The Art of Transformation

Innovations like the printing press, the electric light and the steam engine were catalysts in transforming their respective eras, permanently altering people’s lives. Today, it’s not just about one innovation: successive waves of disruptive technologies are emerging, converging and evolving into a digital ecosystem that is redefining how we connect, communicate and take collective action.

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Transformative Leadership 101: An Interview with Susan Christoffersen

Interview by Karen Christensen

The Dean of the Rotman School of Management shares insights on how to lead and innovate within a large enterprise.

The Future of Finance: A Historic Disruption Takes Hold

Andreas Park in conversation with Campbell Harvey

Imagine a financial framework that spreads financial democracy, increases inclusion, reduces consumer pain points and increases economic growth. DeFi has arrived.

How to Evolve Your Business Through Business Design

By Angèle Beausoleil

For organizations to thrive, they must maintain close connections with their customers, understand emerging unmet needs and find effective ways to make lives better. In short, they must evolve.

Human Resource Management For Humans

By Dilip Soman

Marketing departments and governments the world over have been quick to embrace behavioural interventions. Human resource management could be the next frontier to successfully harness and embed behavioural insights into its operations.

Seizing New Value Pools in the Post-Pandemic World

By Sangeet Paul Choudary

The keys to resilience and longevity beyond a crisis often lie in embracing the new value pools created by that crisis.

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Interview with Behnam Tabrizi

By Stuart Crainer and Karen Christensen

A world-renowned organizational transformation expert shares insights from his work with the likes of Intel, Amazon and President Barak Obama.

The Truth About Competition

By Roger Martin

Proactively structuring corporate strategy from the front line back will create opportunities for your business at the front line, where it matters most.

Welcome to the Biological Age

By Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel

A great transformation of life is underway that will determine how we treat disease, nourish ourselves, fight our climate emergency and much more.

The Digital Transformation of Leadership

By Michael Schrage, Benjamin Pring, David Kiron and Desmond Dickerson

Blurred boundaries, ‘context collapse’ and rising expectations around stakeholder engagement have converged, challenging leaders as never before.

A Framework for Customer Discovery

By Steve Blank

A focus on your customer and the job they are trying to get done makes needs discovery faster and more effective — and more reliably leads to market success.

Business Applications for Quantum Computing

By Francesco Bova, Avi Goldfarb and Roger Melko

‘Combinatorics’ problems expose the limits of classic computers and represent the potential for quantum computers to create value for organizations.

Creative Acts for Curious People

By Sarah Stein Greenberg

Embracing tools from the realm of design can enable you to improve an endless number of interactions and environments for people to experience.

How to Optimize for the New Global Reality

By Stephen Gardiner

Six signals are essential to the future success of organizations, presenting opportunities and incentives to embrace change and evolve.

Idea Exchange

The Journey from Stressed to Happy

QUESTIONS FOR: Nataly Kogan
Author, The Awesome Human Project
Interview by Carolyn Drebin

A high achiever describes her burnout and how she developed ‘emotional fitness.’

How to Talk About Racism

QUESTIONS FOR: Robert Livingston
Professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Author
Interview by John J.H. Kim

The conversations around racism at work continues. Here, an expert in the field shares his latest insights.