How to achieve work-life balance: Lessons from family enterprises

The blurring of work and personal lives is creating stress, exhaustion, and confusion for leaders. We explore how enterprising families create healthy boundaries between the two worlds and thrive.

Five must-reads to chill and refresh you on your summer vacation

From nightmare predictions of a dystopian future to the best ways to get a good night’s sleep, our selection has something for everyone.

Eight lessons to navigate career growth and your next big pivot

Susanne Hundsbæk-Pedersen, Global Head of Pharma Technical Operations at Roche, shares how she has navigated the various pivots in her career, and the importance of curiosity, optimism and energy.

Thriving after 45: is the best still to come? 

Neuroscience shows that business-critical cognitive skills can peak after middle-age, but only if we prioritize brain health.

Taming the AI Agent Wild West: 4 steps for CIOs to take control 

From the untamed rise of semi-autonomous agents to growing concerns around accountability and security risks, AI agents are creating new headaches for CIOs. Here’s how tech leaders can navigate the challenges.

As the parades end, the work begins: How we can all contribute to closing the LGBTQ+ equality gap

As Pride Month celebrations fade, sobering data reveals the persistent workplace challenges facing LGBTQ+ employees globally. From the ‘gay glass ceiling’ blocking executive advancement to six in 10 LGBTQ+ Europeans hiding their identity at work, the statistics demand sustained corporate and individual action beyond June’s rainbow displays.

Building the foundations for sustainable performance: Tariq Farooq 

Tariq Farooq, Head of Global Supply Chain at Fresenius Kabi and former CSCO at Sanofi, reflects on why transformation requires disciplined execution, foundational capability building, and alignment between leadership intent and operational reality.

How to conduct your team to perform a masterpiece 

Comedian and conductor Rainer Hersch says managers striving to lead high-performance teams can find inspiration in the concert hall.

Business must defend the WTO’s vital rules-based system

Faced with the threat of trade fragmentation, many are now waking up to the true value of preserving a rules-based system of cooperation – and business can help defend it too, says WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

‘If you’re not sure if you should do it, do it’: Marc Maurer shares On’s story

In his final days as co-CEO of On, Marc Maurer gave participants of IMD’s Orchestrating Winning Performance a glimpse behind the scenes of the messy – and often uncomfortable – journey of building a global sportswear brand.

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