Thought Leadership

Duke CE’s article library brings you the latest thinking from our thought leaders in Dialogue, the only truly global journal for managers and leaders.

All networks are not created equal

Great leaders have a knack for building meaningful relationships before they’re needed. Networks are important. But do leaders…

Rebalancing the equation

Corporate fear of failure and uncertainty kills innovation. Leaders need to rethink how they handle risk. There is…

Seeing people as possibilities

The future is ours to imagine. Strategies drawn from brain science show how to change people’s mindsets about…

The age of empowerment

One chief executive is no longer enough. It’s time for organizations to make distributed leadership a reality. We…

Born to make a difference

Meet the new chief executive of Duke Corporate Education. In October 2021, South Africa-born Sharmla Chetty was appointed…

Rewrite the script

Our thinking about human possibility is limited by tired old narratives. We have an imagination problem. Across society,…

The empathy recipe

Suneel Gupta shows why half-baked ideas are the key to innovation. Perfection can alienate. Yet incompleteness can be…

Harmonic possibilities

In the world of music, elite performance levels aren’t unlocked simply through technical mastery – they require profound…

Father nurture

Sadhguru believes that humans must learn to harness the immense power and possibilities within. Sometimes the newest ideas…