Talking About Failure Is Crucial for Growth. Here’s How to Do It Right

Amy Edmondson, a professor in leadership and management at Harvard Business School, has studied three different kinds of failures: preventable failure, complex failure and intelligent failure.

You can read the complete article published by The New York Times, where Ms. Edmondson comments about the process of failure.

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Impending Global Leadership Challenges: Lessons Learned from the Covid-19 Crisis

The international Academy of Management Global Forum 2020 took place on October 9th and was hoster by IEDC – Bled School of Management, Slovenia. In this meeting, many topics were discussed by leaders around the world, offering business, academic and political perspective. Read the complete article here – Impending Global Leadership

Save the date - Global Forum 2021

This year’s conference “Reshaping Capitalism: An Agenda for Corporate Leaders, Investors and Regulators”, hosted by IEDC Bled School of Management, will take place on October 15th, from 10:00 to 13:30 pm ET by Zoom. Please save the date for the next Global Forum 2021. To register in advance for this meeting, please send an e-mail to: … Continued

The Changing Role of Business

On August 19, 2019, 181 CEOs who are members of the U.S. Business Roundtable (BRT) issued a statement on the purpose of a corporation. Its opening sentence speaks to each person’s right to lead a life of meaning and dignity. It goes on to acknowledge the central importance of stakeholders, including customers, employees, suppliers, local communities … Continued

The Importance Of The Healthcare Sector To The Sustainable Development Goals

It is now widely accepted that the private sector, both companies and investors, is essential to accomplishing the 169 targets in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs). Of course, there is a tension here. The SDGs are about making the world a better place. That is not the primary reason companies exist, although the state of the world matters … Continued

Going Local To Survive Creeping Protectionism

Despite the whiplash most of the world felt with such largely unexpected developments like Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, we still all too often fall into comfortable decision traps in thinking about the future. Just below the surface of these “shocks” are some fundamental tectonic shifts in the assumptions on which way the … Continued

The Importance Of The Services Sector To The Sustainable Development Goals

Previously I have written about the importance of the healthcare, resource transformation, food and beverage, consumption, extractives & minerals processing, renewables and alternative energy, infrastructure, transportation, and technology and communications sectors to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).