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Zoom’s Return-To-Office Could Doom The Company
Exceptional leaders often excel as skilled storytellers, and for good reason. Once a company hits a certain level of organizational complexity, one of the most important tasks the CEO has is to craft intellectually coherent and captivating narratives about the firm, its purpose, and its performance. Failure in this task means undermining the very existence of the company; a sin…
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5 Steps to Creating Socially Conscious Projects That Matter
At some point, every company reaches a moment when it can afford to go beyond the mindset of "we need to focus on making money." Opportunities arise, along with the desire to invest a portion of profits not directly into the business but into initiatives that benefit people. In other…
A Closer Look At “Ensuring Sound Guidance Act (ESG Act)”
The bill asks fiduciaries to focus only on “pecuniary” factors. On the one hand, this is redundant as the DOL rule does not force fiduciaries to consider ESG. On the other hand, what is not “pecuniary”? Extreme weather events that affect cash flows? DEI that affects corporate culture? Human rights…
Jon Lindsay Phillips Pioneers Novel Public Relations Agency, PhillComm
By: Christos Makridis Ten years ago in the hot summer sun of Raleigh, North Carolina, you could have walked over to Halifax Mall by the legislative building and found a then-33-year-old Jon Lindsay Phillips on stage in front of five thousand Carolinians, leading a group of clergy, NC NAACP members,…
Making The Business Case For DEI In A Down Economy
Janine Yancey is the CEO of Emtrain, an eLearning and analytics technology company that develops and measures respect and inclusion. Practicing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the rough economy of 2023 is quite different than in the last two years. From 2020 to 2022, capital was cheap, companies were…
Kyah Simon Makes The Cut As Australia Name Squad For Women’s World Cup
Veteran forward Kyah Simon made the cut for Australia’s final squad for the Women’s World Cup despite not playing for nine months due to injury, while coach Tony Gustavsson also called up defender Alanna Kennedy for the tournament on home soil. The 23-player squad, released on Monday, was headlined by…
Three Big Puzzles In The Supreme Court College Admissions Decision
Now that the long-awaited Supreme Court decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University and Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. University of North Carolina has been handed down, essentially ending the practice of race-conscious college admissions used at many colleges, attention turns to some of the details in…
What To Do With All The Productivity?
(This article is part of a series on Artificial Intelligence for Board Members and Senior Executives.) A recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that generative AI like ChatGPT can increase workforce productivity by an average of 14%. Some companies are already reporting productivity increases of up…
Acts Of Kindness Have Become A Workplace Standard, According To Groundbreaking Research
Mounting research shows that there’s a lot more to being kind than meets the eye. And just a little bit goes a long way. People who go above and beyond to practice kindness are happier and have better mental and physical health than those who don’t spend as much time…
5 Attributes of Successful People
This subscriber story is an excerpt from Entrepreneur Voices on Effective Leadership. If you are a subscriber, scroll to the bottom to download the e-book for free.During my 25-plus years as a journalist, corporate communications executive and entrepreneur I've had the opportunity to directly work and interact with some of…
From Governance To Steward Leadership – The Key To Meaningful Sustainability
In June2023, shareholders at ExxonMobil and Chevron rejected climate change proposals at the US oil majors’ annual meetings. The companies have also resisted setting emission targets for their products. These actions show that regulation, incentives, and capital ─ primary tools used to drive and encourage behavioral change toward enabling environmental…
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