If you’re a leader, it’s likely that not everyone who works with you will agree with the decisions you make — and that’s okay. Leadership involves making unpopular decisions while navigating complex […]
How to (Actually) Change Someone’s Mind
How Work Will Change Following the Pandemic
Economists use the term hysteresis to describe the phenomenon that, when conditions in an economy change, the effects of that change often remain even after the conditions return to normal. COVID and its […]
What does lockdown mean for the future of our food supply?
With COVID-19 dominating the news for several weeks, many of us would have anticipated the inevitable lockdown announcement made by the UK Prime Minister on the 23rd March. There was quite rightly much […]
Collaborating with tech companies is key for fighting COVID-19
Writing in Nature, the group from UCL, i-sense, Chatham House, Diagonal Works, Imperial College London and the London School for Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, led by Professor Rachel McKendry (UCL and Director of i-sense […]
Coronavirus: three ways the crisis may permanently change our lives
The realisation that life is going to change for a good while is starting to take hold. To flatten the curve of the COVID-19 outbreak, radical measures of social distancing are currently being rolled […]
How grocery stores restock shelves in the age of coronavirus
By Sunday, Stew Leonard Jr. and his team were ready for a break.”Saturday was really, really busy,” Leonard, the CEO and president of Stew Leonard’s, a grocery store chain with seven locations […]
COVID-19 and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic & Paralympic Games
The recent global spread of COVID-19, and specifically the intensification of stricter public health and safety measures, is having substantial impacts on the international, national and local sport sector. In response to […]
Is learning from your mistakes a myth?
New research from Chicago Booth finds that failure can undermine learning. Failure may not be the great teacher that conventional wisdom says it is. Contrary to common belief, new research from the […]
Will the 4-Day Workweek Take Hold in Europe?
Work four days a week, but get paid for five? It sounds too good to be true, but this debate is front and center within numerous European economies, not only because of […]
Baroness Hilde Kieboom: Guiding the youth toward mercifulness and the Christian organizations towards modernity
Partner organisation IMPACT26 organizes a seminar and diner with Baroness Hilde Kieboom. Baroness Hilde Kieboom is the president of the Saint Egidius community in Antwerp, as well as the international representative of […]
Happy workers are 13% more productive
Research by Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, in collaboration with British multinational telecoms firm BT, has found a conclusive link between happiness and productivity. An extensive study into happiness and productivity has […]
More Than a Paycheck: Research Shows Businesses Need to Create Meaningful Jobs to Motivate Employees
Columbia Business School Article Adds “Work Meaning” as Critical Component to Equation for Calculating Work Productivity In the current “always on” work culture where employees are tethered to their jobs through their […]
Sunday Strategist: Your Company Should Let You Work From Anywhere
Today there are about 44 million unpaid caregivers in the U.S., about the same number of people who watched the final Game of Thrones season. But over the next two decades that number is expected […]
Myth Busting And Exploring Ecosystem Definitions.
Business Ecosystems. A new way to think about business, or a vacuous phrase, used so inconsistently and broadly that it is rendered as nothing more than a piece of decorative idiom? London […]
