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What is a Great Teammate, and WHY Should You Be One at Your Workplace?

Great Results Team Building

link] The report on teamwork and dependability from SHRM: A report from the Society for Human Resource Management found that “teamwork and dependability” were among the most important factors in determining employee performance and compensation.

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How Companies Succeed By Engaging Radically With Society

Eric Jacobson

Apply world-class management to traditionally "soft" societal topics. In the basic resource sector, companies that can cooperate well with local communities and governments are much more likely to secure deregulation, which promotes innovation. Robin Nuttall Question: What are the consequences if business leaders don’t?

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What Is Business For? Cast Your Vote!

Harvard Business Review

Along with our partners at HBR and McKinsey, we're delighted to announce those finalists today (in alphabetical order): Progress Out of Poverty: Business Intelligence for Those in the Business of Helping the Poor. Management Innovation According to Nature's Genius. The Mondragon Cooperative Experience: Humanity at Work.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business Review

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. Related Video.

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. It could be that it attracts employees who care about this issue, or that it makes management more likely to stay in that organization. But then more pressingly, I think, he talks about the need for system change. It’s a start.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. When firms fail to establish good relationships with their stakeholders, it can lead to increased conflict and reduced stakeholder cooperation. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.