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Zoom’s Return-To-Office Could Doom The Company
Exceptional leaders often excel as skilled storytellers, and for good reason. Once a company hits a certain level of organizational complexity, one of the most important tasks the CEO has is to craft intellectually coherent and captivating narratives about the firm, its purpose, and its performance. Failure in this task means undermining the very existence of the company; a sin…
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How Hackathons Are Reshaping Our Society
In an era marked by relentless technological progression and digital revolution, an innovative tool has emerged as a favorite among industry leaders and policy-makers alike: the hackathon. According to data, more than 80% of Fortune 100 companies utilize hackathons as a strategy to fuel innovation, with over half of these…
Why We Find Ourselves Constantly Exhausted From Work
Workers are feeling exhausted and burned out. The lack of job security, concerns over finances, dealing with toxic co-workers and bosses, long working hours, disrupted remote and hybrid work routines and blurred work-life boundaries lead to stress and anxiety. This causes workers to feel exhausted, tired and worn out. Nearly…
Generation-X Includes Elon Musk And Jeff Bezos, While Many Can’t Afford To Retire
Generation-X is confronting many challenges in the job market and financially. They are stuck between Baby Boomers, holding tightly onto their leadership roles, and younger Millennials, gunning for the Gen-Xers’ jobs. Therefore, many workers are feeling stuck. Because of the squeeze, 64.2% of this cohort live paycheck to paycheck. According…
Does Private Equity (PE) Have An ESG Problem -part 2?
It would be useful to know whether PE investments outperformed the S&P 500 net of fees. Portfolio level ESG outcomes would also help PE address their perceived ESG problem. Part 1 discussed the ESG problem with PE. In part 2 here, I look at the current state of disclosures, review…
When New CEOs “Diss” On Their Predecessors
Useful leadership lessons can arise from virtually any industry environment; including, most recently, the National Football League. For one of the hottest stories of the preseason isn’t Patrick Mahomes’ ankle, Joe Burrow’s contract or Super Bowl predictions. Rather, it has to do with Broncos coach Sean Payton’s highly public criticism…
Single Moms & POC Most Often Poor, But Gap Narrows [Infographic]
A smaller share of Americans lives below the poverty line today than when the Census Bureau first started measuring this metric in 1959. The people who are most at risk of poverty in the U.S. have remained the same during this time period: Single mothers and people of color. However,…
How Hawthorne Effect Is Trying To Effect Change Towards More Accessible Clinical Trials For Everyone
According to Jodi Akin, clinical trials have what she calls “a very large accessibility problem.” Akin is founder and chief executive officer of Hawthorne Effect, a healthcare startup dedicated to reimagining clinical trials. On the company’s website, the company states its mission is to “deliver innovative, accessible, inclusive clinical trials”…
Trust Is Key For Productivity Of Hybrid Workers
The COVID-19 pandemic forced a massive shift to remote and hybrid work. Even as organizations bring workers back to the office, most are adopting a hybrid model where employees split time between the office and working from home. This new way of working presents managers with a major challenge -…
13 Tips For HR Professionals Launching Their Own Staffing Agency
If you're an HR professional with a passion for talent acquisition and a dream of entrepreneurship, starting your own staffing agency can be a rewarding and lucrative venture. However, embarking on this journey requires careful planning, industry knowledge and access to valuable resources. Below, 13 Forbes Human Resources Council members…
Not As Spectacular But Just As Solid
Keep your guard up. You’re liable to see an increase in negative talk about the American job market, especially now that the July job report was just released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics., and especially as we’re getting into political silly season. Don’t listen to a word of it.…
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