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ESG Needs To Be Core To Business As Usual

The Horizons Tracker

“ESG is following something of a similar pattern to diversity, which in the beginning was largely virtue signaling to make it look like organizations really cared,” Columbia University’s Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic says. ” Values-based leadership. Spirit of cooperation. Focus on operational efficiencies.

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Two Footed Questions Fuse Arts and Science

CO2

This question type tends to drive most learning environments – including higher education. How could an organization achieve diversity that engages your wider talents ? How does your brain’s chemical and electrical circuitry wire you for winning? – which invites content to consider or analyze.

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Overcome Your Biases and Build a Great Team

Harvard Business Review

But there is a deeper lesson to my story that I hope will help others build exceptional, and exceptionally diverse, teams. Ironically, my story is a story of overcoming my own biases about diversity—and then using these hard-won insights to build one of the most diverse leadership teams and board of directors in the world.

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Best Practices for Leading via Innovation

Harvard Business Review

BCLs invest in creating an environment that allows innovation to thrive while encouraging employees to feel comfortable taking calculated risks. At Walmart (#8 on the BCL list), a group called @WalmartLabs provides a supportive environment for testing new ideas. Create a safe space for innovation.

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Why America Is Losing Its Entrepreneurial Edge

Harvard Business Review

In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. Trying to sell into a world of enormous corporate cartels is considerably more difficult than it was forty years ago, when every sector in America was smaller, more diverse and more dynamic.

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The Future Economy Project

Harvard Business Review

Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. Firms as diverse as Walmart and KKR are finding that reducing energy use and embracing renewable energy can be immediately profitable. Marc Benioff. Chairman & CEO, Salesforce. Richard Branson. Founder, Virgin Group. Marne Levine. COO, Instagram (Facebook, Inc.). Andrew Liveris. Doug McMillon.

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Why Multinationals Are Doubling Down on Russia

Harvard Business Review

Russia’s industrialization also means that the market offers substantial opportunities in diverse B2B sectors such as mining, oil and gas, metallurgy, chemicals, light industry, and consumer durables. How to create growth in a stagnating market.