IMD Business School

Focused on real-world executive development, IMD Business School is an independent business school, with Swiss roots and global reach, expert in developing leaders and transforming organizations to create ongoing impact. IMD Business School is ranked number No. 3 on The the CEOWORLD magazine’s ranking of the best business schools in the world for 2018. This article is published in collaboration with IMD Business School. The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the CEOWORLD magazine.

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Achieving Strategic Agility: Why Strategic Planning Needs To Be Revisited

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Over the last five years, I have engaged in strategic dialogues with many top management teams in a range of industries from chemicals to telecom to paint. While working with these senior executives, I have noticed that many are mired in a “strategic decision-making conundrum”. On the one hand, rigid...

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The Disruption-Fit Leader: Three Ways Today’s Managers Can Stay Ahead Of Change

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In management thinking circles over the years, VUCA has become somewhat of a buzzword to describe a business landscape that is volatile, unpredictable, complex and ambiguous. Now many are beginning to question it: Does it really exist, or did leaders create it, so they could blame it for some kind...

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Getting Out Of The Office: Seven Organizing Principles To Help CEOs Effectively Shape The External Environment

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Becoming the CEO of a large organization for the first time is a challenging leadership transition. While the path to the top usually prepares a first-time CEO well for key internal leadership tasks (such as building and leading executive teams, driving execution, and crafting vision and strategy) many organizational leaders...