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Post-Covid Work Trends and the Future of Work

HR Digest

The crisis has disrupted the earlier efficiency models. A recent Gartner survey says that global M&A activity increased after the financial crisis, and many companies were nationalized to avoid failure. But the organizational expansion is bound to create challenges of operation and management and higher leadership skills. .

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Employees Demand Employers Become More Sustainable

The Horizons Tracker

Transport is currently responsible for around 27% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions, and the healthcare workers are hoping to encourage their employer to adopt more cycling-friendly policies among various other sustainability initiatives. Sustainability leadership. The benefits of going green. Making the change.

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5 Ways To Make Your Commute Bearable. | Rich Gee Group

Rich Gee Group

By the way, I totally understand about public transportation (I use it too) — but this post focuses solely on car commuting. A business I am loosely involved with hires homeworkers globally as its sales force, its web site builders, its advertising managers. Why not work from home? Not every day. Tim Trent 11.30.10 Unported License.

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UPS on Moving the U.S. at the Speed of Business

Harvard Business Review

We need a plan that will lead to energy independence so that we can stop moving from one energy crisis to another. Second, fix the transportation infrastructure. We need a more strategic approach to planning and funding our nation's transportation infrastructure for the future. By lowering and simplifying the tax code, the U.S.

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How Bold Corporate Climate Change Goals Deteriorate Over Time

Harvard Business Review

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. ” As a global sustainability manager of one of our case organizations argued, “We’re eliminating the false choice between great economics and the environment. .”

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Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 1 of 4

Strategy Driven

Just as we gain wisdom from the business failures and corporate scandals, we can learn equally valuable lessons from crisis situations that were successfully handled. It’s not enough just to handle a crisis effectively. The follow-through and crisis preparedness planning process helps to divert other crises from transpiring.

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Learning Collaboration from Tiki-Taka Soccer

Harvard Business Review

Competition has become more complex too, with companies increasingly sourcing or manufacturing globally, facing technology-based rivals trying to disrupt incumbents, and taking on emerging giants with unexpected sources of competitive advantage. This is the true task of leadership.

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