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How to Sabotage Your Board
There are myriad ways that directors and board chairs limit board effectiveness, intentionally and unintentionally. Here are the behaviors to look out for and curtail.
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Leadership
How to Sabotage Your Board
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Jon Huggett and Dariusz Jemielniak
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Immersive Commerce: Early Lessons From Walmart
The retailer is using immersive commerce — a form of online shopping that combines VR with 3D visualizations and gamification — to connect with the next generation of shoppers.
Mary Lacity and Remko Van Hoek
Boards & Corporate Governance
Build a Better Board
Companies benefit when they recognize board committees’ important role in corporate governance.
Randall S. Peterson and Pedro Fontes Falcão
Executing Strategy
The Four Guardrails That Enable Agility
Large organizations can move as fast as startups if leaders empower employees to act autonomously via well-defined constraints.
Nick van der Meulen
Strategy
Don’t Bet Against the Move to Clean Energy
The energy transition may face some bumps in the road, but taking a wait-and-see approach brings its own risks.
Steven Goldbach, Geoff Tuff, and Derek Pankratz
Leadership
Skills Training Links Psychological Safety to Revenue Growth
Skills training for executives highlighting psychological safety and perspective-taking have been shown to improve business outcomes.
Per Hugander and Amy C. Edmondson
Developing Strategy
What It Means for Companies to Act Their Age
Businesses can fight aging through renewal, revamp, or rebirth but should also learn how to navigate decline.
Aswath Damodaran
Innovation
Engineer Your Own Luck
Companies that modularize and externalize their best capabilities are in a strong position to seize unexpected opportunities.
Mark J. Greeven, Howard Yu, and Jialu Shan
Customers
Acing Value-Based Sales
To get the best returns on innovative products, collaborate with customers to define and share the commercial opportunity.
Marco Bertini, Oded Koenigsberg, and Todd Snelgrove
Executing Strategy
Would You Invite Employees to Vote on Strategic Direction?
Executives often fear that they’ll lose control and speed by engaging employees in strategic planning. But here’s a new playbook that works.