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The Future Is Where Brands Must Focus

Great Leadership By Dan

Companies have to be consistent in their behaviour, from top to bottom, and right along the supply chain, from the ‘first hand of production to the final hand of the consumer’. And this genuinely has to go all the way. The report went on to note “society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose”.

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How Ready Are Companies For The Post-Pandemic World?

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, McKinsey recently argued that one of the few plus points from the pandemic was it reinforced the importance of building change capabilities within our organizations. There was then a gap to access to finance and a non-supportive policy environment. The existential difficulties posed by Covid were also reflected, with 43.8%

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Put simply, how do you judge the success of a chief human resources officer, and who qualifies for the 2020 Top CHRO List? Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003, Hogan was a partner at McKinsey & Co.

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17 High-Paying Jobs for Women

HR Digest

A recent Mckinsey & Company survey shows that since 2015, America has seen only a modest growth in women’s well paid jobs representation in the corporate pipeline. They handle admissions, quality assurance, data management and examinations or in a specialist department such as finance, careers, marketing or human resources.

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Social Media's Productivity Payoff

Harvard Business Review

On the contrary, they may become the most powerful tools yet developed to raise the productivity of high-skill knowledge workers — the kind of workers who help drive innovation and growth, and who are going to be in increasingly short supply. The total potential value at stake in these sectors is $900 billion to $1.3 trillion annually.

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Who’s Better at Strategy: CFOs or CSOs?

Harvard Business Review

In our experience at McKinsey, creating this ideal partnership usually requires the CFO to become more directly and deeply involved in strategy development. First, the finance chief is often first among equals on the board of directors and can help engage the board more productively on strategy. There are two reasons for this.

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Rethinking Sustainability in Light of the EU’s New Circular Economy Policy

Harvard Business Review

With the EU’s passage of the Circular Economy Package in April, many European companies are now facing mandates to reuse the products they create for as long as possible. We are academics and practitioners focused on product recovery economics and life cycle asset management. HBR Staff/Caspar Benson/Getty Images.