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Why business schools must teach lucidity in an age of acceleration
Why Business Schools Must Teach Lucidity in an Age of Acceleration
As AI accelerates decisions, the new risk for organisations is not simply moving too fast, but seeing too little. Dashboards...
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A crisis of wellbeing among business schools’ early-career scholars: reasons, repercussions and remedies
A Crisis of Wellbeing Among Business Schools’ Early-Career Scholars: Reasons, Repercussions and Remedies
The growing crisis of wellbeing in business schools is gaining attention among researchers concerned about the toll of the neoliberal...
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Sustaining collegial relations and staff wellbeing: collegiality and ‘local leadership’ in contemporary business schools
Sustaining Collegial Relations and Staff Wellbeing: Collegiality and ‘Local Leadership’ in Contemporary Business Schools
This paper explores the concept of collegiality through a case study of a UK business school, offering a valuable example...
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Managerial pathologies: barriers to academic culture, collegiality and leadership
Managerial Pathologies: Barriers to Academic Culture, Collegiality and Leadership
This article explores the role of administrative bloat as a counterweight to positive culture and collegiality in business schools. The...
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Clarity and contradiction in care: cultivating wellness in business schools
Clarity and Contradiction in Care: Cultivating Wellness in Business Schools
Business schools and their deans have been widely critiqued as embodying neoliberal logics of efficiency, performativity, and marketisation, raising questions...
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Building wellbeing through culture and collegiality
Building Wellbeing Through Culture and Collegiality
This article examines the relationship between wellbeing, culture, and collegiality within business schools, drawing on insights from a business school...
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Postscript: success and failure of workplace wellbeing initiatives
Postscript: Success and Failure of Workplace Wellbeing Initiatives
The papers in this volume represent the continued emergence of an international learning community centred on health and wellbeing in...
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The case for inclusivity as a guiding principle for responsible and good science
The Case for Inclusivity as a Guiding Principle for Responsible and Good Science
This article argues for the importance of diversity and inclusion in research amid political controversies surrounding DEI, proposing a broader,...
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Why narrative leadership is the future of management
Why Narrative Leadership Is the Future of Management
As AI multiplies data and noise, leaders must provide meaning. Jyoti Guptara introduces ‘narrative leadership’ as the next evolution in...
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The respect dividend: why business education must lead with humanity
The Respect Dividend: Why Business Education Must Lead with Humanity
In this article, Hall-of-Fame speaker Mike Domitrz explores why the future of leadership depends not only on technical expertise or...
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Meaningful bbas
Meaningful BBAs
The article argues that Bachelor’s in Business Administration (BBA) programmes should be understood as transformative educational experiences rather than mere...
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A very necessary awakening: achieving meaningful inclusion
A Very Necessary Awakening: Achieving Meaningful Inclusion
A people-centred approach to leadership means actively listening to more of your people, deliberately inviting their participation and consciously including...
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Ensuring ‘good work’
Ensuring ‘Good Work’
The development of work in the digital age is often referred to as ‘New Work’. It would be better to...
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The leadfluencer: a new paradigm for leadership and influence in the digital age
The LeadFluencer: A New Paradigm for Leadership and Influence in the Digital Age
The article discusses the emergence of the LeadFluencer, a transformative figure blending traditional leadership with digital influence in the digital...
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Ukraine undaunted
Ukraine undaunted
A year into Russia’s invasion, the education system in Ukraine and the university campuses continue to remain under threat of...
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Hope in the time of collapse
Hope in the time of collapse
Half of the world’s population is considered “highly vulnerable”. The emergency that so many in the rich world have felt...
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Hidden in plain sight: the easiest leverage for change
Hidden in plain sight: the easiest leverage for change
Isabel Rimanoczy discusses the “Sustainability Mindset” and the path to an accelerated mindset transformation.
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Contemporary management education: eight questions that will shape its future in the 21st century
Contemporary management education: Eight questions that will shape its future in the 21st century
Piet Naudé introduces his new book, ‘Contemporary Management Education: Eight questions that will shape its future in the 21st century’.
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Developing the art of resilience
Developing the art of resilience
Everybody has to go through difficult times in their life; some more than others. But the way we manage these...
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Covid-19, our remote workplace and the human factor in leadership
COVID-19, our remote workplace and the human factor in leadership
The coronavirus has exposed what is working and what is not, as we adapt how we manage our teams and...
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The working world of 2030: a better place
The working world of 2030: A better place
By 2030, over 70% of the workforce will be comprised of generation X and millennials. Human respect and kindness take...
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Trust does not need sympathy
Trust does not need sympathy
The well-known saying of trust and control should be reversed: Control is good, trust is better. Trust is well-researched. We...
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Re-humanisation: oh, we forgot
Re-humanisation: Oh, we forgot
We have arrived in the digital age, but we have forgotten the human factor in our businesses and business schools.
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Building sustainability into the value chain
Building sustainability into the value chain
Sustainability is fast becoming an essential part of value assessment – the core of the new business model. Delivering this...
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Authentic and respectful leadership
Authentic and respectful leadership
Leaders of the future who underestimate the importance of “respect” as a central element of their culture do so at...
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The trouble with learning…how fear holds us back, and what we can do about it
The trouble with learning…how fear holds us back, and what we can do about it
Perhaps the true test of the mantra “always be learning” should be the extent to which the way is smoothed...
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Be conscious!
Be conscious!
Launched in 2012 by Ben Emmens and Abi Green, the Conscious Project has one clear aim: to help individuals and...
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Creating value: value co-creation and value destruction
Creating value: Value co-creation and value destruction
A greater understanding of value, together with today’s big data analytics, gives companies the potential to put value creation at...
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In conversation with the dalai lama
In conversation with the Dalai Lama
In this edited extract adapted from his new book, Business as an Instrument for Societal Change: In Conversation with the...
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Values, belief and attitudes: the implications for organisational culture
Values, belief and attitudes: The implications for organisational culture
Are we really getting more spiritual? And is this affecting business culture? Chris Baker, Peter Stokes and Jessica Lichy suggest...
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