 ‘Moral emotions’ are driven (mostly) by the brain stem and limbic axis, which regulate basic drives. The mirror neurons, the orbital frontal cortex, the medial structures of the amygdala, and the...Read More
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Neuroscience may point us to a form of ethical thinking that is built into our brains and differs from, say, more egocentric thinking. The way a self-aware thinker’s brain functions is slightly...Read More
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 Let’s summarize what we have seen so far in our series.
Machines may make us more efficient and effective, or ‘see’ hidden patterns that improve our predictive power. But they don’t change the...Read More
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 It's probably a cat - evolution wired our brain for prediction
Millions of nonstop predictions give meaning to the external environment that our senses perceive, and so our brain constructs the world...Read More
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 Looking inside human brains allows us to understand just how enormous our adaptability is. Every human inherits a great deal of innate circuitry. We also inherit a highly sophisticated learning...Read More
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 Cat or Dog?
A perceptron simulates human neurons. It can learn. This inspired AI scientist Yann Le Cun (now CTO at Facebook) to develop an algorithm that could recognize pictures. A crucial...Read More
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 As you read this, your algorithm is hoovering up data. It is running an astonishing series of unconscious protocols. It is busily ordering and structuring the information in ‘conscious reflective...Read More
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 Interview by Link To Leaders, October 12, 2020
A specialist in leadership and talent management, Maria da Glória Ribeiro is the Founder and Managing Partner of Amrop Portugal. With a Masters in...Read More
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 Thanks to the coronavirus, the parameters have fundamentally changed. Many companies have been forced into the home office, emptiness and silence reign on the premises, office parks are wastelands....Read More
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 Interview by Adam Saunders.
Immunotherapy, a type of Cell and Gene Therapy, is a rapidly emerging field currently transitioning into mainstream pharmaceuticals. Mark is an academic and clinical...Read More
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 The groundbreaking deep learning approach to AI has turbo-charged the cognitive capabilities of machines. This ‘narrow artificial intelligence’ (versus the as-yet-unachieved ‘general artificial...Read More
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 Times of crisis present executives with a particularly painful paradox: meeting shareholder expectations, ‘versus’ preserving jobs. Covid-19 has created an even more difficult choice. Should all...Read More
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 In June 2020, Amrop Jenewein surveyed a select group of HR executives to understand their perspective on this rapidly unfolding situation. In this report you will find their insights fresh from the...Read More
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 China’s experience of the pandemic also brings certain cultural differences into focus. Are people in the region prepared to give up more personal or commercial freedoms on the understanding that the...Read More
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 Diversity is not only societally healthy and morally equitable, it brings business results. Gender diversity in particular is positively associated with enhanced financial value, improved CSR ratings...Read More
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 Christine Baldwin is the recently appointed UK director for Infinitus, the property investment arm of the Lee Kum Kee Health Products Group (LKK HPG) - a division of the Chinese food conglomerate...Read More
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 Now is the time to instill best practices in wellbeing throughout organizations to ensure synergy across the business, and within teams, we argue. In this interview Adam Saunders, Amrop Global Board...Read More
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 Nils Elmark is Founder of Incepcion, a London-based organization advising businesses on creating new commercial visions.
A year ago, I wrote a report in collaboration with Amrop. ‘New Adventurous...Read More
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 Yet digital leaders are too often ‘voices in the wilderness’. Boards broadly appreciate digitization and its ambassadors. But too few are sufficiently literate in the domain to give it the traction...Read More
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 In his current role as President and CEO of the American Association of Port Authorities, Chris Connor guides the organization’s public policy initiatives and convenes industry leaders to create and...Read More
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 Looking at the ability of digital leaders to create a digital culture, our 2019 study exploring Digitization on Boards found at least some encouraging signs: 50% are succeeding in building a sense of...Read More
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 KIRCHHOFF is a family-owned multinational founded in 18th century Germany, whose business, with 13 000 employees, is spread across 60 production plants and facilities in 5 continents and 21 countries...Read More
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 Our study also confirmed the need for a role framework for digital leaders, as 41% said they lacked a clear role profile when they joined their organization. And only 18% were assigned a senior...Read More
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 The true impact of COVID-19 not only on the health of individuals, but on whole economies, is becoming starkly clear. Belgium, with its population of 11.6 million and a strategic position at the...Read More
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 When it comes to wise decision-making, can our current political leaders, typically governed by short-term electoral cycles, borrow important leanings from their corporate equivalents? Angelos...Read More
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 What is the highest purpose of digitization? Serving what domains? How can we drill this down into to a clear, coherent set of competencies?
