Once Upon a Time in the Job Market: How Business Schools Are Teaching the Art of Storytelling
In today's environment, storytelling is no longer a “soft” skill. It is a survival skill - the ability to frame decisions, explain trade-offs, humanise strategy and make people care. Business schools, once accused of teaching managers to speak in spreadsheets, are now quietly becoming finishing schools for corporate narrators.
Where Did The CEOs Of The 50 Best-Managed Companies in America Go To School?
BlueSky Thinking reviews the educational and professional backgrounds of the CEOs leading the top 50 companies in the 2025 Drucker Institute Company Ranking. These leaders represent a highly global, highly technical cohort, but with very few women.
BlueSky BookShelf Meets: Dr. Vasileios Bougioukos
To navigate and success through unpredictable disruption business leaders need a new game-plan... Enter Dr Vasileios Bougioukos, Professor Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, and Professor Christos Tsinopoulos to show us the way
Why JPMorgan’s New $3BN Office Might Actually Be A Smart Investment
What does it take to keep employees happy when they're required to work in the office full time? JPMorgan's new HQ might boast a Park Avenue address, a bar and a gym, but is that really what employees need to get better work life balance?
The Dangers Of Having A HiPPO In The Boardroom
When a company bases its decision making on the Highest Paid Person’s Opinion, the HiPPO is born. When one starts throwing its weight around in the boardroom, it can cause catastrophic damage...
Are AIs Making Us Boring? How Personalisation Is Flattening Human Difference
According to new research from Columbia Business School, our creeping sameness isn’t just anecdotal - it’s the inevitable side-effect of our growing reliance on artificial intelligence.
If you Studied With Other Women, Chances Are You’re Enjoying More Career Success
The old boys' network has long been an influencing presence, from business schools and boardrooms. But, it turns out, such a network exists for women too. More to the point, when it comes to women getting ahead, it works.
The $100K H-1B Visa: A Game-Changer for U.S. Companies and Global Talent
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Elon Musk and Melania Trump all benefitted from an H-1B visa to pursue their careers in the U.S. So what do they make of the proclamation signed by President Donald Trump on Friday that will ask companies to pay a $100,000 annual fee for H-1B worker visas?