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November 2018 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Bernd shares: “As a manager, you need to know how to give feedback. They write: “Just because the business world has always operated one way doesn’t mean it should keep operating that way. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted 6 Tips for New Managers. Development. shared Work is Broken.

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SpaceX Fired Employees for Condemning Musk, Says Labor Agency

HR Digest

The rocket company, SpaceX fired eight employees wrongly for a letter as per the National Labor Relations Board, raising concerns about the chief executive. The letter circulated by the employees also called on SpaceX, which has more than 13,000 employees, to clarify its harassment policies and enforce them consistently.

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Are You an Accidental Soul-Sucking CEO?

Joseph Lalonde

If retail operations can more reliably keep their discretionary relationships with people who have to pay for that relationship than we can with our employees, who earn their livelihood with us, we need to take a serious look at how we’re creating the environment for those relationships. Their supervisors are doing the same.

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Socially Responsible Business Can Only Succeed If It Becomes a Movement

Harvard Business Review

Note especially the brave, innovative management reflected in social enterprises such as the Sampark Foundation , where Vineet Nayar, former CEO of HCL Technologies, is on a mission to inspire kids in rural India to learn how to think and invent like frugal innovators. ” Purpose, moreover, means for him social purpose.

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Does Wall Street Finally Care About Sustainability?

Harvard Business Review

Then 2018 started with a bang — one that could indicate a further shift in investor priorities. In his annual letter to S&P 500 CEOs , Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, made a full-throated defense of both long-term value creation and corporate purpose. But have the letters made much of a difference? It’s not clear.

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Why an Activist Hedge Fund Cares Whether Apple’s Devices Are Bad for Kids

Harvard Business Review

On January 6, 2017, JANA Partners , a New York–based activist hedge fund, and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) sent a letter to Apple’s board of directors that may change the future of activist investing. According to US SIF , at the end of 2018 there was $8.72

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Rethinking How Medicaid Patients Receive Care

Harvard Business Review

CareMore’s longtime focus had been providing patient-centered, managed care to seniors in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Virginia under Medicare Advantage. Our primary care clinicians operate in multidisciplinary teams. There were internal doubts as well. Community and patient engagement focused on social needs.