The False Alignment Trap
Most organizational change efforts fail not because of poor execution but because senior leaders fall into a false alignment trap…
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What Global Companies Lose When Decision-Making Revolves Around Headquarters
Global companies often default to an HQ-satellite model in which strategy is shaped less by market insight than by who is present…
Redefining What Efficiency Means in the Age of AI
A conversation with neuroscientist Mithu Storoni about training our brains to work more effectively with AI.
It’s Hard to Use AI as a Team. These 3 Practices Can Help.
Many organizations expect AI to automatically improve teamwork, but research shows the opposite can occur. Without intentional…
Are You Meeting the Needs of the People You Lead?
Organizations often assume leadership succeeds or fails because of a leader’s style. But research on follower psychology suggests…
Beware the Agentic Convergence Trap
When companies deploy AI systems trained on the same market data, optimizing similar objectives at machine speed, they risk…
Should You Treat AI Like a Teammate?
While leaders often try to make AI feel more approachable by anthropomorphizing it, new research actually suggests that treating…
Research: Traditional Marketing Doesn’t Work on AI Shopping Agents
AI shopping agents are rapidly becoming a meaningful share of online “shoppers.” New research shows that many classic e-commerce…
The Leadership Skills That Make Transformation Stick
A conversation with BCG’s Julia Dhar about a mindset shift that leaders need to make.
Microsoft’s Path to Adopting and Scaling AI Across its Sales Organization
A case study on why the standard deployment playbook didn’t work when the tech giant rolled out CoPilot to a key department—and…
What Are Your Company’s AI Nightmares?
The standard approach to responsible AI is fundamentally broken. In the age of generative AI, it’s too slow, too vague, and too…
Meeting the Customer Engagement Moment in Life Sciences with Agentic Operating…
Briefing Paper Sponsored By Salesforce Accenture
“Cyber Defense Has to Move at the Speed of AI”
In the AI era, cyber attacks are more complex, and many companies are unprepared for how quickly the threat landscape is…
How Fast-Growing Companies Can Make Better Decisions
Fast-growing companies inevitably hit a decision-making breaking point. What begins as founder-led, informal control fractures as…
Redesigning Your Marketing Organization for the Agentic Age
As AI accelerates product development and expands marketing’s responsibilities, most marketing organizations are struggling to…
3 Ways AI Can Free Organizations from Legacy Workflows
Organizations often assume their biggest constraint is a lack of new capabilities. More often, it’s the accumulation of outdated…
Solving Agentic AI’s Data Infrastructure and Telemetry Needs - SPONSORED…
Pulse Survey Sponsored by Cribl
Research: Why You Shouldn’t Treat AI Agents Like Employees
As organizations experiment with placing AI agents on org charts as “employees,” new research shows this framing has unintended…
The Best Leaders Embrace the Role of Supporting Character
The rise of “founder mode” and “main-character energy” as approaches to leadership has pushed many executives toward…
Stop Trying to Replicate a Single Star Performer
Research into organizational learning suggests companies often squander the benefits of diverse talent not because of who they…
Employees Are Relying on AI for Personal Support. That’s Risky.
Employees are increasingly turning to AI for career advice, emotional support, and even friendship. However, researchers…
Data Privacy Is a Growth Strategy
Protecting customer data is more than a legal or IT obligation. It can be a meaningful driver of business growth. Researchers…
Life’s Work: An Interview with Jet Li
In this interview, martial arts and movie star Jet Li reflects on a life shaped by discipline, curiosity, and an evolving sense…
How Gen AI Robots Are Reshaping Services
By incorporating generative AI, robots are evolving from scripted machines to adaptive systems that interpret context, learn from…
How to Move from AI Experimentation to AI Transformation
Many companies are investing heavily in AI but failing to translate isolated productivity gains into meaningful business results.…
Empathetic Leadership Can Make or Break AI Adoption
Research shows a wide gap between how executives perceive AI adoption and how employees actually experience it—most workers feel…
Bridging the Readiness Gap to the Agentic Enterprise - SPONSORED CONTENT FROM…
Pulse Survey Sponsored by Hyland
The Resilient Enterprise - SPONSORED CONTENT FROM OPTRO
Briefing Paper Sponsored By Optro
The Future Is Shrouded in an AI Fog
AI’s rapid advance is creating new limits on leaders’ visibility into the short-term future and challenging the criteria they use…
Research Roundup: A Surprising Benefit of Upskilling, Why Goals Can Backfire,…
Staying on top of new research can give leaders and their companies an edge. This roundup, adapted from HBR’s May–June magazine…
Apply Strategic Thinking to Create a Meaningful Life
Leaders can take the principles of strategy used in boardrooms across the world and apply them to their own lives, as explained…