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Best Leadership Books To Read In 2015

Eric Jacobson

Top Books About Leadership.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

We anticipate that in the 2015 ranking there will be more Chinese representatives but that these will also be drawn from academia. Former columnists to The (London) Times, they are editors of The Financial Times Handbook of Management. Women lean in The other big story in the 2013 Thinkers50 was the increased number of women featured.

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Happy Workplaces Can Also Be Candid Workplaces

Harvard Business Review

Recently the Communications Workers of America – the union that represents T-Mobile employees — contested a T-Mobile Employee Handbook clause on maintaining a positive work environment. For a case study of how this can work in practice, consider Eileen Fisher, whose 800-person retail company generated $300 million in 2015.

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Hostile Work Environment Guide: What you can do as an employer

HR Digest

A 2015 study by Rand Corp., If necessary, you must discipline and/or terminate the offending individual as warranted by facts of the case. When does it become legally actionable? Harvard Medical School and the University of California , notes that nearly 20% of employees have been subjected to a hostile work environment.

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A Winning Parental Leave Policy Can Be Surprisingly Simple

Harvard Business Review

An employee handbook update doesn’t usually merit a press release and glossy promotional video — except when there’s a benefits arms race on. From 2015 to 2017, more than 75 large companies issued press releases touting new or expanded parental leave policies. Six weeks ! 20 weeks ! A full year !

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A Board Member’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending

Harvard Business Review

Experts predict it will surge even more in 2015-2016. Such “dark money” spending is a fast-growing share of campaign expenditures: the total spent by tax-exempt organizations that conceal their donors increased from $5.2 million in the 2006 off-year cycle to more than $300 million in the 2012 presidential cycle.