GSK Consumer Healthcare: Building communities of practice to drive post merger innovation

Axel P. Lehmann emphasizes why boards must foster a speak-up culture, ensuring warning signs are addressed openly at the table, not hidden under it.

From Boomers to Gen Z, each generation has unique experiences and insights to share. Discover how cross-generational learning fosters growth, innovation, and understanding in today’s world.

Leaders of family firms are struggling with multiple role identities, and poor board management is putting the future of family enterprises at risk.

It happens that the small gifts of wisdom are wrapped in flat rhetoric. Like when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, in a much-publicized interview with American podcast host Joe Rogan, believed that companies need "more masculine energy." It is na...

Taking up a new leadership post can mean a dramatic shift in the way others see you – and how you define yourself. It is vital to learn how to separate your true self from the demands and expectations of the role.

This note presents an integrated model for organizational culture transformation, addressing common pitfalls and barriers to successful change. It outlines seven key elements: (1) defining the target culture, (2) clarifying leadership’s role, (3) ...

As demand for executive education soars, a new IMD report argues that calculating the return on investment is critical to justifying the spend in time and costs.

The last five years have reinforced the imperative for business leaders to incorporate uncertainty in their strategic planning. Doing so requires a paradigm shift in decision making. This is especially true in the move toward sustainability, which...

Moving to sustainability isn’t a matter of making a few top-down decisions. Companies need the entire organization engaged in seeking sustainable practices throughout the value chain and even in secondary activities. The only way to make that happ...

Moving an organization to sustainability is a complex and demanding task that challenges leaders far beyond their traditional roles. It requires deeper skills and a broader self-awareness than many leaders possess at the outset. The move demands n...