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LEGO Professor of Management and Innovation at IMD Business School

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I help executives to filter out the noise. They can then lay bare what impacts their companies. A leader must take action to make their organizations “future-ready.”

I am the LEGO® Professor of Management and Innovation at IMD business school in Switzerland. I am also the director of the school’s Center for Future Readiness.

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