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April 2018 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Randy Conley says: “We wear our busyness like a badge of honor, when in reality it’s a scarlet letter that shows our priorities are all jacked up.” To stay ahead of the curve on these kinds of market shifts, you need to start thinking about how you produce results using both human and automated team members.

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Are Bosses With Integrity Less Innovative?

The Horizons Tracker

They only analyzed companies where the CEO was hired between 2011 and 2013, and who had also stayed in post until at least 2018. To measure a CEO’s level of integrity, researchers assigned higher scores to those who used fewer causation words in their letters.

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Employees Demand Employers Become More Sustainable

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, in his 2021 “Dear CEO” letter , Blackrock chief Larry Fink wrote that no issue is more important than climate change. Your ambition as a leader will be fundamental to guide the necessary actions to steer your company to sustainability leadership and market success.”.

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The Way You Make Me Feel – The Extreme Leadership Experience According to Paul Chaffee

Steve Farber

Paul has worked for over 33 years with the United States Postal Service – playing roles from City Letter Carrier to Senior Leadership Positions in Marketing, Finance, and Post Office Operations. This guest post was contributed by Paul Chaffee. Let me start at the end of the event.

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Are You an Accidental Soul-Sucking CEO?

Joseph Lalonde

In his 2018 annual letter to CEOs, Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of global investment company, BlackRock, Inc., They’re free to innovate and create market-differentiating, competitive ideas. Having strong values protects you from measuring and rewarding the wrong behaviors and objectives.

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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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Investigation into Tyson and Perdue Reveal Concerning Child Labor Violations

HR Digest

administration sent letters to meatpacking plants across the country to review their labor force and strictly enforce improved labor practices. The Labor Department reported that illegal child labor has risen by 69 percent since 2018.

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