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Announcing the Thinkers50 2021 Leadership Award Shortlist

Nominations are in for the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Awards for 2021. Over the course of the next ten weeks, we will be highlighting the shortlisted nominees and their achievements. This week, we are sharing with you the nominees for the Thinkers50 Leadership Award shortlist for...

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,...

Thinkers50 Curated LinkedIn Live with Marianna and Thomas | The Next CEO

Every year, companies spend billions of dollars in board time and headhunter fees on CEO searches. In fact, by many accounts, the selection of the next CEO is the single most important task of the board of directors. Yet, despite the huge amount of time, money,...

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...

Thinkers50 Curated LinkedIn Live with Hubert Joly | The Heart of Business

Hubert Joly is the former chairman and CEO of the consumer electronics retailer Best Buy. He has been recognized as one of the 100 best-performing CEOs in the world by the Harvard Business Review, one of the top 30 CEOs in the world by Barons, and one of the...

Thinkers50 Curated LinkedIn Live with Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg | What’s Your Problem?

Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg is a globally recognized expert on innovation and problem-solving. His books include "Innovation as Usual" which he co-authored with Patty Miller and most recently "What's Your Problem?". Thomas has shared and refined his reframing...

Thinkers50 Curated LinkedIn Live with Dashun Wang | The Science of Science

Dashun Wang is an associate professor of management and organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, where he is the founding director of the Center for Science of Science and Innovation. He is also a core faculty member at the Northwestern Institute on...

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.

Thinkers50 Curated LinkedIn Live with Matt Beane | Learning to Work with Intelligent Machines

Matt is a faculty member in the technology management program at the University of California at Santa Barbara and is a digital fellow at Stanford and MIT. His work focuses on how intelligent machines and human beings can work together productively. Matt's TED...

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