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Shifting Sands: Turn Uncertainty Into Action or Lose Relevance

The world is more turbulent, less predictable, more complex, less controllable, more infinite, less knowable and more challenging than we could have imagined. It doesn’t help that we are hard-wired to dislike uncertainty - it makes us feel anxious and uncomfortable, so we avoid it. But avoiding...

Rainbow Rising

At Thinkers50 we are committed to inclusivity and diversity, which is why we support and celebrate Pride Month. As US President Joe Biden observed: “Pride is a time to recall the trials the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) community has endured...

Back2Better Webinar: Why Innovation Fails and How To Fix It With Tony Ulwick

95% of product teams don’t agree on what a customer “need” even is. This is the root cause of failure in innovation and why the majority of new products fail. To succeed at innovation, product teams must unite around a common language and understanding of...

Customers Not CEOs Decide Whether Companies Succeed

Some companies are great for customers – not only do they care but they change whole markets to work better for the customers they serve. Think of Amazon, easyJet and Sky. They make things easier and improve what really matters. They have also enjoyed huge business success, growing and making plenty of money.

Build Your Sales Tribe with Steve Schrier

The art and science of selling is at the heart of every job, and yet the world of sales is undergoing massive change. In this Thinkers50 curated session, Steve Schrier takes us into the concepts of his book Build Your Sales...

Don’t Go It Alone: Build A Leadership Mindset Of Trust And Co-Creation

Not only can leaders help organizations to co-create the future, but perhaps they can also energise the workplace along the way. Whether this comes down to technology, the race to reskill or diversity, Hack Future Lab founder and global management thinker Terence...

Back2Better: Behind Video Walls: Communicating Strategy with Humanity with James Ashton

The pandemic has pushed communication skills to the forefront like never before. CEOs must communicate strategy with humanity and reinforce the power of collective endeavour as workforces continue to operate remotely. They must do so from behind “video walls,” as one...

The Future of Intelligent Work: A Conversation with GM Garry Kasparov

In this conversation, Professor David De Cremer speaks with GM Garry Kasparov about artificial intelligence, human creativity and the future of human-machine interaction.

Back2Better: Going Above & Beyond the Norm with Tammy Erickson

Today, the success of your business depends on people other than yourself taking actions that are impossible for you to pre-determine or specify. It is essential that everyone throughout your organisation care and think: to sense changes in the customer needs,...

Introducing and Using an Organization Guidance System (OGS) with Dave Ulrich

In this one-hour session introduced by Thinkers50’s Stuart Crainer, Dave provides a powerful overview of the Organization Guidance System (OGS) and shares insights on the early results of this research with over 1,000 companies. The session reviews the key human...

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