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Walgreens Boots Alliance Leadership Announces New Executive Team

HR Digest

The Walgreens Boots Alliance leadership just announced three new members for its executive VP team with the aim of improving its healthcare services and strategy, which includes Elizabeth Burger Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), Mary Langowski President for the U.S. She held a similar role of CHRO at Flowserve as well as HanesBrands Inc.,

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). The problem is leadership on autopilot. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle.

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4 Ways Women Can Break Barriers by Breaking the Rules

Harvard Business Review

One evening in February 2016, writer and filmmaker Ava DuVernay met with two top Disney executives about the possibility of directing an adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel A Wrinkle in Time. Monzino/Getty Images. DuVernay, 44 at the time, had overcome many challenges to reach that moment.

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Uber’s New CEO Will Have to Win on Two Fronts Simultaneously

Harvard Business Review

market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business. This occurs when the founder’s leadership skills hit a limit, inhibiting the ability of the company to go to the next stage.

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Employee benefits for Caregivers in workplaces

HR Digest

The responsibility can range from just shopping for essentials to arranging doctor’s appointments, providing transportation, taking care of finances and medicines or even a full-fledged role of assisting in their daily tasks. were able to access paid family leave in 2016. In the U.S.

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Two Powerful Ways Managers Can Curb Implicit Biases

Harvard Business Review

But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. ” In finance, for example, that might mean believing — based on no evidence — that only MBA graduates from an elite university are likely to succeed at their jobs. Small Wins, Big Payoff. Hardly anyone raised their hand.

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A Board Member’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending

Harvard Business Review

The 2016 U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in the Citizens United campaign finance decision that “Business corporations must engage the political process in instrumental terms if they are to maximize shareholder value.” Experts predict it will surge even more in 2015-2016. million to the U.S.