Tag Archives: Leadership

Preparing your organisation for 2026: Seven leadership strategies(FC)

2026 will be a crucial inflexion point for businesses. The data are striking—the proportion of employees using AI in their role in the U.S. doubled between 2023 and 2025. Across the Atlantic, 30% of EU workers are already using AI in their jobs. And according to Gartner, by 2026 more than 100 million workers will collaborate with “robo-colleagues.” […]
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Gartner Identifies the Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2026 (Gartner)

Gartner analysts Tori Paulman and Gene Alvarez on stage at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo “Technology leaders face a pivotal year in 2026, where disruption, innovation, and risk are expanding at unprecedented speed,” said Gene Alvarez, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner. “The top strategic technology trends identified for 2026 are tightly interwoven and reflect the realities of an […]
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Five Reasons For NOT Bringing Your Whole Self To Work (FB)

In recent years, “bring your whole self to work” has become one of the most overused slogans in the corporate lexicon. It sounds liberating, human, and progressive: an antidote to the sterile, hierarchical workplace cultures of the past. Leaders who champion this mantra usually mean well. They want to signal psychological safety, inclusion, and humanity. […]
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Leading At The Speed Of Change: How Technology Is Outpacing Organizational Readiness (FB)

Every generation of managers thinks they’re living through the biggest transformation. This one might actually be right. Technological advancement is not new. Businesses have been adapting to new tools and systems since the Industrial Revolution. What’s new is the rate of change. A century ago, progress moved in cycles. Today, it moves in sprints. The pace at […]
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The No. 1 Skill Leaders Lack During Layoffs, New Survey Reveals(Forbes)

In today’s volatile business climate, layoffs have become an unfortunate reality across industries. From tech giants like Intel, Tesla and Cisco to retailers closing brick-and-mortar locations across the board, job cuts are making headlines with alarming frequency. Yet while leaders focus on the financial mechanics of downsizing, they often miss the vital element that determines […]
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Understanding AI: How to maintain control before it controls us (FC)

Artificial intelligence could reshape our world for the better or threaten our very existence. Today’s chatbots are just the beginning. We could be heading for a future in which artificial superintelligence challenges human dominance. To keep our grip on the reins of progress when faced with an intelligence explosion, we need to set clear standards and precautions for […]
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Blindspotting: Why Self-Awareness Is A Leadership Imperative (Forbes)

In the high-stakes world of executive decision-making, what we don’t see often matters more than what we do. Dr. Martin Dubin, clinical psychologist turned executive coach and author of Blindspotting, argues that leadership blind spots aren’t just occasional lapses—they’re patterned behaviors, deeply embedded in identity, emotion, and motive. His provocative framework challenges leaders to confront the […]
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AI Agents Are Already Reshaping Business Leadership And Decision Making (Forbes)

When it comes to the work that can be carried out by AI agents, we often focus on repetitive and routine tasks. The types of tasks that machines can get really, really good at if they perform them again and again. Examples include writing and scheduling social media posts, solving routine customer service issues, or labelling […]
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GIBS Whitepaper: Spaces for dignity: How African business and business schools cultivate regenerative practices that unlock abundance By Roze Phillips

Abstract Businesses and business schools are at a critical juncture: theneed to redefine the value and purpose of management educationand that of work has never been more urgent. Businesses can nolonger solely focus on creating economic profits. They must alsoincorporate societal and ecological values so that the future isinclusive and thus sustainable for all. This […]
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Why Leaders Should Bring Their Best Self—Not Their Whole Self—to Work(HBR)

  While the idea of bringing your “whole self” to work is often glorified, it’s a misguided concept for senior leaders. The higher you climb in an organization, the more your personal whims, biases, and blind spots can reverberate across the entire organization, and the more essential it becomes to maintain a clear boundary between what […]
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