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The Next Big Transformation Strategy: Rediscovering Your Existing Assets

Anne Katrine Carlsson Sejr, co-author of Maneuvering Monday and leader of teams specializing in organizational development and transformation, explains why the future of effective change depends not on chasing novelty, but on leveraging the assets a company already owns. Sejr argues that people, processes and relationships are the hidden engines of transformation, and that organizations must illuminate and amplify what already works to achieve sustainable impact.
By Anne Katrine Carlsson Sejr
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The Confidence Trap: How Companies Misjudge Talent—and Lose Their Best Leaders

Professor Ginka Toegel, a leading expert on organizational behavior and leadership at IMD Business School and author of The Confidence Myth, examines why companies continue to confuse confidence with competence, and how that misalignment quietly distorts promotion decisions. By unpacking new data on potential ratings, feedback patterns, and promotion outcomes, Toegel shows that the future of effective leadership development depends on replacing intuition-driven judgments with evidence-based systems that reward actual impact.
By Ginka Toegel
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The Knowledge Worker’s Dilemma: Brains Built for Insight, Systems Built for Chaos

Author and neuroscience expert Amy Brann draws on organizational psychology to dissect the modern knowledge worker’s decline. With a keen eye on brain function, performance design and leadership habits, Brann reveals why today’s professionals are drowning not in tasks, but in a flood of memory overload, context-switching and ambient noise.
By Amy Brann

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