Bill Fischer

#87 Suyang Zhang on the 2015 The Midas List - Suyang Zhang returns to the Midas List after dropping off in 2014. He joined IDG Capital in 1994 and has

#1905 Zhang Bangxin on the 2023 Billionaires - Zhang Bangxin is the cofounder and chairman of education services firm TAL Education. TAL went public on

#22 Zhang Zhidong on the 2023 China Rich List - Zhang Zhidong, also known as Tony Zhang, cofounded internet giant Tencent with fellow billionaire Pony

Our recent experience with Covid-19 provides a wealth of insights into what leadership might look like in a future marked by many big unknowns. These insights offer lessons on new leadership competencies and behaviors.

Make no mistake about it, business model innovation is everywhere, and it is profoundly changing a number of previously innovation-stagnant industries. In the age of digital, ironically, it may well be that technology loses its role as the instinctive, and even principle, corporate strategic asset.

Early in the twenty-first century, Mr. Zhang recognized that the pace of change, and the growing complexity of the customer experience, required more leadership, not less; but that that leadership needed to be redistributed lower and broader throughout the Haier community.

Golf legend, Greg Norman, argues that “The commercial side of golf is growing, the broadcasting side of golf is growing, but golf has been stuck in the same box for [more than 50] years.” Now, he’s out to change the sport’s business model.

Cultural change is a key component of organizational transformation. Antonio Boadas, of GEAppliances shares ten early warning signs that your culture needs rethinking.

What is needed is a shared understanding of principles that authorize a natural way for the organization to allow unscheduled innovation to happen, and a trust in the employees to make the right choices. This does not require innovation heroes, nor processes, but calls for innovation doctrines.

Ecosystems have become the hottest new idea in managerial conversations. What does this really mean, and how does it differ from traditional supply chains? What role do managerial mind-sets play in such transformation? Annika Steiber, John Hagel, Marshall Meyer and Kevin Nolan discuss these topics.

Disruption is alive and well and posing a considerable threat to formerly successful, incumbent market-leaders in electric vehicles, dairy products and hearing aids. Time to disrupt has sped-up, and disruption is no longer exclusively for lower-price entrants.

Dismiss the likelihood of industry disruption at your own peril. Far from being just another bit of business school jargon, disruptive innovation is earning more attention than ever before, and the reason for that is that we are seeing a wider range of industries being disrupted, as never before.

It might seem crazy what I’m’bout to say, but there are so many reasons to celebrate Louis Vuitton’s choice of Pharrell Williams as its new creative director for men’s fashions. Among these are that he is an experimenter, insider-outsider, who does not mind losing control and who lives innovation.

Be they instructions, directions, opinions, suggestions, lessons, rules, pitches, or any of the endless other ways of trying to get our ideas across, delivering a message, or sharing an idea, is a big part of everybody’s job . Ahmad Jamal has lessons on doing this right for all of us.

In the wake of Twitter’s troubles, what we are witnessing is a significant rearrangement of an entire industry. This is truly a disruption saga, written large.

Innovation was never as much fun as when Jimmy Buffett was involved. His message of engagement, and business models to deliver it, were always a winner; happiness sells!

Our quest for a better understanding of how AI will affect work in the future, gains insight from human talent enhanced by AI in a project to read ancient Roman scrolls.

Chaos and creativity, are often linked in the hope that out of chaos, new ideas can emerge. We believe this requires significant changes in leadership and organization.

Leadership in the waning period of an industry’s generational S-curve can be perilous. Smartphones could be facing this soon. What can we learn from this event?

The broadcast journalism industry was completely reinvented by a mid-level manager, without technical skills, who recognized the opportunity and moved fast.