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How to Prepare Yourself for the Executive Chair

Strategy Driven

If you don’t understand finance and accounting, enroll in a course immediately. Read your leading-edge industry publications, Forbes , other finance journals, and popular business books. If you don’t hold a finance or operations position, consider cross training. Leadership Inspirations – Prepare, Prepare, Prepare.

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Leading the Charge for Sustainable and Inclusive Supply Chains

HR Digest

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. Freight transportation accounts for about 8% of global carbon emissions, and Scope 3 emissions account can account for 90% or more of a companies’ emissions. A critical component of the DEI strategy is our commitment to measurement and metrics.

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Stop Saying Big Companies Can’t Innovate

Harvard Business Review

GE is another firm that has committed its size and deep pockets to innovation. The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps. Last year, GE’s first “brilliant factory” opened in India.

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Employee benefits for Caregivers in workplaces

HR Digest

The responsibility can range from just shopping for essentials to arranging doctor’s appointments, providing transportation, taking care of finances and medicines or even a full-fledged role of assisting in their daily tasks. Added to this is the fear of being considered not professional at work and not committed to the job.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

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How GE and IBM are Playing Global Development to Win

Harvard Business Review

The company’s leadership moved proactively to accelerate it and shape it. “If For example, the two parties identified the challenge of national electrification and committed to work together to bring $10 billion of investment and 10,000 megawatts of new power online, along with local manufacturing and training. It’s neither.

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To Go Digital, Leaders Have to Change Some Core Beliefs

Harvard Business Review

Real digital transformation requires transformation at a deeper level—transformation of the leadership team’s core beliefs. GM announced in early 2016 that it was going to invest $500 million in Lyft, a riding sharing, digital network of riders and drivers, as part of Lyft’s latest $1 billion venture financing round.