Ultimately, what really matters in digital leadership?...Read More
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 Long-term organizational planning as we once knew it no longer exists, let’s be clear. Something we once thought of as a reference, even as a dream to achieve, we can better describe today as a sense...Read More
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 There is a quote often attributed to Immanuel Kant: “Someone’s intelligence can be measured by the quantity of uncertainties that he can bear”. And let’s be frank, the intelligence levels of...Read More
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 A Partner with Amrop in the Czech Republic, Klara Gajduskova is an experienced manager and consultant. She is certified in clinical psychology counseling and coaching (ICF).
Last week (she writes) I...Read More
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 Whilst there’s no substitute for face-to-face interviewing, the answer to a large extent is yes, we can still run high-quality searches using video as our key enabler. As long as the right conditions...Read More
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 Like you, we have been thinking about how to handle the current Covid-19 situation. We have created this document together with our in-house psychologist. While compiling it we drew on our own...Read More
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 Conventional go-to-market (GTM) models are being disrupted and the mode of interfacing with customers is changing dramatically, driven by market shifts and tech trends. For pharma players, greater...Read More
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 1 - We can see AI as a talent management task: putting the right ‘mind’ on the right job
Machine talent is best at rapidly identifying patterns in big data. Human talent, at identifying complex,...Read More
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 Amrop Interview with Mike Hobday, SVP Europe, AntWorks
By Patrique Habboo
Highlights and insights
The Big Picture
Technology has only just begun to change your workplace, your work, how you do...Read More
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 The digital picture is out of focus and multiple questions still surround its purpose and implementation. As one CDO told Amrop: “Amazon is eating up our market share every day. We still protect our...Read More
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 Is AI set to out-smart us? What could the road from smart Artificial Intelligence to Artificial General Intelligence look like? Will it lead to wise decisions? In this 3rd article in our series...Read More
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 The core issue is how to transcend conformity or box-ticking in board evaluation. To move from a smart, to a wise approach. Asking whether as a Board you’re satisfied with sticking to the letter of...Read More
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 While it’s safe to say the transformation journey is always a necessary one, it is critical to design the right strategy and drive it through in tandem with the best possible IT collaborators.
This,...Read More
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 With Amrop Denmark and Nils Elmark
Since the financial crisis and the launch of the smartphone, a new generation of digital companies has emerged and split the business landscape. On the old...Read More
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 By Andrew Thomson, Partner, Amrop China
He opened his laptop and scrutinized his CV — again. It ticked all the right boxes, surely? Vice President of a multinational brand in his previous role,...Read More
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 Business ethicist Edward Freeman has raised this modern version of the ethical thought experiment (known as the ‘trolley problem’). How should ‘robo-ethics’ deal with situations like this? How to...Read More
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 INTERVIEW with Eelco van Eijck, Amrop, The Netherlands, By Rino Schreuder
With all this in mind, he decided to put his experiences and insights on paper, and to take a position on a number of points...Read More
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 In this turbulent business environment, shareholders and stakeholders, in particular young leaders, are demanding that organizations are able and willing to learn. Recent research (including Amrop’s...Read More
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 Crises and setbacks
Resilience is the ability to endure without falling apart - an elevated resistence to frustration and a spirit of self-sacrifice. Resilience also pre-supposes a vision of the...Read More
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 Oana Ciornei is Managing Partner of Amrop in Romania and heads Amrop University, the learning platform for the consultants and staff of the global Amrop partnership. She shared with doingbusiness.ro...Read More
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 The Paris Agreement brought the imperative for the energy transition to a head. Following the first tentative steps by governments and companies, we are now on the eve of a large- scale movement. The...Read More
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 New Mindset, New Beginnings
And then it hits us. Nothing stops. The frenzy goes on: other people invade our territory with fresh ideas and solutions. Our newfound stardom, achievement and recognition...Read More
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 New Intelligence, New Leadership
1 | New intelligence requires new leadership
Any debate surrounding AI requires a re-assessment of leadership itself. Without a transformation here, AI will never...Read More
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 By Hannes Stettler, Partner, Amrop Switzerland, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 13 September, 2018.
Digitization is currently surrounded by a spate of buzzwords and these are often used in a way that is almost...Read More
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 Personal Marketing
From moving as many units as possible, contemporary marketing, like business as a whole, has moved on. Today, it’s all about sustainable, win-win relationships. Business leaders...Read More
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 Chapter 1: What's Stopping Me?
