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Conference Board Announces CEOs Plan to Increase Wages by a Minimum of 3%

HR Digest

In an earnings call on Tuesday, UPS CFO Brian Newman reported that the company decreased compensation and benefits by $205 million in the second quarter by eliminating 2,500 managerial positions annually. During the quarter, CFO Melissa Hayes Thomas reported on an Aug. He added that the shortage of workers is consistent.

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Accenture to lay-off 25,000 low performers

HR Digest

The Australian Financial Review recently reported that the first round of lay-offs occurred earlier this month, and more cutoffs are yet to come. ” Accenture has cut down travel budgets, cut back contractors were required, and was limiting new recruiting, the report stated.

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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I think you’ll find that your view of the world will change dramatically when you rely upon your own observations, as opposed to what you read in a management report, or what you hear third or fourth hand in a meeting. The Unaware CEO : These CEO’s will take any report or piece of information at face value.

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Why More Executives Should Consider Becoming a CHRO

Harvard Business Review

That the CHRO role, although at first it may look career limiting, can have more impact than any other position reporting to the CEO? He had to ask her four more times, including once on a conference call with the whole executive team, before she finally relented. That’s precisely what we found.

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Why Executives Should Talk About Racial Bias at Work

Harvard Business Review

For the past several months, it seemed that everywhere I turned people were talking about events in Ferguson, Staten Island, and North Charleston — in living rooms, classrooms, anchor rooms — everywhere but in most corporate conference rooms. This helped gain enough external confidence for Dan to remain CFO.

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Executives Must Talk About Racial Bias at Work

Harvard Business Review

For the past several months, it seemed that everywhere I turned people were talking about events in Ferguson, Staten Island, and North Charleston — in living rooms, classrooms, anchor rooms — everywhere but in most corporate conference rooms. This helped gain enough external confidence for Dan to remain CFO.

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Dealing With Investors the Sam Palmisano Way

Harvard Business Review

The abridged version is that Palmisano and then-CFO Mark Loughridge came up with what they called the “investor model” or the “road map” — a strategic plan complete with multi-year goals for investment, revenue growth, and earnings growth that they asked investors to judge them by. Communication Finance Getting buy-in'