Transformation, Digital Transformation for Boards, Leading Digital Execution, and the Digital Transformation Sprint. He has written ten books, hundreds of articles, and hosts a popular management podcast. In 2021, he was inducted into the Swiss Digital Shapers Hall of Fame.
22 April 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
CEOs get paid more than anyone else in the corporate world, and are seen as having a similarly outsized influence on their companies’ fortunes....
15 April 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
Over the past twenty years, a simple five word phrase has become one of the most popular ideas in business....
8 April 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
In the past, when machines replaced human workers we created new jobs elsewhere and avoided mass unemployment....
1 April 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
From the Terminator movies to the musings of Elon Musk, the world is full of worrying predictions about what will happen to us when machines become super-intelligent....
31 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
We like to think of successful entrepreneurs as brazen risk-takers, betting everything on a new invention or idea. But take a closer look at their decision-making - and a very different picture...
25 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
For decades, politicians and business leaders in the West have portrayed China as a place where innovations are copied - not created. But has this picture of an “imitation nation” blinded us...
18 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
Over a hundred years ago, the explorer Ernest Shackleton safely led his crew through a series of disasters in one of the world's harshest environments....
15 March 2021 • by Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, Michael R. Wade in Audio articles • 6 min read
Demis Hassabis created the algorithms that crushed the world’s finest chess and Go players. But now it’s time to get serious as the DeepMind co-founder and CEO takes on his biggest challenge...
11 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade, Andrew Tarling, Rainer Neubauer in Innovation • 2 min read
What does it mean to be an effective leader in an environment characterized by increasing digital disruption? ...
8 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
The corporate world is full of platitudes about management and leadership that form a kind of accepted wisdom about how things are done in business....
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