Jaleesa Simpson, 6 December, 2022

'Vision is a final goal and ambition is a desire to get there. You should have one vision and thousands of ambitions.' - Prof Michael Rosemann, QUT

'The aimless exploration in business isn’t pointless… The more knowledge you have, the better you may be positioned in the future.' - Prof Marek Kowalkiewicz, QUT

'Decisive enterprises can set new industry standards and influence market trends. To be successful, organisations and leaders need to get their hands dirty.' - Karen Zheng, MIT

The Future Enterprise, a global webinar series jointly presented by MIT Sloan School of Management and QUT Business School, launched in October 2021 with series one.

Delve deeper into the topics of our first series in their wrap-up articles and watch the webinar recordings below.

The Ambitious Enterprise

James C. Rhee from MIT Sloan and Professor Michael Rosemann from QUT began series one by refremaing the definition of ambition and outlining a new mindset and strategies required for leaders to achieve enterprise goals.

These insights included:

  1. Go beyond your comfort zone
  2. Treat ambition like a hypothesis
  3. Collaborate for a greater purpose
  4. Know the heart of your brand
  5. Cultivate kindness

Watch the webinar

Read the recap article

The Curious Enterprise

In the second webinar of this series, Professor Steven D. Eppinger from MIT Sloan and Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz from QUT shared their insights into how to build curiosity into your organisation.

Their advice included:

  1. A little bit of process goes a long way
  2. Ongoing reflection
  3. Embrace aimless exploration
  4. Curiosity is an attitude
  5. Move from knowing to asking

Watch the webinar

Read the recap article

The Decisive Enterprise

Professor Karen Zheng from MIT Sloan and Professor Kevin Desouza from QUT were our global experts for the final webinar of series one. As Stu Krusell from MIT Sloan opened the webinar, stating, "The goal of tonight is to talk about how to really live. How to take the ambition and the curiosity and actually bring it into practice."

Here are five ways our experts discussed  building a decisive enterprise:

  1. Decisive leadership empowers teams
  2. Ask 'What could be next?'
  3. Reach beyond your boundaries
  4. Be evidence and data-driven
  5. Embrace collaboration

Watch the webinar

Want to discover more about The Future Enterprise? Explore the whole series here.

Author

Jaleesa Simpson

Jaleesa is the Marketing Content Coordinator for the Business and Law Faculty. She also is an alumni of QUT, completing a Master of Business (Integrated Marketing Communication), and a sessional academic in the Business School.

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