The European Business Review

The European Business Review is a leading business intelligence magazine designed to ensure that its readers make informed decisions. It provides them indispensable insight, current best practices and is their best source of new ideas about what’s important. The European Business Review readers embrace leadership in their jobs and their lives. Their affluence, education, achievements, and wide ranging experience are unparalleled. They are the men and women who shape the world we love, the world we live in.

THRIVING AS AN ECOSYSTEM PARTNER • More and more companies are choosing to join an established or emerging business ecosystem as part of a strategy to deal with industry disruption, increased uncertainty, and customers demanding solutions of evergreater complexity and depth. Whether it’s a well- known consumer ecosystem such as that led by Apple, or a business-to-business ecosystem such as that led by ARM or Amazon Web Services (AWS), the same critical question arises: if I don’t lead the ecosystem, how can I succeed in becoming a profitable ecosystem partner?

TRAINING FUTURE LEADERS THROUGH A TRANSFORMATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE • The world of business education is an intensely competitive one, and executives looking to enhance their career prospects through appropriate training have a wide range of options. Here, Dr Gary Stockport of SP Jain School of Global Management outlines the school's offering and gives an insight into its aim of delivering an innovative, principled business education.

SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENT: MARRYING GREENNESS WITH THE TRADITIONAL VALUES • Investors are more than ever on the lookout for companies that demonstrate commitment to sustainability. However, as Claudio Cisullo of CC Trust Group explains, investors should remember that the fact that a potential investment target has green credentials does not absolve it from the requirement to represent a long-term value proposition.

WOMEN IN TRANSITION – COUNTERING LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES WITH LEARNING • One of the unintended consequences of the COVID-19 crisis and the measures introduced to control the pandemic was women’s increased disengagement from the labour market and the reinforcement of stereotyped gender roles.1 The subsequent surge in job transitions – the so-called Great Reshuffle of 2021 – has not decelerated. Studies find that up to 20 per cent of workers plan to quit their jobs this year.2 While work-life balance and job flexibility are high on the wish lists of workers, most job switchers are seeking better pay. Women are more likely to say they are not rewarded fairly. Returning to the workforce and changing jobs for the better, many women find themselves in leadership transitions: taking up a new leadership role in 2022.

THE MANY COLOURS OF WISDOM: CREATING REFLECTIVE LEADERS • In these most turbulent of times when enlightened leadership is needed more than ever, relying simply on knowledge, data, and information as the sources for our decisions can only direct us toward solutions too superficial to solve the complex problems before us. We must look instead to ground our leadership in a deeper and more subtle form of discernment: wisdom. Unfortunately, many of our contemporary leaders aren’t up to the job. They are everything but wise. Observing their behaviour, they aren’t really interested in the common good - to pursue what is in the best interest of a society. Instead, they’re taking advantage of the fact that there is often very little wisdom within crowds. And they know how to use this quality to their advantage. Clearly, however, in a day and age characterised by a pandemic, global warming, nuclear threats, terrorism, war, migration, dramatic income inequalities, and food shortages, we need more than ever leaders that have wisdom.

SUSTAINING NONPROFITS • HR development, succession management, and leadership continuity

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