Companies in the U.S. were already sitting on piles of cash before tax reform passed in December 2017. Now, with a strengthening global economy and a tax overhaul that lowers the corporate tax rate ...

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The best leaders use the simple plan as a foundation for an operational narrative that serves two critical functions. First, it must include one or two simple frameworks for how the company will carry ...

In my book The Fearless Organization, I look at how organizations go wrong because people lack psychological safety and thus fail to speak up.Some consequences can be devastating and life-threatening, ...

Value-creating chief data officers: Cementing a seat at the top table In PwC’s second Chief Data Officer Study, we found more chief data officers appointed by the world’s leading companies—and ...

But as companies move toward democratization, a cautionary tale is emerging. Even the most sophisticated AI systems, designed by highly qualified engineers, can fall victim to bias and can be ...

In business, vulnerability is generally seen as weakness. Recent headlines scream for business to avoid vulnerability or suffer the consequences: “30% of Auto Parts Retailers’ Business Is Vulnerable ...

A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of strategy+business. Uncertainty is like the weather. It’s always there, part of the atmosphere, and a condition over which individuals and ...

The trouble with sustainability-related data. Financial data is familiar, and the processes for managing it are well understood. When an invoice comes in, it gets scanned into a system, checked ...

If you assume, as we do, that providing a good work experience is truly a significant source of competitive advantage (pdf) for business and government because it leads to better performance and ...

Many would chalk up these differences to culture, the seemingly nebulous and hard-to-control factor that contributes to business success. Our work over the last three decades has centered on culture.

Howard Morgan (howard@howardjmorgan.com) is the founder of 50 Top Coaches, a collective of many of the world’s leading executive advisors.He specializes in executive coaching as a strategic ...