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.

Competing for customer time

Stop wasting your customers’ time. Start helping them save it, spend it well – or even invest it…

Team coaching: the new leadership act

Teams have become the atomic unit of work. To realize their potential, leaders must learn how to coach….

The transformation mindset

The latest neuroscience shows how to develop the right frame of mind for leading continual transformative change. Unprecedented…

The new rules for communicating

In a hybrid world, digital body language is critical for team communications. How do we write a message…

The digital anthropologist

Cisco’s Nina Lualdi serves – and shapes – the way humans live, work and play. Much is spoken…

Boosting the Risk Immune System

A team’s biggest risk is itself. How can leaders build more robust defences? A couple of years after…

Work back from the future

A ‘reverse income statement’ is an uncertainty antidote. There is a great fallacy in business planning, one that…

Forging meaningful connections

In a hybrid working environment, leaders need to foster a sense of cohesion. The prolonged nature of the…

What we now know

The pandemic has shown us everything we need to know about creating winning teams. Organizations demand more and…

Define your purpose, free your people

At Jacobs, purpose provides alignment so individuals can shine. Can purpose be liberating? The Great Mind of Alexa…

Bring chit-chat back

Informal moments matter A novel operating environment demands a radical approach. Leading amid maximum uncertainty, complexity and with…

Cutting through the fog

ESG is centre stage in many businesses – yet many leaders are unclear about core concepts. A new…