Maria da Glória Riberio, Managing Partner of Amrop Portugal, has spent two decades interviewing and learning from business leaders. She has identified some recurrent...Read More
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 CEO reputation drives organizational health
In 2015, Weber Shandwick published a survey of over 1700 senior executives from around the world (“The CEO Reputation Premium, Gaining Advantage in the...Read More
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 The reforms would have clear implications for Ukraine’s national postal operator, Ukrposhta. A 100% state-owned entity reporting to Ukraine’s Ministry of Infrastructure, Ukrposhta operates a fleet of...Read More
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 When Lars Met Jouko
With its origins in the 13th century, Stora Enso is one of the world’s oldest companies. Ten years ago, the pulp and paper industry which comprised its core business was slipping...Read More
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 The western world looks at the span of working life in the same terms as ideas developed after the Industrial Revolution: work means pain, suffering, and being steadily worn out. The ideal of early...Read More
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 In this article the Amrop Board Services Practice and corporate governance specialist Peter Verhezen re-visit assumptions of ‘shareholder primacy’ and its link with fiduciary duty. We find out how...Read More
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 To what extent is digital an agent of change for your organization? Should you continue with business as usual? Or deliberately engineer digital into specific parts of your supply chain? Should...Read More
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 The report, conducted in cooperation with IMD, represents
A deep exploration of the world of globalizing mid-caps.
Based on 83 in-person interviews with C-suite leaders from every continent, at top...Read More
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 Leadership Magazin, Expertenforum, no 1/2, January/February 2018
With Günther Tengel, Managing Partner of Amrop Jenewein in Austria.
The next 15 years will change our society and with it all the...Read More
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 By MICHAEL KÖTTRITSCH, Die Presse, Management und Karriere, February 17/18, 2018#W
With Günther Tengel, Managing Partner of Amrop Jenewein in Austria
A huge re-learning lies ahead: In the morning,...Read More
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 Interview by KARIN BAUER, der Standard, Austria, January 27/28, 2018
With Günther Tengel, Managing Partner of Amrop Jenewein in Austria
STANDARD: What is digitization changing, in the consulting...Read More
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 The prospect of ‘more of the same’ is unappealing, and for different reasons. For millennials, the ‘career for life’ is becoming an irrelevance, and many corporates no longer offer one. Many senior...Read More
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 Outside their professional framework, too few senior executives set aside enough time for family and friends, let alone for deep personal interests or passions. It follows that just as few are...Read More
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 Cyber continues to dominate headlines - and rightly so. Not only is the topic wide-ranging, but cyber attacks are mushrooming daily, unconstrained by geographic or sectoral borders. Like so many of...Read More
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 The Steps to High Performance
1 - Earn a Seat at the Table
The root causes for the misalignment between people and business goals are deceptively simple. They usually center on two things. First,...Read More
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 In the course of the company’s success, Schwartz has worked closely with the leaders of legacy firms, mid-caps and unicorns, from Google and Facebook to Coca Cola, and across sectors as disparate as...Read More
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This year, Amrop celebrates its 40 year anniversary. This marks a milestone in an exciting journey – one which Amrop has proudly shared with our clients and candidates, some of the world’s most...Read More
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 How Can Business Regain the Trust it Has Lost?
Why do smart business leaders so often get it wrong? How could they make more ethical, responsible and sustainable decisions? Decisions that are not...Read More
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 INTERVIEW by Karin Bauer, Der Standard, Austria, March 2017
With Günther Tengel, Managing Partner of Amrop Jenewein in Austria
STANDARD: The leaders of the future are educated in business schools...Read More
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As an executive search consultant and management coach, I see senior managers mainly emphasizing professional experience as a way to round out academic foundations, supplemented at best by a short-...Read More
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 With the organizational journey to excellence in CE still in its early stages, retail and consumer organizations have a significant opportunity to stand out among their peers.
Questions Surround...Read More
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 Empty Seats
According to Amrop’s 2016 report: Digitization on Boards, an absence of digital literacy and digitally innovative thinking spans the 110 largest stock listed companies in Europe and North...Read More
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 The Challenge of the Black Box
Success Can Breed Secrecy
Your CEO is a star and the company is cash rich. This is precisely the time a good Chair should raise questions, says Svein Ruud, Amrop Board...Read More
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 What leadership qualities are now being sought by organizations in transition? How can good ‘search governance’ ensure that the very best are identified and attracted, beyond the most obvious...Read More
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 INTERVIEW by Karin Bauer, Der Standard, Austria
7 November 2016
STANDARD: The rules of the game in executive search have changed tremendously. There is a big gap - a great many people who are no...Read More
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 But now, instead of offering a simple makeover, a new breed of executive coaches are seeking out the real you, warts and all, to make that the centrepiece of your next career move. They refrain from...Read More
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 Nor are the skeptics convinced by the machine manufacturers' predictions of faster processes.
