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Purpose Has No Effect on Performance Until You Do This

Companies rush to define their purpose, sure it will fire up their teams and lift results. Rodolphe Durand has spent ten years checking whether that was true. Few people are better placed to know: he holds the Joly Family Chair in Purposeful Leadership at HEC Paris, runs its Purpose Center, and has spent over a decade on the boards of listed, private, and non-profit organisations - watching purpose decisions get made from the inside.  

 

  • How Radisha Silva broke her own ceiling

    Trust gets you in the room. It does not make you indispensable once the room gets more technical than you are. Radisha Silva, VP at J.P. Morgan in Geneva, saw that gap coming and went back to school to close it.

  • The More Uncertain the World, the More You Need a Strategy

    AI and geopolitical turmoil have convinced many executives that the future is too unpredictable to plan for. Laurence Lehmann-Ortega, strategy professor at HEC Paris and co-author of Strategor, argues the reverse: permanent crisis is precisely why strategy matters again, on one condition, that you stop forecasting the future and start preparing for several of them at once.
     

  • Leading When the World Stops Following Its Own Rules

    Executives want to know what happens next in Iran, in Washington, in the markets. Professor Jeremy Ghez argues that the real skill in a broken world is no longer predicting what happens next, but spotting which of the assumptions that made them successful have stopped working.