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A Female-Dominated Workplace Won't Fix Everything

Harvard Business Review

Our bodies' stress hormones, adrenaline, cortisol and testosterone, among others, which raise blood pressure and send more blood to our muscles, historically made us more alert in preparation to fight or flee imminent physical threats. We have no clue how to handle 21st century cognitive threats, real life in the modern workplace.

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How to Really Listen to Your Employees

Harvard Business Review

So, how can you develop this muscle? ” To be clear, Riordan stresses that you don’t have to agree with what’s being said. In 2004, Mike Colwell was promoted to manage a team of five directors, all of whom he’d worked with previously. Their VP of Finance kept warning them not to spend in a few key ways.

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25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase ?Triple Bottom Line.? Here?s Why It?s Time to Rethink It.

Harvard Business Review

Sustainable Development Goals forecast to generate market opportunities of over $12 trillion a year by 2030 (and that’s considered a conservative estimate). Fundamentally, we have a hard-wired cultural problem in business, finance and markets.

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How to Know If Joining a Startup Is Right for You

Harvard Business Review

But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over. If, on the other hand, you’re older and have financial and personal commitments, you need to develop a process so that others in your life can help you make the decision.”