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The Desire To Help Others Runs Deep

The Horizons Tracker

While it can sometimes feel as though the world is cut-throat and dog-eat-dog, research from the University of Sydney suggests that cooperation is something inbuilt within us all. Key findings Small requests for assistance occur frequently, happening once every 2 minutes and 17 seconds on average.

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The Movement Of People And Ideas Is Key To Economic Growth

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It’s nearly a decade since Northwestern’s Robert Gordon pondered whether sclerotic innovation was causing the death of economic growth as we had come to know it. An explanation comes in the form of a paper from Northwestern’s Mark Buchanan, in which he highlights what is known as recombinative innovation.

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Call Them Opposites. Call Them Paradoxes. Just Manage Them.

Lead Change Blog

This diversity stuff doesn’t work. Feeling internal and external pressure to have more diversity, some companies define diversity as “making the numbers,” and task Human Resources (HR) with hiring more women and minorities. That’s typically the beginning and end of attention companies give to becoming more diverse.

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The Challenges When Creating Across Cultures

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Diversity is generally accepted as a good thing, with MIT research highlighting how diversity within our organizations can boost the bottom line of those businesses. Global fluency. Only then will we reap the dividend that diverse teams can provide. Each participant played the game with an online partner.

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ESG Needs To Be Core To Business As Usual

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“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. Spirit of cooperation. Global reach. ” Values-based leadership.

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The Growing Power of Women in Business

Women on Business

And while these figures represent US households, the percentages are being exported due to technology driven globalization. These are just two examples of global, male-dominated companies now run by women. In the past, business was about cooperation, and we cooperated because we had to. Men are great at cooperating.

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The Continued Exploitation Of Informal Workers

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For instance, domestic workers in Mexico and South Africa have managed to form unions, with their peers in South Korea forming a cooperative. There were signs of hope, however, as across each nation, and indeed both sectors, informal workers were able to improve their lot by working together.