Use emotional intelligence to strengthen your leadership skills
When we study the greatest leaders, they all tend to share a rare and exciting skill: high emotional intelligence. How can an individual inspire others? With emotional intelligence!
Is humility the new smart?
Learning from errors seems to be a key competence in today’s workplace, but how much people actually learn varies quite a bit and much depends on people’s humility, as Prof. Christoph Seckler reveals.
Bad decisions put to the test on Mount Everest
“I’ve put too much of myself into this mountain to quit now . . .” Author and ESCP alumna Sophie Guignard takes a closer look at why we sometimes make “bad choices” with the example of the fatal 1996 climb of Mount Everest.
Drawing from female entrepreneurship in rural Kenya – fostering frugal innovation within tribal constraints
Alisa Sydow and Funké Michaels outline how one can learn from Maasai tribeswomen’s example to manage and grow businesses despite challenges.
Learning to create value in the highly uncertain post-Covid-19 era
To make decisions in such an unpredictable context, and indeed survive and thrive, companies need an exploratory mindset. For that, they must set aside standard risk management and develop tools and methods borrowed from the field of entrepreneurship, where uncertainty is the norm.
How to create sustainable value? Learn from Interface’s 25-year journey
Prof. Olivier Delbard explores the key features of this pioneer in the field of corporate sustainability, with a focus on how the company created sustainable value for its stakeholders while radically rethinking and redesigning its business model.
Integrating Sustainable Development Goals within companies’ strategies and corporate reporting
Drawing on the experience of Pepsico and City Developments Limited, Prof. Fabrizio Granà analyses the role organizations can play in promoting and achieving the SDGs, and the potential advantages they can obtain by leveraging the interconnections between these and Integrated Reporting.
Dominant and arrogant: the truth about leadership
Prof. Ghislain Deslandes reviews a book on leadership where self-honesty, concern for others and generosity in leadership are all “bullshit”.
Mechanical and Human Heart
In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Jason Gluck, Director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support (mechanical heart/lung) Program at Hartford Healthcare Hospital. This episode is a peek into the mind of one of the top healthcare leaders in New England. We all have a personal story that drives us From a young freshman wanting…
Leadership Through Universal Human Truth
In this episode, we hear from Gabi Mittas, international leader and Chief Marketing Officer Australia, New Zealand and North Asia Pacific Region at Eli Lilly, an American pharmaceutical company. We discussed her philosophy on leadership and the true meaning of spreading love in organizations. We all have a personal story that drives us Gabi walked…
“If you stop learning, your team will stop.” A culture of progress starts with you
ESCP alumna turned employee Emily Centeno shares how she approaches continuous learning to better herself and her team.
How to fail quickly and learn from your mistakes
According to science, failure could indeed, when not downright positive, at least be necessary for us to truly succeed. In fact, a failure-free road to success may not exist.
