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In the years ahead, it will be important to not just wait for governance questions to arrive at the boardroom door. CEOs...
07/08/2026

In the years ahead, it will be important to not just wait for governance questions to arrive at the boardroom door. CEOs must build governance systems capable of anticipating uncertainty, enabling responsible innovation and earning stakeholder trust.

Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, increased stakeholder activism, geopolitical uncertainty and rapidly evolving regulatory frameworks are creating decisions that often do not fit neatly within traditional governance models.

As Peter Drucker famously observed, "A time of turbulence is a dangerous time, but its greatest danger is a temptation to deny reality.” That warning applies to corporate governance.

CEOs can no longer wait for AI regulation to define the boundaries before making business decisions.

Before asking what AI can do for you, ask whether your organization is built to receive it. The old division no longer h...
07/08/2026

Before asking what AI can do for you, ask whether your organization is built to receive it. The old division no longer holds: the technologist who owns the data and the leader who owns the vision can no longer work in separate rooms. The capability now is to hold both at once.

Technology without human systems produces pilots that stall. Leadership enthusiasm without the right tools produces motion without sustainable result. Fused, they compounded.

This article explores how mid-market companies can successfully leverage artificial intelligence.

"The challenge is not whether empathy belongs at work. It is whether organizations are willing to recognize and share th...
16/07/2026

"The challenge is not whether empathy belongs at work. It is whether organizations are willing to recognize and share the labor required to sustain it."

Here are some of the invisible ways women leaders shoulder emotional labor at work.

1. Absorbing others’ emotions
2. Getting graded on compassion
3. Sacrificing time

How Women and Organizations Can Address the Empathy Tax:

1. For women, the first step is containment.
2. Define and set boundaries that will enable you to feel centered and focused, not drained and scattered in too many directions.
3. Organizations should actively assess the extent to which care fatigue is affecting women in leadership roles, whether broadly or in specific pockets of the company.
4. Rewarding men who step up in a caring capacity.

In the past year, emotional labor at work grew for nearly 59% of women. It’s taking a toll on them and their employers.

Women are biologically wired to notice things other people miss. Researchers from Brandeis University and Griffith Unive...
16/07/2026

Women are biologically wired to notice things other people miss. Researchers from Brandeis University and Griffith University studied how women’s intuition shows up in leadership and business. They concluded that in fast-moving, unpredictable environments, which describes pretty much every small business, women’s intuitive judgment is a competitive advantage.



Research suggests women's intuition is a measurable cognitive skill that can strengthen leadership, improve decisions, and enhance success.

"Flattening organizations creates a new problem that few companies have solved. Historically, many professionals—from la...
10/06/2026

"Flattening organizations creates a new problem that few companies have solved. Historically, many professionals—from lawyers and accountants to engineers and analysts—developed expertise through entry-level work before advancing into management and senior leadership roles. If AI automates a significant portion of that early-career work, companies may find themselves with a shrinking pipeline of future experts."

"Ultimately, the managers who succeed will be the ones who are hungry to learn"

Around 41% of employees say their companies trimmed management layers last year, according to Korn Ferry.

How Bigger Data Diminish the Value of Research to BusinessMost academic research claims a link to the world outside the ...
10/06/2026

How Bigger Data Diminish the Value of Research to Business

Most academic research claims a link to the world outside the ivory tower. University of North Carolina’s John Hand, a visiting professor at Chicago Booth since 2017, examined a random selection of publications in the accounting field’s top research journals over the past 30 years and finds a large and steady weakening of the explanatory power of what researchers have historically focused on, and continue to.

“If the work we do continues to decrease in explanatory power such that our scholarly findings in 30 years’ time explain just one thousandth of 1 percent of what’s happening to the outcomes that people care about, we risk becoming wholly irrelevant to business,”

The explanatory power of accounting research findings has declined enormously over the past 30 years.

"Competition may light a fire under employees, but at the cost of autonomy, motivation, and well-being. In competitive e...
06/05/2026

"Competition may light a fire under employees, but at the cost of autonomy, motivation, and well-being. In competitive environments, the prospect of losing pushes people to act along a more rigid path of self-interest. Cooperation promotes psychological safety — a sense that it’s okay to take risks without the fear of being criticized. Feeling like you’re partaking in an endless tournament with others is harmful for your well-being. Organizations can help people feel greater freedom by designing more cooperative work environments."

Competition may light a fire under employees, but at the cost of autonomy, motivation, and well-being.

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