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The explosion of generative AI has sparked a wave of case studies showing how quickly and profoundly it is transforming businesses. Yet most of these use cases still apply the technology to enhancing existing systems. This book makes the case for why business leaders must revisit the fundamentals of generative AI and look beyond short-term, tact…

From self-awareness to team excellence – master the essential skills that separate great leaders from the rest. Today’s leaders face unprecedented challenges: navigating ethical gray zones, building trust across generations, and making critical decisions under intense pressure. This collection brings together breakthrough insights from world-cla…

The IMD World Competitiveness Ranking (WCR) is a renowned tool for assessing the competitiveness of economies worldwide. This year, IMD’s World Competitiveness Center (WCC) has expanded its scope to include Kenya, Namibia, and Oman. This year’s ranking highlights that government efficiency is key to fighting social divides and keeping economies …

Have you ever wondered why AI and sustainability seem so promising, yet so often fail to take off inside traditional companies? Or why, despite their potential synergy, AI and sustainability are so rarely pursued together? Too often, companies treat AI and sustainability as separate tracks, believing it’s simpler to manage change that way. But t…

Necessity entrepreneurship is broadly understood as the identifying and seizing of business opportunities to address basic needs such as food and shelter. This volume proposes new ways of seeing, theorizing, and researching necessity entrepreneurship. Scholars from across the management field expand our collective understanding, presenting neces…

Understand how GenAI is different from other tech innovations and what you can do to harness its power. This book argues that GenAI represents a genuine paradigm shift in technological innovation. The authors, the hosts of the popular podcast ‘Mike & Amit Talk Tech’, combine academic rigor with practical business insights, incorporating perspect…

Based on extensive research conducted in the past several years at the International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland (IMD), Leading the Sustainable Business Transformation: A Playbook from IMD helps readers understand why sustainability matters, what it involves, how it fits with corporate strategy and how to implement it acc…

Families are the most prevalent type of business owners in any global economy. But succeeding across generations is tricky, and only a few continue to prosper across generations. The Family Business Book is your comprehensive guide to building a strategy for your entrepreneurial family to prosper now and thrive across generations into the future…

In response to the increasing demands of today’s fast-paced, adverse environments, Care, Dare, Share: The Secure Base Coach was developed to help individuals, teams, and organizations thrive. This guide focuses on a transformative approach to coaching that emphasizes resilience, creativity, and adaptive thinking. The playbook provides practical …

The IMD World Competitiveness Ranking (WCR) is a renowned tool for assessing the competitiveness of economies worldwide. This year, IMD’s World Competitiveness Center (WCC) has expanded its scope to include Ghana, Nigeria, and Puerto Rico. The incorporation of the former two is part of a deliberate strategy to incorporate more African economies …

This practical book will help you transform your business from a linear “take-make-waste” approach into one that is sustainable, circular, but also profitable, resilient, and competitive.

This is the third volume in the IMD smart cities case study book series. It marks the first collaboration between IMD and WeGO in collecting and publishing a set of case studies and makes heavy reference to the 2023 edition of the IMD Smart City Index (SCI), which was produced by the IMD World Competitiveness Center with WeGO’s support.

Where do your instincts come from and how can you improve them? Stretched by heavy workloads and facing ever more complex environments, leaders increasingly find themselves running on automatic and relying on their instincts. But depending on instincts is a bit like gambling, and as a result, stress levels, mistakes and failure rates are all on …

International bestselling author of The First 90 Days Michael D. Watkins presents an actionable new framework to help aspiring leaders learn to think strategically—a set of skills more necessary than ever in a world of constant change. Pattern recognition. Systems perspective. Mental agility. Structured problem-solving. Visioning. Political savv…

If you are currently working on a strategic initiative and don’t quite know what to do at this stage, this trusted companion provides you with a step by step guide for leading strategic initiatives by intertwining theoretical frameworks with practical tools. It provides you with guidance on which tools to use when. Embedded throughout the book a…