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Leadership in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI’s effect on the workplace will not be limited merely to repetitive, production line-type jobs. Increasingly, it also enters the realm of highly trained knowledge workers. It will also affect those who manage workers currently employed in such jobs. AI likely will reshape jobs all the way up to the C-level offices. That doesn’t mean, though, that managers and executives will no longer be needed.…
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Diversity – The Benefits of Being Uncomfortable
The topic of diversity is not one that most people find in their comfort zone. As I wrote in a previous article on diversity, increasing diversity often engenders frustration in those tasked with accomplishing it, and inspires eye rolls among diversity-fatigued employees who have heard countless reports on management’s diversity goals, but remain unconvinced of diversity’s value. Can anything be done to make diversity less of…
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Enterprise Resilience – A Model to Thrive in a World of Change
Modern theories of the firm remain focused on transaction costs, operational efficiency, employee motivation, leadership, strategy and other related factors. While any of these may support our success at various times, none of them alone will facilitate it in the long run. Even strategy, while vitally important, is set at a point in time and is vulnerable to change. The one factor that enables our…
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Cyber-Kinetic Security
Non-Executive Directors as Cyber Champions
As a non-executive director (NED) who often represents cybersecurity and emerging technology interests on boards, I’ve learned that even without being a deep technical expert, I must challenge management and ensure our company’s security posture is sound. In today’s high-risk digital environment, boards can no longer treat cybersecurity as "someone else’s problem." Directors cannot abdicate or simply delegate oversight of cybersecurity - we must instead…
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Can we Rescue Diversity from its own Failings?
Don’t expect this to be either of the typical articles about diversity. I’m here not to fawn over its benefits nor to rant about who does or doesn’t get hired. I’m here, instead, to ask why we react to it in the baffling way we do, why it often accomplishes the exact opposite of its stated goals and what dramatic approaches we might take to…
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Innovative Businesses Have Curious Employees
Several comments in response to my recent competency-focused post led me to also consider the importance of curiosity in the workplace. Interestingly enough, recent experiences have given me a chance to see firsthand the benefits of nurturing curiosity and how to do so as part of the DNA of the work environment. Curiosity is a vital element in all aspects of innovation, yet is tightly confined by…
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MAS TRM Just Reset the Floor for Financial‑Sector Cybersecurity
I’ve spent the last few years in Singapore helping banks, insurers, and market infrastructure across APAC harden their environments. We’ve all said the same thing in private: we need a clear, enforceable baseline that trades vague “best practice” for concrete expectations and timelines. With the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Technology Risk Management (TRM) package - the Guidelines (principles/best practices) and the legally binding TRM…
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Do you Have What it Takes to be an Interim Manager?
Businesses, facing an ever-increasing variety of complex problems, are in desperate need of good interim managers to help solve them. Such positions are highly rewarding, with the opportunity to explore new places, meet new people – and fill your plate with a steady diet of fascinating challenges. Perhaps you’ve considered entering this growing field and becoming one of these people who jump into new companies…
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