As a result, a spirit of reluctance now haunts Germany’s supply chain, a nation that only three years ago...Read More
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 It is the task of these Pension Funds companies to nominate Independent Directors for the 19 listed organizations in which they have invested. Amongst them are Chile’s top 10 in terms of market...Read More
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 In response, Irish farmers and agri-processing companies are busy investing and innovating. High consumer confidence, Ireland’s 2013 exit from its bailout program, falling oil prices, a strengthening...Read More
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 But senior executives get very little sympathy for personal stress. When in 2011 the embattled CEO of Lloyds Banking Group took time out due to fatigue, the British newspaper The Guardian cited a...Read More
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 Learning a Private Lesson
Private players were quick to spot an opportunity at K12 level (primary and secondary education), and international schools sprang up across the country. Today, a new...Read More
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 Turkey - a New Economic Giant?
Jim O’Neill, the former Goldman Sachs Chairman who coined the term ‘BRIC’, now presents ‘MINT’ (including Turkey) as the acronym for the “next economic giants.” In a...Read More
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 The Context
In February 2016, Polaris Private Equity (”Polaris”) announced that it had acquired 65% of the shares in the Danish software company Configit A/S: “The company has tripled its revenue in...Read More
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 An edited version of this article first appeared in Ethical Boardroom Magazine, Winter Edition 2016
Please also see the Amrop article “Raising the Bar for the Nominations Committee”
With Amrop's...Read More
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 INTERVIEW by Michael Köttritsch, Die Presse, Austria, February 15, 2016
Not to put too fine a point on it: it takes heavyweight talent to build an excellent talent program. No trivial task, even for...Read More
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 Digitization on Boards is Still in its Infancy.
36% of Board Members in Technology Companies Have Digital Competencies. Unsurprisingly, technology posts the biggest proportion of digital NEDs....Read More
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 It’s hard to see things in a new light if we don’t know what our resources are. Or when anxieties and self-protection needs stop us seeking help or feedback. Not only does this hinder our personal...Read More
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 On one level, it is simple: technology expertise is not just IT expertise. It is more the ability to view the future of a business through a technology lens. Trends such as big data, cloud computing...Read More
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 It started as a small cog in a very large machine. Pramod Bhasin, Head of GE Capital’s Asian operations, led a twenty-person team to launch a pilot project that he had conceptualized – running the...Read More
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 A Leadership Challenge
Open Offices Can Create Walls
After over a decade of accepting ‘open plan’ offices as the new virtue, it has become more complicated. In The Transparency Trap (2014), Harvard...Read More
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 “Managers with good personal governance have a highly-developed awareness of their own value systems and ethically responsible behavioral principles.”
Personal Governance links ethics with the way we...Read More
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 More than ever, corporates seek transformative leadership. Robust strategies must be efficiently designed and executed, engaging employees with measurable results. On the Professional Services side,...Read More
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 The Life Plan is a Holistic Plan
In this second part of our series on Personal Governance, we explore Principle I: Life Plan and Goals. While we address the individual manager, the concepts and tools...Read More
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 A Three Year Journey
In April 2011, summarizing the recommendations of the German Government’s Industry 4.0 Taskforce at the Hannover Messe, three leaders from industry, politics and science...Read More
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INTERVIEW by KARIN BAUER, Der Standard, Austria, May 27, 2015
STANDARD: Complaints are piling up - out of many companies in diverse sectors. Nothing is being decided. A finding you share?
TENGEL:...Read More
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 Both regulatory and shareholder pressure on any Nominations Committee may well depend upon its company’s listed status or on its geographical location. This may influence the need for independent...Read More
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 When a long-established company faces a sudden crisis in its sector, a fight for survival may rapidly follow, calling its business model into question. A globalization strategy, combined with an...Read More
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 Strong and sustainable Corporate Governance can only happen if those in charge of organizations can demonstrate solid Personal Governance, argues Fredy Hausammann, Managing Partner, Amrop Switzerland...Read More
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 Executive Summary
New Market
Our interviewees are still at the discovery stage in the MP business
For mobile devices to become standard for financial transactions, open-mindedness will be key...Read More
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 From Transaction to Journey
To connect with all customer journey touchpoints in customer journey, retailers must revisit their functional infrastructure to create a process-oriented, omni-channel...Read More
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 Today, the industry is engaged in a battle for key resources. Not only for minerals, but for the talent that will secure its future.
Until relatively recently, dealmaking was seen as a key to...Read More
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 Over the last few million years, we have developed such a large cortex (modern brain) in comparison to the deeper, older regions of the brain that we are less in touch with our instinct and with non-...Read More
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 After a longstanding career, it may be time for a senior executive to find a powerful alternative to the CV. With 20 years’ senior management experience and as a seasoned executive search consultant...Read More
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 Over the past 40 years, Amrop has witnessed considerable evolution in the executive search domain. From somewhat secretive beginnings, into a recognized professional practice. From ‘black books’ and...Read More
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Should Independent Directors stand still, remain passive and not rock the boat? Or should they act as true catalysts for change? How can they concretely exercise effective participation on the Board...Read More
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