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Power and Politics in Professional Careers
Power and Politics in Professional Careers
New York - 09h00 to 10h00 / London - 13h00 to 14h00 / Paris - 14h00 to 15h00 / Dubai - 17h00 to 18h00 / Singapore - 21h00 to 22h00
Many professionals believe that if they work hard, and deliver results, their careers will take care of themselves. They are wrong. Wanting “office politics” not to exist does not make it go away.
Part of the problem is that politics at work is hidden. Firms insist that decisions are meritocratic. Skilful operators conceal the extent of their political activity.
But power and politics are not a failure of professionalism, more a defining feature of knowledge work in large complex organisations. This is true in professional services, but also in finance, healthcare, education, government and beyond.
In this webinar, we will draw on Professor Laura Empson’s research into professional services firms to show how mid-career professionals can learn to better navigate power and politics at work.
We will discuss:
- How to see past the organogram and map real power at work
- Why political behaviour is not a bug, but an integral part of organisational life
- How much time and energy successful senior leaders devote to politics
- Why your rational business case may fail to persuade, and what to do instead
- How to better understand the psychological needs of your colleagues and bosses.
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When AI Starts to Think for Itself: What Leaders Need to Know
When AI Starts to Think for Itself: What Leaders Need to Know
AI is no longer limited to the predefined rules of early expert systems, nor merely to the powerful but often puzzling and unpredictable intuition-like outputs of generative models. In the summer of 2025, some commercial systems began to implement structured reasoning: the ability to work through multi-step problems, generate intermediate conclusions, and revise them along the way.
After decades of limited progress toward machine reasoning, this shift is striking. One way to understand it is through the lens of early 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. He argued that reasoning is not a private mental process governed by formal internal rules, but a “language game” shaped by socially learned norms of justification. From this perspective, AI systems do not “discover” logic internally; they learn what counts as valid reasoning from training data and feedback. In that sense, reasoning models mirror and operationalize human standards of argument and inference.
In this session, Professor Miguel Lobo traces the evolution of computation and AI from rule-based systems that execute explicit logic step by step, to machine learning models, to reasoning models that extend this architecture to deliberative, multi-step problem solving.
What are the economic implications? As models become more capable of reasoning, compute requirements rise not only during training but also during deployment. The result is more constrained access to frontier capabilities, and a shifting competitive landscape that will determine which business models are viable.
For leaders deploying AI, managing teams that rely on it, or making strategic technology investments, understanding these conceptual and technical shifts is essential to making informed decisions.
Alumni
Now, Women Do Ask: A Call to Update Beliefs about the Gender Pay Gap
Now, Women Do Ask: A Call to Update Beliefs about the Gender Pay Gap
For decades, a common explanation for the gender pay gap has been that women are less likely to negotiate their salaries. But does this belief still hold today?
In this webinar, Professor Laura Kray examines new research on negotiation behaviour among working professionals, including MBA students and alumni from a leading U.S. business school. The findings challenge a long-standing assumption: women today report negotiating their salaries as often as—or even more often than—men.
Drawing on updated data and a reanalysis of earlier studies, this session explores how negotiation behaviours have evolved over time and why outdated beliefs about “women not asking” continue to shape perceptions about gender and pay.
Designed for leaders, managers, and professionals across industries, this webinar offers fresh insights into how stereotypes influence workplace decisions—and why updating our understanding of negotiation behaviour is essential for building more equitable organisations.
