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GM Cruise Layoffs Affecting Almost 24% of the Workforce

HR Digest

The unit’s CEO Kyle Vogt and co-founder Dan Kan both resigned last month. On Wednesday, Cruise fired nine executives, including its chief operating officer and chief legal and policy officer amid an external investigation led by law firm Quinn Emmanuel into the accident and Cruise’s response.

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Why More Executives Should Consider Becoming a CHRO

Harvard Business Review

That the CHRO role, although at first it may look career limiting, can have more impact than any other position reporting to the CEO? We interviewed search professionals, CEOs, and CHROs with nontraditional backgrounds to find out what happens when business leaders outside of HR move into the role. That’s precisely what we found.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. But we know very few successful entrepreneurs who set out to start their business with the primary purpose of money. And if they did that effectively, they made money because of a genuine commitment to the customer. Organizational experts Robert E.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. But we know very few successful entrepreneurs who set out to start their business with the primary purpose of money. And if they did that effectively, they made money because of a genuine commitment to the customer. Organizational experts Robert E.

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Myths of the Gig Economy, Corrected

Harvard Business Review

Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber, the ride-sharing giant, proudly declared on September 10 that “very few brands become verbs” The same week Upwork, a platform for hiring freelancers, filed for an IPO, as did Fiverr , which boasts that it offers a “freelance services marketplace for the lean entrepreneur.”

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

As the two markets homogenized into a general mass American market, focused mail-order retailers like Sears and Montgomery Ward saw sales and profits drop. Quinn write “It is no longer news that over the past five years. Worthy pointed out in the book, The Shaping an American Institution: Robert E. The results are spectacular.

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Why Your Brain Hates Performance Reviews

Harvard Business Review

Andy O’Connell No Limits The Trans-Everything CEO New York Magazine The highest-paid female CEO in America, earning $38 million last year, is Martine Rothblatt, the founder of United Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company. “It seems very likely, based on a review of his claims, plans, and investments, that he will succeed at something.”