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Are you at risk of a slowly eroding reputation?
Billy Partridge, GraylingWhen most people think about lost reputations, they recall infamous, cliff-edge disasters—those lost-in-a-heartbeat crises we all see unfold in the media. These events cause irreparable damage through sudden, unexpected occurrences. But what if those are actually in the minority? What if there is another, less...
corporate reputation
Philosophy Eats AI
Michael Schrage and David Kiron, MIT Sloan ReviewGenerating sustainable business value with AI demands critical thinking about the disparate philosophies determining AI development, training, deployment, and use.
ai
Chief Economists Outlook: January 2025
World Economic ForumThe January 2025 Chief Economists Outlook explores key trends in the global economy, including the latest outlook for growth, inflation, monetary and fiscal policy. It discusses the impact of US policy on the global economy, investigates fragmentation trends and discusses the turbulent outlook for global trade.
socio political environment
geo political environment
The Irreplaceable Value of Human Decision-Making in the Age of AI
Martin Reeves, Mihnea Moldoveanu and Adam Job, Harvard Business ReviewThe rise of AI presents an opportunity for humans to step up to the challenge of refining, emphasising, and applying our human strengths to differentiate corporate decision-making. However, human capabilities are often untrained, impulsive, or implicit. Thus, to distinguish and elevate their decision-making...
ai
The five challenges of corporate communication
José Manuel Velasco, LLYCAs much admired as misunderstood, corporate communications continue to be the cornerstone of a company’s story. But corporate communications must be a collective effort, one able to reach an entire organisation. This implies a transversal and unifying purpose, with all the resulting advantages and disadvantages.
communication
corporate narrative
Anti Discrimination Policy
Australian Institute of Company DirectorsRecent legal changes in Australia have introduced a "positive duty" for employers to proactively combat workplace sexual harassment and discrimination, with the Australian Human Rights Commission gaining expanded powers to enforce compliance.
corporate responsibility
workplace
The Insidious Effects of Hurrying
Kandi Viens, Harvard Business ReviewIn today’s fast-paced world the pressure to do more, achieve more, and be more in less time has become a pervasive part of modern life. Studies on professional service firms found the majority of respondents described their jobs as “highly demanding, exhausting, and chaotic,” and also took it for granted “that...
workplace
Turbocharging Organisational Learning With GenAI
Paul Baier and John J. Sviokla, MIT Sloan Review, 13 January 2025Generative AI can radically improve an organisation’s ability to learn. With the introduction of ChatGPT in 2022 the machines talked back. Instead of having to “speak” Java or Python, people could use everyday dialogue — which is why the tool garnered more than 100 million users in its first two months of public availability.
ai
Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2025
Nic Newman and Federica Cherubini, Reuters InstituteNews organisations are braced for multiple challenges in 2025 that likely include attacks from hostile politicians, economic headwinds, and battles to protect IP. Changes to search will become a major grievance for a new industry that already lost social traffic and fears a further decline in visibility due to AI...
media relations
Substack: The next big thing or another media bubble?
Catherine Baab-Muguira, QuartzThe media industry needs a Saviour. Maybe the entire knowledge economy does. Enter Substack, the newsletter platform that punches far above its weight in cultural impact, despite its mere $650 million valuation.
media relations
socio political environment