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Andriy Rozhdestvensky, Sofiya Opatska, and Gerard Seijts (coauthor of Character: What Contemporary Leaders Can Teach Us About Building a More Just, Prosperous, and Sustainable Future) move us to extraordinary purpose, counting up to the 1,000 days of U…
Kanina Blanchard coaches leaders on how to recognize, resist, and redirect deviance from purpose. Her article reminds us that asking questions that matter is more an art than a science. It takes us behind the scenes, where vulnerability often makes oth…
Ananthi Al Ramiah, Gretchen Reydams-Schils, and Matthew Phillips focus on the crisis of purpose within professions. Premised on purpose to begin with, many professions are struggling with inner distress and outer distrust. Instead of taking purpose for…
Christian Busch, author of The Serendipity Mindset: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck, and Nele Terveen explain how purpose helps leaders connect the dots between grand challenges and strategic responses. When leaders expect the unexpected, the…
How far forward can hardship take purpose-driven leaders? Lara Liboni, Luciana O. Cezarino, Alessandro Goulart, Vera Goulart, and Rafael Petry offer a real-life case of success created from adversity. Before there was a solution, they tell us, there wa…
Frank Jan de Graaf invites us to try on deliberative practices. Firmly rooted in pragmatism, deliberation has historically played a significant (some say central) role in democratic societies. It also comes in handy when opposite perspectives invite us…
Vanessa M. Patrick, author of The Power of Saying No: The New Science of How to Say No That Puts You in Charge of Your Life, and Murali Kuppuswamy explain how saying no can be an essential antidote to purpose washing. Leveraging insights on empowered r…
By Alok Mehta (CIO, Business Systems, Kemper), Shravan Kumar (AVP Information Technology), and Partha Dash (Director Information Technology) In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, organizations are increasingly transitioning from traditional…
Enterprise architecture artifacts are powerful tools for educating and engaging your stakeholders in your enterprise architecture efforts. Let’s explore the basics of building artifacts with real impact.
Fundamental properties of digital IT have set ons on a road not to a Singularity Point, but towards Complexity Crunch. That has consequences for our strategic (IT) choices and landscapes.
A ‘long read’ (sorry) about lessons we can learn by now after h…
By Bharat Bansal, Stuart Sim, and Bala Parameshwaran, of Bain & Company At a Glance Companies can’t scale their AI solutions without also reshaping their technology function to enable this massive shift. Taking an “AI […]
In Part I of this two-part Amplify series on scaffolding purpose, we likened purpose (as a noun) to property and explored who has it. In this issue, we focus on how leaders who already have purpose hold onto it when times get tough and examine how purp…